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.
Can't-Miss Fall Film Events Check out the oldest and largest film festival for kids in North America, the fifty-fourth annual Chicago International film Festival, and an unfinished 1970s Orson Welles film that was finally completed.
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.
