New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Band of Outsiders
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Le Week-End: Here come the boomer cliches
In Le Week-End, Jim Broadbent stars as a former 60s radical awash in self-pity.
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The best new movie in theaters, the best new movie not in theaters, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 27 and October 3
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Further thoughts about Frances Ha and its supermodels
Noah Baumbach’s entertaining new comedy pays tribute to 60s French New Wave films, but to what end?
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This Week’s Movie Action
New reviews and recommended revivals in this week’s Chicago Reader.
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Dark Heart
To gauge the historical significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964)—getting a week’s run in a lovely new print at the Music Box—it helps to know that it was made four years after Francois Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player and three years before Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. Both Band of Outsiders and Shoot […]