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Film, Movie Feature Apr 12, 2021
Now playing: a return to the movies

After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Music Box Theatre, Tenet, Godzilla vs. Kong, Ryan Oestreich, Gunda, Creepy Co., Music Box of Horrors, the New 400 Theater, the Davis Theater, AMC, ShowPlace ICON, Regal Cinemas, Harper Theater, Brittany Low-Lipsey, Facets, Charles Coleman, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jen de St. Aubin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ann Hornaday, Sergio Mims, John Sayles, Jennifer Reeder, Rebecca Fons, Conversations on the Edge, Amy Beste, Black Harvest Film Festival, Doc Films, Nightingale Cinema, Emily Eddy, Malia Haines-Stewart, Alan Medina, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Pepe Vargas, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Sophia Wong Boccio, Comfort Film, Comfort Station, Rebecca Hall, Rebecca Lyon, Infuriating Times, Chicago Film Society

Film, Movie Feature Sep 21, 2020
Broaden your horizons with the Chicago Latino Film Festival

The virtual version of the 36th annual fest allows for more cinematic exploration.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Latino Cultural Center, Ema, Jackie, Neruda, Juanita, The Man of the Future, Amalia, Possession, Divine Love, Neon Bull, Cuaco, On the Way to Now, The Wall of Mexico, The Projectionist, Cholitas, The Opportunity, Asphyxia, Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage, The Road to the Law

Film, Movie Feature Mar 26, 2020
Screen in place

Ditch Netflix and stream to support local film institutions instead.
- By Brianna Wellen and Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Streaming video, stay at home, Facets, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kartemquin Films, Music Box Films, Music Box Theatre, Video Data Bank, Chicago Latino Film Festival

Film, Movie Feature Apr 5, 2018
The wall’s gonna fall at the Chicago Latino Film Festival

The 34th edition brings 60 new features from Spain, the U.S., and Central and South America.
- By J.R. Jones, Leah Pickett, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Another Story of the World, Guillermo Casanova, Brioche de Oro Beginnings, Raul Marchand Sánchez, Dear Mom, Jeremias Moreira, Maria Adelaida Amaral, Good Manners movie, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Neighboring Sounds, Ju

Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2017
The first Chicago International Latino Theater Festival brings 11 productions from five countries

And organizer Myrna Salazar wants you to buy a ticket.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, Myrna Salazar, Chicago Latino Film Festival, International Latino Culture Center of Chicago, CLATA, Teatro Luna

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2017
Unforgettable revives a worthy subgenre but adds nothing to it

It's also, alas, the only female-directed movie playing at most multiplexes right now.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Women's Issues, Unforgettable, Denise Di Novi, Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, Cheryl Ladd, Crime of Passion, Barbara Stanwyck, woman's film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chantal Akerman, Block Cinema, Doc Films, Lois Weber, Gene Siskel Film Center

Film, Movie Feature Apr 19, 2017
Eight films playing the 33rd Chicago Latino Film Festival, reviewed

More than 50 new features make their local debuts in this year’s festival.
- Tags: Movie Feature, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, Chicago Latino Film Festival, At Your Doorstep, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Oriol Vila, Ivan Benet, Eduard Cortés, Piti Español, Between Sea and Land, Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Serna, Carlos del Castillo, Dark Skull, Lisandro Alonso, Jauja, Los Muertos, Kiro Russo, Dogs movie, John Leguizamo, Jacques Audiard, A Prophet, Harold Trompetero, The Holy Biker, Latino cinema, film festivals, movies, Homero Olivetto, Olancho movie, Manuel Chirinos, Los Plebes de Olancho, Chris Valdes, Ted Griswold, One Night of Love, Sebastian Wainraich, Carla Peterson, Hernán Guerschuny, Tamara movie, Elia K. Schneider, Tamara Adrián, Luis Fernández

Film, Movie Feature Apr 8, 2016
What's screening at the Chicago Latino Film Festival

More than a hundred new shorts and features make their local debuts at the 32nd edition.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Roberto Girault, Illusions S.A., Ariel Winograd, No Kids, From Afar, Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Lorenzo Vigas, Venice film festival, Pablo Larraín, The Club, Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hun, River East 21, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Film, Movie Feature Apr 7, 2016
For Ecuadoran writer-director Joe Houlberg, a thriller is a riddle wrapped inside an enigma

Thirst, the SAIC student’s debut feature, tells an ambiguous tale of sex, blindness, and deception
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Joe Houlberg, Thirst movie, Ecuador, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Latin American cinema, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of San Francisco Quito, Vertigo Films, Arri Alexa, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Frenzy movie, Alfred

