1 After Yang (Opens Friday, March 4) Kogonada’s great sophomore feature (after “Columbus”) is a delicately delineated dream of a future of loss and mourning and artificial intelligence and Colin Farrell draped in Japanese-styled work fashion. From one image to another, it’s filled with iconic and deliquescent beauty.
2 The Batman (Opens Friday, March 4) Three solid hours of world-builder Matt Reeves having his way with eighty-three years of American iconography. Don your capes and dash to the cloaca!
3 Oscar-Nominated Shorts (Music Box, Siskel, Landmark Century) The annual melange of Oscar-nominated animated shorts, documentary shorts and live action shorts, in three separate programs: check local listings.
4 Everything Everywhere All At Once (Opens March 25) The Daniels return and subvert a multiverse: the “Swiss Army Man” duo go science-fiction comedy as Michelle Yeoh plays an older Chinese woman who must corral millions of versions of herself as well as finish filing her taxes. With Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis.
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.
