Review: Narrated by Werner Herzog, Last Exit: Space Considers Saving Humanity with Long-Range Space Travel
Anyone who claims to be a lover of documentaries would be a fool to miss any film narrated by the…
Review: Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Inspires with Big Questions, Grand Visuals
Whenever Werner Herzog directs and narrates a documentary that involves vast landscapes and/or ancient religions, sign me up. Co-helmed with…
Preview: How to Experience the 56th Chicago Film Festival From Home (and the Drive-In)
Forced by mishandled pandemics to get creative about presenting an annual film festival, the team at Cinema/Chicago have pieced together…
Interview: Actor Mark Rylance on Portraying a Legal Legend, Aaron Sorkin’s “Impeccable” Vision and Eddie Redmayne as the Tom Hanks of The Trial of the Chicago 7
I admit, I didn’t know before I spoke with him last week that Mark Rylance had been knighted in 2017,…
Review: Werner Herzog Reflects on Life, Adventure and Legacy in Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
It’s possible that to the uninitiated, Werner Herzog may be a bit of an enigma. Is he a documentarian? An…
Interview: Stand-Out Chicago Actor Pat Healy on Making Westerns, Costumes to Inspire Character and Bonding on the Set of The Pale Door
Chicago-born actor Pat Healy has been working steadily and memorably in film and television for more than 20 years, in…
Review: Abel Ferrera and Willem Dafoe Re-Team for Delicate, Brutally Honest Tommaso
In his first feature since 2014’s controversial Pasolini, writer/director Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) re-emerges…
