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Film Top 5: April 2019

March 27, 2019 at 9:00 am by Ray Pride

by Ray Pride
March 27, 2019March 29, 2019Filed under:
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  • Top 5 Lists

1
High Life
(Music Box Theatre)
Claire Denis in space. (Yes!) With Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin, Mia Goth. (Yes!) Photographed by Yorick Le Saux. (Yes!) Music by Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks. (Oui!)
Opens April 12

2
The Brink
“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” director Alison Klayman follows the sticky trail of self-proclaimed Leninist self-promoting political nihilist Steve Bannon (beating Errol Morris’ self-distributed feature-length interview to the marketplace).
April 5

3
Hotel by the River
(Gene Siskel Film Center)
Hong Sang-soo’s midlife renaissance continues apace, with his seventh released feature since 2015, a melancholy black-and-white dive into all things small and large of life in confined time and space.
April 19-25

4
A Bread Factory
(Gene Siskel Film Center)
Mammoth modest epic of community and commerce and gentrification and globalization and celebrity and performance art by renegade filmmaker Patrick Wang.
April 12-17

5
The Beach Bum
(Music Box Theatre)
Rooting for you, Harmony Korine.
March 29

Ray Pride

Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.

His history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” in words and images is in the works. Previews on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride.

Twitter: twitter.com/RayPride.

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Tagged:
  • A Bread Factory
  • Alison Klayman
  • André Benjamin
  • Claire Denis
  • Errol Morris
  • Harmony Korine
  • High LIfe
  • Hong Sang-soo
  • Hotel by the River
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Mia Goth
  • Patrick Wang
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Stephen Bannon
  • Stuart A. Staples
  • The Beach Bum
  • The Brink
  • Tindersticks
  • Yorick Le Saux

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