Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: François Ozon’s Farcical The Crime Is Mine Caps Outstanding Year at the Movies 

After adapting Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in Peter von Kant (2002), and tackling medically assisted suicides in Everything Went Fine (2021), a youthful gay […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: A Surprising Team of Workers Tries to Save The Rose Maker From Corporate Greed

Eve Vertel (Catherine Frôt) is an artisanal rose breeder who inherited her father’s business and is trying to keep it alive in a world of flowers dominated (like most industries) […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Film, Film & TV

Review: Chilean Film Ema Tells a Fiery Family Story With a Pulsing Beat

Ema, a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, is the story of an unhappy family set to the pulsing, percussive beat of reggaeton music and images of fire. But its […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Film, Film & TV

Chicago’s Independent Cinemas Find Creative Ways to Keep Us Entertained From Home

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As we head into our second (and far from last) official week of Illinois’s “Stay at Home” order, keeping busy and entertained remains the best way to keep the Coronavirus […]

Lisa Trifone /
Feature, Film & TV

Music Box Theatre Celebrates 90 Years of Cinema With One Week Not to Miss

In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater celebrating 90 years in business is a wonder. When that […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV

Review: The Art and Tradition of Georgian Winemaking in Our Blood Is Wine

Documentaries about passionate people also find a way to move me deeply, and you would be hard pressed to find a more passionate group than families in the Republic of […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: Foreign Film Vazante Is Strikingly Familiar

Chicago-based Music Box Films has a knack for cherry-picking impressive independent, foreign fare that’s earned acclaim on the international festival circuit and bringing it to discerning American audiences. It worked […]

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