Every October, Chicago film fans look forward to the Chicago International Film Festival, the city’s longest-running festival featuring independent and international premieres. What many festival-goers don’t realize, however, is that the festival […]
This odd but sometimes captivating bit of Gothic psychological drama with a hint of a ghost story sprinkled in for added flavor is sneaking out into the world this week courtesy of […]
If the films were actually bad, I’d consider this onslaught of documentaries about world-renowned chefs and restaurants an epidemic. But so far at least, each one has had a unique spin on […]
Deemed “one of the greatest of all films” by Roger Ebert, director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 signature film (made only three years before his untimely passing) is the story of two couples whose […]
Until recently, Mexican-born actor-director-producer Eugenio Derbez was mostly unknown to those outside of his massive Latino fanbase. I suspect though that the 54-year-old comedic giant is at the beginning of a campaign […]
With the much-anticipated relaunch of “Twin Peaks” coming to Showtime next month (May 21), the Music Box Theatre is embarking on what might be its most ambitious film series ever. Featuring everything […]
On Friday, University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center presents a screening of Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables, a 60-minute film essay on the Land of Lincoln, from the seventh century through the 1980s. […]
You may not have realized it, but Chicago has quietly become an epicenter of sorts of party games. Whether you’re talking about the stratospheric rise of Cards Against Humanity or the parties […]
On the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (as well as its Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or win), Pelle the Conqueror has been given a stellar 2K restoration and […]
If you’re paying any kind of attention to the career of Richard Gere (and you still should be), you’ll notice that every couple of years, he comes up with yet another stunning […]
Although not technically a found footage film, Phoenix Forgotten is a faux documentary that includes a great deal of found footage, which is a step in the right direction for the sub-genre […]
If your taste for a love triangle set against a horrific war hasn’t really been satiated since Doctor Zhivago, then there’s a chance you’ll enjoy The Promise. From director Terry George (Hotel […]