After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
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(Re)discover Agnès Varda
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
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
A tale of a novice producer and a legendary film that no one ever thought would ever play in theaters.
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There are Chicagoans in the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival!
A mostly complete local viewing guide
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‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week
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
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
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
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
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
FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
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Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
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
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
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
As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.