- All the Ships at Sea
The writer and filmmaker Dan Sallitt had something of a career breakthrough in 2013 when his film The Unspeakable Act received fairly widespread distribution and wound up on a few end-of-year lists, including my own. (You can also purchase it on DVD or stream it on iTunes thanks to home video stalwarts Cinema Guild.) Previously, Sallitt was probably best known as a film critic and former Reader staffer, something he discussed in an interview with Ben Sachs. Appropriately enough, his cinephilic inclinations directly inform his filmmaking: he dedicated The Unspeakable Act to Eric Rohmer, and he might as well have done the same with his two previous films, Honeymoon (1998) and All the Ships at Sea (2004). Those two films have the same talky, intriguingly uneventful flavor of Rohmer’s work. And they also screen as part of a double feature tonight at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema (1104 S. Wabash) at 7 PM, the first time either film has played in Chicago; Newcity film critic Ray Pride introduces the screenings, and the A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky leads an audience Q&A afterward.
