September
Chicago Architecture in Motion Short films documenting the city’s architectural past, among them Conrad O. Nelson’s Halsted Street (1934), Jack Behrend’s Equitable Building: Time Lapse (circa 1960s), and Beverly Willis’s Girl Is a Fellow Here: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright (2009). The program repeats Saturday, September 25, at Chicago Filmmakers. Chicago Architecture Foundation
Jack Goes Boating Brought together by a blind date, two misfits (Amy Ryan and Philip Seymour Hoffman) hit it off, even as the couple who brought them together (John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega) grapple with issues in their marriage. Hoffman makes his directing debut, adapting a play by Bob Glaudini.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Released from prison, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) gets into the financial services racket and discovers that greed is better than ever. Oliver Stone wrote and directed this sequel to his 1987 blockbuster; with Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, and Josh Brolin.
October
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Facets Fright School Facets Cinematheque’s popular “night school” series—midnight screenings of cult films, each with a scholarly introduction—resumes with William Castle’s gimmick-laden 1960 hit 13 Ghosts. Additional films screening through October include the eerie cult favorite Carnival of Souls (1962), the Spanish “nunsploitation” shocker Satanico Pandemonium (1975), the delirious Japanese horror comedy House (1977), the banned German feature Nekromantik (1987), and Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Facets Cinematheque
Festival of Films From Iran Running through October, the 21st annual festival includes new work by such contemporary Iranian filmmakers as Tahmineh Milani (Cease Fire), Mohammad Rasoulof (Iron Island), and Darius Mehrjui (Hamoon). Gene Siskel Film Center
