Film Top 5: March 2020

“Sibyl,” European Union Film Festival

1
Shy People
(Chicago Film Society, Music Box)
Andrei Konchalovsky’s rarely seen 1987 gem, a masterful, unabashed melodrama set in a haunted swamp, with Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey and Martha Plimpton. 35mm.
March 30

2
The Twenty-Third Annual European Union Film Festival
(Siskel)
A tasty selection of forty-seven films from twenty-seven European Union member nations and, for one last time, self-exiled Great Britain.
March 6-April 12

3
The Whistlers
(Music Box)
The great Romanian deadpan artist Corneliu Porumboiu turns his hand to an international comic caper to captivating result.
Opens March 27

4
Saint Frances
(Music Box)
Chicago indie film makes good: SXSW standout from local talent makes good and wreaks tears as “issues” are heightened in human relief.
Opens March 20

5
The 70mm Film Festival
(Music Box)
Get ‘em while they’re big: “Once Upon A Time … In Hollywood,” “West Side Story,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Big Trail,” “Last Action Hero,” “Roma,” “Lifeforce,” “The Untouchables,” “Khartoum,” “Interstellar,” “Tron” and “Hello, Dolly!”
March 5-19