Looking for some fun? We’ve got you covered for the next seven days, read on! FRI 3/25 It’s the tenth annual presentation of Jeezy’s Juke Joint: A Black Burly-Q Revue. Billed as the “only Black burlesque festival in the world,” this variety show celebrates a rich and diverse lineage of Black nightlife performers. In addition […]
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Best new curated streaming channel showcasing Black cinema
Subscribers to blacknuss.tv (available for $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year, with a seven-day free trial) have access to a wide array of content, including documentary, narrative, and experimental works, both short and feature length.
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Doc Films is movie history
And you can still see a lot of it on 35 mm—the way it was meant to be seen.
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Chicago International Film Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Pop-Up Magazine’s Fall Issue tour and other goings on Mon 10/15-Thu 10/18.
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Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To gets a fall retrospective at Doc Films
The masterpiece Life Without Principle and nine more greats screen from October through December.
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Five low-budget (but still amazing) science-fiction films
These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.
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Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week
The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
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Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood
Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.
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Chicago jazz bassist Joe Policastro shares a love for film and TV themes on his new trio album
The Joe Policastro Trio’s Screen Sounds transforms score and soundtrack music with energetic imagination and a charmingly Catholic sensibility.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 at the Vic and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The United States of Women’s Galvanize Chicago, The Chiraq Wall closes, and other happenings from July 14-16
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Moonlight urges the need for deep self-reflection
The Golden Globe-nominated film poses a simple but profound question.
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Local filmmaker David Singer finds humor and charm in Imperfections
The jewel-heist caper will have its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 14.
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How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world
For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer behind images from 1940s India.
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Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.