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This week the 59th Chicago International Film Festival spreads out like a blanket across the city and says: Here’s new work, every kind, from everywhere. See some.
The 60th Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago’s best and biggest cinema showcase, begins Wednesday and offers 107 new features and 69 shorts for its 12-day run.
The 60th annual Chicago International Film Festival returns with a selection of over 120 feature films and more than 70 short films this October. Presented by Cinema/Chicago, the event is North ...
Last year, the opening night of the Chicago International Film Festival told it like it was. One film (Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”) played indoors, at the Music Box Theatre. That ...
Chicago International Film Festival founder Michael J. Kutza, center, talks with Italian actress Sophia Loren during a 1990 reception in Chicago.
T he Chicago International Film Festival is wrapping up its 60th edition by handing out its prizes. In fact, though the New York Film Festival has been around longer (it just wrapped its 62nd ...
The Chicago International Film Festival kicked off at the Music Box Theatre Thursday. The film festival has been going for six decades now. It was founded by Michael Kutza, who had no idea what ...
The Chicago International Film Festival will bring 122 feature films and 71 shorts to theaters across town over its 12-day run. This year will also bring more than 100 directors and film artists ...
Chicago International Film Festival 2023 returned in full force this year, handing out its Gold Hugo Awards to Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, Amr Gamal’s The Burdened, ...
Students hoping to catch the latest films drawing Oscar buzz or to see movie stars in real life will be hard-pressed to find a better option this month, or even this year, than the Chicago ...
What Chicago film festival screens this fall may be up for Oscars this winter Now in its 60th year, the Chicago International Film Festival has earned a reputation as a preview of future nominees.