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Saint Xavier Film Festival November 13, 14, & 15
CHICAGO (October 31, 2000) -- Saint Xavier University's 2000-2001 Film Series will present A Clockwork Orange, Raising Arizona, and Blade Runner from November 13 - 15 in McGuire Hall at the university's Main Campus, 3700 W. 103rd St., Chicago. Admission is free to SXU students, faculty, and staff with ID's and $2 for the general public.
A Clockwork Orange is Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burges' chilling novel. A sadistic murderer is caught and "rehabilitated" in a grisly government experiment in this mind-shattering drama starring Malcolm McDowell and Patrick Magee. A Clockwork Orange will be shown on Monday, November 13 at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., and 3:30 p.m.
Raising Arizona is an outrageous farce in which a bungling thief (Nicholas Cage) and a police officer (Holly Hunter), who discover they cannot have children of their own and kidnap one from a furniture tycoon whose wife has given birth to quintuplets. Raising Arizona will be shown Tuesday, November 14 at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Blade Runner is a detective thriller set in a stunningly black near future starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah. Police weaponry and manpower are ineffective against four human look-alike renegades, so the police turn to a retired blade runner to destroy this powerful menace. Blade Runner will be shown on Wednesday, November 15 at 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 4 p.m.
The Saint Xavier University Film Series proudly exhibits films of an artistic, foreign, and/or independent nature. The films deal with adult themes and therefore have a tendency to contain some combinations of profane language, nudity, sexual situations, violence, and address subject matter that may not be suitable for more sensitive viewers.
For further information on Saint Xavier’s Film series, please call 773-298-3442.