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Eyes of a Thief, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, Canal Zone, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks, George Tillman Jr., Soul Food, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Alaka Wali, Frank Tashlin, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Mary Harron, The Notorious Bettie Pag, Orson Welles, The Trial, Nick Kroll, Adult Beginners, Roger Beebe, Andy Warhol, Dan Savage, Hump! Film Festival, Poetry on Public Television: The 1960s, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2015
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Our reviews of the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the rest of what's screening this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Beloved Sisters, Friedrich Schiller, Cheatin', Bill Plympton, Bosnia in Our Hearts, Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film, Desert Dancer, Footloose, Marfa Girl, Larry, Peter Davis, Hearts and Minds, University of Chicago Social Sciences Research Building, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Music Box, Drew Hunt, Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Tales of Hoffman, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Frederick Wiseman Welfare, Dennis Clancy, Chasing Red, Showplace ICON, Tommy Heffron, Roots & Culture, Brock Riebe, Nightingale Cinema Chicago, Marisa Olson, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2014
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Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Cheap Thrills, Dom Hemingway, Jude Law, Hide Your Smiling Faces, Joe Nicolas Cage, Joe David Gordon Green, Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Cuban Fury, Nick Frost, Shaun of the Dead, Documented Jose Antonio Vargas, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Draft Day, Kevin Costner, The French Minister, Bertrand Tavernier, 'Round Midnight, Life and Nothing But, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hawks and Sparrows, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Robert Altman Nashville, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Larry Clark, Passing Through, Joyce Wieland, Reason Over Passion, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Music Box, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Juan Jose Campanella, The Secret in Their Eyes, Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Logan Theater Chicago, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Patio Theater Chicago, Legend Tom Cruise, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Escape From New York, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 4/8: Florasonic, Maria Gaspar, and The Amazing Catfish

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, April 8
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Florasonic, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Hal Rammel, Maria Gaspar, Enlace Chicago, Chicago Public Art Group, Cook County Jail, 96Acres, Chicago Latino Film Festival, The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce

Blogs, Bleader Apr 4, 2014
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CUFF, CLFF, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel Comics, Ernest & Celestine, Finding Vivian Maier, Noah movie, Noah Russell Crowe, Nymphomaniac: Volume II, Lars von Trier, Sabotage Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Altman, Brewster McCloud, University of Chicago Doc Films, Macario Roberto Galvadon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mamma Roma, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2014
Que viva Uruguay!: Notes on Rambleras and Solo

The Chicago Latino Film Festival showcases the flavorful, humane filmmaking in which Uruguay has come to specialize.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Opening, Women's Issues, Film, Cinema of Uruguay, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Solo, Guillermo Rocamora, Rambleras, Daniela Speranza, Uruguay

Film, Movie Feature Apr 2, 2014
Two film festivals, two indie filmmakers, one discussion on filmmaking ethics

Usama Alshaibi and Carlos Jiménez Flores have different filmmaking styles, but they take a similar stance on mainstream depictions of race and ethnicity in popular media.
- Tags: Movie Feature, CUFF, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Usama Alshaibi, CLFF, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Carlos Jiménez Flores, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, film, filmmakers, My Princess, American Arab, sociology, Columbia College Chicago, film crews, Dogme 95, video

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

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2014
Tango Glories and the glories of storytelling, Argentine-style

Previewing the imaginative light drama that opens this year's Chicago Latino Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Tango Glories (Fermin), Argentinean cinema, Eliseo Subiela, Man Facing Southeast, Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going, Oliver Kolker, Hernan Findling, magic realism, surrealism, Chicago Latino Film Festival

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2013
Outdoor film series sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center begins tomorrow

Noting the cultural institute's free Film in the Park series
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Latino Cultural Center, The Blue Apple Tree, Film in the Park, Spanish-language film, Kosciuszko Park, Calumet Park, Harrison Park

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2013
The eighth annual Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film starts tomorrow

Previewing the two-day series, which takes place at Loyola University's Sullivan Center
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Loyola University, Sullivan Center, Edgewater, Cafe Bel-Ami, foreign film, Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2012
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Slow good

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Police Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Aurora movie, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Patrick Wang, In the Family, Music Box, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Fake It So Real, The Lady movie, Luc Besson, Aung San Suu Kyi, Renaissance Place, The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks, Marley movie, Bob Marley, Think Like a Man, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Romany Falco, Terry Gilliam, Brazil movie, Doc Films, Michael Haneke, Cache movie, Daniel Eisenberg, Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, Block Museum of Art, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bob Rafelson, Head movie, Head Monkees, Joel Wicklund, Bong Joon-ho, The Host movie, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nightingale, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Les Blank, Elise Auerbach, Amnesty International, Facets Cinematheque, Iranian Taboo, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 18, 2012
Cocaine, rough sex, and a killer cow

Week two of the Chicago Latino Film Festival
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Sebastien Borensztein, Chinese tourists, Mexico City, gay families, Gustavo Loza, Guayaquil, Sebastian Cordero, shaggy dog, S&M, Ari Maniel Cruz

Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2012
Lord of Illusion

A brief appreciation of Argentinian filmmaker Eliseo Subiela, whose Hostage of an Illusion plays at this year's Chicago Latino Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Foreign, Film, Eliseo Subiela, Hostage of an Illusion, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Argentinian films, magic realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Auster, Don't Look Down, Man Facing Southeast, Last Images of the Shipwreck, Wake Up Love

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