Chicago premiere of Dancing Arabs at Gene Siskel Film Center
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Chicago premiere of Dancing Arabs at Gene Siskel

  • 6/25/2015
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    July 3--9
    Fri. and Thu. at 8:00 pm;
    Sat. at 4:45 pm;
    Sun. at 3:00 pm;
    Mon. and Wed. at 6:00 pm;
    Tue. at 7:45 pm
     
    “Impressively staged…perfectly cast.”--Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter
     
    “Riklis and his uniformly excellent cast hit nary a false note.”--Richard Mowe, Eye for Film
     
    A welcome thread of humor runs though this coming-of-age story in which Eyad, a gifted young Palestinian, navigates among the advantages and pitfalls of getting a foot in the door of Israeli society.
    Adapting two autobiographical novels by Arab-Israeli author Sayed Kashua, director Riklis (THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER, THE SYRIAN
    BRIDE) lets ironies fall where they may, as Eyad, the smartest lad in his Arab village, becomes the pride of his family by winning a scholarship to a top-flight Jerusalem boarding school.  Facing the challenge of fitting in, he discovers that the price of friendship, success, and even love, may be his very identity.  In Arabic, Hebrew, English, and German.  DCP digital widescreen.  (BS) For more information and tickets
     
     
     
     

  • (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies - A movie about am Israeli Proffesor

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    ​Best-selling author and Duke University professor of psychology Dan Ariely is an expert when it comes to lying. That is, this behavioral scientist has made a career of studying everything from the little white lie to the life-altering whopper. Filmmaker Melamede follows the amiable Ariely on a virtual tour through the wide world of untruth, with entertaining experiments testing just how big the carrot on a stick needs to be to motivate something less than the whole truth. Providing real-life illustrations are the cautionary tales of past fibbers caught in the act, including a professional cyclist found guilty of doping, corrupt Wall Street traders, and an academic who falsified credentials. DCP digital. (BS) For more information and tickets