Genre: Medical Thriller 124 minutes Director: Steve Guka Actors: Danny Glover, Abimbola Akintola, Zara Udofia Actor Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon”) came to Chicago to support the Nigerian film “93 Days” and receive the Chicago International Film Festival’s Visionary Award from ...
Genre: Documentary 88 minutes Director: Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) This is a saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family who own and run the Abacus Federal Savings Bank in New York’s Chinatown. I remember reading the Matt Taibbi investigative piece ...
Genre: Dark Comedy/ Drama Director: Asaph Polonsky Actors :Shair Aviva, Tomer Kapon, Sharon Alexnader, Evgenia Dodina U.S. Premiere From Israel (Hebrew, with subtitles) 98 minutes This first feature from director Asaph Polonsky examines how a Jewish couple in Israel ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7TXPV_uxY Genre: Documentary Director: Charlie Siskel (co-director of “Finding Vivian Maier”) Runtime: 80 minutes @ the Chicago International Film Festival Documentary filmmaker Charlie Siskel (nephew of Gene) has a new documentary set to be released in March that should earn ...
Genre: Thriller Directed by: David Singer 104 minutes Setting: Chicago Actors: Virginia Kull, Ed Begley, Jr., Marilu Henner, Ashton Holmes, Chelcie Ross ,Julia Sweeney Original Music: David Singer Director of Photography: Andrew Whede This caper film ...
Peter Bogdanovich, along with ex-wife Louise Stratton and the makers of a documentary on Bogdanovich’s career entitled “One Day Since Yesterday,” attended a screening entitled “Peter Bogdanovich and the Lost American Film” at the Chicago Film Festival on Sunday, October ...
Genre: Romantic Musical Actors: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Tom Everett Scott Writer/Director: Damien Chazelle Music: Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Review: Connie Wilson, WeeklyWilson.com “La La Land”—that place where “they worship everything and they ...
Genre: Docu-Drama 118 minutes Director: Tamer El Said Writers: Tamer El Said, Rash Sulti Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssof From Egypt: In Arabic with subtitles Release Date: March, 2016 Review by Connie Wilson, WeeklyWilson.com This requiem for a ...
“24 Weeks” (Feature by Connie Wilson: ConnieCWilson.com) The German film “24 Weeks” from Director Anne Zohra Berrached was screened in Chicago at the Chicago International Film Festival for 8 members of the press on Wednesday, October 5th. It is the story ...
Genre: Comedy/Drama, Foreign film (Finland) 92 minutes Black-and-white with English subtitles Director: Juho Kuosmanen Actors: Jarkko Lahti (Olli); Oona Aarola (Raiji); John Bosco, Jr. (Davey Moore); Eero Milonoff (Olli’s manager) Reviewer: Connie Wilson: WeeklyWilson.com THE GOOD Pay special attention ...
Opening Night of the Chicago International Film Festival brought out one of the hottest young directors working today, Damien Chazelle (“Whiplash”), coupled with such veterans as Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Rooker and his director in “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” ...
