As part of the January 24 Family Festival at the Logan Center for the Arts, we’re showing a film of a live puppet production based on part of the sixteenth-century Chinese epic Journey to the West. The production, by San Francisco’s ShadowLight Theater, brought together American and Taiwanese artists to present Monkey King at Spider...
The holidays are upon us. If you’re not visiting with family or you’re trying to escape your family here’s an idea. Hidden Colors Film Series DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place Chicago Not to be confused with LAST WEEK, this is screening part three, which is also the conclusion of the...
Please note new date and time: Sunday, February 15 at 4pm. As the 2015 Chicago mayoral election approaches, pitting a seemingly unbeatable incumbent against a variety of underdog challengers, join us and our partners at the Black Cinema House for a look at another mayoral election, more than thirty years ago: Harold Washington’s improbable election...
How’s that holiday shopping going? Afraid to talk about it? Go hide in the dark of the theatre. It won’t judge you. Much. Hidden Colors Film Series DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place Chicago This is screening part two, The Triumph Of Melanin, of the three part documentary about the real...
After you gobble gobble, you should wobble wobble to the movies, folks. Doc Films Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 East 59th Street, University of Chicago Films resume on Monday with Steven Soderbergh’s King of the Hill (1993, 109 min, 35mm). Tuesday gives us flames on the side of faces with Clue (1985, 94 min, 35mm) directed...
Two weeks in a row, guys! High fives all around! Doc Films Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 East 59th Street, University of Chicago Friday continues the lovely “’80′s Classics of John Hughes and Rob Reiner” with Pretty in Pink (1986, 96 min, 35mm). The new release on Saturday is the melancholy Stray Dogs (2014, 138 min,...
As promised, we give you a listing of what’s going on, film wise, on the South Side (ish) of Chi-town this week. Doc Films Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 East 59th Street, University of Chicago The weekend starts with a climax a la Rob Reiner’s When Harry Met Sally (1989, 96 min, 35mm) on Friday. You...
During the Chicago Eight (later Chicago Seven) trial*, a Toronto theater group who had an inside man in the federal court building in Chicago started working on a play based on smuggled transcripts of the trial. In the cast was playwright and actress Diane Grant. Later, during a successful New York run of the play,...
In partnership with the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, we’re proud to present two films made during or immediately after the infamous Chicago Seven conspiracy trial in the wake of the police riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. These two films emphasize the farcical nature of the trial and reflect the...
Did you miss us? I know we did. Jazz Films at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival Saturday, September 27th at 2PM, Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., University of Chicago Our own Michael W. Phillips Jr., who also sits on the programming advisory committee of the Black Cinema House, introduces the BCH’s...
In collaboration with the Co-Prosperity Sphere, South Side Projections and the Chicago Cinema Society present Fatal Frame, a program of avant-garde horror films. Following H.P. Lovecraft’s supposition that “The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,” these films hinge on uncanny enigmas, favoring existential terror over cheap thrills and grotesque monsters....
Sun’s out, guns out. We get that – enjoy the last bit of summer vacation before it’s gone. After all that sun though, pick your sunburns while you wind down with a great film from these lovely organizations this week. SATURDAY, August 16th – 2:00PM @ Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria St., UIC) Reaching for...
