Top 20 Films of 2015: Part I
It’s a weird time to be talking about movies. We are perched at a precarious point in the history of our species, with cultural divisions and ideological extremism threatening to […]
Tag Archives: Ebertfest
Memories of Ebertfest 2014
Amazing how you can know someone for a few days and feel as though you’ve made a friend for life. That’s an experience not uncommon to the attendees at Ebertfest, […]
Indie Spotlight: 30th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Though I’ve lived in the Windy City for a number of years, this year marked my first visit to the Chicago Latino Film Festival. It most certainly won’t be my […]
Falling in Love with “The Spectacular Now”
“What an affecting film this is. It respects its characters and doesn’t use them for its own shabby purposes. How deeply we care about them. Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley […]
Patrick Wang on “In the Family”
Watching Patrick Wang’s 169-minute masterwork, “In the Family,” with a packed house at this year’s Ebertfest was one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life. Rarely have I felt […]
Indie Essentials: Tilda Swinton
Attending this year’s Ebertfest was tremendously moving for a multitude of reasons. I loved experiencing an uncompromising artwork with a thousand cinephiles eager to take the plunge. I loved observing […]
Indie Outlook 