Cold Mountain Premiere Benefit

HotHouse is pleased to host the premiere Chicago showing of the highly anticipated film Cold Mountain. Stars include Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger and Donald Sutherland, with music produced by T-Bone Burnett, featuring Jack White of the White Stripes. Native Chicagoans William Horberg (The Quiet American, The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Albert Berger produced the film, and have organized this screening as a benefit for HotHouse, the Center for International Performance and Exhibition. Mr. Horberg, Mr. Berger, and Mr. Minghella have confirmed attendance at the screening and post screening reception at HotHouse. Other guest stars are expected to attend. The screening takes place at 7pm at Village Theatres Burnham Plaza 826 South Wabash Avenue. Post Screening party immediately following at HotHouse 31 east Balbo; parking avialable for both events at 710 S. Wabash -$8 with coupon from HotHouse. Please call 312 362-9707 for more information

Design @ Siskel Film Center

Design, a film shot entirely in the Chicago area, will screen at the Siskel Film Center tonight at 8:00. A selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, Design is the directorial debut of Davidson Cole, who also appears in the film as one of three characters (another one played by Daniel J. Travanti, from "Hill Street Blues") whose path cross and culminate in a night of "bad choices," as the Website puts it. NewCity recommends the film, saying that it "suggests the powerful influence of Kieslowski, but a Kieslowski without a whisper of God's grace." Siskel Film Center: 164 N. State. (312) 846-2600.