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Section The Hateful Eight


Brian Andreotti, Music Box Theatre director


Eight’s a crowd Goggins eyes trouble.


Quentin Tarantino’s latest has all the makings of another fast-talking, ultra- violent winner. The post–Civil War spaghetti Western sees bounty hunters and fugitives, played by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson,


Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins and Channing Tatum, take shelter during a Wyoming blizzard. “[Tarantino] shot on 70-millimeter film—a rare treat these days,” says a stoked Brian Andreotti, pointing out that for two weeks, The Hateful Eight will screen exclusively on film at theaters capable of showing


Macbeth


Michael Kutza, Chicago International Film Festival director


Michael Kutza can’t wait to see the latest take on the Scottish


play, with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as the conniving couple with a thing for regicide. “Director Justin Kurzel [The Snowtown Murders] has added new excitement to this story and made it come alive in a completely new way,” says Kutza. The gritty and visceral Macbeth won high praise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Opens Dec 4


Fassbender takes on “the Scottish play.”


Hail Macbeth


The Revenant tSTAFF PICK Lisa White, editor


Flight of the Falcon The iconic ship is back to blast those pesky TIE fighters.


Hail, Caesar!


tSTAFF PICK Madeline Wolfson, Things To Do and Film editor


“When I learned the Coen brothers were making a ’50s-era Hollywood crime comedy, I think I squealed,” says Madeline Wolfson. “Throw in an all-star cast of Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, all in character roles crafted by the duo who writes them so well, and I’m literally


counting down the days. I can’t wait to see what happens with what might be the most Coen- brothers–y film to date.” Opens Feb 5


“Who doesn’t love a good revenge story during the holidays?” asks Lisa White. “Director Alejandro González Iñárritu follows up his award-winning Birdman with the story of Hugh Glass, a fur trapper consumed with vengeance when his companion robs him, kills his


70mm. For film purists passionate about the old- school celluloid look, Tarantino’s bringing a very merry Christmas. “There will be 100 engagements, and that’s the largest [70mm] release in 20 years. So, yeah, I’m pretty excited,” says Andreotti. Limited release Dec 25, nationwide Jan 8


son and leaves him for dead after a bear attack. Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead, tackling an intense, brutally fragile character, and with cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki [Birdman, Gravity], audiences can expect another beautiful, emotionally raw film from Iñárritu.” Limited release Dec 25, nationwide Jan 8


The fix is in Brolin and Johansson do crime, Coen-style.


The avenger DiCaprio leads as Glass hunting the men who killed his son.


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