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This week in Chicago: Chicago Film Archives Media Mixer and repertory riches for the end of June include a four-showing revival of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2002 Turkish drama, “Distant”
Like every other one of Peter Strickland’s dearly detailed, intimate pastiches, “Flux Gourmet” is a study in control where subjects spin into petulance, then modest madness and ultimately, chaos.
The Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival returns this Friday. “Her,” “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and “The Portrait of a Lady” at Siskel. “Paris Is Burning” and “Memoria” at Facets.
A purloined thirteen-year-old is key to the chase in this tepid, choppy mess of stories.
In Chicago this week: “Stony Island,” “Safe,” “Alphaville,” Buster Keaton. Plus ADIFF Chicago 2022 Film Series at Facets and a a benefit for the 29th Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Chicago repertory attractions this week: “Blade Runner” alongside a digital edition of “Hoop Dreams,” and Andrew Bujalski’s hypnotic lowest-of-lo-fi “Computer Chess.” Plus Robert Zemeckis’ “Used Cars.” Opening at Music Box: Michael Glover Smith’s “Relative” and Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.” And at Siskel: “Lux Æterna” and “Benediction.”
June highlights
What to see this week. Plus, Chicago Critics Film Festival’s audience proffers awards; Dick Wolf on the 198 hours of episodic television he’s making this season; remembering the Skokie native Kunio Hagio, who created the iconic one-sheet poster for “Raging Bull”; and Korean director Hong Sang-soo on what he discovered in art while at the School of the Art Institute.
“Top Gun: Maverick” is a tooled and calibrated machine for mass reaction. Yet the themes and tics of the urgently charismatic Cruise’s body of work (and cocky body) are ever-present.
This week in Chicago: Doc10 this weekend, a memorial event for Cynthia Plaster Caster and repertory attractions are deliciously eclectic. Plus openers “Men” and “Pleasure.”
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