Kristin here: Update: Back in the spring we announced that the University of Chicago Press will be publishing a collection of our blog entries. Now that volume is in press and has a title: Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking. We’re due to see page proofs soon, and the plan is [...] […]
These are expanded Chicago Reader capsules written for a 2003 collection edited by Steven Jay Schneider. I contributed 72 of these in all; here are the second dozen, in alphabetical order. — J.R. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel’s 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to sit [...] […]