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The Illusionist (Neil Burger) 08a. Ask the Dust (Robert Towne) 08b. Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter) 09a. Moments Choisis des Histoire (s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard) 09b. My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin)
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 10. 1. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary, Horror. An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco. Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda ...
- Mix-Up. My favorite film of 1988 received its Chicago premiere as part of Barbara Scharres’s exciting “Stranger Than Fiction” series at the Film Center in February; it’s a 63-minute documentary in English made by French filmmaker Francoise Romand in 1985.
- Brightness. Souleymane Cissé’s breathtakingly beautiful feature, the greatest African movie I’ve ever seen, turned up briefly at the Film Center last July as part of the Blacklight Film Festival.
- Housekeeping. Bill Forsyth’s first American feature and the swan song of Columbia Pictures’ David Puttnam, which opened at the Fine Arts in January, proved to have the loveliest and most fluid story-telling style of any American movie released all year.
- Repentance. It’s possible that glasnost has yielded the most interesting group of Soviet films to appear since the early sound masterpieces of Dovzhenko, Kuleshov, Pudovkin, and Vertov.
Jonathan Rosenbaum's Annual Top Ten Lists. 1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography. In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro.
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman. Votes: 2,299. 20. Lonesome (1928) Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance. 7.8. Rate. Two lonely people in the big city ...
Ten Best Lists, 2005-2009. Posted February 24, 2024. Chicago Reader, 2005: The World (Jia Zhang-ke) Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais) A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) Ten Skies (James Benning) Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
The Playlist: The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023. The Playlist: The 21 Best Films of 2023. Verso Books: The Year 2023 in 10 Books. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2023. Chron: A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2023. IndieWire: Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2023. God Is In The TV: Albums of the Year for 2023.
