Chicago Filmmakers is throwing its own V-Day bash on Saturday with the Dyke Delicious film series special screening of seven romantic, raunchy and humorous lesbian shorts. Curator and veteran queer-film producer Sharon Zurek brings the film series into its fifth year with the intention of creating a safe space for lesbians to celebrate the holiday together and to promote new works by underground queer filmmakers. Gail Marlow, who has worked with Zurek and raises money and awareness for the Reeling Film Festival (which is co-presenting the event), is psyched for Dyke Delicious because it gives otherwise undistributed films a chance to be seen and has created a tremendous positive response from the lesbian community. “For me personally, this series is close to my heart,” Marlow says. “This is my opportunity in a non-profit organization to give back to my community.”
Counting Down: Cinema As A Million Reasons A mix of polemic and hierarchy, Sight and Sound magazine's once-a-decade ten-best-films, or, immodestly, "The Greatest Films of All Time," collated from submissions to an invited range of programmers, filmmakers, academics and reviewers will be published in the magazine this month along with a vertiginous online roster of individual lists.
Fall Arts Preview 2020: Manual Cinema's Candyman Dream While Manual Cinema—the Chicago-based performance collective, design studio and film and video production company can’t squeak a peep about their work until the Universal release sees daylight, the work, weirdly, wordless, worries up a world all its own.
