Chicago Community Jail Support, the volunteer mutual aid network that supports people recently released from Cook County Jail, hosts two teach-ins and volunteer training sessions on Zoom this month to guide people in how to lend a hand in meeting the needs of those who are recently incarcerated. Learn skills like setting up and breaking […]
Tag: Silent Film
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The first Scored Silent Film Festival hits West Town on Saturday
A new arts event brings together local artists from several different mediums.
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The soon-to-reopen Portage Theater announces film events for summer
Starting in mid-June the historic Portage Park theater is back in business.
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The U. of C. Film Studies Center to host a program of silent films from mainland China
Previewing a free double feature of rarely revived genre classics
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The year in movie revivals, A through G
The first in a three-part series on Chicago’s best repertory film screenings of 2013
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The Reader’s film writers turn to crime, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 20 and 26
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 2/23: Chicago Maritime Festival, Pictures and Sounds, and Another 90s Party
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, February 23, 2013
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Sunrise in the dark
F. W. Murnau’s silent 1927 masterpiece screens tonight at the Silent Summer Film Festival.
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5/15 – Films From The Field Museum Archives: The Borden Expedition
Tomorrow at noon at the Field Museum, film scholar Theresa Scandiffio presents the silent film Field Museum-Borden Arctic Expedition (Cruise of the Northern Light), shot on a 1927 specimen-hunting expedition led by John Borden, a trustee of the Field Museum. Much of Borden’s wife’s account of the trip is online at Google Books.
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The Cinematic Sounds of Bill Frisell
On his releases from the past year, guitarist Bill Frisell has accompanied Buster Keaton classics, a narrative movie, and historical photographs from Heber Springs, Arkansas; on Saturday he plays in a trio at the Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg.
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3-Iron
In our world of endless noise and pointless jabber, the movies of Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring) are transcendently quiet: the illicit lovers in this eerie South Korean drama communicate whole worlds without ever speaking, and the woman’s single line of dialogue, directed at her cuckolded husband, is almost certainly a lie. A […]
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Actress
A masterpiece by Stanley Kwan, the greatest Hong Kong film I’ve seen (also known as Ruan Ling Yu and Center Stage). The story of silent film actress Ruan Ling Yu (1910-1935), known as the Garbo of Chinese cinema, it combines documentary with period re-creation, biopic glamour with profound curiosity, and ravishing historical clips with color […]