- Movies, Movie Review, May 1, 2008
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The Greatest Film Ever Made?
Maybe, but Alain Resnais' Marienbad is definitely a contender for most misunderstood.
- Movies, Movie Review, Jan 17, 2008
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Image Problem
John Sayles can write a good story, but can he tell it visually?
- Movies, Movie Review, Jan 3, 2008
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Something to Talk About
The Chicago premieres of several masterpiece films made magic in a year dominated by tired fare.
- Movies, Movie Review, Dec 13, 2007
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Complicated Characters
Flawed people in flawed relationships make for a stimulating screenplay in Andrew Wagner's adaptation.
- Movies, Movie Review, Nov 22, 2007
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A Funny Kind of Tribute
Todd Haynes's essay on Dylan is no hagiography.
- Movies, Movie Review, Nov 15, 2007
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Cinema of the Future
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa twists Hollywood inspiration in his tableaux of dispossession and poverty.
- Movies, Movie Review, Nov 8, 2007
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All the Pretty Carnage
Remorseless murder isn't all there is to No Country for Old Men, but it's all anyone seems to care about.
- Movies, Movie Review, Nov 1, 2007
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The Actual Definitive Ultimate Director's Cut
Blade Runner is back again—the way it was meant to be seen.
- Movies, Movie Review, Sep 13, 2007
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The Freed Woman
Jennifer Fox's audacious autobiographical miniseries
- Movies, Movie Review, Aug 30, 2007
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When Fable and Fact Interact
Chicago Cinema Forum presents a newly subtitled restoration of Roberto Rossellini's 1959 masterpiece India Matri Bhumi.
- Movies, Movie Review, Aug 2, 2007
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The Unobserved Life
The debut feature of an overlooked master gets its long-delayed commercial release.
- Movies, Movie Review, Jun 28, 2007
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Dumb Like Me
Michael Moore undercuts his own muckraking with his regular Joe act.
- Movies, Movie Review, Jun 7, 2007
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Hollywood Mon Amour
The latest from French master Alain Resnais is a classic studio-style heartbreaker.
- Movies, Movie Review, May 24, 2007
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The 12-Hour Masterpiece
After years of obscurity, Jacques Rivette's puzzling Out 1 finally makes it to Chicago.
- Movies, Movie Review, May 3, 2007
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Before the Revolution
The Film Center presents rarely seen works by exiled Iranian director Ebrahim Golestan.
- Movies, Movie Review, Apr 19, 2007
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Don't Judge a Film by Its Venue
Black Book brings moral complexity to the mall and Offside brings lighthearted humor to the art house.
- Movies, Movie Review, Apr 5, 2007
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Two Takes on the Truth
A hoax about a hoax and art about an artist
- Movies, Movie Review, Mar 8, 2007
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Trial of the Century
Globalism gets a hearing in a dusty African backyard.
- Movies, Movie Review, Feb 22, 2007
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Beautifully Fake and Just Plain Phony
Seven different actors can barely represent the complexity of the historical figure Nat Turner; for a made-up rocket man, one is more than enough.
- Movies, Movie Review, Jan 25, 2007
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Hollywood From the Fringes
David Lynch's Inland Empire, a digital feature he's distributing himself, takes a long, strange, unflattering look at the movie business.
