Check out the new issue for capsule reviews of: Animals, a local indie drama about heroin-addicted lovers; Good Kill, starring Ethan Hawke as an Air Force pilot assigned to operate fighter drones; I'll See You in My Dreams, with Blythe Danner as an old woman who needs a lift and Martin Starr as the pool boy who becomes her partner in disappointment; The Lesson, a Bulgarian suspense film about a financially strapped schoolteacher driven to desperate measures; On the Way to School, a documentary about four children who each surmount huge physical obstacles to get an education; Slow West, with Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young Scot crossing the Colorado territory and Michael Fassbender as the gunslinger who protects him; and Tomorrowland, a Disney release starring George Clooney and based on the Disneyland theme-park attraction.
Magnificent Obsession
Best bets for repertory: Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1953), Saturday and Sunday morning at Music Box; Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped (1956), next Thursday at University of Chicago Doc Films; Orson Welles's Othello (1952), Wednesday at Doc; Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing (1997), Tuesday at Doc; Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), Friday through Sunday at Doc; and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2002), Saturday and next Thursday at Gene Siskel Film Center.
UHF
Don't forget these special events: on Wednesday at Music Box, director Jay Levey and star "Weird Al" Yankovic introduce two screenings of their 1989 comedy UHF (the first show is already sold out, so get a move on), and on Friday at Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chris Sullivan presents his 2012 feature-length animation Consuming Spirits.
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