Get set for the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, whose 14th edition opens tonight with the Oscar entry Eyes of a Thief at Gene Siskel Film Center. We've also got week two of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, and if you check the week-one roundup you can find other films that are repeating this week. Over on the B Side, we've got a big roundup of the Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, with 15 new reviews.
True Story
Check out our new reviews of: Canal Zone, a 1977 study of the American community surrounding the Panama Canal; Clouds of Sils Maria, the latest from French director Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours); Ex Machina, a sci-fi thriller from 28 Days Later . . . screenwriter Alex Garland, starring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson; The Longest Ride, an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance by George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food); True Story, starring Jonah Hill as a disgraced reporter and James Franco as the murder defendant who agrees to share his story; and Unfriended, a horror flick in the form of a Skype session.
The Notorious Bettie Page
Best bets for repertory: John Hughes's The Breakfast Club (1985), introduced by Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis of Sound Opinions, Wednesday at Music Box; Stephen Hopkins's The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), Sunday at Music Box with an intro by Alaka Wali of the Field Museum; Frank Tashlin's The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956), Sunday at University of Chicago Doc Films; Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), Friday through Sunday at Doc; Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), on TV monitors at Delilah's on Sunday; and Orson Welles's The Trial (1962), Wednesday at Doc.
Tiger Morse (see Andy Warhol at Chicago Filmmakers)
The Chicago-area native dished tabloid-style gossip here for almost a decade. Now she's a leader in a fringe right-wing online community spreading a bizarre political conspiracy theory.
Abolitionist educator Mariame Kaba explores how survivors of sexual harassment and violence can find justice outside the legal system, and how perpetrators can embrace accountability.
The Chicago-area native dished tabloid-style gossip here for almost a decade. Now she's a leader in a fringe right-wing online community spreading a bizarre political conspiracy theory.