As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
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Al Pacino demonstrates the magic of Method acting in the ‘naturalistic fairy tale’ Manglehorn
The collaboration between Pacino and indie director David Gordon Green (George Washington) screens all week in Chicago.
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Our favorite movies of 2014
The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
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God calls the righteous to heaven, leaves Nicolas Cage
An agnostic airline pilot tries to navigate the End Times in Left Behind.
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Tom Cruise, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films
Notable films that never made it to screen
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My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11
The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
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Those movies that say “Thank you, come again”
When narrative movies construct self-contained little worlds for you to explore
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All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)
The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
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All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green
A two-part interview with the director of George Washington, Pineapple Express, and Prince Avalanche
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
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Dear Paradise: Love
A letter to Ulrich Seidl’s controversial art film, which screened in Chicago in early June
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All the Real Girls
David Gordon Green follows up his impressive if awkward first feature, George Washington, with something similar yet somewhat better. Again the setting is a North Carolina mill town, the milieu mainly working-class, and the period contemporary only in the broadest sense. (Perhaps the surest sign we’re in the present is the heroine’s telling the hero […]