Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
Tag: Robert Duvall
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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: The Sundowners
Country workhorses the Sundowners never scored a hit, but their 25,000-song repertoire made them hugely influential on the alt-country scene.
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Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The movie adaptation of Nicholas Meyer’s best seller comes to Blu-Ray.
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The fanboy and the fuhrer
In Wagner & Me, Stephen Fry tries to separate the German composer from his Nazi fans
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Screening this week: Richard Linklater’s Bernie, Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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A Family Thing
Robert Duvall plays an Arkansas cracker in his 60s who discovers that his biological mother was black and drives to Chicago to meet his half-brother–a policeman played by James Earl Jones–and other newly discovered relatives. Directed by Richard Pearce from an original script by Tom Epperson and Billy Bob Thornton (who also collaborated on One […]
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COLORS ** (Worth seeing) Directed by Dennis Hopper Written by Michael Schiffer and Richard Dilello With Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Grand Bush, Don Cheadle, Glenn Plummer, and Rudy Ramos. REPENTANCE *** (A must-see) Directed by Tengiz Abuladze Written by Nana Djanelidze, Tengiz Abuladze, and Rezo Kveselava With Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab […]