Jonas Carpignano’s sophomore feature, A Ciambra, follows Pio (Pio Amato), a Romani kid in southern Italy who’s doing his damn best to grow up as fast as he can. No more than […]
A Princeton, Illinois, native who now lives in Chicago, Samantha Martin is proof positive that sticking with your passion and becoming the best at what you do—no matter how seemingly strange it […]
The 28th Annual Festival of Films from Iran takes place at the Gene Siskel Film Center; it starts tomorrow and screenings continue throughout the month of February. As expected, the lineup contains […]
This month, you’d be forgiven if you spent your time at the movies catching up on Oscar nominations. With the 90th Academy Awards slated for March 4, there are dozens of films […]
Every year, after the Oscar nominations are announced, the dust settles and a few titles rise to the top as head-scratchers. How the heck did that get nominated for an Academy Award? There’s […]
I have such vivid memories of seeing Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 groundbreaking work The Passion of Joan of Arc back in college: the stark, shocking camera angles; the tear-stained performance of Renée […]
When Siskel Film Center re-opens tomorrow, they’re doing it with all guns blazing. The arthouse cinema on State Street took a month off at the end of the year to upgrade their […]
When I lived in Indianapolis, the Colts were at the height of their success. With Peyton Manning on the field and Tony Dungy calling the shots, I got swept up in the […]
The beginning of this month has been a little rainy and overcast, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying our wonderful city! This curated weekend is huge and chock full of […]
Movie fans will be shouting viva la France this weekend as the 6th annual French Film Festival begins today at the Music Box Theatre. The festival, which runs July 22 through July […]
