- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 15, 1987
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So Many Movies, So Little Time
Film festivals come in all shapes and sizes. Ours is relatively pluralistsic and amorphous, for better and for worse.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 17, 1991
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This Week at the Film Festival
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 19, 1995
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The Chicago International Film Festival Week 2: Simon Says
Critic John Simon comes to toen to defend the festival's--and Linda Wertmuller's--honor.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 14, 1999
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Lifting the Veil
If recent trends hold, American audiences may finally get to see what the rest of the world is watching.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 2, 2003
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See the World
The Festival's Diverse and Daring Grand Tour
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 29, 1987
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The Good, the Bad, and the Future
Our Critic's Comments on the Chicago Film Festival
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 8, 1992
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Cinema Glut: Here Comes the 28th Chicago International Film Festival
For anyone interested in keeping up with film, Chicago turns into New York City for six weeks every fall. The embarassment of riches is frustrating--and virtually guarantees that a lot of important work will get lost in the shuffle.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 10, 1996
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Flirting with Disaster
Slashes in the Chicago International Film Festival cut too deep.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Feb 3, 2000
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Place Vendome
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 9, 2003
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Power Surge
The Chicago International Film Festival comes on strong in the second half.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 20, 1988
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Cinema Sprawl
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 15, 1992
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This Week at the Chicago Film Festival
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 9, 1997
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Not Dead Yet
With a respectable number of must-sees and one central location, the Chicago International Film Festival seems to be on the right track.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 5, 2000
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Beautiful Losers
The Chicago International Film Festival may lack potential blocbusters, but there are other ways to measure success.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 7, 2004
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How This World Works
The offerings of the 40th Chicago International Film Festival let us peek out of our shell. Dubya should see a few.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 12, 1989
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Big
Once again the Chicago International Film Festival is a hodgepodge of movies assembled with no discernible point of view. If you walked into a well-stocked bookstore and grabbed the first 130 titles in sight, you'd have a collection very much like it.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 7, 1993
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29th Chicago International Film Festival: Mired in the Present
The schedule looks good this year--but why is there so much of it? And why so little devoted to worthwhile films from the past?
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 16, 1997
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Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Two)
The 35th Chicago International Film Festival heads into its second week, and our critics have got it covered
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 12, 2000
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Something's Missing
The programmers of the Chicago International Film Festival could use a little historical perspective.
- Arts & Culture, Festival, Oct 14, 2004
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