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Home » John Akomfrah

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Movie Tuesday: Masterworks from Africa and its diasporas

by Ben Sachs June 25, 2019August 18, 2021

Five films that provide an all-too-brief introduction to cinema made in Africa or that consider the legacy of African traditions

Posted inBlogs

The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings

by J.R. Jones May 1, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

High and dry at Fifty Shades of Grey, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones February 20, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats

by Ben Sachs December 26, 2014August 18, 2021

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it’s a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.

Chicago International Film Festival director Michael Kutza in 1965.
Posted inFilm

A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese’s debut to Lee Daniels’s achievement award

by J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs October 9, 2014August 18, 2021

The Reader digs through the Chicago International Film Festival’s archives to assemble a time line covering the fest’s 50 years.

Posted inBlogs

The Face of Love, the face of Wes Anderson, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones March 14, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sun 12/15: Holiday markets, John Akomfrah, and “Catch Your Breath”

by Jillian Sandler December 15, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, December 15

Posted inBlogs

Persons of interest, and this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones December 13, 2013August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Posted inFilm

John Akomfrah’s collage of the humanities

by Ben Sachs December 11, 2013August 19, 2021

Black Cinema House revisits John Akomfrah, radical chronicler of the African diaspora.

Posted inBlogs

The latest obsession: an interview with Nine Muses director John Akomfrah

by Ben Sachs November 13, 2012August 19, 2021

Talking with the British filmmaker about his latest experimental work

Posted inBlogs

Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week’s movies

by J.R. Jones November 9, 2012August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Handsworth Songs: an hour of collective resistance

by Ben Sachs April 3, 2012August 19, 2021

A short review of the British experimental work Handsworth Songs (1986) screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center this week

Posted inBlogs

The Man and the Dream

by Ed M. Koziarski January 6, 2010August 19, 2021

“Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and the Dream” screens Thursday 1/7 at Chatham 14.

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