The second annual Chicago Underground Film Festival was held in 1995, at multiple locations in the city, from Thursday, July 20 to Sunday, July 23.
The festival opened on July 20th at the International Cinema Museum with the film What About Me?, directed by Rachel Amodeo. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of Kenneth Anger, who attended the fest and screened Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kkk (Kustom Kar Kommandos) (1965) at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan, on Friday, July 21. Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin also attended and screened films on July 23; while the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of Subgenius screened films on July 22.
Also, Charles Pinion screened the world premiere of his feature film Red Spirit Lake, which was preceded by the short film The Operation, directed by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas. Other short films that screened were Desktop and a preview of Monday 9:02 am, both directed by Tyler Hubby.
The festival opened on July 20th at the International Cinema Museum with the film What About Me?, directed by Rachel Amodeo. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of Kenneth Anger, who attended the fest and screened Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kkk (Kustom Kar Kommandos) (1965) at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan, on Friday, July 21. Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin also attended and screened films on July 23; while the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of Subgenius screened films on July 22.
Also, Charles Pinion screened the world premiere of his feature film Red Spirit Lake, which was preceded by the short film The Operation, directed by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas. Other short films that screened were Desktop and a preview of Monday 9:02 am, both directed by Tyler Hubby.
- 7/23/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 30th anniversary edition of the Miami International Film Festival (March 1-10) has announced its full slate, which this year includes 45 films that will be making their world, international, North American and U.S. premieres. World premieres include "The Boy Who Smells Like Fish" starring Zoe Kravitz and Douglass Smith about a lonely boy with a weird condition, "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe," a crime drama about a two truck driver from the team behind MIFF11's "Magic City Memoirs," "Sanitarium" starring Robert Englund, Malcom McDowell, and Loud Diamond Phillips in three separate stories set in a mental asylum, and "Marriage (Matrimonio)" loosely based on James Joyce's "Ulysses" starring Cecilia Roth and Dario Grandinetti. The festival will open with Morgan Neville's "Twenty Feet From Stardom," which turns the spotlight on the many unknown backup singers behind famed musicans like Stevie Wonder...
- 2/6/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
The most prolific comics publisher in world isn't DC or Marvel. It's a religious tract publisher in Rancho Cucamonga, run by a man who makes Steve Ditko look like an extroverted publicity hound.
And just like what happened to Mr. Ditko, people have now made a documentary about him... God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.
For nearly forty years, Chick Publications, under the leadership of Jack T. Chick, has published over three quarters of a billion religious tracts that have been distributed in over 100 languages around the world.
In the process, Jack Chick's name has become revered in the world of fundamentalist teachings, reviled among dozens of major religions and banned as hate literature in several countries, including Canada. Outside the world of religion, the tracts have become highly valued pop culture collectibles with presentations in galleries from NY to La and a permanent collection in the Smithsonian.
And just like what happened to Mr. Ditko, people have now made a documentary about him... God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.
For nearly forty years, Chick Publications, under the leadership of Jack T. Chick, has published over three quarters of a billion religious tracts that have been distributed in over 100 languages around the world.
In the process, Jack Chick's name has become revered in the world of fundamentalist teachings, reviled among dozens of major religions and banned as hate literature in several countries, including Canada. Outside the world of religion, the tracts have become highly valued pop culture collectibles with presentations in galleries from NY to La and a permanent collection in the Smithsonian.
- 7/10/2009
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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