Friday, December 2, 2011
Film This week's movie action
Posted by J.R. Jones on 12.02.11 at 01:50 PM
New movies reviewed in this week's issue: America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments, Darryl Roberts's sequel to his 2007 documentary; Answers to Nothing, an ensemble drama set in Los Angeles; Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within, a sequel to the Brazilian action hit, from director Jose Padilha (Bus 174); Liliom, the rarely screened French film directed by Fritz Lang; Passione and Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, John Turturro's pair of documentaries about Italian culture; Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, an investigative report on the human rights abuses committed in the waning months of the country's civil war; Tyrannosaur, the directing debut of actor Paddy Considine, and Zielinski, a documentary about the Iowa photojournalist and conspiracy theorist John M. Zielinski.
Best bets for repertory: Edward L. Cahn's Afraid to Talk (1932), Friday at Block Films; the aforementioned Liliom (1934), which I consider at greater length here, Wednesday at the Portage; Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), midnight Friday and Saturday at Music Box; and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), Sunday morning at Facets Cinematheque, with a lecture by mystery novelist Sara Paretsky and psychologist James W. Anderson. Last but not least, Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) screens Sunday afternoon at Music Box as part of Camp Midnight's holiday program, with a personal appearance by actress Piper Laurie.
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