The African Diaspora Film Festival and more goings-on 6/11-6/14.
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Eddie Huang’s Double Cup Love, Rooftop Cinema Club, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Chicago’s Leading Ladies, Spring BBQ, and more happenings from June 13-16
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Our guide to the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival
Eight new features make their Chicago premieres at the African Diaspora Film Festival.
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The year in movie revivals, H through N
The second in a three-part series on the year’s best repertory screenings
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The 25-year-old Mestizo: The freshest movie in town
Mario Handler’s Venezuelan feature receives a belated Chicago premiere tomorrow.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 6/17: “Chicago 78/79,” The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy, and the African Diaspora Film Festival
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, June 17
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A “living newspaper” from Madagascar, now at Facets
Previewing one of the highlights of this year’s African Diaspora Film Festival, which screens Sunday with the director in attendance
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A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012
The year in revival screenings
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Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings
Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight
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Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The communal filmmaking of Welcome to Pine Hill
Previewing the New York-shot independent drama, which director Keith Miller will introduce at Facets this weekend
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This Week’s Movie Action
Debra Granik’s new drama, Winter’s Bone, is part suspense movie, part ethnography, and the two are closely linked: without its persuasive landscape of an Ozarks mountain community in the 21st century, it wouldn’t be nearly as tense. It’s the subject of this week’s long review.
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Afric-a-go-go
The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week’s Critic’s Choices and new reviews.