For generations of people, LEGO® (formed from the Danish words for “play well”) bricks serve as the memorable building blocks of their youth. Established in 1932 by master carpenter and joiner Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark, the company first produced wooden toys and household items before expanding into molded plastic in the late 1940s. Today the brand has a portfolio of some 650 products and was the subject of an animated film—The LEGO Movie—with a sequel in the works. The company launched a Sustainable Materials Centre last year as part of its goal to use sustainable materials in all core LEGO products by 2030. Rocco Buttliere (ARCH 4th year) began playing with LEGOs at age 6—and has never stopped. His whimsical LEGO models of Chicago’s most notable buildings [background] have been exhibited at locales such as AMA Plaza in downtown Chicago and the Brick 2015 LEGO convention in London. Many of Buttliere’s creations will be on display at Illinois Tech’s Block City 2016 event on Saturday, July 23 at S. R. Crown Hall.
You can read more about Buttliere in the IIT Magazine Online Exclusive “Chicago, Chunk By Chunk” at magazine.iit.edu/summer-2016/chicago-chunk-by-chunkThank you for your interest in FX Networks The content you are trying to access is not available in your region. Looking for FX Canada? “Neruda,” an intoxicating puzzle of a movie directed by Pablo Larraín, chronicles a strange, harrowing episode from the late 1940s, when the Chilean government’s crackdown on communism drove the great poet and politician Pablo Neruda underground. Specifically, the film unravels the tricky game of cat-and-mouse between Neruda and an ambitious police inspector named Oscar Peluchonneau, who sought to track down the dissident artist whose writings had struck a dangerously resonant chord with the working class.There was, in fact, no Oscar Peluchonneau — or, at least, none who fits the description blithely concocted by Larrain and his screenwriter, Guillermo Calderon. The charm of “Neruda” lies in its insistence that there may well have been, and that it scarcely matters if there wasn’t.
Drolly and persuasively, the movie demonstrates that when it comes to evoking the artist and the nature of his art, historical fidelity and literal-minded dramatization go only so far.“Neruda” is less a straightforward portrait of a great contemporary poet (and eventual Nobel Laureate) than a rigorously sustained investigation of his inner world. Although informed by the busy workings of history, politics and personal affairs, “Neruda” proceeds like a light-footed chase thriller filtered through an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” by the end of which the audience is lost in a crazily spiraling meta-narrative.Initially it seems both roles must be filled by Pablo Neruda, played with prickly, preening brilliance by Luis Gnecco (“Narcos”), who donned a wig and gained more than 50 pounds to achieve his remarkable physical resemblance to the real deal. The key to the performance is that, despite the shimmering inspiration of Neruda’s poetry, neither Gnecco nor Larraín seems to feel any obligation to make Neruda himself a particularly inspiring figure.
From the opening scene, a political gathering wittily set in an enormous public lavatory, Neruda, a senator and member of the Chilean Communist Party, is shown to be a proud and vociferous critic of his country’s leadership. But in the very next sequence, a lavish party crammed with half-naked revelers, the film presents the idea of Neruda as a Champagne socialist — a vain, hedonistic hypocrite who, like so many left-wing elites, loves “to soak up other people’s sweat and suffering.”That damning bit of mockery is delivered by the aforementioned detective, Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael Garcia Bernal), who slyly complicates the film’s notions of authorship and agency. When Chilean President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (Alfredo Castro) outlaws communism in 1948, responding to mounting Cold War anxieties, Peluchonneau eagerly leads the manhunt for Neruda, who has gone into hiding in the port city of Valparaiso with his second wife, the painter Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán).“Neruda’s” formal spryness and nontraditional appreciation of history will come as little surprise to admirers of “Jackie,” Larraín’s other great bio-experiment of the moment, although nothing he’s done to date has forced him to take such intuitive leaps, to abandon realism so completely, as “Neruda.”
Movie Info Rating: Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Diego Muñoz, Pablo Derqui.Director: Pablo Larraín.Screenwriter: Guillermo Calderón.A The Orchard release. Running time: 107 minutes. Vulgar language, sexual content, nudity, adult themes. In Spanish with English subtitles. In Miami-Dade only: O Cinema Wynwood, Tower.Movies in the Parks Thanks for joining us this past summer for the 16th annual run of Movies in the Parks. More than 250 outdoor screenings of current and classic movies were shown in parks across the city, along with the Chicago OnScreen Local Film showcase. Movie fun continues with Halloween inspired movies in October, and indoor movies in the colder months. Check out the list below for upcoming showings. Learn more about the The Chicago Onscreen Local Film Showcase, our local film initiative. Submission window for 2017 films opens November 16. Ferris Bueller's Day Off Your event search from 02/27/2017 to 05/01/2017 returned 1 results.
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