1 Good Time (Opens Friday August 18) The Safdie brothers heighten their restless formal style from “Heaven Knows What,” with Robert Pattinson as a New York thief hoping to rescue his brother after a botched bank robbery.
2 Mario Bava: the Baroque Beauties of Italian Horror (Siskel) A major retrospective of restorations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the gone-for-baroque Italian horror master’s “Kill, Baby, Kill” also includes “A Bay Of Blood,” “Black Sabbath,” “Black Sunday,” “Blood and Black Lace,” “Kidnapped,” “Lisa and the Devil,” “The Whip And The Body” and “The Girl Who Knew Too Much.”
3 Detroit (Opens Friday August 4) The first theatrical release by Annapurna Pictures is Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s take on the violence of summer of 1967 in Detroit.
4 Menashe (Opens Friday August 4) In Joshua Z. Weinstein’s Yiddish-language drama, a widower fights for custody of his son in Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish environs.
5 Little Murders (August 16, Chicago Film Society) Elliott Gould stars in Alan Arkin’s filming of Jules Feiffer’s dyslectic if not dystopian view of New York City in the 1970s. A rare showing of one of the blackest of pitch-black comedies ever released by an American studio, and on 35mm.
Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His multimedia history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” will be published soon. Previews of the project are on Twitter and on Instagram as Ghost Signs Chicago. More photography on Instagram.
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