January 23, 2025 4:49 am
One of the best living filmmakers is getting a well-deserved showcase this weekend at the Chicago International Film Festival when Hirokazu Kore-eda will be honored by a fest that I’ve always associated closely with one of my absolute favorite directors. CIFF has been a platform for Kore-eda multiple times, and they’re the fest that helped […]
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The Chicago International Film Festival returns this week for what is arguably its most ambitious program to date, an appropriate feat given the fest is also celebrating its 60th anniversary. The variety and scope of this year’s program is arguably unmatched, continuing the momentum garnered last year when the fest hosted the Chicago premieres of
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Over the last forty years, the singular artist Guy Maddin has been celebrated as one of Canada’s most well-known and idiosyncratic filmmakers. Hailing from Winnipeg, Maddin’s films are a genre unto themselves. Along with his thirteen feature films, Maddin has also directed over fifty short films, published several books, created many art installations, and is
Barry Champlain, the main character of 1988’s “Talk Radio,” a talk radio DJ based in Dallas, waxes poetic about American corruption in little arias of outrage, and sometimes a caller who’s obviously suffering will bring out his humanity for a minute, but his default mode is scorched-earth combativeness. It would be misleading to call him
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There’s a great show buried in the poor filmmaking decisions that constantly drag Peacock’s “Teacup,” produced by modern horror icon James Wan. It’s probably due to the source-altering choice to take a novel that has been compared to The Stand in its scope, Robert McCammon’s Stinger, and reduce it to a tale of a smaller
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Given how much I worked the review beat in the 2000s and 2010s, I have probably played a thousand games since the 2001 release of “Silent Hill 2,” and I have forgotten many more of them than I remember. And yet returning to this brilliant game almost a quarter-century after its release, I was stunned
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Lara Croft has had many death-defying adventures across the decades of the “Tomb Raider” video game franchise. The biggest puzzle for this iconic character has been her inability to find a worthy adaptation in other formats. The silly, Angelina Jolie-led duology was kitschy, and the reboot with Alicia Vikander, meant to resemble the Crystal Dynamics-developed
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London isn’t what you think. Or at least, it’s not what I thought it was. I moved here from the States back in 2016 and was shocked to find that it doesn’t perpetually rain. Not really, anyway. It drizzles. It’s gray. It’s a mild climate year-round, but it also gets weirdly hot and bone-chattering chilly.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making science fiction fable “Megalopolis” was financed with his own wealth, the result of selling off part of his vineyards, and has the hallmarks of a labor of love in which nobody could say no to him about any aspect, even budget or running time. Which is not to say that it’s
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Director Sean Baker’s films have been described as modern-day fairy tales, yet it might be more apt to say that his films interrogate whether fairy tales have a place in the messiness of our modern world. There always comes a moment where the magic and grace his characters can find in the everyday clashes with
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