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Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 10, 2015
Our guide to the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival 2015

Eleven new features explore the black experience worldwide.
- By Drew Hunt and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Ken Bugul: Nobody Wants Her, Ken Bugul, Njinga, Queen of Angola, Noir, La Pirogue, Reshipment, African cinema

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 16, 2015
Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival, week two

South American sci-fi dominates this week's roundup of the 31st editon.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Latino Film Festival, The Incident, Blue Desert, Aurora, Open Wound, The Hand That Feeds, Lock Charmer

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 15, 2015
Our guide to the 2015 Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Najwa Najjar's Oscar entry Eyes of a Thief opens the 14th edition, at Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Wanted 18, May in the Summer, It's Better to Jump, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Villa Touma, Eyes of the Thief

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 15, 2015
Our guide to the 2015 Chicago International Movies & Music Festival

New documentaries focus on Devo, Morphine, the Mekons, the Residents, and more
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Sara Ranganathan, Dominic Johnson, New Millennium Orchestra, Buster Keaton, Seven Chances, Marc Ribot, Josef von Sternberg, Docks of New York, Chandeliers, Feherlofia, Sones de Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein, Que Viva Mexico!, Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, DJ Sneak, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, Hank Shocklee, 1st Ward, Metro, Yakuza, the Gunshy, Local H, Clearance, John Primer, Liam Hayes, Ne-Hi, Spike Lee, Absolute Beginners, Basically, Johnny Moped, Danny Says, Don't Think I've Forgotten, Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come, Ray Davies: Imaginary Man, East Nashville Tonight, 808: The Movie, Hardcore DEVO Live!, Jaco, Morphine: Journey of Dreams, Never Release My Fist, Revenge of the Mekons, Shake the Dust, Teenage Ghost Punk, Theory of Obscurity: A Film About

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 9, 2015
Our guide to the 2015 Chicago Latino Film Festival, week one

More than 80 international features screen over the next two weeks at River East 21.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, 31st Chicago Latino Film Festival, After the Rain, Climas, Cows Wearing Glasses, Dr. Funes' Formula, Holiday, I Am Not Lorena, The Silence of the Flies

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 2, 2015
Our guide to the 20th Asian American Showcase
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Asian Amrican Showcase, Jeepney, Miss India America, Off the Menu, Man from Reno, 9-Man, Gene Siskel Film Center

Film, Movie Sidebar Mar 5, 2015
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Our guide to the European Union Film Festival, week one

More than 60 new features make their Chicago debuts.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, European Union Film Festival 2015, Gene Siskel Film Center, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 20, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago Italian Film Festival

Music Box presents a week of 60s favorites and the latest imports.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Italian Film Festival, Music Box, Divorce—Italian Style, The Easy Life, I Can Quit Whenever I Want, Seduced and Abandoned, Small Southern Enterprise, Viva la Libertà

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 6, 2014
Our guide to the Polish Film Festival in America

Reviews of films screening at the fest's 26h edition.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Gods, Ida, The Immigrant, Jack Strong, Mighty Angel, Stones for the Rampart, Ticket to the Moon

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 16, 2014
Our guide to week two of the Chicago International Film Festival

Which movies to see—and which to skip—in the festival's second week
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The Babadook, Black Panther—The Story of Emilie and Jacob, Breaking the Waves, Clouds of Sils Maria, Concrete Night, A Girl at My Door, El Gort, Joy of Man's Desiring, The Kindergarten Teacher, La Tirisia, Maestro, Next to Her, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1001 Grams, Roger & Me, Seven Little Killers, Speed Walking, Two Days, One Night, The Well, Xenia, The Young Kieslowski, 50th Chicago International Film Festival

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 9, 2014
Which movies to see—and which to skip—at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival

The Reader's guide to the semicentennial CIFF
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, 50th Chicago International Film Festival, August Winds, The Babadook, Clouds of Sils Maria, Concrete Night, Girl at My Door, Gonzalez, I've Seen the Unicorn, Iron Ministry, The Kindergarten Teacher, Miss Julie, The Salvation, Station of the Cross, Still, Timbuktu, La Trisia, Two Days One Night, Winter Sleep, Zurich, interntional cinema, film festival

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 9, 2014
The Reader reviews the Chicago International Film Festival's 15 revival screenings

Oliver Stone presents Natural Born Killers and Michael Moore presents Roger and Me during CIFF's 50th year
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander, Oliver Stone, Rodger and Me, Michael Moore, Isabelle Huppert, Breaking the Waves, Comedy of Power, Fanny and Alexander, The Idolmaker, Jamaica Inn, Mountains of the Moon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 101 Reykjavik, The Piano Teacher, Roger & Me, A Star Is Born, White Material, White Nights

Film, Movie Sidebar Sep 17, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago Romanian Cultural Marathon

