Gene Siskel Film Center You thought “Knocked Up” was half-an-hour too long yet you laughed through the bum-numb? Oscar-bait movies in November and December seem to take more time than the afternoon commute on the Dan Ryan? Try out some of the 2007 entertainments at the School of the Art Institute`s savvy, sleek duplex on State Street: Jacques Rivette`s “Celine and Julie Go Boating,” at almost three-and-a-half hours, is just a haunted house amuse-bouche. Move on to 1968 Soviet Oscar-winner “War and Peace,” seven hours of Tolstoy-on-steroids at a budget that would surpass a billion dollars today. More Rivette: the post-1968 Parisian revolution acting-and-conspiracy epic, “Out 1,” twelve hours; Matthew Barney`s “Cremaster” films, six-and-a-half-hours; Jennifer Fox`s epic yet riveting modern middle-aged woman`s navel-gaze, “Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,” six hours. 164 North State (312)846-2600
On Vacation: One Night in the Voodoo Museum The driving rain banged off the tin shelter. Putting my head back I realized I was alone with a group of strangers, inside the Voodoo Museum.
