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Picnic/Screening: THE SWIMMER (1968)

A screening in Park LaFontaine of Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack's THE SWIMMER projected using a bike-powered generator. The Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones writes that the 1968 film was "a resounding commercial flop, [but] has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception." The film has the shape of an open-ended hallucination. It is a grim, disturbing and sometimes funny view of a very small, very special segment of upper-middle-class American life.

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Picnic/Screening: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)