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Film Top 5: August 2019

July 30, 2019 at 8:00 am by Ray Pride

by Ray Pride
July 30, 2019September 6, 2019Filed under:
  • Celluloid Restoration
  • Chicago Artists
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Events
  • Recommended
  • World Cinema

1
World City In Its Teens: A Report on Chicago
(Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre)
Seldom-seen 1931 city symphony of Chicago (with live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott) during “Music Box at 90” week. Writer-photographer Heinrich Hauser’s “Weltstadt in Flegeljahren: Ein bericht über Chicago,” captures lost Chicago low and high in fragments lost to memory. 35mm.
August 24

2
Aquarela
(Music Box)
Documentary master Viktor Aleksandrovich Kossakovsky made a three-letter pitch for his submersion into the essence of life: “H. 2. 0.”
Opens August 30

3
Brewster McCloud
(Gene Siskel Film Center)
Robert Altman’s bounty of sour whimsy about a boy who wants to fly like Icarus in the Houston Astrodome is chockfull of ideas, bad and good: as a major studio release in 1970, just after “M*A*S*H,” it wasn’t a career killer. 35mm.
August 2 & 9

4
Threads
(Gene Siskel Film Center)
Bleak, bleak, bleak. Black, black, black. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Restoring the end of the world: Mick Jackson’s scalding, necessary 1984 BBC feature dramatizes nuclear holocaust at street level in Sheffield.
August 23-26

5
Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) 
(Gene Siskel Film Center)
Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas goes the semi-autobiographical autobahn in trying but expressive three-hour drama about a man (Reygadas) and the lover of his wife (played by Reygadas’ wife) in conflict, shot largely in the Reygadas family compound. Masculinity is on the surgeon’s table.
August 2-8

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:
  • Aquarela
  • Brewster McCloud
  • Carlos Reygadas
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  • Mick Jackson
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  • Robert Altman
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