Pivot Gang cofounder Joseph Chilliams released his debut, Henry Church, in August, after months of career highs and personal lows—including the death of friend and collaborator Dinner With John.
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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The surrealists’ moviegoing game (RIP Alain Resnais, 1922-2014)
The great French filmmaker, who passed away yesterday at 91, transformed the screening environment into a portal to the subconscious.
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Northbrook Public Library revisits Francis Ford Coppola’s 80s work
Noting three upcoming revival screenings at the suburban library
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Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90
Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival
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Don’t walk away, Resnais
An overview of the class I’ll be teaching on French director Alain Resnais
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Dinner & a Show: Sunday 4/11
Movies Show: Melo Alain Resnais’ incomparable masterpiece is bound to baffle spectators who insist on regarding him as an intellectual rather than an emotional director; in his 11th feature, he adapts a 1929 boulevard melodrama by a forgotten playwright named Henry Bernstein, and holds so close to this “dated” and seemingly unremarkable play that theatrical […]