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FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 What to watch in May. Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 11-17, 2021: IN THE HEIGHTS V. HONG Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, June 11-17, 2021. The hot-weather sensation of early summer is the musical canvas of “In The Heights,” from director Jon M. Chu and writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on the big screen at the Music Box.A satisfying slow simmer marks the restored second feature of Korea’s Hong Sang-soo, “The Power Of Kangwon FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 What to watch in May. Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT Theaters are opening, capacity increasing, and the choices of what to watch, onscreen, in virtual cinema bookings, streaming and online, pile up. Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" is the week's masterful, all-consuming marvel. THE GUNDA YEARS: THE WORLD AS BARNYARD The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard. April 22, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. by Ray Pride. April 22, 2021 May 12, 2021 Filed under: Documentary. Gunda and one of her piglets. “The Russian who dresses in white.”. That’s how I first heard of Victor Kossakovsky, from the late Canadian documentary maven Peter Wintonick: “You must meet TALKING SCREENS: “WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, April 23-29, 2021. Victor Kossakovsky welcomes us to sow business in his wondrous, wordless black-and-white life of a brood of pigs in “Gunda“; “Mortal Kombat” is back, as if it ever went anywhere; Adam McKay considers whether Aaron Sorkin is a right-winger in comparison to him but comes out on top as producer of John Lurie’s modest, magical REELING INDIE YEARS: THREE DECADES OF HOPEFUL WATCHING Reeling Indie Years: Three Decades of Hopeful Watching. Before becoming Newcity‘s film critic in late 1992, I had contributed freelance pieces to the then-alt-weekly, as well as the Reader and other local folds and bursts of newsprint. I had freelanced since reviewing movies for my college daily, and advance screenings wereboth work and
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a GOOD, EVIL AND THE RETURN OF HAL HARTLEY In the 1990s, Hal Hartley passed for it: a deadpan pasticheur from Long Island who liked French movies and poker-faced piquant variations in highly verbal comedies drawing from Godard and Gallic epigrammatists, dropping in complications a la screwball comedy with just a smattering of vulgar provocations. A modest, blunt, elementalvisual style.
ME AND ROGER EBERT, VINCENT GALLO AND “THE BROWN BUNNY Me and Roger Ebert, Vincent Gallo and “The Brown Bunny”. Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” debuted at the 2003 Cannes Festival fifteen years ago today. Months after Roger Ebert saw “Brown Bunny” there and declared it the worst film ever at the festival, Gallo drove cross-country with his personal 35mm print. The head oftheatrical
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 11-17, 2021: IN THE HEIGHTS V. HONG Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, June 11-17, 2021. The hot-weather sensation of early summer is the musical canvas of “In The Heights,” from director Jon M. Chu and writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on the big screen at the Music Box.A satisfying slow simmer marks the restored second feature of Korea’s Hong Sang-soo, “The Power Of Kangwon FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 What to watch in May. Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 11-17, 2021: IN THE HEIGHTS V. HONG Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, June 11-17, 2021. The hot-weather sensation of early summer is the musical canvas of “In The Heights,” from director Jon M. Chu and writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on the big screen at the Music Box.A satisfying slow simmer marks the restored second feature of Korea’s Hong Sang-soo, “The Power Of Kangwon FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 What to watch in May. Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT Theaters are opening, capacity increasing, and the choices of what to watch, onscreen, in virtual cinema bookings, streaming and online, pile up. Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" is the week's masterful, all-consuming marvel. THE GUNDA YEARS: THE WORLD AS BARNYARD The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard. April 22, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. by Ray Pride. April 22, 2021 May 12, 2021 Filed under: Documentary. Gunda and one of her piglets. “The Russian who dresses in white.”. That’s how I first heard of Victor Kossakovsky, from the late Canadian documentary maven Peter Wintonick: “You must meet TALKING SCREENS: “WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, April 23-29, 2021. Victor Kossakovsky welcomes us to sow business in his wondrous, wordless black-and-white life of a brood of pigs in “Gunda“; “Mortal Kombat” is back, as if it ever went anywhere; Adam McKay considers whether Aaron Sorkin is a right-winger in comparison to him but comes out on top as producer of John Lurie’s modest, magical REELING INDIE YEARS: THREE DECADES OF HOPEFUL WATCHING Reeling Indie Years: Three Decades of Hopeful Watching. Before becoming Newcity‘s film critic in late 1992, I had contributed freelance pieces to the then-alt-weekly, as well as the Reader and other local folds and bursts of newsprint. I had freelanced since reviewing movies for my college daily, and advance screenings wereboth work and
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a GOOD, EVIL AND THE RETURN OF HAL HARTLEY In the 1990s, Hal Hartley passed for it: a deadpan pasticheur from Long Island who liked French movies and poker-faced piquant variations in highly verbal comedies drawing from Godard and Gallic epigrammatists, dropping in complications a la screwball comedy with just a smattering of vulgar provocations. A modest, blunt, elementalvisual style.
