Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
In the Realm of the Real: The 3rd Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
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Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
The world’s first Spherist masterpiece?
Angelopoulos to Zhu: “This is an artistic film. You wouldn’t like it.”
From Akerman to Zhu
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Grand Teutons
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Lust in translation
Bad day at Bedrock
The crowd has a thousand eyes
Documentaries · Film Technology & History
“See it without glasses!”
History takes a hike
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres · Writers & Critics
It Came from New World Pictures!
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed! Back in 1933, The Bowery scored a big hit, introducing Darryl Zanuck’s new independent venture called Twentieth Century Pictures, yet this nostalgic[…]
“The Scandals of 2002” “There is no more universal experience than sitting in a darkened theater, watching the magic of the movies.” So says Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago.[…]
“It’s so twenty-first century!” Was it coincidence that at least five festival films featured insistent cell-phone ringing onscreen, mocking transgressors in the audience? Actually, such acoustic violations were not a[…]
Historical & Epic · Reviews · Silents
The Borgias are having an orgy Old master Abel Gance directed this juicy potboiler of family values run amok as a frankly commercial job to put baguettes on the table.[…]