Thursday, November 19, 2009

Now Showing

This is what is playing this week in Chicago according to the Chicago Reader, along with the last 10 movies I've seen. Movies are rated on the 4 star scale. Movies shown on DVD projection are not included.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005) ***
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) ****
The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997) ****
Good Hair (Jeff Stilson, 2009) ***1/2
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) ****
Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) ****
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) ****
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback (Lucia Palacios and Dietmar Post, 2006) ***
Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais, 1980) **1/2
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007) ****
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922) ***
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ***1/2
The Pursuit of the Graf Spee (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1956) ***
Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige, USA, 2000) gave up halfway through
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007) ***3/4
Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett, USA, 1914) ***
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) ****

posted by Erik Gregersen @ 11/19/2009 0 comments