Screen Magazine - Index

Screen Magazine - Screen Magazine: Vol. 29, Issue 11a - Index

Monday June 23rd - Opening Night
Music Box Theater - (800 seats)
3733 N Southport Ave • 7:30pm
Short: GOLDFISH (rt: 13 min)
Directed by Joe Wein
Starring: Laura Marano, Madeline Carroll, Tim Bagley, Mindy
Sterling, Carlos Alazraqui, Wendy McLendon-Covey, Patrick
Kerr & Andy Lauer
Two girls. One mission. A lot of fish.
Feature: BART GOT A ROOM (rt: 80 min)
Directed by Brian Hecker
Starring: William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, David Kaplan, Alia
Shawcat & Chad Jamian Williams
While Danny’s father and mother independently search for
love, Danny is on his own desperate quest to find a prom
date. Danny’s search becomes progressively more pathetic
once he and his family learn that Bart, the school’s biggest
dweeb, not only secured a date for the prom, but got a
hotel room as well.
Tuesday June 24th
AMC Loews Pipers Alley - (450 seats)
1608 N Wells St, Chicago • 7:30pm
Short: THE ART OF STALKING (rt: 14 min)
Directed by Amitabh Klemm
Starring: Paul Dichter, Kat Tuohy and Mac Brandt
THE ART OF STALKING is the story of a sensitive young man
in love with a Chicago theatre actress named Kate and
he’s been following her for some time. When another guy
comes along to steal his thunder, our anti-hero must make
a decision that will turn his world upside down.
Feature: THE LAST WORD (rt: 90 min)
Directed by Goeffrey Haley
Starring: Wes Bentley, Winona Ryder, Ray Romano, Katherine
Boecher & Brendan Miller
Evan Merck is a solitary niche writer who makes his living
composing other people’s suicide notes. His reclusive life,
however, becomes upturned when he meets Charlotte, the
sister of one of his recently deceased clients, at the funeral.
A romance sparks between the couple despite Evan’s need
to keep his business a secret from his new love. THE LAST
WORD is a quirky dark comedy, confronting vanity, loss and
redemption in a city of aimless souls in search of each other.
Wednesday June 25th
AMC Loews Pipers Alley - (450 seats)
1608 N Wells St, Chicago • 7:30pm
Short: HOLLYWOOD JEROME (rt:11 min)
Directed by Frey Hoffman
Starring: Korey Isbell
Jerome thought being in a gang would be a dream come
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true, but when he’s caught in a police stand-off it feels more
like a nightmare.
Feature: THE LIVING WAKE (rt: 91 min)
Directed by Sol Tryon
Starring: Mike O’Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, Ann Dowd, Eddie
Pepitone & Jim Gaffigan
Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has only
one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills
Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw.
In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew
endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his
day with a final performance: his living wake.
Thursday June 26th
AMC Loews Pipers Alley - (450 seats)
1608 N Wells St, Chicago • 7:30pm
Short: MORNING FALL (rt: 9 min)
Directed by Edward McGinty
Starring: Zia Harris
A mysterious man wakes up on the side of the road, injured
and confused. Without an identity, how will he find his way
home?
Feature: DARK STREETS (rt: 86 min)
Directed by Rachel Samuels
Starring: Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips & Izabella Miko
Set in a visually dazzling fantasy of the early 1930s, DARK
STREETS tells the story of Chaz Davenport, a dashing but
naive playboy who owns the hottest new nightclub in town
– “The Tower.” Surrounded by blues music and juggling two
gorgeous singers, Chaz is the envy of every man. Yet he’s up
to his neck in bad debts and bad choices, and his father’s
unexpected suicide gets more mysterious the more Chaz
looks into it. As he is drawn deeper into a web of lies and
betrayal, Chaz no longer knows who to trust or who to fear.
Friday June 27th
AMC Loews Pipers Alley - (450 seats)
1608 N Wells St, Chicago • 7:30pm
Short: WHATEVER… (rt: 9 min)
Directed by Mikal Zimmerman
A young boy learns a hard lesson in love when he attempts
to win back his girl.
Feature: EXPLICIT ILLS (rt: 90 min)
Directed by Mark Webber
Starring: Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, Naomie Harris, Tariq
Trotter, Lou Taylor Pucci, Frankie Shaw, Francisco Burgos,
Martin Cepeda Jr., Rebecca Comerford & Destini Edwards
Young love, drugs and poverty collide in Philadelphia -
creating a beautiful tale of hope and the power of coming
together.