Among other things, Wes Anderson's latest movie proves that Harvey Keitel in a walrus mustache is hilarious. more ›

This Friday, Doc Films caps its Quentin Tarantino retrospective "Burn Down The Cinema" with the first look at Inglourious Basterds since it left theaters. How do you enjoy the mature work of Hollywood's former enfant terrible if you missed it the first time around? Your answer in four parts. more ›

The Music Box takes justifiable pride in its midnight movie calendar, and tonight's screening of Peter Jackson's Dead/Alive, a comedic splatter-fest of the first order, is as good as it gets. more ›

The most convincing statement about the NATO summit may come during Spektral Quartet and High Concept Laboratories' multidisciplinary Theatre of War this Wednesday and Thursday at the Chopin Theatre. more ›

Under the artistic direction of co-founder Bryan Wendorf, CUFF long ago transcended its identity as a showcase for strictly experimental work and cultivates a genuinely invigorating mix of films, genres and vibes. more ›

Whether it's the state of women in Afghanistan, civilian deaths in Libya or even Chicagoans' rights to free speech and assembly, the NATO summit has brought the topic of human rights into the foreground. From poster board on the sidewalks to elevator conversations among strangers, we are encountering issues that too-often get ignored. With all this, and the busloads of human rights activists hitting the streets even as we type, there should be more a larger than usual potential audience for the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which screens five new documentaries at the Gene Siskel Film Center starting tonight. more ›

Before NATO became synonymous with "colossal headache for residents and anybody working downtown," what was our idea of it? Let’s ask the movies. more ›

The Logan Square International Film Series begins a string of Wednesday night screenings of classic movies at Comfort Station beginning tonight with Jean Cocteau's ineffable Orpheus. more ›

Who are the luckiest kids ever? We nominate Santa Monica, California area High School students in the year 1964. more ›

Are times of economic hardship more likely to send us to the countryside? For Paul and Phyllis Van Amburgh, it was the grind of success that prompted them to quit New York City and move their three children upstate to try and make it as dairy farmers. more ›

For something so acerbically observant of its time and place (mid-sixties Romania under the shadow of Ceausescu's spreading wings), Lucian Pintilie's The Reenactment seems way ahead of its time. The tale of two teenagers involved in a drunken brawl and sentenced by a magistrate to re-enact their crime for for an educational film on the dangers of alcohol is told in a style that presages the mockumentary features that made Christopher Guest a cult legend, won The Office every accolade critics were legally permitted to dispense and has now occupied the very heart of mainstream American comedy in Modern Family. more ›

One of the signature conceits of Spike Lee films, if not the signature conceit, is the dolly shot. Depending on your feelings for the director, the dolly shot either adds to or subtracts from his films. Here's a supercut of dolly shots from all of Lee's films. If you suffer from motion sickness, grab the Dramamine. more ›

Daniel Eisenberg's documentary "The Unstable Object," screening at the Siskel Film Center Tuesday, is a fascinating exploration of the complex environments where our objects take shape. more ›

Did the critical success of The Artist mean that people will be more interested in silent movies? more ›

Director Gereon Wetzel decided on a strictly show-don't-tell philosophy for this documentary, and the result is a close but nearly context-free look at Adrià and a handful of chefs going about the process of dazzling the culinary world year in and year out. more ›

Some things you just have to see to believe, and "This American Life" is one of them. more ›

You don't have to have ever been near the titular St. Louis housing project to readily identify the tragedy depicted in The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. more ›

Why is next weekend's screening of an almost 40-year-old rock documentary by an affable chronicler of Americana so dangerous that if we were to publish its name, the screening would have to be canceled? more ›

As a mass phenomenon, The Hunger Games is worth your attention, even if you do not plan to read the outrageously popular young-adult books or even watch the surprisingly well-received movie. more ›

In the second of two interviews on the subject of animated GIFs, we talk with local artists who are producing a 16mm film composed entirely of animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors. more ›

The Chicago Tabernacle of Albany Park has filed for a special use permit which would allow them to operate the historic theater as a church. more ›

You may have already missed your chance to fork over $400 for the complete Fat Albert series at the CFA Film Sale, but there are still lots of great titles to choose from. more ›

We say: Down With Big Popcorn! more ›

May's scathing portrait of male narcissism plays Friday, March 2, at the Block Museum of Art. more ›

There are moments in Don Hertzfeldt's trilogy of animated shorts where you'll ask yourself: are stick figures supposed to make me feel this way? In the hands of a master, yes. Hertzfedlt brings the trilogy to the Music Box Theatre for a screening tomorrow night. more ›

At 3 p.m. on this date 106 years ago, behind a nondescript storefront on Milwaukee Ave., Carl Laemmle took a gamble and opened the 214-seat White Front Theater. Soon, everything would change. more ›

So far, the movie of the year is from last year, about the last decade, and you've only got two more nights to see for yourself. more ›

Rob and Steven offer their Oscar predictions, as well as their two cents about who should win. more ›

The issue is that clapping at the end of a movie seems self-congratulatory, as if the audience were applauding themselves for picking such a great movie as much as for the movie itself. more ›

Whether you celebrate today as Valentine's Day, or Singles Awareness Day, we hope you'll keep in mind this One Truth about us here at Chicagoist: everything we do, we do it for you. more ›