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Quills
“Tell me more,” whisper the titillated listeners of the imprisoned Marquis de Sade's stories of sexual perversion in this fictionalized account of the notorious writer's...
Film Review, Dec. 29, 2000
All the Pretty Horses
This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege that McCarthy's true believers feared nor the epiphany...
Film Review, Dec. 29, 2000
It's a Wonderful Life
This sentimental perennial is a holiday chestnut. A man learns that he's made a difference in the lives of others, and an angel gets its...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2000
Apartment Zero
Set in Buenos Aires and co-written by the director and David Koepp, Apartment Zero is a psychological drama that is part black comedy and part...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2000
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
This is the movie that, rightfully, catapulted both Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) into the superstar arena. A shambling adventure, this movie...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2000
Cast Away
Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, whose pairing on Forrest Gump scored a high-flying home run, reteam for this new effort, Cast Away, a bravura...
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2000
Chocolat
This English-language movie is set in a provincial French village in 1959 and deals with the pressing question of whether the seductive and mysterious powers of chocolate can soothe the priggish tendencies of the local townsfolk – and during Lent, no less.
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2000
Scanners
Wanna see someone's head blow up and eyes pop out? Be certain of your answer before casting your gaze on Scanners, because otherwise it's liable...
Film Review, Dec. 21, 2000
A Hard Day's Night
This is the kind of timeless artifact that, decades after its making, still hits the senses like a burst of fresh air. Where a pop star like Elvis churned out silly movies with phony plots, props, and pretense, the Beatles launched into movies playing hyperbolic versions of themselves and their lives of newfound celebrity.
Film Review, Dec. 21, 2000
Just Looking
After having indelibly burned his public persona into that of the kvetchy George Costanza on Seinfeld, Jason Alexander turns his talents to behind-the-screen work with...
Film Review, Dec. 15, 2000
The Mstk 3000 Christmas Variety Show
The MSTK3000 Christmas Variety Show blends comedy and movies as comics Jerm Pollet, Owen Egerton, and John Erler tackle short subject holiday films such as...
Film Review, Dec. 14, 2000
Proof of Life
I seem to remember hearing something about romantic sparks flying between the two co-stars of Proof of Life, Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. I suppose...
Film Review, Dec. 8, 2000
The Autumn Heart
This Boston-based sudser ought to come with its own bubble machine. The way it manufactures turmoil surpasses all known quotas and believability. And that's too...
Film Review, Dec. 8, 2000
Mr. Accident
Maybe it's one of those things better left Down Under or maybe it's something that should have remained under even when it was exclusively Down...
Film Review, Dec. 8, 2000
Harry Knowles’ Butt-Numb-a-thon
Butt-Numb-A-Thon is an endurance event designed by Ain't It Cool head geek Harry Knowles for film phreaks citywide. In order to celebrate his birthday and...
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2000
Madadayo
Kurosawa's 30th and last film is Madadayo, which translates as "not yet." Regarded as one of his most personal films, Kurosawa uses incidents in the...
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2000
Flowers of Shanghai
Hou's latest film (and his first not to be set in Taiwan) delves into the complicated sexual politics of late 19th-century Shanghai brothels. The power...
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2000
Orfeu
Director Carlos Diegues, a participant in the Brazilian Cinema Nôvo movement of the 1960s, surely had that group's social and aesthetic vision in mind when...
Film Review, Dec. 1, 2000
Four Films by Tom Palazzolo
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park" focuses on the reactions of...
Film Review, Nov. 30, 2000
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Heavily autobiographical, this film draws on Hou¹s childhood and adolescence, as his family moved to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland in 1948. The displacement caused...
Film Review, Nov. 30, 2000
Crashing the Party
This documentary documents the demonstrations against the corporatization of the 2000 Democratic National Convention and the failure of party politics to address grassroots concerns and...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
This is What Democracy Looks Like
This documentary was made with footage from over 100 independent videomakers who participated in the Independent Media Center and focuses on the coalitions that were...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Chinese Torture Chamber Story
This Hong Kong export promises a very weird mixture of sadomasochistic torture, humor, and eroticism. A maid and her master are arrested after the penis...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Marquette Park
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park" focuses on the reactions of...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Twenty-Four Nights
Does Santa answer his mail when the lovelorn send him letters requesting a new boyfriend for Christmas? This romantic comedy with a gay slant makes...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Against the Grain: Vive La Revolucion Festival
The Co-op's latest festival presents a screening of more than 20 local and international revolutionary Super-8 films that illustrate the idea of a personal manifesto....
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Jerry's Deli
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park" focuses on the reactions of...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Ricky and Rocky
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park" focuses on the reactions of...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
Enjoy Yourself It's Later Than You Think
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's films, which were made in the Seventies, continue to be shown in anthropology classrooms. "Marquette Park" focuses on the reactions of...
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2000
102 Dalmatians
God bless Glenn Close. She really gives this Cruella De Vil thing her all. She brings such relish to the role of the rotten archvillainess...
Film Review, Nov. 24, 2000
Goodbye South, Goodbye
With this film, director Hou moved his focus from the countryside to the loud, fast chaos of suburban Taipei. Moving shots (radically different from his...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2000
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Women are lured into a hive and zapped with some kind of goo. They come out wearing dark sunglasses and capable of screwing male victims to death.
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2000
Prince Valiant
A wonderful cast headlines this opulent comic book epic translated to the screen. Director Hathaway is one of those stalwart Hollywood verterans who could turn...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2000
A Fight to the Finish: Stories of Polio
With this Austin screening, this new documentary launches a statewide polio-awareness campaign called the Texas Tour. The film chronicles the story of America's battle against...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2000
Infra-Man
This Japanese monster movie features a superhero cyborg.
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2000
Butterfly
Nicely performed and beautifully shot, this story of a young boy's political awakening flutters lightly across the screen.
Film Review, Nov. 18, 2000
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Whoville is a truly great place to visit, although this movie's 100-minute stopover is more than enough time to take in all the sights. Ron...
Film Review, Nov. 17, 2000
Goya in Bordeaux
Carlos Saura's portrait of the artist Goya as an old man is sumptuous to behold, although one will not leave the theatre with a much...
Film Review, Nov. 17, 2000
Animated Films by the Brothers Quay
Animated Films by the Brothers Quay includes video screenings of Street of Crocodiles (1986, 21 min.); De Artificiali Perspectivas or Anamorphosis (1991, 15 min); Stille...
Film Review, Nov. 15, 2000
Women With Rank
Women With Rank is a film about female officers in the Zapatista National Liberation Army....
Film Review, Nov. 15, 2000
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