Alex Ross Perry, one of the smartest and most ambitious young indie filmmakers around, comes to Chicago this week to chat with hometown director Joe Swanberg at the Saturday PM screenings of Perry’s new Queen of Earth, starring Elisabeth Moss as a young woman who’s losing her grip on sanity; it’s the subject of Ben Sachs’s long review this week. Also, I take a look at Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, a documentary profile of the personal-computer visionary by director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer). British director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) comes across the pond with a Jobs biopic in early October, starring Michael Fassbender.
RIP Wes Craven, whose 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street screens midnight Friday and Saturday at the Vic.
