Monday, June 9, 2008, 6 pm

AMC River East, 322 E. Illinois St., Chicago

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Finding Amanda

Monday, June 23, 2008, 7:00 pm
Landmark Century Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Monday, June 30, 7:00 pm
Landmark Century Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago

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THE ROCKER

Star Rainn Wilson will host a Q&A after the screening!

Rainn Wilson is The Rocker, a.k.a. Robert "Fish" Fishman, the former drummer for an eighties hair band. He's living the rock 'n' roll dream... until he is kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, A.D.D., finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved--while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives.

The Rocker will open in theatres on Friday, August 1.

Please RSVP to (312) 376-8575 and leave a message with your name. You must call this phone number and bring the e-mail sent by email to gain admittance for yourself and one guest. An RSVP does not guarantee you a seat at this screening.

This screening is overbooked to ensure capacity and we strongly recommend that you arrive early! Seats are not guaranteed, are limited to theater capacity and are first-come, first-served. This theater is not responsible for seating over capacity! No one will be admitted once the screening has begun. The ticket is not for resale and is non-transferable.

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FINDING AMANDA

From director Peter Tolan, creator of the hit television series Rescue Me, comes Finding Amanda, a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical comedy about the compulsions we can't shake, and the unlikely lengths we'll go to while trying.

Taylor Mendon (Matthew Broderick) is a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hour sitcom. Once destined for bigger and better things, Taylor's compulsive gambling, recreational drug use and drinking all conspired to throw his career off the rails. After kicking the alcohol and drugs, he only has one more hurdle...the horses.

His beautiful twenty-year-old niece Amanda (Brittany Snow) has her own habit to kick. Living in Las Vegas, working as a "dancer," her family has just discovered she is actually a prostitute, and they suspect hooking for drug money.

On their way home from an emergency family meeting, Taylor's wife Lorraine (Maura Tierney) finds recent racing stubs in Taylor's glove compartment. After years of standing by him, she leaves.

Taylor comes up with a plan: he'll win back his wife by doing the right thing. He'll go to Las Vegas, find Amanda, and deliver her to a rehabilitation center in Malibu. While he's at it, he might even catch up with some old friends (like slimy casino host Steve Coogan). But besides that, it's strictly the business at hand—while he's there, he vows, he won't gamble a single cent, but things don't turn out quite as he'd planned.

Finding Amanda has been rated R for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, pervasive language, drug content and brief nudity.

Members will receive an e-mail that will admit two people.

The pass is the property of Magnolia Pictures, which reserves the right to admit, revoke admission, or refuse access to the theater at the discretion of an authorized representative. This screening is overbooked to ensure capacity and we strongly recommend that you arrive early! Seats are not guaranteed, are limited to theater capacity and are first-come, first-served. This theater is not responsible for seating over capacity! No one will be admitted once the screening has begun. Children under 6 years old will not be admitted. The ticket is not for resale and is non-transferable.

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GONZO

Gonzo is the definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called our "greatest comic writer," whose suicide, by gunshot, led Rolling Stone Magazine, where Thompson began his career, to devote an entire issue (its best-selling ever) to the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism—named "gonzo" after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker.

Borrowing from Kris Kristofferson, Thompson was a "walking contradiction, partly truth, mostly fiction." A die-hard member of the NRA, he was also a coke-snorting, whiskey-swilling, acid-eating fiend. While his pen dripped with venom for crooked politicians, he surprised nervous visitors with the courtly manners and soft-spoken delivery of a Southern gentleman. Careening out of control in his personal life, Thompson also maintained a steel-eyed conviction about righting wrongs.

Today, in a time when "spin" has replaced the search for deeper meaning, Thompson remains an iconic crusader for truth, justice and a fiercely idealistic American way. Like Jack Kerouac's On the Road, his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and the movie made from it) remains a wanderlust myth for generation after generation of American youth. And for America's most esteemed journalists—from Tom Wolfe, and Walter Isaacson (former editor of Time) to the New York Times' Frank Rich—he remains an iconic freelancer, never afraid to gore every sacred cow in his path. He believed that writing could make a difference. It could change things.

Members will receive an e-mail that will admit two people.

The pass is the property of Magnolia Pictures, which reserves the right to admit, revoke admission, or refuse access to the theater at the discretion of an authorized representative. This screening is overbooked to ensure capacity and we strongly recommend that you arrive early! Seats are not guaranteed, are limited to theater capacity and are first-come, first-served. This theater is not responsible for seating over capacity! No one will be admitted once the screening has begun. Children under 6 years old will not be admitted. The ticket is not for resale and is non-transferable.