Three days of events kick off Friday at Facets Cinematheque.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago Romanian Cultural Marathon, I'm an Old Communist Hag, The Japanese Dog, Miss Christina

Film, Movie Sidebar Sep 17, 2014
Our guide to Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival

More than a hundred shorts and features screen at Music Box, Landmark, and Chicago Filmmakers.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Boy Meets Girl, Cupcakes, Entre Rios, Everything We Left Unsaid, The Foxy Merkins, Gerontophilia, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Out in the Night, Queers in the Kingdom

Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 11, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival

Eight new dramas and documentaries make their Chicago debuts in this year's edition.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, ArtMattan Productions, African Diaspora Film Festival, Chicago, Facets Cinematheque, Charles Coleman, Freedom Summer, Jews in Egypt, Tula, the Revolt, The Miscreants, Tango Negro, the African Roots of Tango, Love Triangle

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 30, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Fest 2014

More than 70 music movies screen Thursday through Sunday at Logan Theater and Society for Arts
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Kevin Warwick, Tal Rosenberg, Leor Galil, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Fest, Logan, Society for Arts, Bayou Maharajah, Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, Boyce & Hart: The Guys Who Wrote 'Em, The Case of the Three Sided Dream, Death Metal Angola, Every Everything: The Life, Music, & Times of Grant Hart, Honeydripper, Imagine the Sound, Jingle Bell Rocks!, Led Zeppelin Played Here, Metalhead, Musical Generations, 9 Muses of Star Empire, Palestine Stereo, Pleased to Meet Me, 20,000 Days on Earth, Twist

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 2, 2014
Our guide to the 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival

Digital may have killed celluloid, but underground cinema is alive and well.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, La Ultima Pelicula, Logan, American Arab, Critical Paranoia: Conspiratorial Memes, Alternative Histories, and Disinformation, Dream Town, East of Hell, Dreams Less Sweet, Shadow Zombie, Sick Birds Die Easy, The Unity of All Things, When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin, Who Took Johnny

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 2, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival

More than seven dozen features, many showcasing South America's ongoing cinematic renaissance
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Latino Film Festival, All for One, The Amazing Catfish, For Love in the Caserio, The Longest Distance, Tango Glories (Fermin), The Tree That Grows on the Wall, To Fool a Thief

Film, Movie Sidebar Mar 5, 2014
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Our guide to the European Union Film Festival at Gene Siskel Film Center

More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres through March.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Child's Pose, Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Razvan Radulescu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Tuesday, After Christmas, Calin Peter Netzer, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Robert Bresson, Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Run & Jump, Edward MacLia, Maxine Peake, Will Forte, Steph Green, A Spell to Ward Off Darkness, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Two Years at Sea, Let Each One Go Where He May, Robert Lowe, The Strange Little Cat, Ramon Zürcher, What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto, Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miville, Soft and Hard, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 6, 2013
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Our guide to Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival 2013

It kicks off at Music Box with G.B.F.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Logan, Music Box, Northwestern Univ. Block Museum of Art, Before You Know It, Easy Abby, First Period, G.B.F., Ludwig II, One Zero One: The Story of Cybersissy & BayBjane, Route of Accept, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 6, 2013
Our guide to the 25th Polish Film Festival in America

The festival opens this weekend with Andrzej Wajda's Walesa, Man of Hope
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Society for Arts, the Polish Film Festival in America, Poland, Floating Skyscrapers, The Last Floor, Lasting, The Vulture

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 24, 2013
Never trust any kid over 30

The Chicago International Children's Film Festival celebrates three decades of programs
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Instituto Cervantes, Illinois Institute of Art, Facets Multimedia, Music Box

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 10, 2013
The Massacre: Shocks around the clock

The long-running horror marathon relocates to the Patio Theater.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, the Portage, the Patio, Frankensein, Edison Studios, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Vincent Price, Guy Maddin, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, George Romero, Martin, Gary Sherman, Dead and Buried, Roger Corman, Fred Walton, April Fool's Day, Nightmare on Elm Street, Part Two: Freddy's Revenge, Mark Patton, Dario Argento, Deep Red, Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 2, 2013
Sachs flacks Box docs

The Music Box presents a week of new documentary features.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, Docs at Box, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, Bettie Page Reveals All, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Free the Mind, Informant, Plimpton!, Our Nixon, The Punk Singer, Shepard & Dark, Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers, The Trials of Muhammad Ali

Film, Movie Sidebar Aug 7, 2013
"The Hitchcock 9" presents the silent-era works, loud and clear

Newly restored by the British Film Institute, the master's early films show a peculiar genius in the making.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Alfred Hitchcock, The Hitchcock 9, Music Box, British Film Institute, the Pleasure Garden, Champagne, Noel Coward, Easy Virtue, the Mont Alto Orchestra, Blackmail, The Lodger, The Ring, The Manxman, Dennis Scott

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