This week’s cover story is an excerpt from my just-published book The Lives of Robert Ryan, a biography of the Chicago-born actor who starred in The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, and The Set-Up—the last of which which I’ll introduce on Sunday at the Music Box. A Q&A follows with Matthew Hoffman of Park Ridge Classic Film and Lisa Ryan, the actor’s daughter. Elsewhere in this week’s issue, Ben Sachs reviews Amour Fou, the latest from Jessica Hausner (Lourdes), about the suicide pact between the tormented Prussian writer Heinrich von Kleist and an aristocratic woman dying of cancer. It screens all week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
