Nancy Maes

The Japanese Anime Film Festival features a number of animated works that illustrate the evolution of this art form that has its roots in the traumatic effect of World-War II...

The Oriental Institute Museum is featuring four films from the BBC documentary series "King Tut: The Face of Tutankhamun." "The Great Adventure" retraces the experience of archeologist Howard Carter as...

The Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum is presenting "Letters Not About Love," an experimental documentary by Jackie Ochs. It focuses on the dialogue between a contemporary American poet and...

The Summer Movie Series at the Paramount Arts Centre features films for families and for adults. They include "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" at 10 a.m. Saturday and "Harry Potter and...

The Children's Penny Cinema Series at the DuSable Museum is presenting films focusing on the African-American experience. The movies include "Night John," about a young slave who discovers the meaning...

You'll dig this A scavenger hunt will send kids out to the demonstration garden behind the Garfield Park Conservatory to find the signs of summer. The garden, the size of...

Kids can find out how to keep themselves out of harm's way at "Play It Safe," a new permanent exhibit at the Chicago Children's Museum. They can play a game...

The science behind the game of baseball is explored in a program called The Physics of Baseball at the Adler Planetarium & Science Museum. Families will find out what a...

As part of its Sunday Film Series, the Oriental Institute Museum has scheduled "Obelisk," which illustrates how this ancient Egyptian pillar might have been constructed (1:30 p.m. Sunday), and "Alexander...

Two recent films by the award-winning Indian director Shyam Benegal will be presented as part of the Block Cinema series. They are "Sardari Begum," about a young woman who wants...