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May December
Synopsis
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple (Julianne Moore and Charles Melton) buckles under the pressure when an actress (Natalie Portman) arrives to do research for a film about their past.
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Film Credits
- Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell
- screenplay by Samy Burch, story by Alex Mechanik
- Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
- Madeleine K. Rudin, Thomas K. Richards, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Jonathan Montepare, Samy Burch, Alex Brown, Thorsten Schumacher, Claire Taylor
- Killer Films, Gloria Sanchez Productions, MountainA, Project Infinity, Taylor & Dodge
![An older woman treads water a few yards beyond a boat. Smiling, she wears a swim cap and goggles.](https://cinemachicago.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FF59_NYAD1_1200x600.jpg)
NYAD
Synopsis
A remarkable true story of tenacity, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit, NYAD recounts a riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad. Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana (four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening) becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110-mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a thrilling, four-year journey with her best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll (two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster) and a dedicated sailing team.
This inspirational film marks the narrative directorial debut of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, The Rescue).
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Film Credits
- Andrew Lazar, Teddy Schwarzman
- Julia Cox
- Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero, Luke Cosgrove, Jeena Yi, Eric T. Miller
- Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Michael Heimler, Vanessa Humphrey, Julia Cox, D. Scott Lumpkin
![A child in a snowsuit lays down on a snowy hill surrouded by people going up and down with sleds.](https://cinemachicago.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FF59_OccupiedCity1_1200x600.jpg)
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Occupied City
Synopsis
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City. From the streets of Amsterdam, McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest, and a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
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Film Credits
- Floor Onrust, Steve McQueen, Anna Smith-Tenser, Bianca Stigter
- Bianca Stigter
- Xander Nijsten, Steve McQueen
- Lennert Hillege N.S.C.
- Oliver Coates
Sponsors
Film Supporters
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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![A man in a blue utility uniform smiles, looking up toward the sky, while sitting with a young woman wearing a pink sweater.](https://cinemachicago.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FF59_PerfectDays1_1200x600.jpg)
Perfect Days
Synopsis
Living a life of solitary, quiet contentment, a middle-aged public toilet cleaner (Kôji Yakusho) spends his days working, reading, listening to cassette tapes, and tending to his indoor garden. The satisfying rhythms of his life are interrupted when his niece, fleeing her family, arrives for an unexpected visit. The two begin to bond, relishing their ability to share in the beauty of the everyday.
Featuring a stellar soundtrack and a warm, grounded performance from Yakusho, Perfect Days is at once a love letter to the city of Tokyo, an open-hearted character study, and an irresistible, charm-filled exaltation of the profound pleasures of a simple life.
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Film Credits
- Koji Yanai, Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki
- Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki
- Toni Froschhammer
- Franz Lustig
- Kôji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto, Aoi Yamada, Sayuri Ishikawa, Arisa Nakano, Yumi Aso, Tomokazu Miura
- Patrick Watson
- Kôji Yakusho
- MASTER MIND LTD, Spoon Inc., Wenders Images GbR
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![A man in the passanger seat of a car looks backwards over his shoulder past camera.](https://cinemachicago.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FF59_PetShopDays1_1200x600.jpg)
Synopsis
In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro (Dario Yazbek Bernal) flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro ends up in New York City. There, he meets Jack, a pet store worker whose own, similarly wealthy family life is fracturing after his father (Willem Dafoe) betrayed his mother (Emmanuelle Seigner). Together, the two young men enter a whirlwind romance, sending them into a dead-end world of passion, drugs, and depravity.
With Pet Shop Days, first-time feature director Olmo Schnabel, son of artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, has crafted a gritty throwback to American independent cinema. (No wonder Martin Scorsese signed on as an executive producer.) Imbued with raw emotion and propulsive pacing, and led by an explosive performance by Yazbek Bernal (Gael’s half-brother) as the wild and wounded Alejandro, Pet Shop Days is a riveting portrait of lost young men in search of connection.
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Film Credits
- Galen Core, Alex Coco, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Gabriele Moratti, Marie Savare de Laitre
- Jack Irv, Olmo Schnabel, Galen Core
- Sophie Corra
- Hunter Zimny
- Jack Irv, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Mollà, Camille Rowe, Emmanuelle Seigner, Louis Cancelmi
- Eli Keszler
- Giovanni Corrado, Raffaella Viscardi, Moreno Zani, Malcom Pagani, Renato Ragosta, Livio Strazzera, Theo Niarchos, Aimone Ripa Di Meana, PJ Van Sandwijk, Peter Brant Jr., Michel Franco, Reka Posta, Jeremy O. Harris, Martin Scorsese
- TWIN, MeMo Films, Storyteller Productions, Tenderstories, 3 Marys Entertainment, ELA Films