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- Film, Movie Review Feb 19, 2021
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What we loved at Sundance 2021 . . . from our couch
The best of the virtual fest is coming to you soon.
- Film, Film Issue May 9, 2019
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Film festivals and special events
Extra movie love from now through November
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2018
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How inmates at Cook County Jail curated the WorldScene Film Festival
"I like to step out of the way and let the films do the work," says Nicole Dreiske, executive director of the International Children's Media Center who led the program.
- Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 9, 2014
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Which movies to see—and which to skip—at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival
The Reader's guide to the semicentennial CIFF
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2011
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The Interrupters
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 18, 2011
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Triple Play for Swanberg
Joe Swanberg's "Uncle Kent" opens Friday in the Sundance Film Festival and on IFC, and his "Art History" and "Silver Bullets" premiere next month in the Berlin Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2010
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Julie Taymor's "Tempest"
Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor's "Tempest" Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2010
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Whose Festival Is It, Anyway?
Rob Christopher and Gabe Klinger discuss the state of the Chicago International Film Festival in a recent piece for Chicagoist.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2010
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Brian Seay's documentary "Pontiac's Rebellion," about the battle over Gov. Blagojevich's 2008 plan to close the Pontiac Correctional Center, screens tonight at 5:30 p.m. in the Chicago United Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2010
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Saint Louis Blues
Dyana Gaye's Senegalese musical "Saint Louis Blues" and Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's "Nora" about Zimbabwean dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire screen tonight in the Black Harvest Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2010
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The Exploding Girl
Bradley Rust Gray's romantic microdrama "The Exploding Girl" starring Zoe Kazan has its local premiere Saturday in the Blue Whiskey Independent FIlm Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2010
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Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within."
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2010
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The Oath
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens Thursday 6/3 with "The Oath," a documentary that contrasts Guantanamo prisoner and former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner prosecuted by military tribunal, with his brother-in-law Abu Jandal, now a cab driver in Yemen.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2010
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25 Carat
The Barcelona romantic crime thriller "25 Carat" screens Sunday 3/21 and Thursday 3/25 in the European Union Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2010
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Moolaadé and My Daughter the Terrorist
Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2009
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Film Festival Announces Encore Screenings
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2009
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It's not about the bling
Sonali Aggarwal champions the music's activist potential in her documentary "Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?" screening Saturday in the Humboldt Park Art Fair Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2009
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Pots not bombs
The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival's opening night film, "On the Verge: The Smash EDO Campaign," documents the five-year-long protest outside a British plant aimed at disrupting the supply of arms for the Iraq war.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2009
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Premieres for local productions Hannah Free and Together
Local productions to premiere at festivals: Hannah Free closes Frameline in San Francisco on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, and Together plays Palm Beach International Film Festival.
