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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 17, 2013
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Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival

This year's fest includes a Big Star documentary, the Jesus Lizard's last concert, Brazilian punks, and plenty of live music.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, CIMMpathy for the Stones, Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981, The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling—Ireland 1965, Stones in Exile, Some Girls: Live in Texas '78, Rolling Like a Stone, Sympathy for the Devil, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, In Search of Blind Joe Death, In Search of Blind Joe Death, John Fahey, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, James Cullingham, Jesus Lizard: Last, David Yow, Cabaret Metro, Tony Ciarrocchi, Duane Dennison, David Wm. Sims, Mac McNeilly, Richard and Van Dyke Parks, Van Dyke Parks on Song Cycle, Van Dyke Parks on Discover America, Music Man Murray, Murray Gershenz, Sacrificial Youth, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Kennedys, Joe Losurdo, Busby Berkeley, Viva Viva, Carolina Pfister, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Punks, Sarah Yakhni, Alberto Geico

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 10, 2013
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Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival

The annual event kicks off Friday at 600 N. Michigan.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, 29th Chicago Latino Film Festival, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, The Devil's Hole, Francis Disla Ferreira, A Long Journey, Lucia Murat, Athens, Sydney, Kabul, Rishikesh, New York, On the Line, Ecuador, Guayaquil, David Nieto Wenzell, Orange Honey, Flame & Citron, Winter in Wartime, Imanol Uribe, Porcelain Horse, Javier Andrade, SofÍa and the Stubborn Man, Almodovar, Carmen Maura, Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria, Things the Way They Are, William Vega, Lisandro Alonso, Los Muertes, Cristi Puiu, Aurora

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 21, 2013
Our guide to the final week of the European Union Film Festival

New films by Ulrich Seidl and Marco Bellochio screen this week.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The 16th European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Aliyah, Pio Marmai, Israel, Adele Haenel, Elie Wajeman, Al Pacino, Cedric Kahn, Red Lights, Beyond the Walls, Matila Malliarakis, Guillaume Gouix, David Lambert, Dormant Beauty, Marco Bellocchio, Alba Rohrwacher, Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Fists in the Pocket, Vincere, Devil in the Flesh, The Conviction, My Worst Nightmare, Anne Fontaine, Benoit Poelvoorde, Andre Dussollier, How I Killed My Father, Entre Ses Mains, The Girl From Monaco, Nicolas Mercier, Paradise: Hope, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love, Renoir

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 14, 2013
Our guide to week three of the European Union Film Festival

Isabelle Huppert stars in My Worst Nightmare this week
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, 4Some, Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down, Beauty in Trouble, In the Fog, Belarus, Sergei Loznitsa, My Joy, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksei Guerman, Aleksandr Sokurov, Oleg Mutu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Madrid 1987, Jose Sacriste, Maria Valverde, David Trueba, My Worst Nightmare, Isabelle Huppert, Gallic, Anne Fontaine, Benoit Poelvoorde, Andre Dussollier, How I Killed My Father, Entre Ses Mains, The Girl From Monaco, Nicolas Mercier, Paradise: Faith, Ulrich Seidl, Maria Hofstatter, Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Alain Resnais, Eurydice, Jean Anouil

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 5, 2013
Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival

Four days of the bizarre, the outrageous, and the extralegal
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan, All the Memory in the World, Mike Olenick, Vertigo, Fight Club, Blow Out, Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Ape, Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Grand Rapids, A Body Without Organs, Stephen Graves, Bill Graves, Hit & Stay, Pig Death Machine, Jon Moritsugu, Mod Fuck Explosion, Scumrock, Amy Davis, Amy Davis, Hannah Levbarg, Todd Verow, School of Change, Jennet Thomas, Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, Max Good

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 5, 2013
Our guide to week two of the European Union Film Festival

Toby Jones stars in Berberian Sound Studio this week.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland, Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, The Conversation, Carmina or Blow Up, Carmina Barrios, Flicker, Patrik Eklund, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, Anatole France, Lilith, Latvia, Yevgeny Pashkevich, The Last Time I Saw Macao, Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal, China, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, To Die Like a Man, Oma & Bella, Jewish, Holocaust, Berlin, Alexa Karolinski

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Feb 27, 2013
The 16th European Union Film Festival

