1 Crimes Of The Future (Opens Friday, June 3) Seventy-nine-year-old David Cronenberg hasn’t found the finance for a feature since 2014’s “Maps To The Stars”; with the release of “Crimes of the Future,” he’s also announced “The Shrouds,” about communicating with the dead. Hail the always-new flesh…
2 Elvis (Opens Friday, June 24) Baz Luhrmann movies: grandiloquent, follies, both? The creator of “Moulin Rouge!” musicalizes the career-long relationship of Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker.
3 Safe (Siskel, Monday, June 13) Todd Haynes’ visionary look at the inexplicable health calamities of the the twentieth century, effectively presaging plagues to come. Julianne Moore is sorrow and strength, fear and hope-against-hope. 35mm.
4 The Black Phone (Opens Friday, June 24) Filmmaker Scott Derrickson ushers Ethan Hawke deeper into his dark middle age; based on a Joe Hill short story.
5 The Music Box 70mm Festival (June 17-30) Stopped mid-fest in 2020 when the world shut down, the Music Box 70mm Festival returns with earlier audience favorites and more, including “Spartacus,” “Lawrence Of Arabia,” “Airport” and “Geronimo: An American Legend,” “Starman,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “West Side Story” and the Music Box’s own print of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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.
