If this all sounds like a fanciful shaggy dog story, it certainly plays like one, but it’s based on a factual story (in proof number infinity that truth is stranger than fiction).
Tag: Helen Mirren
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The new horror film Winchester is a missed opportunity
The Spierig brothers’ latest is a major disappointment after Predestination
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Michael Powell’s last film, Age of Consent, features a young Helen Mirren
Shot in luscious color around the Great Barrier Reef, the final feature (1969) by British director Michael Powell (who with Emeric Pressburger codirected such classics as The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) returns to Chicago in a 35-millimeter print. James Mason stars as a frustrated artist who moves to a […]
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Sentimental treatments of modern art and Judaism invade movie theaters
Considering the thematic overlap of a couple recent “feel-good” releases
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The year’s best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Remembering Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills
Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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A decade under the influence of terrible movies
The ten biggest turkeys I’ve reviewed
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Julie Taymor’s “Tempest”
Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor’s “Tempest” Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.
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When Princesses Grow Up
The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.
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Helen Mirren’s Phedre at Steppenwolf
The National Theatre’s production of Racine’s tragedy comes to Chicago–on screen.
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Right performer, wrong film
Meryl Streep wins another Golden Globe–but not for the role she should have.