Film Search
- Dec 27, 2013
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Academy Awards nomination panel
A "lively discussion" about the 2014 Oscar nominations, with Alison Cuddy of WBEZ, J.R. Jones of the Chicago Reader,, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, Steve Prokopy of Ain't It Cool News, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of MUBI.com, and Betsy Steinberg of the Illinois Film Office. more...
- May 6, 2014
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"Accompanied by Image": Erin Nixon and Fabrice Croizé
A program of short works curated by Nixon, plus an art installation by Croizé. more...
- Apr 12, 2012
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AC/DC: Live at Donington
The Australian rock band's 1992 headlining performance at the Monsters of Rock Festival in the United Kingdom. more...
- Apr 13, 2013
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African Art Dispersed
Two short documentaries on art of the African Diaspora: Rythmes et Images: Impressions du Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Negres (1966) and Art of Haiti: The Primitive Painters (1982). more...
- Apr 28, 2006
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Akeelah and the Bee (PG)
Coming on the heels of Spellbound and Bee Season, this small gem (2006) about a South Central LA girl with a gift for spelling restores luster to the family genre. more...
- Apr 18, 2013
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Al Mas Alla
A short documentary (2008) by Lourdes Portillo, whose work is "focused on the search for Latino identity" and who has "worked in a richly varied range of forms, from television documentary to satirical video-film collage." more...
- Jan 26, 2012
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Albert Nobbs (R)
Glenn Close finally succeeds in mounting a screen version of the cross-dressing play she starred in on Broadway in 1982, about a meek, impoverished woman in Edwardian Ireland who poses as a man in order to support herself as a butler at a Dublin hotel. more...
- Oct 27, 2011
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All Hallows Eve
A screening of the SpiderBug short Call of the SpiderBug, a montage of horror films, and other shorts. more...
- Apr 11, 2013
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All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers
University of Iowa professor Steven Ungar presents Eli Lotar's short documentary Aubervilliers (1945, 26 min.) more...
- Feb 15, 2018
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All-Consuming Shopping Worlds
Two films by the German documentary and essay filmmaker Harun Farocki: A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993, 44 min.) more...
- Nov 17, 2010
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The Ambushers
Dean Martin stars as secret agent Matt Helm, who's trying to recover a government-built flying saucer that's been hijacked by a laser beam-wielding fiend. more...
- Apr 25, 1985
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An American in Paris
While not nearly the musical it's cracked up to be, this 1951 film is absolutely required viewing for anyone who wants to see the studio system (MGM style) at its gaudiest, most Byzantine height. more...
- Nov 21, 2013
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American Promise
For 12 years, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, married professionals in Brooklyn, used a video camera to track the educational progress of their son Idris and his friend Seun Summers as they advanced through the Dalton School, a private K-12 institution in Manhattan where they were among the only black students. more...
- Feb 7, 1986
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Anchors Aweigh
This is the one where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry the Mouse, a classic bit of animation that Disney wouldn't have been ashamed of. more...