ME AND ROGER EBERT, VINCENT GALLO AND “THE BROWN BUNNY Me and Roger Ebert, Vincent Gallo and “The Brown Bunny”. Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” debuted at the 2003 Cannes Festival fifteen years ago today. Months after Roger Ebert saw “Brown Bunny” there and declared it the worst film ever at the festival, Gallo drove cross-country with his personal 35mm print. The head oftheatrical
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 11-17, 2021: IN THE HEIGHTS V. HONG 1 day ago · Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, June 11-17, 2021. The hot-weather sensation of early summer is the musical canvas of “In The Heights,” from director Jon M. Chu and writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on the big screen at the Music Box.A satisfying slow simmer marks the restored second feature of Korea’s Hong Sang-soo, “The Power Of Kangwon FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 11-17, 2021: IN THE HEIGHTS V. HONG 1 day ago · Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, June 11-17, 2021. The hot-weather sensation of early summer is the musical canvas of “In The Heights,” from director Jon M. Chu and writer-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on the big screen at the Music Box.A satisfying slow simmer marks the restored second feature of Korea’s Hong Sang-soo, “The Power Of Kangwon FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, JUNE 4-10, 2021: MORE CONJURING Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, June 4-10, 2021. Studios, like moviegoers, are gaining courage: more movies to choose from, more theaters increasing their capacity, announcements of movies small and large in months to come. FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 1 Profile (Opens Friday, May 14) Russian-Kazakh director-writer Timur Bekmambetov has produced uncanny thrillers that take place within the confines and world reach of a computer screen, including “Unfriended” and “Searching,” which he calls “Screenlife.” “Profile” premiered in 2018, but its terrorism tale within an eternal online life may turn out fresh as can be. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT Talking Screens, May 7-13, 2021: About Endlessness | Heat | The End of Moviegoing? Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, May 7-13, 2021 OPENERS The dour, serene, dapper, disheveled cornucopia of moments in Roy Andersson's "About Endlessness" is presumed by some to comprise the final feature from the seventy-nine-year-old Swedish master behind "Songs from the Second Floor" THE GUNDA YEARS: THE WORLD AS BARNYARD The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard. April 22, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. by Ray Pride. April 22, 2021 May 12, 2021 Filed under: Documentary. Gunda and one of her piglets. “The Russian who dresses in white.”. That’s how I first heard of Victor Kossakovsky, from the late Canadian documentary maven Peter Wintonick: “You must meet BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and GOOD, EVIL AND THE RETURN OF HAL HARTLEY In the 1990s, Hal Hartley passed for it: a deadpan pasticheur from Long Island who liked French movies and poker-faced piquant variations in highly verbal comedies drawing from Godard and Gallic epigrammatists, dropping in complications a la screwball comedy with just a smattering of vulgar provocations. A modest, blunt, elementalvisual style.
PASOLINI'S SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM IN 35MM RECOMMENDED. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or, The 120 Days of Sodom” is stately horror, brute and luxe. There’s a legend of the movie’s Chicago debut, at the 3 Penny Cinema (now Lincoln Hall), when the theater’s owner whipped out the shears under dark of night and scissored out every scene he found distasteful, losing a goodtwenty minutes.
