Once again, it’s time for my post-Festival unwind; and this time I’m even taking a proper vacation, and not just a blogging vacation. And such a good week I’ve picked – eleven new films opening in Chicago this week! A healthy number of them are Oscar contenders! I’m not really interested in more than two of them!
I’m (idiotically) hoping to see as many of these as possible, although I expect it will be some three weeks and the closure of half of them before I get caught up. Meanwhile, I wanted to toss this out to you my audience: which of the following films would you be most interested in seeing reviewed? I’m not looking for “recommendations” per se – I have a pretty clear sense which of these are going to be awful and which will only be mostly dull – just want to see what you care about. Because it’s all about you, beloved readers.
–30 Days of Night
–Broken
–The Comebacks
–Gone Baby Gone
–Ira and Abby
–Lars and the Real Girl
–My Kid Could Paint That
–Rendition
–Reservation Road
–Sleuth
–Things We Lost in the Fire
–We Own the Night (opened on the 12th, but I still plan on seeing it)
Fortunately, the following weekend looks a great deal simpler: Dan in Real Life and…fuck fuck FUCK.
Back on Monday the 29th – maybe Sunday the 28th, but that’s probably not the smart money.