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20TH ANNUAL ROGER EBERT’S FILM FESTIVAL PASS
Date/Time(s): Wed-Sun, April 18-22, 2018 - various times Seating: General Admission Passes: $150 each Add’l per-ticket service charges apply: $5 (phone & online only) On-Sale Date: On Sale Now Also available: Roger Ebert's Film Festival Pass 4-Packs! At $510.00 (plus service charges) for four passes, an Ebertfest Pass 4-Pack saves you 15% off the regular price. Click here to purchase The College of Media at Illinois presents the 20th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, Wednesday through…
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 7pm THE FUGITIVE 1993 130 mins Rated PG-13 Special guest: Andrew Davis, director Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned US Marshall. In his 4-star review, Roger Ebert called the film ‘one of the best entertainments of the year, a tense, taut and expert thriller that becomes something more than that, an allegory about an…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: COLUMBUS
Date/Time(s): Friday, April 20, 2018, 12:00pm Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) COLUMBUS 2017 104 min Not Rated Special guests: Kogonada, director; Andrew Miano, producer; and Ruth Ann Harnisch, EP When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana – a small Midwestern city celebrated for its architecture and many modernist…
Find out more »20th Annual Eberfest: A PAGE OF MADNESS, with Alloy Orchestra
Date/Time(s): Friday, April 20, 2018, 3:30pm Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) A PAGE OF MADNESS, with Alloy Orchestra 1926 78 min Not Rated Special guest: Alloy Orchestra, live accompaniment In this silent film made in 1926 (and re-released in 1973), a man takes a job at an asylum in the hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife. Unlike most silent films of the era, this…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Date/Time(s): Friday, April 20, 2018, 8:30pm Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) AMERICAN SPLENDOR 2003 101 min Rated R American Splendor follows Harvey Pekar, a file clerk at the local VA hospital who becomes inspired to write his own brand of comic book. Harvey makes his ‘American Splendor’ a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self-portrait. First published in 1976, the comic…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: 13TH
Date/Time(s): Saturday, April 21, 2018, 10:30am Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) 13TH 2016 100 min Rated (TV) MA Special guest: Ava DuVernay, director Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13th refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
Date/Time(s): Saturday, April 21, 2018, 2:30am Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST 1991 113 min Rated PG Special guest: Julie Dash, director Julie Dash’s ‘Daughters of the Dust’ tells the story of a family of African-Americans who have lived for many years on a Southern offshore island, and of how they come together one day in 1902 to celebrate their ancestors…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: RAMBLING ROSE
Date/Time(s): Saturday, April 21, 2018, 5:30am Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) RAMBLING ROSE 1991 115 min Rated R Special guest: Martha Coolidge, director Rambling Rose tells the story of a sweet and strange Southern family living in a spacious mansion in 1935 and the troubled teenage girl, Rose (Laura Dern), who comes to live with them. She brings a sharp awareness of carnality under…
Find out more »THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Date/Time(s): Saturday, April 21, 2018, 9:30am Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) THE BIG LEBOWSKI 1998 119 min Rated R Special guest: Jeff Dowd, ‘The Dude’ While sometimes difficult to define, The Big Lebowski’s plot can be summarized as a story about Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski, an out-of-work, laidback…dude, who is mistaken for a millionaire also named Lebowski. What follows are the shenanigans that ensue…
Find out more »20th Annual Ebertfest: RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
Date/Time(s): Sunday, April 22, 2018, 12:00Pm Seating: General Admission Tickets: $15 Standard /$13 Seniors (55 and up) Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $1 (online only) RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD 2017 103 min Not Rated RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rock the World is a feature documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history. Writes Glenn Kenny in his review on rogerebert.com: ‘This movie is about Native Americans (here called ‘Indians’ for reasons that…
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