1 Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (Siskel) Digital 4K restoration of one of cinematographer Jack Cardiff’s most gorgeous films, in the act of capturing Ava Gardner.
2 Vitalina Varela (Siskel) First Chicago run of Pedro Costa’s latest portrait of migrants, faces, shadows, sunlight.
3 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (Music Box) Werner Herzog sets out on a journey to recollect the life and passions of his late friend, the writer-adventurer Bruce Chatwin.
4 In Spring (Chicago Film Society at Music Box) Mikhail Kaufman’s 1929 silent, a portrait of Kyiv through the seasons; Georges Sadoul called it a “new form, [a] cine-poem.” 35mm.
5 Saint Maud A24 brands itself as the new home for stylish horror, promoting “Saint Maud,” about a hospice nurse bent on saving the soul of a patient, in the “tradition” of “Hereditary” and last year’s “Midsommar.”
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.
Film Top 5: October 2020 Chicago International, "Chicago 7" and "Candyman"'s Chicago; plus "WW1984" braces for social distancing and Kenneth Branagh again tunes up the tonsorial folderol as Hercule Poirot.
Film Top 5: September 2020 Charlie Kaufman thinks, once more, as always, of ending it all; whimsitician Miranda July returns; Chicago Latino Film Festival goes virtual; Gerard Butler may or may not save the planet from a comet; and "Tenet" promises to time-invert over Labor Day in non-pandemic hotspot localities.
