Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the "disappearing middle" of American cinema
by Ben Sachs
If you haven't yet seen James Gray's The Immigrant, make a beeline for the Gene Siskel Film Center next week, when it returns to Chicago for its second run. One of the major achievements of recent American movies, Gray's immersive period piece channels the raw emotionalism of silent melodramas and Italian opera without coming off as nostalgic or studied.…[ Read more ]