Friday, January 4, 2013
Opening / Film Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies
Posted by Ben Sachs on 01.04.13 at 12:28 PM
This week's issue also has new reviews of Any Day Now, a domestic drama about a gay couple trying to adopt a child in the 1970s; Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western Django (1966), which screens as a midnight show at the Music Box on Friday and Saturday (and which provides a major point of reference for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, which Tal Rosenberg considers at length in this week's issue); The Flat, a real-life mystery story from Israeli documentarian Arnon Goldfinger; How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, another personal-essay doc playing in the Siskel Center's annual Stranger Than Fiction program; Price Check, an indie drama about office-life drudgery; The Rabbi's Cat, a quirky French animated feature adapted from a series of graphic novels; and Sister, the second feature by Ursula Meier, the talented young director of Home (2008).
Best bets for repertory: William Wellman's seldom-revived WWII drama The Story of G.I. Joe, screening at Doc Films on Monday; John Stahl's seldom-revived film noir The Walls of Jericho, screening at the Portage Theater on Wednesday; Elia Kazan's often-revived On the Waterfront, screening at the Music Box on Saturday and Sunday morning; and Wong Kar-Wai's debut feature, As Tears Go By, playing at Doc on Wednesday.
