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Sunday, June 24 2012

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\30 3:00 pm
3:00pm

The movie sets, cabarets, and studios of 1940s Prague, rendered in rich black-and-white and eerily bleached color, form the backdrop to this starkly stylish drama of artists, Third Reich...

3:00pm

Chicago-based filmmaker Looby, whose first feature LEFTY premiered at the Film Center in 2009, returns with this timely, autobiographically-inspired tale of the pressures and rewards of...

\30 5:00 pm
5:00pm

The English title is ironic, as is a literal translation of the Czech title, FAMILY IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE, in this low-key satire built around a family tragedy. A corporate...

5:00pm

Two families locked in a blood feud in the mountains of Albania, the victims of the BP oil spill, migrant workers in a Florida tomato field, and imprisoned former Chicago Sun-Times...