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Clouds, Naples, Pompei: Gianfranco Rosi’s City Symphony of Modern-Day Naples
"Pompei: Below The Clouds" shows how Rosi's notions are temblors beneath a flow of relentlessly gorgeous imagery.
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Sundance 2026 Says Farewell to Park City
A roundup of features and documentaries bold, subtle and occasionally strange and stranger from the 2026 festival.
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Days in the Country: Olivier Assayas in Lockdown
"Suspended Time" (Hors du temps) is the seventy-year-old French filmmaker's essay/autofiction/ticklish comedy, blended like a crêpe, about that "miraculous time-out."
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Talking Screens, January 3-9, 2025: “Nickel Boys” Is a Wonder | Mohammad...
Renewed series on Apple TV+; Chicago Film Society's last season at NEIU; Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev's "Porcelain War"; Maura Delpero's "Vermiglio"; Mohammad Rasoulof's explosive epic of...
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May Flowers: Behind Doc10 and The Chicago Critics Film Festival
Chicago's day-to-day opportunities to see films that are classic and newborn alike seem unparalleled. This week, we get two overlapping, stellar festivals.
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Talking Screens, December 3-9, 2021: C’mon, C’mon Is So Very Good | Bad...
Fine features are hailing down from all over: "Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn," "The Beatles: Get Back," "C'mon, C'mon" and "Benedetta."
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One Chicago: CIFF Brings Home Chef Charlie, Harold Washington, Recovery And...
Five documentaries in the fifty-seventh Chicago International Film Festival are products of Chicago and Chicagoans. We asked each filmmaker to tell us about their movie and to put it into a Chicago...
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Talking Screens, May 14-20, 2021: Melvin van Peebles Debut | What Chris Rock...
Theaters are opening, capacity increasing, and the choices of what to watch, onscreen, in virtual cinema bookings, streaming and online, pile up. Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" is the week's...
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Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at...
Jennifer Reeder converses with "Jeanne Dielman"; "History is Made At Night" finds harbor on Blu-ray; "Thunder Force" Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; "Gunda"...
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Talking Screens: Truffle Hunters vs. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The taste of the earth, the scent of art.
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Talking Screens: A Week in Chicago Film, March 5-11, 2021
Will moviegoing be back by summer? In countries whose governments took actions to contain the virus, the answer appears to be yes.
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USA SNAFU: A Review Of MLK/FBI
History that's not yet past: Sam Pollard's vital, necessary documentary is a must-see.
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Searching and Finding: Jenny Shi On Finding Yingying
"Finding" takes on many meanings: A fresh Chicago voice tells a true crime story from a new perspective with superb results.
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One Recommendation: December 2020
You deserve a DVD or Blu-ray today. Not just for the holidays, but as rebuke to “intellectual property” contracts.
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Chicago Stories: An Epic City So Real
Five hours for the five stars in the Chicago flag: the city's the sometimes tarnished sometimes shining star of Steve James' Chicago story, "City So Real."
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Wander Boys: A Review Of Werner Herzog’s Nomad
Werner Herzog retraces his friendship with the late writer Bruce Chatwin.
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