Meet The Fabelmans: A Review Of Spielberg’s Iliad
On a journey from blinding light to a kindly cyclops, Steven Spielberg simplifies his own early life in “The Fabelmans,” in gestures as brisk as the flick of a wrist.
Sequel A-Peel: A Review Of Glass Onion
The sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 worldwide theatrical success mystery-comedy, “Knives Out” opens for a week’s limited engagement in theaters before nestling into its worldwide Christmas berth on Netflix.
Talking Screens, November 18-24, 2022: The Life of Charlie Trotter | The Suffering of W. C. Fields | The Daffyness of Gaspar Noé
“Pinocchio,” “Love, Charlie” and “Holy Spider.” Plus, the week’s trove of repertory and revival includes Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X”; Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s period popper “Party Girl”; Olivier Assayas’ haunted “Personal Shopper”; Gaspar Noé’s lysergic nightmare of love and loss, “Enter The Void”; “RRR,” disclaimer and all; and W. C. Fields in “It’s A Gift” in 35mm.
Talking Screens, November 11-16, 2022: Aftersun, Great | All That Breathes, Great | Long Day’s Journey Into Night, One of the Century’s Great Movies
All the highlights at Music Box, Siskel and Doc Films, and then of course “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
Take The Gun, Leave The Clarinets: The Godfather Is Bigger (And Louder)
A bold celebration of “The Godfather” turning fifty with a live accompaniment with a sixty-one-piece orchestra by the Chicago Philharmonic.
Talking Screens, November 4-9, 2022: A Cavalcade of Festivals | The Novelist’s Film Is One of Hong Sang-soo’s Best
A cavalcade of festivals begins this week, including Black Harvest Film Festival at Siskel; the thirty-fourth Polish Film Festival in America, and the thirty-ninth Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. Plus film recommendations for this week.
Film Top 5: November 2022
Auteurs both old and new(er) fill November screens.
Fear, Factored: How Cinematic Is DeLillo’s Dread?
The elder novelist has spun plain expressions blasted and swirled alongside righteous rococo. His characters spend time in monotone. Their habits cannot be broken, will not be smashed, the wild integrity of path and pattern. Habit. When the habit is broken, fear fetches up.
Talking Screens, October 21-27, 2022: William Gibson’s The Peripheral | DOC Films at Ninety | All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms Lives Up to Its Title
Halloween is approaching. Horror abounds.
