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‘Reportero’ and ‘Bitter Seeds’ both screen as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center. ‘Reportero’ will be shown on Friday, May 25th at 6:00 P.M...
‘Where Do We Go Now?’ opens at the Music Box Theater on Friday, May 18th.Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? (Et Maintenant On Va Où?) (France / Lebanon, 2011) is a flawed but engaging film...
‘Mahler On The Couch’ opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Friday, April 27th.Percy and Felix Adlon’s Mahler On The Couch (Mahler Auf Der Couch) has all of the ingredients for a smart, engaging...
‘The Mirror’ will be shown as part of the U. of C.’s Doc Films ‘Andrei Tarkovsky & Terrence Malick’ series on Tuesday, April 17th at 7:00 P.M.‘The 400 Blows&rsquo...
‘This Is Not A Film’ opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Friday, April 13th.Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and Jafar Panahi has gotta tell stories with a camera. But he’s not allowed...
‘Tanguy’ will be shown at the Alliance Française on Saturday, April 14th at 1:30 P.M.Filmgoers who suffered through the execrable Matthew McConaughey / Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle ‘Failure To Launch’ a few years...
‘Bullet In The Head’ screens as part of U. of C.’s Doc Films ‘John Woo & Johnnie To’ series on Thursday, April 12th at 9:30 P.M.*John Woo’s Bullet In...
‘Oldboy’ screens as part of the U. of C.’s Doc Films ‘Korean New Wave’ series on Thursday, April 12th at 7:00 P.M.Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (Oldeuboi) (South Korea, 2003...
‘Andrei Rublev’ will be shown as part of the U. of C.’s Doc Films ‘Andrei Tarkovsky & Terrence Malick’ series on Tuesday, April 10th at 7:00 P.M.Like a number of his...