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Now playing: a return to the movies
After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
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Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box
Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box, the Synthesizer-Chili Cookoff signs off with its tenth installment, and more.
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Movie Tuesday: Superior sequels and remakes
Five films that achieve the rare cinematic feat of improving upon their predecessors.
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Let us now praise Alan Rudolph
His last American hit, Afterglow, a tale of two tangled couples, screens at the Chicago Film Society on Wednesday.
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Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s
Men weren’t the only ones making thoughtful and provocative independent films in the 1960s and ’70s, as this selection demonstrates.
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
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Five literary biopics whose pictures are worth a thousand words
Five literary biopics whose visual style lives up to the words.
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A Scene at the Sea is an early masterpiece from Takeshi Kitano
The Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter screening of the Japanese director’s 1991 drama, a simple, tender story of love, friendship, and surfing.
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Five must-see films about film
Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House
Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.