On Thursday morning, Bobcat Goldthwait is driving to the Music Box Theatre for a test screening of his latest documentary. It’s a short drive for the comedian/writer/director who just recently moved to DuPage County and gave himself the nickname the “Daniel Craig of DuPage.” “I had to get out of [DuPage],” Goldthwait jokes. “The autograph […]
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Jane Goodall and Hedy Lamarr: Bold, beautiful, and brilliantly unschooled
Two recent documentaries, Jane and Bombshell, profile women whose modest educations left them open to new ideas.
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With Human Flow, Ai Weiwei takes a global perspective on refugee crises
The latest documentary from the Chinese artist and filmmaker presents all exiled peoples as one.
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Inside the sanatorium that produced outsider artist Henry Darger
With Revolutions of the Night, documentary maker Mark Stokes uncovers the childhood trauma that inspired the controversial fabulist.
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In Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris, the public library is still a laboratory of democracy
The legendary documentary maker dives headfirst into the New York public library system.
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Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.
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Up close—maybe too close—with Julian Assange
Laura Poitras, who recorded the Edward Snowden leak in Citizenfour, returns with her latest documentary, Risk.
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A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera
With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.
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The Doc10 film festival offers an alternative to alternative facts
Ten new documentaries make their Chicago premieres at this year’s edition.
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Jon Stewart talked the talk; Bassem Youssef walked the walk
Daily Show producer Sara Taksler directs this profile of the Egyptian political satirist who went too far.
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After Sundance, the impact of the Chicago Media Project’s films continues
After backing seven films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, CMP focuses on the future.
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Charlie Siskel discusses his new documentary about the author of The Anarchist Cookbook
The Chicago native interviewed William Powell for American Anarchist, a probing documentary that screens at the Chicago International Film Festival this weekend.
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The Witness revisits a story falsified in search of a higher truth
The Witness revisits the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, which became a symbol of bystander apathy.
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Are you happy? Inquiring nuns want to know
A 1968 documentary from Kartemquin Films explores the nature of fulfillment.
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Frank Zappa was so left, he was right
A documentary profile of the avant-garage musician reveals his political conservatism.