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The Overlook Film Festival 2024 Highlights, Part 1: Fasterpiece Theater, Exhuma, All You Need is Death, Me | Festivals & Awards

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You can tell that the Overlook’s organizer have already cultivated a receptive audience for their programming given how engaged and focused theatergoers’ questions were after each screening. People were really excited to find out more about whatever they just saw, including a special screening of “Me,” Don Hertzfeldt’s trippy, unsettling 23-minute long musical. Most people … Read more

Theater Camp movie review & film summary (2023)

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The filmmakers’ affection for the material, this setting, and each other is evident; they’re all close friends who’ve grown up and worked together for years. That footage at the beginning of the movie of cute kids performing on stage? That’s Gordon and Platt, long before TV’s “The Bear” and the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” would … Read more

Christopher Nolan picks his favorite seat at the movie theater

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We all have our favorite seat at the movie theater, but Christopher Nolan says it depends on how the film is presented. Christopher Nolan is one of the most vocal and intelligent proponents of the theater-going experience. From challenging the industry’s use of streaming services to encouraging the use and preservation of film stock to … Read more

Cinema Femme Short Film Festival to Have First In-Person Screenings at the Music Box Theater | Festivals & Awards

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Filmmaker Emily Hagins. Joanna has also played an indispensable role in this year’s festival, serving as its Creative Director, while Carolann Cohen Grzybowski devoted her own time and talents as the team’s Social Media & Operations Assistant. All four shorts blocks will also be available to stream virtually on Eventive from Friday, April 28th, through … Read more

10th Chicago Critics Film Fest Features Past Lives, Blackberry, Sanctuary, Theater Camp, and Many More | Festivals & Awards

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screens Sunday, May 10th, 7pm with director/co-writer Clement Virgo scheduled to attend “DARK CITY” 25th Anniversary Screening presented in 35mm Director: Alex Proyas | 100 mins Alex Proyas’ 1998 film about a man struggling with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems … Read more