The four new classes starting in March offer the chance to dive into the deep end of the cinema pool. more ›

Alien, screening Friday and Saturday, is a perfect midnight movie for the dead of winter. more ›

Accepting an award from the Chicago Film Critics Association, Jason Segal reminds us that awards speeches are often more memorable than who won what. more ›

The DNA of Robert Bresson's 13 films can be found in the mitochondria of practically every European director of the past four decades and, thanks to vectors such as Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch, nestled in the guts of U.S. filmmakers far and wide. more ›

A round trip to "Madchester" can be had this Thursday night, as Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot bring Sound Opinions at the Movies back to the Music Box. more ›

The Harper Theater, shuttered since 2002, is due to reopen this fall. more ›

Dwight Cleveland has 25,000 movie posters, and has spent 35 years of his life amassing them. more ›

The underground, radical feminist, and still-invigorating Born in Flames should be required viewing for anybody suggesting that any single political event, be it an election or a revolution, is the answer to all our problems. more ›

Judging by 2011's box office, it was a terrible year for movies. Just because theater chains and studios had a bad year doesn't mean you have to. Get the most out of film in 2012. more ›

The University of Chicago's Doc Films Winter calendar is stuffed to the brim with insanely good choices. more ›

Let's be honest: there is a lot that can go wrong on New Year's Eve. You can be stuck at a terrible party. You can be stuck at an amazing party, but be the designated driver. You can find yourself at a party which seems so much like previous year's party that only the festive paraphernalia marked "2012" clue you in that this is déjà vu and not Groundhog Day. So we won't second guess you at all if you decide to ring in the new year watching other people endure a New Year's Eve where everything that could go wrong literally does, which is to say watching The Poseidon Adventure at the Music Box. more ›

Without a cash-laden bully, the more arty and prestige titles will be left to bloody one another up this awards season. more ›

My favorite movies are the ones that give me new eyes. I mean the ones where, if only for a few minutes, the world I encounter when I leave the theater seems different from the one left to go in. This feeling of heightened awareness to the textures of the world, of its variety of soundtrack, at the great fortune we are all sharing it together, is like a drug. more ›

In Part 1, Rob recounts the best films he watched this year--which includes several from years gone by. more ›

Pity the careless moviegoer who sees "Santa" on the Portage Theater marquee this Saturday and somehow finds his or herself in the aisles as the the first images of Santa Sangre flash onto the screen. Awakenings probably do not come much ruder. more ›

They were a perfect couple. Intelligent, cool, sophisticated, romantic, bringing the party with them wherever they went, never taking themselves too seriously, and (almost by accident) solving crimes. The husband and wife team portrayed by Myrna Loy and William Powell in 1934's The Thin Man endures as one our favorite cinematic creations. Nick (played by Powell) is a sometime-detective who pleasantly idles away his early retirement with his wealthy firecracker of a wife, Nora (Loy). Tapping on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cocktails and wit, the two flirt and tease their way through any situation with aplomb, watched over by their wire-haired fox terrier Asta. It cannot be denied: when we grow up, we want to be Nick and Nora Charles. more ›

Give the most banal moving image enough time, and it will become fascinating. Just offering a peek into a long-lost world is enough to hold our interest, which is why we were excited to see that the Chicago Film Archives is joining the collections of moving images at the Internet Archive, where they can be either streamed or downloaded and where they are sure to find a wider audience. more ›

Andy Warhol's film Empire will be projected on the side of the Aon Building this Friday night. more ›

From high-profile releases to film sales to schlock, we've got you covered. more ›

Proper Thanksgiving movies may be few and far between, but that doesn't mean that Hollywood doesn't provide us with some notions on how to get through its signature event: the large family meal. more ›

Prescreen tries to carve out a niche for the movie-hungry and tech-savvy in that overlapping part of a Venn diagram including social networks and daily deal sites. more ›

The acclaimed documentary from Kartemquin is nowhere to be found on the Best Documentary Feature shortlist. more ›

The Music Box is the only place in the Country where audiences can enjoy this classic's in its sparkling, rejuvenated form. With a week-long run starting today and multiple showings each day, Raiders will surely make a good cinematic excursion for the holiday week. more ›

Movie trailers can be an enjoyable appetizer before the main feature, an infuriating obstacle when you pop in a Blu-ray or a montage of spoilers in the shape of an advertisement. They can also be just plain inexplicable. Last month we were reminded at how deceptive movie trailers can be when a woman filed a lawsuit because the Drive trailer misled her into expecting more of a Vin Diesel action spectacle. more ›

"Crazy clown time," chirps David Lynch, with demented glee. "It was fun. It was real fun." The master filmmaker and artist definitely lives up to his first solo album's title. more ›

Next Sunday, the Northwest Chicago Film Society presents an evening of 16mm film liberated from Midwestern television stations showcasing some amazing artifacts of this period. more ›

Starting Nov. 11, Facets Film School presents "Karloff: The Gentleman Monster," six weeks of Boris Karloff's prime screen roles. more ›

It surprised us to learn that only two years after Richard Warren Sears moved to Chicago and joined forces with Alvah C. Roebuck, their catalog featured fine art. Perhaps the oil paintings for sale in that 1895 catalog weren't what the Sears Catalog ended up being known for (we still remember it primarily as a compendium of fantasies about what Santa might, in our wildest dreams, bring us). The point is that it would not have been surprising when, in 1962, Sears asked someone to curate and acquire a 2,700-piece art collection to be merchandised nationwide, with costs as low as $5 down and $5 per month. It does seem surprising, to many of us today, who they chose to head it up: Vincent Price. more ›

Serge Gainsbourg’s influence extends beyond his country’s borders, so Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, is worth seeing even if you’re not so into the French thing. The film makes its Chicago premiere tomorrow night. more ›

When it comes to scary movies, we relish the movie scenes that still make us jump or that we remember watching through our fingers. Here are some movie scenes that we will always love. more ›