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Home » Nightingale Cinema

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Theaters across the city are dusting off their projectors.
Posted inFilm

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

Support your local movie theater workers

by Nina Li Coomes May 5, 2020August 18, 2021

The Chicago Cinema Workers Fund raises money for the folks who run the box offices, concessions stands, and more.

Posted inFilm

‘Ism, Ism, Ism’ provides glimpses into overlooked worlds

by Catey Sullivan October 3, 2019August 18, 2021

The sprawling program features rarely viewed experimental films from Latin America.

Posted inBlogs

Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life

by Sarah Conway April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.

Posted inBlogs

Batkid Begins (and ends), plus the rest of this week’s new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones July 17, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screeenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Venerated avant-garde filmmaker Saul Levine makes a rare Chicago appearance tomorrow

by Ben Sachs May 1, 2015August 18, 2021

This week also brings an exciting program of new experimental videos by local artists Kaycee Conaway and Molly Hewitt.

Posted inBlogs

Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings

by J.R. Jones April 24, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

A wisecracking, bank-robbing filmmaker needs your help

by Ben Sachs February 24, 2015August 18, 2021

Tomorrow night the Nightingale hosts a screening to benefit recently incarcerated avant-garde filmmaker Joe Gibbons

Posted inBlogs

A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014

by Ben Sachs December 26, 2014August 18, 2021

The year in old movies

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William Shatner wrestles with his soul at 4 AM, and this priest has it on videotape

by Ben Sachs November 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Rediscovering the Twilight Zone-esque Catholic television series Insight, which ran from 1960 to 1983

Posted inBlogs

This week in experimental cinema: John Smith in person, dance films at the MCA, and more

by Ben Sachs October 14, 2014August 18, 2021

The city is full of avant-garde film screenings over the next six days.

Posted inBlogs

Constellation and Nightingale Cinema to copresent a new monthly series on experimental documentaries

by Ben Sachs September 18, 2014August 18, 2021

The “Run of Life” series begins this Monday with Jill Gillooly’s Suitcase of Love and Shame

Posted inBlogs

Detroit shares recent experimental films with Chicago, asks only for love in return

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Previewing an experimental mini-festival called Dearest Chicago, Please Love Me! Yours Truly, Detroit

Posted inBlogs

This Monday the Nightingale pays tribute to the late ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner

by Ben Sachs July 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Noting a free screening of Dead Birds, Gardner’s 1964 documentary about the Dani people of Papua New Guinea

Posted inBlogs

It’s a big month for Chicago microcinemas

by Ben Sachs April 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Previewing upcoming film-related events at Noble Square’s Nightingale and at the Chicago Home Theater Festival

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