Friday 15
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Jacques Tati, one of the greatest comic filmmakers of recent times, released only five feature films; a recently discovered short will augment his career nicely. In each of Tati’s best-known works–Jour de fete, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, Playtime, and Traffic–an everymanish character battles the almost anthropomorphic characters of Progress, the Modern City, and Technology, as Tati’s visual and aural burlesques set off fireworks around him. Tonight the Experimental Film Coalition presents a rarely seen short, Soigne ton gauche (Swing to the Left), one of six Tati made in the mid-1930s. This film about a farmhand who gets involved with a boxer will be part of a two-hour program of shorts that shows at 7:30 and 10 at the Randolph Street Gallery, 756 N. Milwaukee. The program includes films by Peter Greenaway, Max Fleischer, and Kenneth Anger. Admission is $4, $3 for students. For more information call 666-7737.
The Evanston Environmental Association’s seasonal birdseed sale is on again: you can call Ecology Center at 864-5181 for ordering information, or buy it today at the Recycling Center, 2222 Oakton in Evanston, from 10 AM to 3 PM. A 25-pound bag of safflower seed will cost you $15.75; of millet, $7.60; of thistle seed, $26.40. At these prices, it’s a teal.
Monday 18
Make It Fun: Fitness Will Follow is a Northwestern Memorial Hospital course in health education designed to get kids exercising early on in life: a hospital health educator says that kids who don’t exercise are more susceptible to obesity and heart disease later on. First step? Cut down on the TV. The $8 course is an hour and a half, from 6 to 7:30 PM, and will be held at 215 E. Chicago, room 206. You must preregister; call 908-7432.
You probably didn’t even know he was missing, but Where’s Animal? is the subject of the latest Muppets extravaganza at the Rosemont Horizon tonight. The show, which features the Muppet Babies as opposed to the genuine Muppets, is an elaborate revue that hangs on Baby Kermit et al’s search for Animal after a game of hide-and-seek goes awry. The Horizon arena is at 6920 N. Mannheim in Rosemont. The show runs through Sunday; show times are 7:30 tonight, 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM Friday, and 1 and 4:30 PM Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $9.50 and $8.50; kids under 12 get in for $1.50 less. Call 635-6601.
