New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Chicago International Film Festival
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Another year, another crop of good-looking disappointments at the Chicago International Film Festival
Bemoaning the “genrefication” of the festival film
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 10/9: CIFF, Garden Gala, and Helen Sung Quartet
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, October 9
Posted inFilm
The Reader reviews the Chicago International Film Festival’s 15 revival screenings
Chicago International Film Festival reminisces with 15 revival screenings, including Natural Born Killers and Roger and Me.
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A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese’s debut to Lee Daniels’s achievement award
The Reader digs through the Chicago International Film Festival’s archives to assemble a time line covering the fest’s 50 years.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Extended Birthday Party
But you can’t blow out the candles until October.
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The soon-to-reopen Portage Theater announces film events for summer
Starting in mid-June the historic Portage Park theater is back in business.
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Public housing, private prisons, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Legacy: Beyond the yellow tape
Channel 11 presents Legacy, a Chicago story of tragedy and triumph.
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Oscar shorts out the wazoo, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Black Jack flashes back to 1750 Yorkshire
Ken Loach’s period adventure Black Jack screens at Siskel Film Center.
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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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My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11
The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
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The Absent Column documents the battle over Prentice Hospital—but you didn’t see it at CIFF
In a handsome short film, Northwestern graduate Nathan Eddy documents the university’s battle to destroy Bertrand Goldberg’s unique Prentice Hospital.