On March 9, the Gene Siskel Film Center kicks off their annual European Union Film Festival, a month-long celebration of the newest and most impressive cinema from that association of nations across […]
The primary reason this new documentary from director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, On the Q.T.) exists is to show that there was once a viable candidate for president running on the […]
March comes in like a lion…as the saying goes. Our latest slate of cinematic options fits the bill this month, as the year’s biggest night in movies is just four days away […]
Editors Note: this is a repost of an article from Third Coast Review’s Chicago International Film Festival coverage The second feature from Italian-born director/co-writer Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas) is the French-language Hannah, an […]
From Chicago-based director Kyle Henry (Fourplay) and screenwriter Carlos Treviño comes Rogers Park, a relationship drama about the two couples living in the northside Chicago neighborhood over the course of several months. […]
You can read the signs or ignore them, but they won’t fade away. Mercury in Retrograde, from local writer/director Michael Glover Smith, takes three couples out of their city life to the decidedly […]
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 […]
