J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen and Andrea Gronvall
New narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental films from Spain, at Facets November 13-19
On the web site of the Museum of the Moving Image, Jonathan Rosenbaum has an interesting review of Chris Welles Feder's memoir In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles. Pictured below: Chris Welles in 1945, flanked by Welles on her left and stepmother Rita Hayworth on her right.


After 16 years in Hollywood, Hong Kong action auteur John Woo made his triumphant return to Asian production with the two-part Chinese historical war epic Red Cliff, the first half of which was the most expensive and most successful film in Asia, ever, on its release last year.
The Western release, a condensed version that combines the two parts, has a free preview screening Monday 11/16 at Landmark's Century Centre.

The dance films Arch of Repose by Jan Bartoszek and On Falling... by Nadia Oussenko, which sold out their Wednesday premiere at the Music Box, get an encore screening Friday 11/13 at Alliance Francaise of Chicago.