Michael Wilmington

"Black Orpheus" is a film that art-house audiences in 1959 loved madly. And who can blame them? A buoyant, searingly colorful retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in...

American crime as seen though the eyes of a troubled West African immigrant policeman is the subject of Robinson Devor's "Police Beat"--an offbeat, poetic piece that eschews the terse, hard-boiled...

Horror movies don't always have to be about homicidal corpses or monsters. "Edmond," a new movie from horror specialist Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator"), based on a play by David Mamet, takes...

Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven"--a tale of two fugitive lovers, a child, a wealthy farmer and a doomed Texas wheat-field idyll in the early 1900s--is one of the legendary '70s...

`Our Brand is Crisis' (star)(star)1/2 Politics and mass communication are the volatile subjects of Rachel Boynton's information-packed documentary "Our Brand is Crisis," having its Chicago premiere. Like 1993's "The War...

"Raiders of the Lost Ark," the 1981 movie that introduced the world to Indiana Jones, was an attempt by top-rank, ultra-savvy filmmakers with all the modern tools at their disposal,...

Michael Wilmington is on vacation this week, so we've dipped into the Tribune's archives and tapped Michael Phillips to provide some information on what's showing while he's off. Block Cinema...

This disturbingly frank, compassionate debut film by writer-director Maren Ade features a very moving lead performance by actress Eva Loebau as Melanie, a well-meaning but socially maladroit young teacher whose...

"Spirit of the Beehive," the 1973 debut film of one of the world's great, neglected filmmakers, Spain's Victor Erice, is a work of sheer, entrancing beauty. It's a film that...

If someone ever turns Peter Rosen's documentary "Who Gets to Call It Art?" into a dramatic feature, Paul Giamatti might be the logical pick among current actors to play main...