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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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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, 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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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, 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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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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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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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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