Rome has never looked so despairing.
Tag: Abel Ferrara
Movie Tuesday: The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe
Five outstanding films about beings from outer space
Movie Tuesday: The director as public intellectual
Five masterpieces from filmmakers whose work has pushed the cultural envelope
Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television
The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.
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.
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
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.
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
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
The wolf, the leopard, the turkey, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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
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.
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