The new issue of
Film Comment includes a comprehensive piece on Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira by
Reader contributor Jonathan Rosenbaum. Coincidentally, the Gene Siskel Film Center is in the middle of an
Oliveira retrospective, which continues through July with
Day of Despair (7/14),
Rite of Spring (7/16),
Doomed Love (7/19, 7/22-23),
Inquietude (7/25, 7/29), and the director's latest,
Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (7/27, 7/31).
