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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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.
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‘Ism, Ism, Ism’ provides glimpses into overlooked worlds
The sprawling program features rarely viewed experimental films from Latin America.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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A wisecracking, bank-robbing filmmaker needs your help
Tomorrow night the Nightingale hosts a screening to benefit recently incarcerated avant-garde filmmaker Joe Gibbons
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A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014
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
Rediscovering the Twilight Zone-esque Catholic television series Insight, which ran from 1960 to 1983
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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It’s a big month for Chicago microcinemas
Previewing upcoming film-related events at Noble Square’s Nightingale and at the Chicago Home Theater Festival