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Suspiria Directed by Luca Guadagnino Rated: R • October 26
This spooky remake based on Dario Argento’ s classic 1977 horror film stars Dakota Johnson as an American dancer who enrolls at a prestigious dance academy in Berlin that’ s plagued by unusual occurrences. As darkness swirls around the world-renowned company, the troupe’ s artistic director, a grieving psychotherapist, and the young dancers could all succumb to the nightmare. Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, and Chloe Grace Moretz costar. Harper, who played the lead in the original film, appears in a different role.'
Film Notes
54th Annual Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago welcomes filmmakers from around the world at the 54th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, presented by Cinema / Chicago, October 1-21 at the AMC River East 21( 322 Illinois St.). This year the fest features Women in Cinema, which highlights 36 features and 21 shorts from female directors.
The Women in Cinema program showcases the accomplished work of several emerging directors, including Chicago-born Elizabeth Chomko’ s directorial debut What
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They Had, a poignant family drama set in Chicago and starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, and Robert Forster. In Nia DaCosta’ s feature debut Little Woods, Tessa Thompson stars as a woman working her way out of her illegal past, while Wanuri Kahiu’ s first feature Rafiki brings an Afropop style to a traditional story of forbidden love. In The Third Wife( Phuong Anh Nguyen), first-timer Ash Mayfair helms an enthralling depiction of young womanhood in 19th century Vietnam.
Female-driven cinema is on display throughout the festival, including the Gala Presentation of Marielle Heller’ s Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy; Claire Darling, an idiosyncratic family drama starring Catherine Deneuve from Festival alum Julie Bertuccelli, and Pernille Fischer Christensen’ s newest project, Becoming Astrid( Unga Astrid), an affecting biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren of Pippi Longstocking fame.
Over 40 % of the Festival’ s shorts program, comprising 21 films, are directed or co-directed by women, including such highlights as Chicago-based directors Melika Bass( Creature Companion) and Deborah Stratman( Optimism) as well as Mariama Diallo’ s popular festival favorite Hair Wolf, German-born filmmaker Reka Bucsi’ s award-winning animated short Solar Walk, and Colombian-Belgian director Juanita Onzaga’ s official Cannes documentary entry Our Song to War. Visit www. chicagofilmfestival. com for a complete schedule of films and showtimes.
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Magnet record or getting ready to produce
a Monster Magnet record. Doing all that stuff, it takes a lot of time to do that; [ there ' s ] a lot of paperwork and a lot of planning!
Mosh: You ' ve got a lot on your creative plate! Anything new on the horizon for Monster Magnet? DW: What I’ m doing now is just going into the belly of the beast. It’ s touring and bringing this [ album ] out. It kind of takes up your whole life, traveling. We’ re in a different place every day. While I’ m in the midst of that traveling, usually, is when the plans for the future come up. It forces me to think, like what happens when the bus stops rolling? I wrote about five new songs over the summer. I don’ t know if they’ re going to be on a record or not, but the process is [ on ] going, so we’ ll see what happens. Appearing 10 / 2 at the Bottom Lounge
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Chicago with Electric Citizen and Dark Sky Choir.
MOSH-WORTHY RELEASES: Gama Bomb Speed Between the Lines( AFM), Voivod The Wake( Century Media Records), Varathron Patriarchs of Evil( Agonia Records).
MOSH-WORTHY LIVE: Skindred, Sumo Cyco; Raven Black( RocHaus, 10 / 06); John 5, Wednesday 13, Hellzapoppin Circus( The Forge, 11 / 01); Municipal Waste, High on Fire, Toxic Holocaust, Haunt( Metro, 11 / 15).
MENTION-WORTHY: Local death metal stalwart Broken Hope ' s Jeremy Wagner released his second horror novel, Rabid Heart, on Oct. 3 via Riverdale Avenue Books. The synopsis of the book is“ the depth of undying love in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.”
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