This week's issue features our annual fall arts roundup, and we've got previews of several movies rolling through town between now and Thanksgiving: Julius Caesar, a rarely screened indie adapted from the Shakespeare play, shot in 1950 on various Chicago locations and starring a young Charlton Heston; Rosewater, Jon Stewart's directorial debut, about the Iranian imprisonment of Canadian reporter Maziar Bahari during the disputed 2009 elections; Blonde Crazy, a James Cagney classic screening as part of Jonathan Rosenbaum's ongoing lecture series about transgressive American comedies; short works by the British avant-gardist John Smith, screening at Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwestern Block Museum of Art, and University of Chicago Film Studies Center, with Smith attending; Foxcatcher, a true-crime story starring Steve Carell and directed by Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball); Gone Girl, adapted by David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network) from the best-selling mystery novel; White Bird in a Blizzard, the latest from indie dazzler Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, Kaboom); and The Zero Theorem, a sci-fi fantasy about a neurotic computer programmer, directed by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys).
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