- A Master Builder
Jonathan Demme hasn’t made a dramatic feature since his acclaimed Rachel Getting Married (2008), though his latest film, A Master Builder, has so many competing levels of authorship—it was adapted by Wallace Shawn from the Ibsen play, and staged over a period of many years by theater director Andre Gregory—that the finished product probably has more in common with Demme’s music movies than with Philadelphia or The Silence of the Lambs. Lisa Joyce, a Chicago native and DePaul University graduate, gives a standout performance in the new movie, and she’ll appear in person at the Saturday and Sunday screenings at Gene Siskel Film Center. Our review is here.
And don’t forget these special events: at noon on Saturday at Music Box, organist Dennis Scott accompanies the silent Hoot Gibson western King of the Rodeo, part of the Second Saturday Silent Cinema series, and on Tuesday at Hideout, music critic Jessica Hopper introduces a program of shorts from the Chicago Film Archives.
