Friday 20
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JFK–The 22 Bullet Theory is a combination video show and performance at Chicago Filmmakers tonight. The 23-minute video Eternal Frame is a collaboration of two performance groups, T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm, who in 1975 filmed both a reenactment of the Kennedy assassination and people’s reactions to the reenactment. Bruce Connor’s reputedly powerful mid-60s video Report uses radio reports and newsreel footage to cover the assassination. Also on hand will be Mike Motto, who’ll discuss possible alien participation in the assassination, and Jonathan Lavan, who will do a tribute to conspiracy theorist George C. Thomson, who’s detailed a unique assassination theory involving 22 bullets. Things get under way at 8 at Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont; it’s $4. Call 281-8788 for more.
Saturday 21
Yosef Yerushalmi, the well-known Jewish-history expert, leads off a distinguished series of lectures being presented by the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago over the next two months. Yerushalmi is the director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and the author of four books, including From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto and The Lisbon Massacre of 1506; he’s currently at work on a book on Freud. He’ll talk at Temple Sholom, 3480 N. Lake Shore Drive, at 8 PM. It’s $10; there’s also a $50 ticket that includes tonight’s talk and upcoming sessions with cartoonist Jules Feiffer, novelist Ann Beattie, and journalist David Halberstam. Call 708-675-5070 for details.
“Never has shiftiness seemed so chic, nor deception so erotic,” says the Film Center’s Barbara Scharres on the Ernst Lubitsch classic Trouble in Paradise, the story of con artists Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall and their wealthy Parisian employer, Kay Francis. “Lubitsch goes further with insinuation than most directors would have the wit to imagine. Two shadows falling across a gleaming bedspread still look more daring than a thousand sex scenes.” The movie, part of the center’s series on the golden age of Hollywood, plays tonight at 6 at the Film Center, Columbus and Jackson, with a lecture by Suzi Doll to follow. It’s $5; call 443-3733 for details.
Times are tough for women: the theme of the opening panel of the 1992 Women and the Law Conference, presented by the National Women and the Law Association, is “Women Changing Society: Can Feminists Use the Law to Effect Social Change in the 1990s?” Ten years ago, the answer would have been an unequivocal yes; it’s not so clear after ten years of Reagan and Bush judicial appointments. The conference runs through Sunday at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan; call 651-3100 for info. The opening panel this afternoon, however, is at Northwestern University law school’s Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago, from 1 to 5. It’s free; call 503-0858 for more.
