Friday, January 20, 2012
Film This week's movie action
Posted by J.R. Jones on 01.20.12 at 09:00 AM
Check out our new reviews of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a 9/11 heart-tugger with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock; The Flowers of War, a drama set during the rape of Nanking and directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers); Haywire, an international thriller by Steven Soderbergh; Jess + Moss, an impressive feature debut by Tennessee independent Clay Jeter; King of Devil's Island, a Norwegian period piece set in a boys' reformatory in 1915; My Reincarnation, a documentary about a Tibetan Buddhist master and his son, who works for IBM; Norwegian Wood, a screen adaptation of the novel by Haruki Murakami; Pina, a 3-D documentary about Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal by Wim Wenders; and Red Tails, an action flick that revisits the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Best bets for repertory: Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946), Tuesday at Doc Films, and Scarface (1932), Saturday at Block Museum; Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983), Saturday at Cinema Borealis; Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Wednesday at Doc; Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1973), Thursday at Doc; the Kartemquin Films documentary Inquiring Nuns, Friday at Madison Street Theatre in Oak Park; and Sergei Eisenstein's October (1927), Sunday (with live piano accompaniment by Dave Drazin) and Thursday at Gene Siskel Film Center.
Last but not least, I'll be taking part in a panel discussion at the Chicago Cultural Center this Wednesday, January 25, following a screening of Hiroshi Teshigahara's Pitfall (1962), written by the revered Japanese playwright Kobo Abe; it screens at 6:30 PM as part of Vitalist Theatre's production of the Abe play The Ghost Is Here, through February 19 at DCA Storefront Theater.
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