Film Search
- Dec 10, 2009
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Birth of Magellan
Part of a year-long, citywide series on filmmaker Hollis Frampton—which concludes with a symposium in February 2010—this program collects five parts of the filmmaker’s monumental unfinished "Magellan" cycle. more...
- Oct 29, 2009
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Bronson
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn follows his aggressively stylized Pusher trilogy with this in-your-face biopic of British prisoner Charles Bronson (originally Michael Gordon Peterson), who was sentenced on a robbery conviction in 1974 and has proved so incorrigibly violent that he's spent most of his life since then behind bars. more...
- Feb 18, 2010
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Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow
Experimental animator Al Jarnow is best known for the shorts he contributed to the children's shows Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact, but this survey of his work from 1968 to 1987 shows him to be a multifaceted artist. more...
- Jan 28, 2010
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The Chaser (NR)
Easily the best cop thriller since The Departed, this 2008 Korean import is the debut feature of Na Hong-jin, who demonstrates such mastery of suspense mechanics that he earns the right to flirt with irony and even—dare I say it—tragedy. more...
- Jul 29, 2010
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Countdown to Zero (PG)
Nearly 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, the danger of a nuclear attack on the U.S. is compounded by a false sense of safety and the widely accepted notion that eradicating nukes is a pipe dream. more...
- Jun 10, 2010
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Daddy Longlegs
Ronald Bronstein, who wrote and directed the disquieting indie Frownland, steps in front of the cameras for this similarly lo-fi drama, and his loose-limbed performance as the brash, irresponsible father of two young boys establishes him as a genuine triple threat. more...
- Oct 21, 2010
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Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun (NR)
In the third installment of his ongoing "Film Ist" series, Austrian artist Gustav Deutsch sequences footage from the first four decades of cinema to evoke everything from the Big Bang to the rise of consumer society. more...
- Jul 22, 2010
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The Freshman (NR)
Harold Lloyd is a small-town boy hoping to make good as an undergraduate at Tate, described as "a large football stadium with a college attached." more...
- Feb 18, 2010
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Films by Adele Friedman
For more than three decades Chicago filmmaker Adele Friedman has been forging and refining an original vision with her silent portraits, in which wide-angle cinematography and obsessive panning spread out the spaces of apartments and gardens, creating a sensuous panorama of the ordinary. more...
- Nov 4, 2010
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The Island Inside (NR)
Discomfiting but riveting, this 2009 cocktail of psychodrama and pitch-black farce is tightly focused on a supremely dysfunctional family of codependents living in the discordantly beautiful Canary Islands. more...
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