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Theaters across the city are dusting off their projectors.
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Now playing: a return to the movies

by Kathleen Sachs April 12, 2021August 18, 2021

After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.

Posted inFilm

(Re)discover Agnès Varda

by Kathleen Sachs August 14, 2020August 18, 2021

A new Criterion Collection box set encompasses the filmmaker’s work—and reminds of her time spent in Chicago.

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Writer A.S. Hamrah on the crisis in film criticism

by Anne Elizabeth Moore November 26, 2018August 18, 2021

The new essay collection The Earth Dies Streaming collects his work from 2002 to 2018.

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How Filip Rymsza finally finished Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind

by Patrick Z. McGavin November 2, 2018August 18, 2021

A tale of a novice producer and a legendary film that no one ever thought would ever play in theaters.

Posted inBlogs

There are Chicagoans in the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival!

by Kathleen Sachs October 10, 2018August 18, 2021

A mostly complete local viewing guide

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‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

by Patrick Friel September 12, 2018August 18, 2021

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck’s “director of the week.”

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Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young

by Patrick Friel September 4, 2018August 18, 2021

These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.

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Five opera films that hit the high notes

by Patrick Friel August 29, 2018August 18, 2021

If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center’s screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.

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The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck’s director of the week

by Patrick Friel August 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.

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Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s

by Patrick Friel August 7, 2018August 18, 2021

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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Jean-Pierre Melville’s brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck

by Patrick Friel July 31, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.

Posted inBlogs

Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

by Patrick Friel July 24, 2018August 18, 2021

Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room

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FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor

by Patrick Friel July 18, 2018August 18, 2021

George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the “director of the week” treatment form FilmStruck.

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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

by Patrick Friel June 20, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

by Patrick Friel June 4, 2018August 18, 2021

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.

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