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Dec 27, 2013
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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.
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May 6, 2014
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A program of short works curated by Nixon, plus an art installation by Croizé.
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Apr 12, 2012
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The Australian rock band's 1992 headlining performance at the Monsters of Rock Festival in the United Kingdom.
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Apr 13, 2013
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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).
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Apr 28, 2006
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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.
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- by Andrea Gronvall
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Tags: Drama
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Apr 18, 2013
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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."
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Jan 26, 2012
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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.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Dec 6, 2010
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Silent German science fiction from 1920 about an alien planet's gift to Earth: an unlimited supply of energy.
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Oct 27, 2011
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A screening of the SpiderBug short Call of the SpiderBug, a montage of horror films, and other shorts.
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Apr 11, 2013
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University of Iowa professor Steven Ungar presents Eli Lotar's short documentary Aubervilliers (1945, 26 min.)
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Feb 15, 2018
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Two films by the German documentary and essay filmmaker Harun Farocki: A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993, 44 min.)
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Nov 17, 2010
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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.
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Apr 25, 1985
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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.
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Nov 21, 2013
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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.
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Feb 7, 1986
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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.
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