Home

Author Archives: David Overbey
Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago International Film Festival

by Lisa Alspector, Zbigniew Banas, Meredith Brody, Peter Brunette, Don Drucker, Pat Graham, Joshua Katzman, Kave Kehr, Patrick McGavin, David Overbey, Gerald Peary, Reece Pendleton, Bernice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Ronnie Schieb and Alissa

Friday, October 10 Private Confessions Private Confessions was scripted by the retired Ingmar Bergman, who seems to delight in having other filmmakers expand on his parents’ private lives. Pernilla August and Samuel Froler reprise the roles of Anna and Henrik Bergman they played in Bille August’s 1989 The Best Intentions, with Bergman standby Max von […]

Posted inArts & Culture

29th Chicago International Film Festival: The Week’s Worth

by Zbigniew Banas, Meredith Brody, Peter Brunette, Patricia Erens, Patrick Z. McGavin, David Overbey, Dan Pearson, Gerald Peary, Reece Pendleton, Berenice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Alissa Simon and Bill Stamets

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 Rudy A worthy addition to the “faith, grit, and hard work conquers all” genre that includes Rocky and Hoosiers (which was directed by David Anspaugh and written by Angelo Pizzo, the same team that created Rudy). This is a surprisingly involving, deceptively straightforward story of an average–maybe less-than-average–guy who dreams of going […]

Posted inArts & Culture

More of the 25th Chicago International Film Festival

by Zbigniew Banas, Meredith Brodie, Don Druker, Monica Eng, Andrew Horton, Dave Kehr, Patrick Z. McGavin, Al Milgrom, David Overbey, Gerald Peary, Berenice Reynaud, Nancy Robinson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Ronnie Scheib, Alissa Simon and John Steve

The 25th Chicago International Film Festival moves into its second full week with a fair number of worthwhile films, including what are probably the two best parts of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue (the grim A Short Film About Killing and the exquisite A Short Film About Love), Maurizio Nichetti’s hilarious The Icicle Thief, several retrospective items, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago International Film Festival

by Zbigniew Banas, Andrew Horton, Dave Kehr, Peter Keough, Karen Kirk, Patrick Z. McGavin, David Overbey, Gerald Peary, Berenice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Ronnie Scheib, Alissa Simon, John Stevenson and Laura Thielen

* = recommended Friday October 13 *Yaaba Idrissa Ouedraogo’s first feature film, The Choice, chronicling the long trek of a family forced by drought to leave their home, was a film about displacement. His second, Yaaba, on the other hand, is about having a place in the world. A young boy and girl, playing on […]