with JUDY STONE
Author and film critic for the
San Francisco Chronicle


"Judy Stone has the wit, the independence and the journalistic
guts to call the shots as she sees them. Her interviews
are smashing in their revelations."
-Studs Terkel

ROOM

WINNER John Cassavettes Award Independent Spirit Awards

"One of those rare American indies that confidently and successfully propose their own narrative logic"
-Village Voice

MEN AT WORK

"Though decidedly modest and unassuming, Men at Work expands [its] disarmingly simple situation into a sustained
and engrossing film"
-Senses of Cinema

-Chicago Tribune

Recommended! -Chicago Reader

A SIDEWALK ASTRONOMER

"An inspiring film about an
inspired teacher."
-New York Times

"Entertaining, painlessly educational"
-Variety

Recommended! "Engaging"
-Chicago Reader

MAD COWGIRL

"Rarely has an experimental film come along like Mad Cowgirl that can take reckless and daring risks and earn a payback on its artistic gambling with a tenfold return"
-Film Threat

"It has the kind of oddball conviction that separates a
deserving cult flick from so many aspiring ones."
-Variety

IFP/Chicago Facets Film Series
double feature presentation:

LOL with
THE PUFFY CHAIR

LOL director Joe Swanberg in attendance!

FREE for IFP and Facets members!

ROLLING FAMILY

"Thoroughly wonderful...Trapero is that rarest kind of
filmmaker, a minimalist with a huge heart."
-Salon.com

"Funny, telling and more than a little frightening"
-Film Threat

THE SUPREME UNEASINESS:
Incessant Portrait of
Fernando Vallejo

Recommended!
"Finally, a documentary that makes the writing process
as fascinating as the profiled writer"
-Chicago Reader

TRAIN MAN
(DENSHA OTOKO)

"Unusually perceptive about the attractions of
online communities"
-New York Times

"An emotionally resonant finish"
-Chicago Reader

CALVAIRE
(THE ORDEAL)

"Think a Belgian League Of Gentlemen with lots,
lots more violence."
-BBC

"A stylish, nasty, very well-done Belgian horror movie...a shocker of almost stomach-heaving grimness and intensity."
-Chicago Tribune

The 2006 Humanities
Film Festival
PEACE AND WAR:
FACING HUMAN CONFLICT