With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way.
Tag: Wendy and Lucy
Dogs bite man in the Hungarian drama White God
Kornél Mundruczó directs a film about dogs that has a lot to say about human beings.
Best Films of 2014, number five: Night Moves
J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.
Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Reader Contributors Hit the Road
Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
Facets Film School
The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder’s buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.
A.O. Scott on Holocaust movies
The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Tokyo Sonata” opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain” closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt’s “Wendy and Lucy” makes a curtain call at Facets.
A girl and her dog
At the Toronto film festival, Kelly Reichardt presents her heart-rending indie drama Wendy and Lucy.