All Light, Everywhere [2021]
1. “The eye only sees in each thing that for which it looks, and it only looks for that of which it already has an idea.” — Alphonse Bertillon
2. The plentiful trees and foliage in suburban areas conceal activity from surveillance drones, whereas historically high crime areas offer no such cover.
3. Always a 30-second buffer.
The Amusement Park [1973]
1. “There’s nothing out there.”
2. Kind words while pickpocketing.
3. Chicken in the foreground.
The Amityville Horror [1979]
1. What’s with the blueprint he retrieves from the Town Hall?
2. The house sits atop a massive oil deposit?
3. Why doesn’t he simply use his library card?
The Raven [1935]
1. Poe interpretive dance.
2. “You are saying something profound.”
3. The whole bedroom is an elevator.
Originally we meant to screen at the Music Box back in May 2020. But we all know what happened. I am so grateful to the Chicago Critics Film Festival for persevering despite some truly daunting circumstances and rescheduling the event. With proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test required for all ticketholders, I am confident that we can screen the film safely.
Barry Gifford will there! (And quite possibly some additional surprise guests we are not yet at liberty to divulge.) Buy tix now—they’re gonna be hotter’n Georgia asphalt.
Island of Lost Souls [1932]
1. Vegetarian because of the natives.
2. All coming right at you.
3. The mob smashes into a case of surgical instruments and begins the vivisection.
After Life [1998]
1. A plastic bag filled with flower petals.
2. The cool breeze coming through the open window of the tram.
3. When the lights in the theater come up, his seat is empty.
No Time to Die [2021]
1. “My sense of timing.”
2. Logan Ash is described by Felix as a political appointee. Nice touch.
3. Poison garden.
The Interrupters [2011]
1. “Violence is a learned behavior.”
2. In the casket wearing his cap.
3. She can’t participate in the pageant but knows all the words to the song.
Grasshoppers [2021]
1. Sleeping cat on the bed, unremarked upon by anyone in the room.
2. “Where’s the lime?”
“Fuck the lime. I am the lime.”
3. He dumps the dead possum out of the trash bag. As they leave the property, a breeze gently carries the empty trash bag away.
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