CIFF 2019 Tom Harper on the High-Flying Dangers of “The Aeronauts” The director of Wild Rose and The Aeronauts sits down to talk about his high-flying historical adventure, now available on Amazon Prime Video.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 2019: Minhal Baig on “Hala”, “Dune”, and Returning to Chicago The director of the Sundance favorite discusses her coming-of-age tale Hala.
CIFF 2019 CIFF: Thomasin McKenzie on Nazis, Toxicity, and “Jojo Rabbit” The star of "Leave No Trace" and "Jojo Rabbit" sits down to talk about her career, her latest role, and finding humanity in inhumane times.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/24: “Seahorse”, “First Rainbow Coalition”, “Vast of Night” & More Seahorse, The First Rainbow Coalition, and debut feature The Vast of Night highlight our last day of CIFF capsule reviews.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/23: “Wild Sparrow”, “And Then We Danced”, “Knives Out” & More Our penultimate CIFF dispatch breaks down Rian Johnson's star-studded caper Knives Out, the Georgian queer drama And Then We Danced..., and more.
CIFF 2019 CIFF Dispatch: “Jojo Rabbit”, “A Girl Missing”, “The Torch” and More (This dispatch is part of our coverage of the 2019 Chicago International Film Festival.) Welp, CIFF keeps chugging along, and the weather just keeps getting..
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/22: “Painted Bird”, “Just 6.5”, “By the Grace of God”, “Hypnotist” The Painted Bird, Just 6.5, Francois Ozon's By the Grace of God, and the documentary The Hypnotist dominate today's CIFF coverage.
CIFF 2019 CIFF Dispatch: “Waves”, “Deerskin,” “The Aeronauts”, “The Prince” Trey Edward Shults' family drama, Tom Harper's big-budget balloon thriller, and others dominate this latest CIFF dispatch.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/21: “My Father and Me”, “Human Factor”, “Litigante”, “Instinct” Today's CIFF Dispatch looks at documentaries My Father and Me and The Human Factor, character drama Litigante and rape thriller Instinct.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/20 Dispatch: “The Sleepwalkers”, “Present.Perfect.”, and More Sunday's CIFF dispatch includes takes on Argentine drama The Sleepwalkers, live-stream doc Present.Perfect., Chilean doc Cordillera of Dreams, and more.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/19 Dispatch: “Forman vs. Forman”, “Gloria Mundi”, “I Lost My Body”, “Let There Be Light”, “Extracurricular” Today's CIFF dispatch sees reviews of Forman vs. Forman, Gloria Mundi, I Lost My Body, Let There Be Light, and Extracurricular.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/18 Dispatch: “The Apollo,” “Adoration”, “Our Mothers”, “Hala” Friday's CIFF Dispatch talks up Harlem doc The Apollo, dark fairy tale Adoration, Guatemalan drama Our Mothers, and Minhal Baig's coming-of-age story Hala.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/17 Dispatch: “Maternal”, “Babyteeth,” “Lara,” “Carmilla” At CIFF, we take a look at religious drama Maternal, episodic romantic dramedy Babyteeth, German potboiler Lara, and historical queer horror Carmilla.
CIFF 2019 CIFF 10/18: “The Truth”, “Clemency”, “The Twentieth Century”, “Tremors” Today's CIFF dispatch includes family drama The Truth, death-row issue film Clemency, Guatemalan queer drama Tremors, and the gonzo Twentieth Century.
CIFF 2019 CIFF Dispatch 10/16: “Sole”, “Cunningham”, “Fire Will Come” Our first dispatch of the Chicago International Film Festival highlights Polish drama Sole, 3D dance doc Cunningham, and the experiential Fire Will Come.