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The Julian Schnabel film, Miral, opens in Chicago this weekend.

If you love a good independent film, if you’re a fan of Latin American movies, if you’re fascinated with Cuba, if you think you know something about exile and alienation – whatever you have to do today, get over to the Landmark Cinema, 2828 N. Clark, for a special super secret 4 p.m.

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul makes films that are lush with images of nature and layered with moments and characters that represent the present and the past, this life and previous ones.To find out more about his approach, host Alison Cuddy spoke with Weerasethakul from his home in Thailand.

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Thailand but his formative film education came about in the Windy City. He earned his MFA in experimental film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

If you are a movie and a music junkie then heads up! Thursday, the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, or CIMMfest, kicks off. The fest gives film and music fans the opportunity to explore the numerous links we can draw between musical and cinematic efforts.

President Barack Obama is on the campaign trial again, but many think the excitement and enthusiasm he generated back in 2008 will be less present. Back then filmmakers Alicia Sams and Amy Rice caught the energy. They followed Obama for two years, all the way through election night.

If the Lake Theatre in Oak Park looks like the kind of place where movie fans flocked to see Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe or John Wayne on the silver screen it might be because that's exactly what it was.The art deco theater in west suburban Chicago celebrated its 75th anniversary with a showing