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in issue 59
Tickets to the Dark Side: The 43rd Chicago International Film Festival — "We will see whose heart is sharpest!"
in issue 58
Colleen Moore Comes Back: On the Rediscovered, Restored 1927 Rarity Her Wild Oat — "Go sit on a flagpole!"
The Passion of the Auteurist: On Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient — "It's not enough to like this movie"
in issue 56
Secrets of the European Union: Chicago's Tenth Annual EU Film Festival — They saw what you did!
in issue 54
Chicago, je t'aime: The 42nd Chicago International Film Festival — "There are things you shouldn't sell"
in issue 52
Hands Across the Atlantic: The 9th Annual European Union Film Festival — A Baltic-to-Balkan road trip
The Misery and Splendors of Cinema: Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma —"Godard 24 times per second"
in issue 51
Inside the Dreamboat Factory: The Fairy Godfather of Hollywood — "He won't be gay when I get through with him!"
in issue 50
I Am a Film Addict: The 41st Chicago International Film Festival — What the devil did they show?
in issue 49
Ready to Rumba? Dance Fever Doc Mad Hot Ballroom Busts a Groove — The kids are all right
The Cross and the Ukelele: Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon — Suzuki blows morning glories
Bikini Bottom Babylon: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie — He's fun-damental, not fundamentalist!
in issue 48
Pucker Up: The Enchantments of Resnais' Not on the Lips
The world's first Spherist masterpiece?
In the Realm of the Real: The 3rd Chicago International Documentary Film Festival — "The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain."
O Bruder, Where Art Thou? The 8th European Union Film Festival (Chicago) — Doing the Continental
in issue 47
Theda Bara's Eyes: The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, Part 2 — Angelopoulos to Zhu: "This is an artistic film. You wouldn't like it."
in issue 46
Pride of the Nazis: La Habañera, Titanic, and Münchhausen on DVD — Grand Teutons
Theda Bara's Eyes: The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, Part 1 — From Akerman to Zhu
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation — "He'd fuck himself if he could"
in issue 44
Distribute This! The Woman Men Yearn For (Germany, 1929) — Lust in translation
in issue 43
Distribute This! Francisco Athie's Vera — Bad day at Bedrock
in issue 42
Together Again in the Dark: The 2003 Chicago International Film Festival — The crowd has a thousand eyes
Cinerama Adventure — "See it without glasses!"
in issue 41
Up/Down with Retro — Three Recent Hits Retrofit the Sixties
Dancing with Werewolves — John Sayles in Roger Corman's Hollywood
in issue 39 —
The Bowery: Raoul Walsh's Gangs of New York
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed!
in issue 38
38th Chicago International Film Festival (2002) — "The scandals of 2002"
in issue 35
37th Chicago International Film Festival (2001) — "It's so twenty-first century!"
in issue 33
Behind the Brocade: Abel Gance's Lucrezia Borgia on DVD — The Borgias are having an orgy
