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Home » Film » Movie Feature

Category: Movie Feature

a film still from Matewan, three men play baseball in 1920s garb
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‘Let’s fuck up the frame’

by Donald Liebenson May 24, 2022May 24, 2022

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s monthlong celebration of Chicago native Haskell Wexler’s centennial concludes May 31.

Posted inFilm

The Janes is a call to action

by Kathleen Sachs May 18, 2022May 18, 2022

“What we know for a fact is that making abortion illegal does not stop women from seeking abortions, it just keeps them from getting safe abortions.”

through a window, a marble bust, gold leaves, and other items hard to decipher; there's a reflection of a car in the window
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Seeing with silence in avant-garde cinema

by Joshua Minsoo Kim May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.

a white man in a black suit sits at an organ at a theater
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The sweet sound of silents

by Kathleen Sachs May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do. 

a Black man in a beanie holds his hands up in fear or curiosity
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Horror is a sound you can’t stop saying

by Noah Berlatsky May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell.

an illustrated television with the Netflix logo and the word subtitles with a check mark next to it, all surrounded by a pink and purple glow
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In defense of subtitles

by Janaya Greene May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

Those once-pestering words on the bottom of television screens I now see as an opportunity to refresh and expand my communication.

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Navalny feels like a Soviet-era infomercial

by Dmitry Samarov May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

I left feeling hollow and angry. Like I’d been manipulated using methods pioneered and perfected under the long-gone Soviet regime of my childhood.

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A testosterone-fueled hero’s journey

by Colleen Morrissey April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The Northman is not a bad film. . . . But I can’t help but be disappointed that Eggers took this politically and socially fraught figure, the Viking, and played it so straight.

Posted inFilm

‘Chicago is a funny-ass town’

by Jonathan Dale April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The Reader caught up with Kerman to talk about what connects South Side and Bust Down, being reasonable in an insane world, and working with Freddie Gibbs.

Posted inFilm

The 17th annual porn film festival is back in person

by S. Nicole Lane April 5, 2022April 7, 2022

The long-running porn festival HUMP! Fest (organized by Chicago Reader sex columnist Dan Savage) made its way to the Music Box last weekend after being canceled last year.

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At the Siskel Center, Rogers Park is Tuesday’s star

by Catey Sullivan April 4, 2022April 5, 2022

Like the rest of us in 2020, film director Michael Glover Smith found his carefully laid plans laid to waste by a microscopic agent of chaos and destruction.

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Five electric films at PrideArts

by Brooks Eisenbise April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

This is the final of four curated weeks in the festival, and PrideArts finishes things off by showcasing touching connections, tragic losses, and lighthearted shenanigans in five short films. 

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In defense of dirtbags: Jake Johnson on why he loves a checkered past

by Marah Eakin March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

A north-side native who spent his youth frequenting Wrigley Field and following the gospel according to Del Close, Jake Johnson is Chicago to the core.

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Too many incredible Latino films for one eager critic

by Kathleen Sachs March 30, 2022April 4, 2022

The Chicago Latino Film Festival poses a problem—a good problem, but a problem nevertheless. There are simply too many interesting programs to see, and as any cinephile is loath to admit, we’re but singular bodies unable to be in more than one place at the same time.

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Enjoy Ukrainian and Asian American cinema at the Film Center

by Kathleen Sachs March 30, 2022April 4, 2022

Through five films, the Film Center endeavors to shed light on the Ukrainian experience, both past and present. . . . The annual Asian American Showcase returns to the big screen with several films from the past two years about Asian American characters and subjects.

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