Friday, November 18, 2011
Film This week's movie action
Posted By J.R. Jones on 11.18.11 at 11:00 AM
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Also in this week's issue, Fred Camper previews the University of Chicago Film Studies Center's forthcoming program on experimental filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos. And we have new reviews of Every Song Is About Me and Lope, both screening in the Gene Siskel Film Center's Festival of New Spanish Cinema, and 3, a new German import by writer-director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run).
Best bets for repertory: Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows (1969), Tuesday at University of Chicago Doc Films; Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), tonight and Tuesday at Gene Siskel Film Center; Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), screening daily in a digitally restored print at Music Box; and Jean-Luc Godard's Week-end (1967), screening daily in a new 35-millimeter print at Film Center.
Three weekend mini-festivals open today as well: the Chicago Food Film Festival at Kendall College, 900 N. Branch, and Intelligentsia Roasting Works, 1850 W. Fulton; the Illinois International Film Festival at the Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western; and the Kinky Film Festival at the Leather Archives and Museum, 6418 N. Greenview.
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