Film Search
- May 19, 2011
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Bill Cunningham New York (NR)
"The best fashion show is on the street," photographer Bill Cunningham remarks in this lively documentary profile. more...
- Aug 30, 2012
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Compliance (R)
Craig Zobel—whose crafty debut feature Great World of Sound (2007) played at the Chicago film festival but never opened here theatrically—takes on the unenviable task of dramatizing a story that defies credulity even though it's quite true. more...
- Jul 20, 2004
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Facing Windows
An attractive young woman (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) trapped in a dead-end marriage to a feckless laborer (Filippo Nigro) is shaken from her unhappy complacence when her husband insists on taking in an amnesiac old man they find on the street (Massimo Girotti). more...
- Sep 20, 2012
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How to Survive a Plague
ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) may have lodged itself in the public consciousness with its angry publicity stunts—disrupting a broadcast of the CBS Evening News, invading a mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York—but as this 2012 documentary reveals, the organization may have been most impressive for its disciplined mastery of medical fact and public health policy. more...
- Jul 9, 2009
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In Search of Beethoven (NR)
Phil Grabsky follows his excellent documentary In Search of Mozart (2006) with another in-depth study of a musical genius, once again using standard materials—talking-head interviews, performance footage, urban landscapes—to fashion an engrossing personal portrait. more...
- Mar 22, 1985
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Intolerance
Made in 1916 and still ahead of the times, D.W. Griffith's magnificent epic intercuts four stories set in four different historical periods—an experiment with cinematic time and space that even the avant-garde has only recently begun to absorb. more...
- Jul 23, 2008
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Kung Fu Panda (PG)
Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy (2008) is tailor-made for Jack Black, who voices Po, a sweet but timid roly-poly panda in ancient China who idolizes his martial arts heroes, the Furious Five. more...
- Mar 26, 2009
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Monsters vs. Aliens (PG)
Aside from shots of Saturn's rings, an exploding planet, and a computer geek playing paddleball, the 3-D effects of this DreamWorks animation don't jump out at you, which suggests the format may be moving beyond gimmickry. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Orphans of the Storm (NR)
D.W. Griffith takes on the French Revolution, including “pussyfooting Robespierre” (his epithet), many other famous historical figures, and the sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish in one of the best of the director's late silent epics (1922). more...
- Apr 30, 2009
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Sita Sings the Blues (NR)
Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding—I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley. more...
- Jun 4, 2009
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The Soloist (PG-13)
Once a promising music student at Juilliard, Nathaniel Ayers was schizophrenic and homeless, playing violin on the streets of LA, when columnist Steve Lopez began writing about him in the Los Angeles Times in 2005. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Stagecoach
It's fashionable to put down John Ford's 1939 classic; certainly it's the weakest of Ford's major westerns, burdened with a schematic and pretentious Dudley Nichols script (the "cross section of society" on board the stagecoach), but its virtues remain intact. more...
- Oct 13, 2009
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Where the Wild Things Are (PG)
For anyone who grew up with Maurice Sendak’s magical 1963 picture book, the idea of its slim story being pumped up into a live-action Hollywood feature must seem like a travesty. more...
- Jan 14, 2010
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Radical attorney William Kunstler is best remembered for having defended the Chicago Seven, but his daughters Emily and Sarah, who produced and directed this fascinating portrait, have dramatically different memories of him. more...