This article highlights unique cinematic experiences from 2024, including a Japanese silent film series presented with live theorator performers and a heartfelt music video featuring Van Dyke. It also mentions a TikTok creator known for their comedic short-form videos based on unexpected subjects.
Before we send 2024 packing, it’d be good karma to acknowledge some offbeat screen experiences don’t fit a typical. And we’ll also get to the worst movies of the year, guaranteed to undo that karma in a flash. So. Goodbye, year. And hats off to Chicago’s cinema workers, archivists, educators, theater managers, projectionists — and to all venues offering real butter on popcorn that didn’t come out of a bag and doesn’t taste like something that fell out of an Amazon packing envelope.
at Gene Siskel Film Center, April 16-17. What was it? It was a series of programs featuring Japanese silent film, presented in the virtually lost art form and framework of theorator tradition of live performers at the side of the screen, providing vocal characterizations, some historical footnoting and so much more. The result bridged the gap between cinema and live theater in a way I’ve never seen before. That, plus a beautiful quartet of musicians accompanying the action. The Chicago run sold out in a flash, and I’m glad I caught this stunner at the Brooklyn Academy of Music during another one of its four U.S. tour stops. An image from a 2019 UCLA presentation of “The Art of the Benshi,” with orators on the left, musicians on the right and a silent film presentation center stage. (UCLA) And Chris Martin of Coldplay, and director Spike Jonze. You’ve heard about it and seen it by now, probably, but the simple, deeply sincere music video (see the director’s cut if you haven’t) features a 98-year-old Van Dyke (he’s now 99) dancing to Martin’s “All My Love.” This tribute to a great American entertainer and Danville, Illinois, native arrived near the end of 2024, when our hearts needed it the most. It took me until this year to discover someone whose short-form videos built on highly unlikely subjects for comedy — Mother Nature interviewed on a podcast hosted by Father Time; and the underminer known as Autocorrect — have been rolling around on TikTok and YouTube and Instagram for year
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