Friday, October 4, 2013
Opening / Film The year's most Seussian-named film festival, and the rest of this week's movies
Posted By Ben Sachs on 10.04.13 at 10:42 AM
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We also have new reviews of: A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet and Symphony of the Soil, two environmentalist documentaries that aren't part of Docs at the Box; Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's genuinely spectacular sci-fi spectacle (try to see it on the biggest screen you can); Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta's biopic about the famous essayist (played here by Barbara Sukowa); Our Children, a creepy Belgian docudrama that reunites Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup, who acted together in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet; Parkland, a studious re-creation of the events that followed the JFK assassination; and A Pig Across Paris, a 1956 satirical comedy playing in the Siskel Center's monthlong French Classics Conserved series.
Best bets for repertory screenings: the new 35-millimeter print of Jean-Pierre Melville's Un Flic (aka Dirty Money), playing in "French Classics Conserved" tonight at 6 PM and Sunday at 5 PM; Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, which Nick Offerman will present tonight at the Music Box after signing copies of his new book; and Doc Films has Hou Hsiao-Hsien's A Time to Live and a Time to Die on Monday, Josef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt on Tuesday, John Cassavetes's Faces on Wednesday, and Olivier Assayas's Cold Water on Thursday, all screenings starting at 7 PM. Lastly, tonight at the Patio at 7:30 PM, the Northwest Chicago Film Society will screen a new film print of the locally shot comedy Goldstein (1963) as part of Chicago Artists Month; at their regular time of Wednesday at 7:30 PM, they'll screen Mr. Bug Goes to Town, a 1941 animated feature by the Fleischer brothers that sounds like a forerunner to Pixar's A Bug's Life.
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