The Gene Siskel Film Center has scheduled "Derrida" for a return engagement after screenings of the film were sold out during its premiere in November. This popularity of this documentary...
Chicago Filmmakers launches documentary screenings on Iraq and the UN sanctions. First on the "War & Peace" schedule is "In Shifting Sands: The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of...
The "Ancient Treasures of the Deep" documentary from the PBS-TV series "Nova" chronicles the underwater excavation of a 14th Century B.C. shipwreck. The ship represents how important trade was in...
"M," directed by Fritz Lang, is the next film in the monthly International Dinner & a Movie series. Lang's first film using sound, filmed in 1931, follows a child-killer (Peter...
To celebrate community diversity, the Woodstock International Film Festival is presenting the five films nominated for the 2001 Academy Award as best foreign film. They include "No Man's Land" (Bosnia),...
To celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the DuSable Museum of African American History presents "Singing for Freedom." This concert film features the award-winning female vocal group...
"The Eel" will be shown as part of the Global Flicks 2003 series at the College of Du Page. In this 1998 Japanese film, directed by Shohei Imamura, a man...
Lunafest, a traveling festival of films by emerging women filmmakers, presents six award-winning independent short works. They include "Boobie Girl," a 5-minute animated film by Brooke Keesling, which received an...
As part of the New African Cinema series, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents "100 Days." Directed by Nick Hughes, the film focuses on the tragic story of a young...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers team up for their last screen appearance in "The Barkleys of Broadway," a 1949 film directed by Charles Walters. The duo portray a couple in...