Whats Better Than a Free Movie?
A free movie every week. To us summer is about more than music festivals, street fairs and outdoor dining. It’s also about enjoying wonderful cinema, either indoors in a wonderfully air-conditioned theater, or outside on a big freakin’ lawn. And we’ll be getting plenty of chances for both over the next several months thanks to Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. Better known as the organization behind the annual Chicago International Film Festival, Cinema/Chicago is presenting its “International Connections” series now through August 29 as a way to tide us over till October. Each Wednesday night at 7:30 in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre at the Chicago Cultural Center, a foreign-language film will be screened, accompanied by a short lecture from a guest speaker. All for free. Tonight’s selection is the Argentine film Garua, a moody existential crime drama involving a community of bohemians and the tango. J.R. Jones, a critic at the Reader, is the speaker. Forthcoming titl
