Nazi zombies terrorize snowmobiling Norse medical students in “Dead Snow,” screening Tuesday 8/30 as the final installment in the Logan Square International Film Series’s August “Summer Camp” program.
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Salonathon
The Chicago Underground Film Festival curates a program of “fantastical, funny, friendly, freakish films” from this year’s lineup Monday 8/8 at Beauty Bar.
48-Hour Film Project
Join a team, make a movie in a weekend, watch it at the Logan, and vie for a chance to screen at Cannes, in the 48-Hour Film Project this weekend.
Al Jourgensen drops lawsuit against Ministry documentarians, distributor says
The distributor of “FIX: The Ministry Movie” says frontman Al Jourgensen has dropped a lawsuit that sought to block the film’s release.
Hollywood Fail
The eminently creepy Dutch abduction thriller “The Vanishing” kicks off “Hollywood Fail,” the Logan Square International Film Series’s monthlong program of “amazing foreign films remade into American films.”
Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries “The Corner” and “Lord Thing” Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries “The Corner” and “Lord Thing” Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
Afinidades
Jorge Perrugoria and Vladimir Cruz’s psychosexual drama Afinidades screens Tuesday 6/28 at Instituto Cervantes.
Veins in the Gulf
In their documentary “Veins in the Gulf,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana’s wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.
Veins in the Gulf
In their documentary “Veins in the Gulf,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana’s wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.
Veins in the Gulf
In their documentary “Veins in the Gulf,” Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document t
Block Four: Chernobyl 2011
Local filmmakers Julian Hayda and Father Myron Panchuk document the squatters living within the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the failed reactor’s crumbling container, in their documentary “Block Four: Chernobyl 2011,” screening Thursday 4/28 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Distributor to Release Ministry Movie Despite Lawsuit
The distributor of “Fix: The Ministry Movie” still plans to shop the film in Cannes despite a lawsuit from front man Al Jourgensen.
Vanishing of the Bees
A third of the U.S. food supply depends on commercial beekeepers for pollination, but since 2006 the bees have been disappearing at staggering rates worldwide. The phenomenon, known as colony collapse disorder, remains unexplained, though one study attributes it to a combination of viral and fungal infections. One of several documentaries on the subject, Vanishing […]