1 The Twenty-Second Chicago European Union Film Festival (Siskel, March 8-April 4) A month devoted to representation of the best of the best from each member country of the EU: Siskel’s programming is consistently one of Chicago’s best fests.
2 The Complete Harmony Korine in 35mm (Music Box, March 15-21) All of Harmony Korine’s output on 35mm prints—“Gummo,” “Julien Donkey-Boy,” “Mister Lonely,” “Trash Humpers,” “Spring Breakers”—along with a DCP preview of his latest psycho-delic comedy, “The Beach Bum.”
3 Us (Opens March 22) Jordan Peele’s sophomore writing-directing gig after “Get Out.”
4 Transit (Music Box, Opens March 15) Melodrama mathematician Christian Petzold makes his “Kafka-blanca.”
5 Greta (Opens March 1) MIA Irish fabulist Neil Jordan rematerializes with a Manhattan-set Isabelle Huppert-Chloë Grace Moretz suspense thriller.
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.
Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, March 12-18, 2021 OPENERS How condensed do you want your Almodóvar? In thirty taut minutes, the Spanish writer-director burrows inside Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play, “The Human Voice,” with Tilda Swinton as his physical and psychological blade. Studio-confined during pandemic days, it’s brightly, boldly interior in every way. Music Box Theatre; shown with Almodóvar’s 1988 breakthrough, “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”…
