1 Memoria (Siskel Film Center, opens Friday, April 15) The sounds of science, from the School of the Art Institute’s own Apichatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul.
2 David Lynch: A Complete Retrospective—The Return (Music Box, April 7-14) “My dog… barks… late at night…sometimes” and so very much more in the augmented second edition of the most complete David Lynch retrospective you could hope to imagine. Prepare to uncoil within the coils of smoke.
3 The Northman (Opens Friday, April 22) Robert Eggers follows “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” with a tenth-century saga, co-written with Icelandic poet-novelist Sjón Sigurdsson, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Alexander Skarsgård, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke and with Nicole Kidman as Queen Gudrun, Willem Dafoe as “Heimir the Fool” and Björk as “The Seeress.”
4 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Opens Friday, April 22) Nicolas Cage goes the “Being John Malkovich” and “JCVD” route and acts his persistent role of acting out.
5 Wings of Desire (Gene Siskel Film Center, Monday, April 18) Wim Wenders’ ethereal tale of angels and human potential for love is another masterpiece in the ongoing “50/50” series, shown on 35mm.
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.
