- A Girl at My Door, screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival
There’s only one place for cinephiles to be this weekend—the Music Box of Horrors. Wait, did I say that? I meant the Chicago International Film Festival. We’ve got reviews of 20 features screening this week, and we’ll be adding some more today, so check back later as well. Ben Sachs and I review a half century of CIFF on this cool timeline, which I have been told, but refuse to accept, is spelled time line. And we’ve got a roundup of 15 repertory titles screening at the fest over the next two weeks, including director’s cuts of Alexander and Natural Born Killers with Oliver Stone in the house.
- The Hands of Orlac
But back to the Music Box of Horrors. Starting at noon tomorrow, the theater presents a 24-hour marathon of vintage shockers, with director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) appearing in person to introduce his 1991 opus The Borrowers. And the long dormant Silent Film Society of Chicago rises from the grave with three silent chillers at the Portage, accompanied by organist Jay Warren: The Hands of Orlac, directed by Wiene of Caligari fame (Mon 10/13); Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (Sun 10/12); and the little-seen Chaney horror comedy The Monster (Tue 10/14).
