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player ready...For those tired of the standard multiplex cinema fare, unheralded discoveries continue to be uncovered by a treasure in itself, the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Throughout this month, the Center will present local premieres of several foreign films-some new, some with newly restored or newly available prints.
Up this week is a work by French auteur Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), one of his country’s best known show-biz personalities between the two world wars: playwright, director, actor and (mais oui) bon vivant. Known for his wit, freshness and sheer output, he made 30-some films in his last 27 years.
“Let’s Go up the Champs-Elysees” (1938), to be screened at 6 p.m. Thursday and 4:15 p.m. Saturday, employs a characteristic “Guitrization” of history, taking a look at Paris’ most celebrated boulevard beginning at the Place de la Concorde in 1617 and ending at the Place de l’Etoile in 1938.
Other Chicago premieres this month include Guitry’s “Royal Affairs of Versailles” (1954), Nov. 18 and 20, and “The Story of a Cheat” (1936), Nov. 27 and 28, and two German films that confront the Nazi past, Ulrich Weiss’ “Your Unknown Brother” (1982), and Siegfried Kuhn’s “The Actress” (1988), both Nov. 19.
And on Nov. 26, 27 and 28 there will be a reputedly “outrageous” French comedy, “Barjo” (1992), based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, “Confessions of a Crap-Artist,” and directed by Jerome Boivin, who previously made the cult hit “Baxter,” which takes a look at things through the eyes of (mais oui encore) a philosophical killer dog.