Rather than make a list of my favorite new films of the year, I’ve made a list of my favorite repertory screenings of 2022.
Tag: Nightingale Cinema
Now playing: a return to the movies
After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
Support your local movie theater workers
The Chicago Cinema Workers Fund raises money for the folks who run the box offices, concessions stands, and more.
‘Ism, Ism, Ism’ provides glimpses into overlooked worlds
The sprawling program features rarely viewed experimental films from Latin America.
Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life
At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.
Batkid Begins (and ends), plus the rest of this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screeenings in this week’s issue
Venerated avant-garde filmmaker Saul Levine makes a rare Chicago appearance tomorrow
This week also brings an exciting program of new experimental videos by local artists Kaycee Conaway and Molly Hewitt.
Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
A wisecracking, bank-robbing filmmaker needs your help
Tomorrow night the Nightingale hosts a screening to benefit recently incarcerated avant-garde filmmaker Joe Gibbons
A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014
The year in old movies
William Shatner wrestles with his soul at 4 AM, and this priest has it on videotape
Rediscovering the Twilight Zone-esque Catholic television series Insight, which ran from 1960 to 1983
This week in experimental cinema: John Smith in person, dance films at the MCA, and more
The city is full of avant-garde film screenings over the next six days.
Constellation and Nightingale Cinema to copresent a new monthly series on experimental documentaries
The “Run of Life” series begins this Monday with Jill Gillooly’s Suitcase of Love and Shame
Detroit shares recent experimental films with Chicago, asks only for love in return
Previewing an experimental mini-festival called Dearest Chicago, Please Love Me! Yours Truly, Detroit
This Monday the Nightingale pays tribute to the late ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner
Noting a free screening of Dead Birds, Gardner’s 1964 documentary about the Dani people of Papua New Guinea