Gene Siskel Film Center kicks off a whopping 61-film lineup
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, European Union Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Everybody in Our Family, Radu Jude, The Happiest Girl in the World, Romania, Sightseers, Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace, Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Superclasico, Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Estevanez, Kierkegaard, Tabu, Miguel Gomes, Our Beloved Month of August, F.W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Lisbon, The Wall, Martina Gedeck, Austria, Marlen Haushofer, Julien Polsler

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Feb 14, 2013
Music Box 70mm Film Festival

Two weeks of revivals in the high-definition format
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, 70-millimeter, Music Box Theatre 70mm Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Ken Hughes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Gus Van Sant, Hamlet, Tobe Hooper, Lifeforce, Richard Brooks, Lord Jim, Jacques Tati, Playtime, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Robert Wise, West Side Story

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Oct 31, 2012
Polish Film Festival in America

The 24th annual fest features the latest from Piotr Trzaskalski
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Polish Film Festival in America, Polish cinema, Barbara Bialowas, Greg Zglinski, Malgorzata Szumowska, Bartosz Konopka, Michael Urbaniak, Piotr Trzaskalski, Marek Stacharski, Machiej Zak, Pawel Pawlikowski

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Oct 24, 2012
Chicago International Children's Film Festival

Animation pros from Aardman and Laika present screenings at this year's fest
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Laika Inc., Aardman Animations, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, French animation, Jean-Francois Laguionie, National Film Board of Canada

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Oct 3, 2012
The odd arias of Werner Schroeter

A weeklong retrospective focuses on the German filmmaker who married grand opera and avant-garde film
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Werner Schroeter

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Sep 19, 2012
United Film Festival—Chicago

Local heros strut their stuff at Music Box
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago United Film Festival, United Film Festival, United Films

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Aug 17, 2012
Noir City: Chicago 4 hits the Music Box

A week of classics and rarities, presented by the Film Noir Foundation
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Noir City: Chicago 4, noir film

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Aug 8, 2012
Joe Dante invites you to an orgy

The veteran fantasy filmmaker hits town for screenings of The Hole, Gremlins 2, and his 1968 pop-culture epic The Movie Orgy
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Joe Dante, Roger Corman

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Aug 1, 2012
Black Harvest Film Festival

Gene Siskel Film Center presents its annual sampling of the black experience
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Black Harvest Film Festival

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jul 26, 2012
Chicago French Film Festival

Reviews of select movies showing at the Music Box this weekend
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago French Film Festival, French cinema, Guillaume Canet, Cedric Khan, Christophe Honore, Frederic Jardin, Kitty Genovese, Lucas Belvaux, Music Box

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jun 20, 2012
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Rediscovering history is a recurrent theme of Chicago Filmmakers' 24th annual avant-garde celebration
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Patrick Friel, Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival, Seeking the Monkey King, Ken Jacobs, J.G. Thirwell, Ben Rivers, Sack Barrow, Matt McCormick, Future So Bright, Lewis Klahr, The Pettifogger, collage animation, Bobby Abate, A Party Record Packed With Sex and Sadness, Shana Moulton, Decorations of the Mind, Joshua Thorson, Horizon, John Torres, Mapang-Akit, Across & Down, Lori Felker, Jake Barningham, JB Mabe, The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important, Barry Doupé

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jun 13, 2012
The not-so-dark continent

The African Diaspora International Film Festival screens 6/15-6/21 at Facets
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, African Diaspora International Film Festival, African diaspora, Black Experimental Theater, Aida Marques, Brazil, Johannesberg, Lionel Rogosin, South Africa, Bob Marley, reggae, Leonard Percival Howell, Helene Lee, Christophe Farnarier, Haile Selassie, Pim de la Parra, Suriname, Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt, Mona Zaki, institutionalized sexism, Keith Miller

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 30, 2012
Wes Anderson reigns benevolent over Moonrise Kingdom

Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, and Bruce Willis star in the cult director's latest quirky comedy
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Benjamin Britten

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 30, 2012
Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival

The 19th annual fest opens Thursday night at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Andrew Bird, Xan Aranda, Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, David Redmon, A. Sabin, Axel Ranisch, Sabine Gruffat, Robert Todd, Daniel Martinico, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Ben Rivers, Lindsay Denniberg, Michal Kosakowski

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