WORLD, WARRED: A REVIEW OF EMIR KUSTURICA’S “UNDERGROUND World Cinema. RECOMMENDED. Long out of circulation since its 1997 U.S. release, Emir Kusturica’s bold, epic farce of the horrors of war through fifty years past the end of World War II in former Yugoslavia is, among adjectives littering its original notices, brilliant. While politics are purposefully muddied—Kusturica is now a staunch NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FUTURE PERFECT: THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF “JONAH WHO WILL BE Future Perfect: The Class Struggle Of “Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000”. Renoir, Godard and Gauloises: eight “little prophets” in their early-to-mid-thirties live past 1968 in Alain Tanner and John Berger’s heartbreakingly hopeful and tender romance of the earth and the wondrous humans thereupon. When I was discoveringfilms as
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FUTURE PERFECT: THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF “JONAH WHO WILL BE Future Perfect: The Class Struggle Of “Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000”. Renoir, Godard and Gauloises: eight “little prophets” in their early-to-mid-thirties live past 1968 in Alain Tanner and John Berger’s heartbreakingly hopeful and tender romance of the earth and the wondrous humans thereupon. When I was discoveringfilms as
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 In theaters for June. 1 Zola (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted.” FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 1 Profile (Opens Friday, May 14) Russian-Kazakh director-writer Timur Bekmambetov has produced uncanny thrillers that take place within the confines and world reach of a computer screen, including “Unfriended” and “Searching,” which he calls “Screenlife.” “Profile” premiered in 2018, but its terrorism tale within an eternal online life may turn out fresh as can be. THE GUNDA YEARS: THE WORLD AS BARNYARD The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard. April 22, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. by Ray Pride. April 22, 2021 May 12, 2021 Filed under: Documentary. Gunda and one of her piglets. “The Russian who dresses in white.”. That’s how I first heard of Victor Kossakovsky, from the late Canadian documentary maven Peter Wintonick: “You must meet TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT Talking Screens, May 7-13, 2021: About Endlessness | Heat | The End of Moviegoing? Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, May 7-13, 2021 OPENERS The dour, serene, dapper, disheveled cornucopia of moments in Roy Andersson's "About Endlessness" is presumed by some to comprise the final feature from the seventy-nine-year-old Swedish master behind "Songs from the Second Floor" FILM TOP 5: MARCH 2021 Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 26-March 4, 2021 OPENERS “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” which director Lee Daniels describes as the first movie he’s directed sober, is an intent, starry showcase for Grammy Award-nominated Andra Day. There are fewer of the gloriously inexplicable touches and much less of the giddy bursts of vulgarity of earlier work like BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets GOOD, EVIL AND THE RETURN OF HAL HARTLEY In the 1990s, Hal Hartley passed for it: a deadpan pasticheur from Long Island who liked French movies and poker-faced piquant variations in highly verbal comedies drawing from Godard and Gallic epigrammatists, dropping in complications a la screwball comedy with just a smattering of vulgar provocations. A modest, blunt, elementalvisual style.
PASOLINI'S SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM IN 35MM RECOMMENDED. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or, The 120 Days of Sodom” is stately horror, brute and luxe. There’s a legend of the movie’s Chicago debut, at the 3 Penny Cinema (now Lincoln Hall), when the theater’s owner whipped out the shears under dark of night and scissored out every scene he found distasteful, losing a goodtwenty minutes.
WORLD, WARRED: A REVIEW OF EMIR KUSTURICA’S “UNDERGROUND World Cinema. RECOMMENDED. Long out of circulation since its 1997 U.S. release, Emir Kusturica’s bold, epic farce of the horrors of war through fifty years past the end of World War II in former Yugoslavia is, among adjectives littering its original notices, brilliant. While politics are purposefully muddied—Kusturica is now a staunch NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FUTURE PERFECT: THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF “JONAH WHO WILL BE Future Perfect: The Class Struggle Of “Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000”. Renoir, Godard and Gauloises: eight “little prophets” in their early-to-mid-thirties live past 1968 in Alain Tanner and John Berger’s heartbreakingly hopeful and tender romance of the earth and the wondrous humans thereupon. When I was discoveringfilms as
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
NEWCITY FILM: REVIEWS, PROFILES AND NEWS ABOUT MOVIES IN Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines. April 15, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 Top 5 Lists. “Zola”. 1. Zola. (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The RealStory Behind
WATER WORLDS: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD’S MYTHICAL ROMANCE UNDINE That’s a lot to expect from cinema, especially to be conveyed in such transparent, even effortless fashion. His actors, especially Nina Hoss (“Jerichow,” “Yella,” “Barbara,” “Phoenix”) are quietly stellar, gems set within formidably apt settings. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021: CRUELLA STEALS ITS Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 12-18, 2021 OPENERS The delay of the Oscars until April 25 was one of many changes in the movie industry in the past year; movies released in the U. S. through February 28 are deemed eligible if there was an intention to have released them theatrically. The standard-bearers opening this week include Shaka King's sleek Chicago-set marvel, TALKING SCREENS, MAY 21-27, 2021: BARRY JENKINS ON THE Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, May 21-27, 2021. The Logan Theatre joins the screens alight in Chicago on Friday. Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on widerrelease.
