Rome has never looked so despairing.
Tag: Abel Ferrara
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Movie Tuesday: The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe
Five outstanding films about beings from outer space
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Movie Tuesday: The director as public intellectual
Five masterpieces from filmmakers whose work has pushed the cultural envelope
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Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television
The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.
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A London detective chases modern-day slavers in the UK thriller Hyena
A dirty cop tries to save his soul in Gerard Johnson’s gritty film.
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Welcome to New York, 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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Abel Ferrara is back with a movie about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal
Gérard Depardieu stars as a French politician accused of rape in Welcome to New York.
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema
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A heap of nonfiction and the rest of this week’s screenings
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between 1/3 and 1/9
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The wolf, the leopard, the turkey, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 12/27: Boobs of the Dead, Dark Wave Disco reunion, and Ms. 45
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, December 27
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This Thursday at Doc, it’s just one Swanberg after another
Notes on Joe Swanberg’s Silver Bullets, playing this week as a double feature with Kris Swanberg’s Empire Builder.
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The Insect treatment: an interview with Nate Cunningham
Talking with the longtime Siskel Film Center employee about the upcoming screenings he programmed, which will raise money for his experimental Lyme-disease treatment