- The Rover
Robert Altman biographer Patrick McGilligan called Corn’s-A-Poppin’ (1955) “one of the worst movies ever made”; Kian Bergstrom of Cine-File declares, “I love no musical in the world more than [Corn’s-A-Poppin’].” You can decide for yourself on Monday when Music Box presents the Chicago premiere of a new restoration of the movie, which Altman cowrote when he was still cranking out 16-millimeter industrials in Kansas City. Our feature story on the restoration project is here, along with recommended reviews for Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, a documentary about the Chinese dissident; The Illumination, Krzysztof Zanussi’s 1973 drama about a physics student in search of enlightenment; The Rover, an Australian thriller starring Guy Pearce and directed by David Michod (Animal Kingdom); and To Kill This Love, a 1972 Polish drama screening at Gene Siskel Film Center as part of the ongoing series Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema.
