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Ever since Champaign’s Art Theater closed in 2019, local viewers have not had much chance to see well-crafted American and foreign independent films with solid stories to tell on a

In early 2019 Facets founder Milos Stehlik was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Now he takes stock of his legacy and the evolution of the medium he loves

"Maybe it is like a mirror," Makavejev told me late one night in Chicago. "People hold it up to themselves and see reflected only what they are most offended by." That has a way of happening with his work. "Sweet Movie" (1974) was described by Time as "not a movie -- a social sickness." At that crucial period in history spanning the late 1960s to the late 1970s, Makavejev (born 1932) was the most eclectic, eccentric, impenetrable, jolly anarchist to come o...

Opposing the strike, the management of the Lusty Lady argued that taking off your clothes in a peep show is not real labor so much as an enjoyable part-time job. The women putting in 10-hour shifts didnt see it that way--but their customers did. "Whats your job?" one of the clients asks one of the girls. "Im a stripper," she says. "I mean," he says, "how do you earn a living?" There is the curious notion that strippers and prostitutes do what they do because they enjoy it. This is a fiction tha...