AN ESSENTIAL MASTERPIECE: A REVIEW OF “A BRIGHTER SUMMER RECOMMENDED “A Brighter Summer Day,” the late Edward Yang’s four-hour 1991 masterpiece, set in Taiwan in 1959 or so, is a coming-of-age film, a love story or three or four or five. It is also a true-crime tale, a wondrous gift in so many ways, especially on a HYDRONIUM BROMIDE FOR ALL: A REVIEW OF AFTER.LIFE Hydronium Bromide for All: A Review of After.Life. Eliot (Liam Neeson, “Kinsey,” “Taken”) either injects a powerful muscle relaxant (the make-believe “hydronium bromide”) into people incorrectly declared dead by the local coroner, then buries them alive, or this mortician is cursed as a corpse-whisperer. The first one was hismother
FUTURE PERFECT: THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF “JONAH WHO WILL BE Future Perfect: The Class Struggle Of “Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000”. Renoir, Godard and Gauloises: eight “little prophets” in their early-to-mid-thirties live past 1968 in Alain Tanner and John Berger’s heartbreakingly hopeful and tender romance of the earth and the wondrous humans thereupon. When I was discoveringfilms as
FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets SAM GIANCANA'S DAUGHTERS, FRANCINE & BONNIE, SHARE Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancana’s three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Their oldest sister, Antoinette, published a book in 1984 called “Mafia Princess” about her life as a mobster’s daughter,which
FILM TOP 5: JUNE 2021 In theaters for June. 1 Zola (Opens Wednesday, June 30) A viral Twitter skein gets the A24 spotlight, directed by Janicza Bravo (“Lemon”) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play,” “Daddy”), based on tweets by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King and the article by David Kushner, “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted.” FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 1 Profile (Opens Friday, May 14) Russian-Kazakh director-writer Timur Bekmambetov has produced uncanny thrillers that take place within the confines and world reach of a computer screen, including “Unfriended” and “Searching,” which he calls “Screenlife.” “Profile” premiered in 2018, but its terrorism tale within an eternal online life may turn out fresh as can be. THE GUNDA YEARS: THE WORLD AS BARNYARD The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard. April 22, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride. by Ray Pride. April 22, 2021 May 12, 2021 Filed under: Documentary. Gunda and one of her piglets. “The Russian who dresses in white.”. That’s how I first heard of Victor Kossakovsky, from the late Canadian documentary maven Peter Wintonick: “You must meet TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT Talking Screens, May 7-13, 2021: About Endlessness | Heat | The End of Moviegoing? Talking Screens: A Week In Chicago Film, May 7-13, 2021 OPENERS The dour, serene, dapper, disheveled cornucopia of moments in Roy Andersson's "About Endlessness" is presumed by some to comprise the final feature from the seventy-nine-year-old Swedish master behind "Songs from the Second Floor" FILM TOP 5: MARCH 2021 Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, February 26-March 4, 2021 OPENERS “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” which director Lee Daniels describes as the first movie he’s directed sober, is an intent, starry showcase for Grammy Award-nominated Andra Day. There are fewer of the gloriously inexplicable touches and much less of the giddy bursts of vulgarity of earlier work like BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A ten-hour series, dense with effort and rich in effortlessness, directed by Barry Jenkins, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” introduces a brace of characters that will move through the space of the South. Some are slaves, and some enslave. The main characters, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and FROM THE OTHER WORLD: WALTER HILL’S “STREETS OF FIRE” IN RECOMMENDED “The following story takes place in the Other World,” begins the unpublished screenplay for Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire,” shot, with great hope, under the title, “The Adventures of Tom Cody: Book One.” “A far off place”—partially shot under Chicago’s El tracks—“where genres collide — in this case, Futuristic Fantasy meets the Western, gets GOOD, EVIL AND THE RETURN OF HAL HARTLEY In the 1990s, Hal Hartley passed for it: a deadpan pasticheur from Long Island who liked French movies and poker-faced piquant variations in highly verbal comedies drawing from Godard and Gallic epigrammatists, dropping in complications a la screwball comedy with just a smattering of vulgar provocations. A modest, blunt, elementalvisual style.
PASOLINI'S SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM IN 35MM RECOMMENDED. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or, The 120 Days of Sodom” is stately horror, brute and luxe. There’s a legend of the movie’s Chicago debut, at the 3 Penny Cinema (now Lincoln Hall), when the theater’s owner whipped out the shears under dark of night and scissored out every scene he found distasteful, losing a goodtwenty minutes.
WORLD, WARRED: A REVIEW OF EMIR KUSTURICA’S “UNDERGROUND World Cinema. RECOMMENDED. Long out of circulation since its 1997 U.S. release, Emir Kusturica’s bold, epic farce of the horrors of war through fifty years past the end of World War II in former Yugoslavia is, among adjectives littering its original notices, brilliant. While politics are purposefully muddied—Kusturica is now a staunch * Skip to primary navigation * Skip to main content * Skip to primary sidebarNEWCITY FILM
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FILM TOP 5: MAY 2021 May 14, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride What to watch in May. TALKING SCREENS, MAY 14-20, 2021: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES DEBUT | WHAT CHRIS ROCK SAW | GUY RITCHIE DOES RITCHIE May 13, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride Theaters are opening, capacity increasing, and the choices of what to watch, onscreen, in virtual cinema bookings, streaming and online, pile up. Barry Jenkins’ “The Underground Railroad” is the week’s masterful, all-consuming marvel. BREATH, TAKEN: BARRY JENKINS’ THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD May 12, 2021 at 7:00 am by Ray Pride Barry Jenkins’ cinematic mural from Colson Whitehead’s slim novel does not sprawl, but span, encompass, embrace, weep, leap and dream;oh how it dreams.
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