Michael Wilmington

The Tribune's wrap-up of the Chicago International Film Festival schedule, by Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington and the movie reviewing staff, appears each day. * indicates a personal appearance by...

The Tribune's wrap-up of the Chicago International Film Festival schedule, by Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington and the movie reviewing staff, appears each day; - indicates a personal appearance by...

The Chicago International Film Festival began its 41st year Thursday with a gala premiere of Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy -drama "Elizabethtown." For the festival, that was the usual big, luminescent...

Is it important to see a movie on opening weekend before people are talking about it and, perhaps, giving away the ending? Or should you wait till some of the...

Is it important to see a movie on opening weekend before people are talking about it and, perhaps, giving away the ending? Or should you wait till some of the...

The image of New Orleans survives in innumerable movies, from "New Orleans" itself -- an unfortunately silly 1947 Universal romantic musical (featuring Louis Armstrong) by director Arthur ("Francis the Talking...

Louis Malle's newly restored classic "Elevator to the Gallows" is a nerve-shredding French thriller about a murder plot that goes awry. Scored to moody, brilliant jazz by trumpeter-composer Miles Davis,...

Wong Kar Wai, the hot, stylish Hong Kong writer-director of "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love," has made another sexually charged fever-dream of a movie: "2046." Perhaps the...

Who's in it: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Alexander Michaletos, Eamonn Walker What it's about: The happy farm life of a boy (Michaletos) and his domesticated cheetah is interrupted when his...

Bill Murray has a wonderfully lost and distracted look in "Broken Flowers," the Jim Jarmusch film that won the Grand Prize at May's Cannes Film Festival. Somehow combining the whipped...