“Civil War (Or,Who Do We Think We Are)” is an account of a country that broke apart and never really got back together. Written and directed by Rachel Boynton (“Our Brand is Crisis”), and shot over a period of years, the film visits northern and southern territories of the United States to tell the tale of the…

There’s a famous 1887 painting by André Brouillet called “A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière.” In it, a room full of men watch a strange demonstration going on at the front of the room. A man stands beside a table covered in medical instruments. A woman in a loosened corset, her breasts nearly exposed, swoons…

You know Annie Clark better as St. Vincent, the avant-garde guitar god who’s gradually emerged as her generation’s most daringly chamelonic rock star. But, frankly, you don’t know anything about either of them, at least not with certainty. That’s the basic setup of “The Nowhere Inn,” out Friday from IFC. A vicious metafictional treatise on…

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FACETS is excited to announce that the 46-year-old organization has selected the film designated to mark its long-awaited return to in-person programming, following an 18-month hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic: “Anne at 13,000 Ft.” by Canadian director Kazik Radwanski. “Anne at 13,000 Ft.” will have its Chicago premiere from Friday, September 17th, through Sunday, September 19th, and…

Alicia Vikander won an Oscar in 2015 for “The Danish Girl,” but speaks about how “Blue Bayou” came with a certain nervous on-set experience she hasn’t had since her English language debut in 2012’s “Anna Karenina.” In writer/director Justin Chon’s “Blue Bayou,” Vikander sings the song that gives the film its name; casual, tempered, and with…