Five great films by Canadian indie Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Green Fog, screens this week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Weekly Top Five: The best of John Woo
Highlights from the filmography of action maestro John Woo
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/23: Con Air, the Chicago Picasso, and Chicago Psych Fest V
Con Air Looking for something to do today? Agenda‘s got you covered. Doc Films, the University of Chicago’s student film society, hosts a screening of the Nic Cage actioner Con Air, which former Reader film critic Lisa Alspector called “both cheeky and tongue-in-cheek because it’s so far over-the-top.” At Co-Prosperity Sphere, South Side Projections screens […]
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This Week’s Movie Action
This week’s movie action: the Music Box’s Chicago French Film Festival and Summer Music Film Festival, Terri, and more
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The Best Man
The Best Man During her wedding a woman pressured by her parents to marry for money falls in love with the best man, reputed to have made millions in America before returning to the small Italian town where he’d once been employed by the groom’s family. Though he and the bride are the main characters […]