Alison Tavel directed an intriguing documentary premiering on March 10, 2024 at SXSW about her father’s invention, the Resynator, one of the first synthesizers, a pioneering step forward in electronic music. Her father, Don Tavel, then 36, died in a ...
David Oyelowo is best-known for his role as Dr. Martin Luther King in the 2014 film “Selma.” A multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor and producer, Oyelowo has also directed his own film (“The Water Man”). He stars in ...
“Saltburn” is Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to 2020’s “Promising Young Woman.” That film garnered five Oscar nominations and won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2021. The movie is most like 1999’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” It is a baroque, dark, ...
The Bikeriders screened as the closing film of the 59th Chicago International Film Festival on October 22 at the Music Box Theater with a presentation of the Artistic Achievement Award to Writer/Director Jeff Nichols. It was inspired by the 1967 ...
Michael Shannon steps behind the camera for his directorial debut to helm the film version of the play “Eric LaRue” written by good friend and award-winning writer Brett Neveu. The 2002 play, “Eric LaRue,” deals with the aftermath of a ...
Nicolas Cage stars in the first English language release of Oslo-born director Kristoffer Borgli (“Sick of Myself”), a black comedy called “Dream Scenario.” “Dream Scenario” is enjoyable, hilarious, original, and blackly comic, all while examining the idea of cancel ...
Chicago native Clare Cooney directed her first feature film, Departing Seniors, from a script by first-time screenwriter Jose Nateras. It screened at the Music Box Theater in Chicago at 10 p.m. after the Opening Night film of the 59th Chicago ...
The 59th Chicago International Film Festival, North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, opened at the iconic Music Box Theater tonight with a showing of We Grown Now, directed by Minhal Baig. We Grown Now On Festival Circuit The film is ...
Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) That quote appears at the beginning of the documentary “The Herricanes,” which played at the Nashville Film Festival ...
Academy Award-nominated Director Nicole Newnham walked the Red Carpet at the Nashville Film Festival on Saturday, September 30th, for her 116-minute documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite. It was exactly 47 years ago on the same date in 1976 that ...
Chicago filmmaker Michael Glover Smith, (awarded the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Star Filmmaker Award in 2017), has written and directed four feature films since 2015. The film “Relative” was screened at Wrigleyville’s new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Chicago on May ...
The official synopsis for “A Small Light:” “Based on an inspiring true story, Miep Gies was young, carefree and opinionated — at a time when opinions got you killed ― when Otto Frank asked her to help hide his family ...
