Chicago Int'l Film Festival is now open: Here’s a list of 8 to get you going
CHICAGO — This week the 59th Chicago International Film Festival, the oldest juried festival of its kind in North America, spreads out like a blanket across the city and says: Here’s new work, every kind, from everywhere. See some.
Some venues, chiefly the AMC NewCity 14 (1500 N. Clybourn Ave.) and the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago (915 E. 60th St.), make their festival screening debuts.
Other venues return for duty. The Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave.) hosted Wednesday’s opening-night selection, the beautiful Cabrini-Green-set drama “We Grown Now,” recently picked up for theatrical distribution by Sony
