1 City So Real (National Geographic Channel, October 29; starts on Hulu, October 30) Steve James’ elegant, often-astonishing five-hour mosaic of events leading up to the mayoral election, with an hour shot across pandemic summer, arrives in a richer edition than its Sundance premiere and festival showings. NatGeo debuts the entire five hours, commercial-free, on October 29.
2 Candyman (postponed until sometime in 2021) Nia DaCosta (“Captain Marvel 2”) directs the Jordan Peele-produced revisit of the 1992 metaphor-dense, shock-rich chiller: expect the buzz of an otherworldly twenty-first-century Chicago that can’t let go of the dense, dank past.
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.
Fall Arts Preview 2020: Manual Cinema's Candyman Dream While Manual Cinema—the Chicago-based performance collective, design studio and film and video production company can’t squeak a peep about their work until the Universal release sees daylight, the work, weirdly, wordless, worries up a world all its own.
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.
