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Tag: 2001: A Space Odyssey
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The 70mm Film Festival is back
The Music Box once again introduces modern audiences to the “road show” moviegoing experience.
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Ad Astra sends father-son conflict into space
Director James Gray’s latest returns to the theme of the powerful but imperfect patriarch.
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Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?
The Music Box’s festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.
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The rise and fall of a techno DJ, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable sceenings
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In Amour Fou, a brilliant Prussian writer seeks a partner in suicide
In Amour Fou, filmmaker Jessica Hausner chronicles the symbolic suicide of German Romantic playwright Heinrich von Kleist.
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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David Cronenberg invades Hollywood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The five best Pixar films (yes, it includes at least one Toy Story)
The best films from Pixar Animation Studios
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Is Interstellar better when you’re stoned?
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic has a few things in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey, you say? Let’s put it to the test.
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Matthew McConaughey goes nowhere fast in Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is long on idea but short on story.
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Not coming to a theater near you, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Under the Skin: On the road to nowhere
In Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson is an alien life-form stalking strange men.
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The Swimmer and other movies that ask “who is that?”
Noting a few ways that filmmakers can defamiliarize the presence of actors