Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Uncle Vanya
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Sunday Feb 7, 2010 (4:45pm)
Monday Feb 8, 2010 (7:45pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Of the many fine films included in the Siskel Center's Celebrating Chekhov series (Russia's Oscar submission Ward No. 6, Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street), the most exciting has to be Andrei Konchalovsky's long unavailable Uncle Vanya (1970). Between co-scripting Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and finding Stateside success with both actioneers (Runaway Train) and dark dramas (House of Fools), Konchalovsky helmed what is arguably the finest Chekhov film adaptation. A privileged family's decline plays out against the bickering between the patriarch, his trophy wife, and his embittered circle; and the sweeping period luxury is brilliantly juxtaposed with the characters' tragic Chekhovian indirection.
