Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas
Tag: Errol Morris
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Errol Morris’s Wormwood should have been a film, not a miniseries
The acclaimed documentary filmmaker’s new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson
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The 2017 Chicago International Film Festival, reviewed
Watching the watchers at the Chicago International Film Festival
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A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera
With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.
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The Chicago Underground Film Festival highlights this week’s new movie reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what’s screening around town this week
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Are some documentaries above criticism?
What we talk about when we talk about documentaries
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The inmates take over the asylum, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Dinosaur 13: Who owns the bones?
Dinosaur 13 looks at the legal battle over Sue the T. rex.
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Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.
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The Patio’s last shows for a while, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24
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Best of 2011, number 5: Tabloid
Our countdown of 2011’s best films continues with Errol Morris’s Tabloid, J.R. Jones’s number five film of the year.
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Oscarus interruptus
Steve James’s acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
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Movie Review: Tabloid
How to kidnap a cute Mormon, fail to win his heart, but become a tabloid sensation