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THIS WEEK: “Return to Seoul” at FACETS; “Adwa: An African Victory” at Block; “Mother” at Alamo Drafthouse; “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” and “The Eight Mountains” at Siskel; “BlackBerry,” “Wild Life,” “The Conformist” and “Eating Raoul” at Music Box.
A joyous sweetheart of a movie; even better is that it plays like a film that can stand on its own.
THIS WEEK: “Return to Seoul” at FACETS; “WarGames” at Alamo Drafthouse; “Letters Home,” “Citizen Kane” and “Spider” at Doc; “R.M.N.” at Siskel; the Chicago Critics Film Festival at Music Box; and Doc10 Film Festival at Siskel and the Davis.
Chicago’s day-to-day opportunities to see films that are classic and newborn alike seem unparalleled. This week, we get two overlapping, stellar festivals.
There are key considerations you can make about composition after the fact of witness or capture: framing, depth of field, the golden mean, I mean, let’s write a book.
Doc10 and Chicago Critics Fest’s curate the month of May.
THIS WEEK: “Suspiria” (with an appearance by actress Barbara Magnolfi) at FACETS; “Naked Lunch” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” at Doc; “You Hurt My Feelings,” “Enough Said,” “Friends With Money,” “Joyland,” “Safe” and The Chicago Palestine Film Festival at Siskel; “To Be Or Not To Be,” “Star Wars: Return Of the Jedi,” The Cinema Femme Short Film Fest, “Clueless” and “Golden Eighties” at Music Box.
A three-hour panic attack that is more dream than fantasy.
THIS WEEK: CineYouth Festival at FACETS; “Ex Machina” at Alamo Drafthouse; “Beau Travail,” “Sois belle et tais-toi!,” “Rabid” and “Pacific Rim” at Doc; “Sick of Myself” at Siskel; “Runaway Train” and Sound of Silent Film Festival at Music Box; and “A Self-Induced Hallucination” at Block Cinema; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul at both Block and Siskel.
“Showing Up” is the inspired title of Kelly Reichardt’s sneaky, funny little masterpiece, beautifully measured, tender-yet-irritable telling of the daily life and low-level strife of a mid-career working artist, played by a formidably distracted Michelle Williams. The result is exquisite.
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