Del Toro saddles up with stop-motion animation legend Mark Gustafson to present some of the year’s most stunning visuals but also goes a step further by adding some weighty thoughts on war, death, and family to the beloved Carlo Collodi fairy tale.
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Last and First Men
The composer’s film deviates from the standard sci-fi film adaptation by dropping excessive special effects currently oversaturating the genre. Instead, Jóhansson redesigns the classic sci-fi story as a prose poem, delivered as a transmission to us: the first humans.
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The Souvenir: Part II
Writer-director Joanna Hogg’s artistic choices formulate something that isn’t easily explained and is fathomable only in the viewing of it.
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An outsider on the inside of Cannes
Walking the red carpet, breaking VIP barriers, and searching for Bill Murray
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Non-Fiction and The Souvenir question how well their characters really know one another—and themselves
In two new films, Olivier Assayas and Joanna Hogg withhold information to poke and provoke viewers.
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The new Suspiria manages to be about women’s power without being feminist
Luca Guadagnino’s remake takes too much pleasure in the destruction of women.
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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck
FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
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Okja is a big-screen fantasy you won’t see on the big screen
Bong Joon-ho, creator of The Host and Snowpiercer, bypasses theatrical exhibition for Netflix.
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The longest night of the year, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this weekl’s issue
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My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats
Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it’s a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.
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Our top picks for fall movies
Our top picks for fall movies: Young Charlton Heston in a Chicago-shot Julius Caesar, Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, and more
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12 O’Clock Track: ‘Lies to Live By,’ a lost classic from a young Jim Jarmusch
An arty pop gem from the Del-Byzanteens
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Wes Anderson checks in to The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moviegoers will check in to The Grand Budapest Hotel, but they should check out The Missing Picture.
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The Other Fashion Movie
The fashion in “I Am Love” is the antithesis of Sex and the City style.