Weekender with Alison Cuddy
By Weekender
Weekender with Alison Cuddy
By Weekender
Jean Luc Godard’s 1968 film Weekend is exactly the weekend you DON’T want to have! A couple jumps in the car, heads to the country, hits the mother of all traffic jams and then? Mayhem, murder, and cannibalism! What is it about a couple of days off from the grind that provokes anxiety in filmmakers? In The Lost Weekend Ray Milland falls off the wagon – hard. Weekend at Bernie’s involves toting around a corpse and avoiding an assassin – played for laughs. And Chicagoan Joe Swanberg explores the pains of a long distance relationship in Nights and Weekends. Now I’m pretty sure heading out to see Godard’s movie this weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center won’t involve people trying to eat you for supper. But if you want to play it safe – here are a few other ideas to fill your Friday through Sunday.
Here are Weekender‘s top picks:
Friday 9pm
FitzGerald’s 6615 Roosevelt Road Berwyn, IL
Hear more from Nicholas Tremulis here
Metro 3730 N. Clark Street
Opening for Delicate Steve and Ra Ra Riot
Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 12-6pm
Goldblatt’s Building 4720 N. Broadway 1st Floor
Uptown Broadway Building 4701 N. Broadway Basement
Saturday 7:30pm Sunday 2pm
Auditorium Theatre 50 E. Congress Parkway
Hear Lucia Mauro‘s review of the performance here
Saturday at 4pm
Haymarket Pub and Brewery 737 W Randolph
Hear Gabriel Magliaro, founder and president of Chicago-based Half Acre Beer, discuss the local craft beer scene here
Friday-Sunday
Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State Street
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