Five films by a renowned French director-including the Chicago premiere of his documentary about the Algerian war-will be screened over the next week and a half at Facets Multimedia. In...
One of the most provocatively titled plays to come along in a while will soon be on view, when "Sculpture In Vitro: Growing Up Female in the Age of Liposuction"...
For those tired of the standard multiplex cinema fare, unheralded discoveries continue to be uncovered by a treasure in itself, the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute...
A series of performance concerts, lectures and a banquet intriguingly entitled "Lewd Food Fluxus" will be held Thursday through Dec. 4 at, of all places, the Arts Club of Chicago....
The week leading up to pumpkin-and-goblin mania is the logical time to unleash a little bit of Vincent Price, so it probably is no coincidence that two new releases have...
In his first film, "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1991), Anthony Minghella took on bereavement and regeneration, uneasily straddling the line between the charming and the cloying. By all rights, the movie...
Along with its German print portfolio (see page 14), the Smart Museum of Art is serving up a 10-week series of silent films called, not so simply, "New Public Spheres:...
Those seeking out something unusual over the Columbus Day weekend could do worse than to check out the incredibly detailed miniature model now in residence at the Chicago Historical Society...
Wayne Wang, who directed "The Joy Luck Club," says he cut down his film from its original four hours to two hours and 15 minutes in order to "keep it...
It's the early summer of '76-last day of school. Gas is an outrageously high 58 cents a gallon. So what's there to do? If you're the students at Lee High...