The 12-film retrospective presented at the Gene Siskel Film Center, under the questionable title of “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache,” will introduce audiences to the work of a fiercely personal artist.
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Doesn’t anyone fuck anymore?
Will No Hard Feelings revive the sex comedy? Probably not. Has it at least revolutionized the subgenre, bringing something heretofore unseen to the summer slate? Maybe . . .
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Godzilla is coming to the Music Box Garden
The Music Box Theatre and Chicago film critic and programmer Katie Rife are showing several different sides of Godzilla with four screenings of his later, lesser-seen classics, playing at sundown in the Music Box Garden every night from July 24-27.
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See beyond disability in The Unseen
Inspiration and overcoming are the Hollywood disability default. Jennifer Goodman, RJ Mitte, and their collaborators suggest that there’s a lot more to see.
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Bound for the floor
Just as The Matrix invites a trans textual reevaluation—spurred from its creators coming out as trans women years after release—Bound subconsciously uses its genre-bending cinematic elements toward corporeal freedom and autonomy.
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Pride at the movies
Here’s a list of recommended titles, with an unapologetic slant toward films screening in Chicago theaters.
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‘Without that sketch, maybe nothing, baby!’
An interview with Chicago native Dewayne Perkins, writer and star of the new horror-comedy The Blackening
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Doug Adams wrote the book on the Lord of the Rings scores
At Howard Shore’s invitation, Doug Adams—a Chicago-based author and musicologist—observed, documented, analyzed, and eventually illuminated the composer’s work in a 400-page book titled The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films.
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‘That’s movie magic to me’
Neal O’Bryan founded Workshed Animation, which specializes in stop-motion horror shorts and features, with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Chad Thurman in 2019.
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‘Inform, energize, and engage’
This year, the eighth annual Doc10 Film Festival will strive to engage Chicago residents with stories that illuminate the real-life experiences and struggles of people, both locally and globally.
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Explore the blessings of cinema with Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Between Monday, April 24, and Friday, April 28, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will again appear in person, this time at several screenings of his films (most on 35-millimeter) between Block Cinema at Northwestern University and the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The Chicago Film Society fulfills tomorrow’s promises
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Just three minutes into Edward Owens’s Autre Fois J’ai Aimé Une Femme (1966), the screen goes dark. It stays that way for […]
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The Harper Theater is putting up a fight
It’s an impressive venue, but can it survive the COVID-19 fallout and seismic shifts in movie-viewing preferences?
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Celebrating a decade of critically acclaimed film
Chicago film lovers will get the chance to mark off a massive chunk of their movie lists at the tenth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (CCFF).
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Brittany Devon’s ‘quiet subtleness of sureness’
Devon, 30, runs She | Them Productions, a Chicago-based production company dedicated to telling inclusive and original stories.