1 Last Year at Marienbad (Gene Siskel Film Center) Digital 4K restoration of Alain Resnais’ silken splinters of memory and morbid self-regard among the imagined creatures of haunted, haute Europe. Steven Soderbergh’s seen this one a time or two. Opens May 31
2 Long Day’s Journey Into Night (River East, opens May 10) Fever dream cool to the touch: Bi Gan’s second topographical fantasia of his China hometown is lovelorn neo-noir, but neon-dreamt.
3 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (wide release) Prepare to protect the puppers and dodge bullets from the dogs of war. Opens May 17
4 War and Peace (Gene Siskel Film Center) The restored, full-length seven-hour Sergei Bondarchuk adaptation; a high-caloric binge never seen in its complete form in the U. S. Opens May 17
5 Grass (Gene Siskel Film Center) Hong Sang-soo’s sixty-six-minute black-and-white café-set “Grass” is one of his shortest movies in a furiously productive stretch of filmmaking; while working on her laptop, a young woman overhears stories. Opens May 17
Ray Pride is Newcity’s Senior Editor and Film Critic. He is a contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine.
Ray’s history of Chicago Ghost Signs is planned for publication next year. Previews of the project are on Twitter and on Instagram. More photography on Instagram.
