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Author Archives: Richard Pena

Posted inArts & Culture

The Reader’s Guide to the 23rd Chicago International Film Festival

by Pat Aufderheide, Zbigniew Banas, Robert Horton, Dave Kehr, Peter Keough, David Overbey, Richard Pena, Nancy Robinson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres and Ronnie Scheib October 29, 1987August 20, 2021

What’s New This Week

Posted inFilm

Blind Chance

by Richard Pena October 23, 1987August 25, 2021

2 hours 2 min

Posted inArts & Culture

Week Two of the 23rd Chicago International Film Festival

by Pat Aufderheide, Zbigniew Banas, Meredith Brody, Don Druker, Dave Kehr, Tom Keogh, Peter Keough, Elaine Madsen, David Overbey, Gerald Peary, Richard Pena, Berenice Reynaud, Nancy Robinson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Ronnie Scheib and Henry Sheehan October 22, 1987August 20, 2021

A Multitude of Cinema

Posted inArts & Culture

A Guide to the 23rd Chicago International Film Festival

by Pat Aufderheide, Robert Horton, Tom Keogh, Peter Keough, Richard Pena, Berenice Reynaud, Nancy Robinson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbarra Scharres, Ronnie Scheib and Elliot Stein October 15, 1987August 20, 2021

So Many Movies, So Little Time: Film festivals come in all shapes and sizes. Ours is relatively pluralistic and amorphous, for better and for worse.

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