Film Search
- Aug 26, 2010
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Chicago Heights (NR)
For this independent feature, writer-director Daniel Nearing transplants the stories from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to South Chicago. more...
- Sep 20, 2011
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Chicago Horror Film Festival (NR)
A three-day festival of independently produced horror movies, with marathon screenings slated for each day. more...
- Oct 28, 2011
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Chicago International Childrens Film Festival (NR)
The 27th Chicago International Children's Film Festival takes place October 22-31 at Facets Cinematheque, City North 14, and other locations. more...
- Apr 12, 2012
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Chicago International Movies & Music Festival (NR)
The third Chicago International Movies & Music Festival screens Thursday through Sunday, April 12 through 15, at multiple north-side venues. more...
- Feb 28, 1985
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The Chicago Maternity Center Story (NR)
A concise 1976 history of the Chicago Maternity Center, which provided a low-cost home-delivery service to Chicago women for 75 years, coupled with an analysis of the center's breakup after falling into the hands of the health industry. more...
- Feb 28, 2013
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (NR)
The opening night program for this year's festival includes Jesse Malmed' video Wreading (2012, 18 min.) more...
- Sep 15, 2011
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Chicago's Only Castle: The History of the Gibbons Castle (NR)
Errol Magidson and Josh Van Tuyl directed this documentary on the castle, completed in 1887, that still stands in the Morgan Park neighborhood. more...
- Feb 23, 2012
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Chico & Rita (NR)
The postwar heyday of Cuban jazz provides a colorful, tuneful backdrop to this feature animation about two lovers whose music careers constantly pull them away from each other. more...
- Sep 8, 2011
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Children of Glory (NR)
Ironically this bloated historical drama about Hungary's failed democratic revolution of 1956 evokes nothing less than a Stalinist pageant: everyone on the right side of history is depicted as a morally enlightened superhuman, and a wash of bathetic music every few minutes is supposed to remind you how monumental the situation is. The fictional story centers on an Olympic water polo player whose encounter with a passionate girl from the democratic student movement awakens him politically, after which they spend a lot of time tearfully embracing each other amid crowds of protesters. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Children of Hiroshima (NR)
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was still a recent calamity when Japanese director Kaneto Shindo went there to direct this somber 1952 drama, the first to seriously consider the human aftermath. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Children's Hour (NR)
William Wyler's second crack at the Lillian Hellman play about two schoolteachers (Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn) who become the victims of a vengeful, rumor-mongering student (1962). more...
- Jul 9, 2010
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A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea (NR)
Stan Brakhage uses his wife's childhood backyard and depictions of the sea to create a meditation on memory, life, and consciousness. more...
- Mar 15, 2012
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The Christening (NR)
The hood trying to go straight has been a staple of the gangster movie almost since its inception, but the premise still resonates in this first-rate crime thriller from Poland (2010). more...
- Dec 4, 2008
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Christmas on Mars (NR)
Indie rockers the Flaming Lips created this sci-fi fantasy (2008) about space colonists on Mars. more...
- Dec 2, 2011
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Cinderella (NR)
A 2010 performance of the Prokofiev ballet, choreographed by David Bintley and performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet. more...
