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Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2018
The play Bull in a China Shop and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The African Diaspora Film Festival and more goings-on 6/11-6/14.
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, First Reformed, Samuel Blaser, Ashley Monroe, Bull in a China Shop, Paul Schrader, Theater Wit, SPACE, Hungry Brain, bull in a china shop, neverwhere, lifeline, the emperor's nightingale, facets, African Diaspora Film Festival

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
Eddie Huang's Double Cup Love, Rooftop Cinema Club, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Chicago's Leading Ladies, Spring BBQ, and more happenings from June 13-16
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Eddie Huang, Double Cup Love, The Man Who Mends Women, African Diaspora Film Festival, Chop Shop, Facets, Driehaus Museum, Chicago Leading Ladies, Immortal Birds, LiveWire Lounge, Science Night, Steppenwolf Theatre, Rooftop Cinema Club, DoubleTree Hotel, Spring BBQ, Cafe des Architectes, Anna Pulley, Women & Children First

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

Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2013
The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Revival screenings, Music Box Theatre, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale Cinema, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic, An Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, Doc Films, L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted, White Light Cinema, Nanni Moretti, The Mass Is Over, Chicago International Film Festival, We Have a Pope, Max et les Ferailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mestizo, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Mario Handler, Venezuela, Guillermo Meneses, Moi un Noir, Jean Rouch, ethnography, Ivory Coast, No Fear No Die, Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, Film Studies Center, South Side Projections

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2013
The 25-year-old Mestizo: The freshest movie in town

Mario Handler's Venezuelan feature receives a belated Chicago premiere tomorrow.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, Foreign, Arts, Film, Politics, Mario Handler, Guillermo Meneses, Mestizo, Facets Multimedia, African Diaspora Film Festival, New Wave filmmaking, Jean-Luc Godard, Dusan Makavejev, Glauber Rocha, Nagisa Oshima, Venezuelan cinema, Venezuela, Raul Ruiz, Uruguay, cinema verite, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 6/17: "Chicago 78/79," The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy, and the African Diaspora Film Festival

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 17
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago 78/79, Alibi Fine Art, David Gremp, Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Aimee Levitt, The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy, Nikolai Erdman, The Suicide, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2013
A "living newspaper" from Madagascar, now at Facets

Previewing one of the highlights of this year's African Diaspora Film Festival, which screens Sunday with the director in attendance
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Politics, Legends of Madagascar, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Gimme the Loot, independent filmmaking, Madagascar, Spike Lee, Jungle Fever, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Haminiania Ratovarivony

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2012
Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, One People, Pim de la Parra, Facets Multimedia, African Diaspora Film Festival, Suriname, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, My Neighbor Totoro

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2012
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Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fritz Lang, You and Me movie, You and Me Fritz Lang, Paramount Pictures, Ben Sachs, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Your Sister's Sister, Lynn Shelton, Humpday movie, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Come Back Africa, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, The Bitter Buddha, Eddie Pepitone Here Ben Foster, Leaving Vaclav Havel, Lola Versus, Greta Gerwig, Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele, Rock of Ages, Safety Not Guaranteed, Mark Duplass, That's My Boy, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future, Music Box, John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, Logan Theater Chicago, Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Tortoro, Gene Siskel Film Center, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Landmark's Century Centre, James Bond, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, Octopussy, Wilmette Theater, Sing-a-Long Mary Poppins, Found Footage Film Festival, Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher, Chicago Cultural Center, Studs Terkel Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2012
The communal filmmaking of Welcome to Pine Hill

Previewing the New York-shot independent drama, which director Keith Miller will introduce at Facets this weekend
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Welcome to Pine Hill, Keith Miller, Shannon Harper, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Debra Granik, Winter's Bone, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Joan Rivers A Piece of Work, The Enchanted Cottage, John Cromwell, Bank of America Cinema, Audrey the Trainwreck, Frank V. Ross; 8 The Mormon Proposition, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormon church, gay marriage, I Am Comic, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Gene Siskel Film Center, J.R. Jones, My Year Without Sex, Sarah Watts, Look Both Ways, Chicago Cultural Center, Cinema/Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 17, 2010
African Diaspora Film Festival

Friday through Thursday, 6/18-6/24, at Facets
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Facets Cinematheque, Nothing But the Truth, Facets, African Diaspora Film Festival, Raoul Peck, Moloch Tropical, Aaron Woolfolk, The Harimaya Bridge, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Dry Season, Just Like Us

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2009
Afric-a-go-go

The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week's Critic's Choices and new reviews.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Film Festivals, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Science fiction, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jia Zhang-ke, Andrea Gronvall, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, Cliff Doerksen, Errol Flynn, Food, Inc., African Diaspora Film Festival, Glorious Exit, Gospel Hill, Giancarlo Esposito, Jacques Romain, Youssou N'Dour, Return to Goree, Moon movie, Seraphine de Senlis, 24 City, Accidental Army, Czechslovak Legion, Capers movie, Mr. Art Critic, Eating Buccaneeers, Will Ferrell, Land of the Lost, Sandra Bullock, Proposal movie, Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola, Conversation Coppola, Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder, Adventures of Robin Hood, Exile Ophuls, James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

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The play Bull in a China Shop and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The African Diaspora Film Festival and more goings-on 6/11-6/14.

Eddie Huang's Double Cup Love, Rooftop Cinema Club, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Chicago's Leading Ladies, Spring BBQ, and more happenings from June 13-16

Our guide to the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival

Eight new dramas and documentaries make their Chicago debuts in this year's edition.

The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

The 25-year-old Mestizo: The freshest movie in town

Mario Handler's Venezuelan feature receives a belated Chicago premiere tomorrow.

Reader's Agenda Mon 6/17: "Chicago 78/79," The Russian Play: An Improvised Black Comedy, and the African Diaspora Film Festival

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 17

A "living newspaper" from Madagascar, now at Facets

Previewing one of the highlights of this year's African Diaspora Film Festival, which screens Sunday with the director in attendance

A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings

Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight

Video
Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The communal filmmaking of Welcome to Pine Hill

Previewing the New York-shot independent drama, which director Keith Miller will introduce at Facets this weekend

Video
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African Diaspora Film Festival

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The African Diaspora Film Festival and more goings-on 6/11-6/14.

Chicago's Leading Ladies, Spring BBQ, and more happenings from June 13-16

Eight new dramas and documentaries make their Chicago debuts in this year's edition.

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

Mario Handler's Venezuelan feature receives a belated Chicago premiere tomorrow.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 17

Previewing one of the highlights of this year's African Diaspora Film Festival, which screens Sunday with the director in attendance

The year in revival screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Previewing the New York-shot independent drama, which director Keith Miller will introduce at Facets this weekend

Friday through Thursday, 6/18-6/24, at Facets

The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week's Critic's Choices and new reviews.

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