Be it comedy, drama, horror or documentary, the lineup of movies in this year's Chicago International Film Festival attempts to convey real-life issues, emotions and situations.
October 7, 2006 (Press Release) --
Be it comedy, drama, horror or documentary, the lineup of movies in this year's Chicago International Film Festival attempts to convey real-life issues, emotions and situations.
We've reviewed a handful of the upcoming films and paired them with an event or restaurant that we think complements them quite nicely. So if you'd like to immerse yourself in the culture of a particular fim's country of origin, or if you just want another way of experiencing the whole film festival phenomenon, here are some options. (Movies were reviewed by free-lance film critic Bill Stamets; entertainment options suggested by staff reporter Misha Davenport).
(United States) "This is the drama of a Big City -- every Big City -- and of a little girl who was all wrong," states the opening title of Frank Urson's mildly cynical "Chicago," the silent film predecessor to the 2002 musical that won six Oscars.
This 1928 film is based on a 1926 play that was based on 1924 news coverage of two Chicago trials. One freed murderess attended the play's Chicago opening in 1927. Mayor William Hale Thompson opined that Maurine Watkins -- the reporter who penned the sensational coverage and the satirical play -- ought to serve as the city's publicity agent since she was "excellently suited to tell the world all it need know about the city of Chicago." Chicago-born Urson directs Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. This peroxide-curled dame plugs her pinky-ringed lover. Headlines ensue. In the slammer she brags about her "17 columns and 23 pictures" only to get upstaged by a sister jailbird who had "22 columns and 30 pictures." Roxie's 15 minutes of infamy are eclipsed by the next murderess. --BS
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POSTED BY MARY HOULIHAN
We've reviewed a handful of the upcoming films and paired them with an event or restaurant that we think complements them quite nicely. So if you'd like to immerse yourself in the culture of a particular fim's country of origin, or if you just want another way of experiencing the whole film festival phenomenon, here are some options. (Movies were reviewed by free-lance film critic Bill Stamets; entertainment options suggested by staff reporter Misha Davenport).
(United States) "This is the drama of a Big City -- every Big City -- and of a little girl who was all wrong," states the opening title of Frank Urson's mildly cynical "Chicago," the silent film predecessor to the 2002 musical that won six Oscars.
This 1928 film is based on a 1926 play that was based on 1924 news coverage of two Chicago trials. One freed murderess attended the play's Chicago opening in 1927. Mayor William Hale Thompson opined that Maurine Watkins -- the reporter who penned the sensational coverage and the satirical play -- ought to serve as the city's publicity agent since she was "excellently suited to tell the world all it need know about the city of Chicago." Chicago-born Urson directs Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. This peroxide-curled dame plugs her pinky-ringed lover. Headlines ensue. In the slammer she brags about her "17 columns and 23 pictures" only to get upstaged by a sister jailbird who had "22 columns and 30 pictures." Roxie's 15 minutes of infamy are eclipsed by the next murderess. --BS
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POSTED BY MARY HOULIHAN
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