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THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year!
The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago Reader’s “Best of Chicago” polls, annually features a selection of the most sought-after and anticipated films of the year hand-picked by members of the Chicago Film Critics Association, often with filmmakers, cast and crew in attendance to celebrate their work and connect with local audiences. It is the only current example of a major film critics group that hosts its own festival, and it’s right here in Chicago. Additional films, filmmakers, and special guests scheduled to attend will also be announced in the coming weeks.
Past guests have included Paul Schrader (First Reformed), Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Craig Robinson (Morris from America), Aubrey Plaza (The Little Hours), David Dastmalchian (Animals), Bobcat Goldthwait (Call Me Lucky, Willow Creek), Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade), Martin Starr (Dead Snow 2, Operator), Ti West (In the History of Violence), David Wain (They Came Together), Cobie Smulders (Results, Unexpected), Michael Pena (War On Everyone), Peyton Kennedy (American Fable), Jim Gaffigan (Light from Light), Richard Kelly (Southland Tales), Dick Miller (That Guy Dick Miller), Tom Skerritt (40th Anniversary screening of Alien) and William Friedkin (Sorcerer).
Further details, as well as information on the previous editions of the festival, can be found at the official CCFF website at www.chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com. Follow the CFCA and the festival on Twitter at @chicagocritics and @CriticsFF, on Instagram, and on Facebook here.
Films Scheduled to Screen - More Titles to be Announced
Special Presentation! - GHOSTLIGHT
Festival Pricing
Festival Pass
$200
Individual Tickets
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons - $10
Regular Screenings - $15
Q&A Screenings - $18
Coming up in this Festival
Babes
Opens May 4
BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more
Bringing Out the Dead
Opens May 7
This tense urban drama from Martin Scorsese stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has... Read more
CFCA Shorts Program #1
Opens May 4
SHORTS INCLUDEDME - A mysterious new musical from Don Hertzfeldt, Academy Award-nominated director of “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” and “World Of Tomorr... Read more
CFCA Shorts Program #2
Opens May 6
SHORTS INCLUDEDBaigal Nuur - Lake Baikal - The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined with hand-painted animation and mixed materials, feat... Read more
Cuckoo
Opens May 3
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new f... Read more
Dandelion
Opens May 6
Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where s... Read more
The Dead Don't Hurt
Opens May 5
The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely indepe... Read more
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons
Opens May 4
The Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored project is one dedicated to gathering and restoring as many of the 700-odd animated shorts produced by Max Fl... Read more
Flipside
Opens May 6
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdn... Read more
Gasoline Rainbow
Opens May 8
Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Opens May 7
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype andr... Read more
Ghostlight
Opens May 9
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Good One
Opens May 8
In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chri... Read more
Handling the Undead
Opens May 8
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them.... Read more
In a Violent Nature
Opens May 4
An ambient slasher that methodically depicts the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.
I Saw the TV Glow
Opens May 5
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of... Read more
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Opens May 5
A traveling knife salesman is stranded and forced to wait at a rural rest stop and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent hostage situation... Read more
Little Women (1994)
Opens May 5
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. Starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.
National Anthem
Opens May 9
Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a 21-year-old soft-spoken construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works odd jobs to help... Read more
Oddity
Opens May 4
When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local men... Read more
Power
Opens May 7
In the United States, police have been granted extraordinary power over our individual lives. The police determine who is suspicious and who ‘fits the... Read more
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Opens May 5
When Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25, his parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and iso... Read more
Sing Sing
Opens May 3
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other men who ar... Read more
Sleep
Opens May 3
SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (LEE Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (JUNG Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in h... Read more
Thelma
Opens May 4
The feature directorial debut of Josh Margolin, THELMA is a poignant action-comedy that gives veteran Oscar® nominee June Squibb (NEBRASKA) her first... Read more
What You Wish For
Opens May 7
Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incomin... Read more