ChiFilmFest celebrates their 60th festival season with free summer screenings of films by female filmmakers
I had the opportunity to speak with Sam Flancher, programmer of the Chicago International Film Festival, about the free summer screenings they held for the first half of the summer at the Chicago History Museum, and will be continuing at the Chicago Cultural Center throughout the end of the summer season. All films that are […]
BEYOND BARBIE: Ten must-see films now playing, including the new Joyce Carol Oates doc, Linh Tran’s feature debut, and the sensual coming-of-age gem “Piaffe”
Besides Greta Gerwig’s history-making “Barbie,” which became both the highest-grossing film of the year as well as the highest-grossing film directed by a woman, another of the most pleasurable experiences I recently had in a movie theater was seeing Emma Seligman’s “Bottoms.” Every frame and line in that film is LOL. If you go with […]
Stream Movies from our Featured Womxn in Film
Josephine Decker’s “Madeline’s Madeline” Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and […]
Kitty Green’s film ‘The Assistant’ reveals the faces of the #MeToo movement and the pains behind them
The tweets. The movement. The conversation. Kitty Green’s film “The Assistant” takes the #MeToo movement, and the conversation around it, to a place where it began. Julia Garner plays Jane, an assistant to a producer of a major production company in New York. The environment is eerily too familiar, and the name Harvey Weinstein floats […]