Chicago International Film Festival 2011: A day-by-day guide to week one
We review 70 titles in a definitive guide to the festival's first week.
Thursday 6 | Friday 7 | Saturday 8 | Sunday 9 | Monday 10 | Tuesday 11 | Wednesday 12
All screenings take place at the AMC River East 21 (322 E Illinois St) unless otherwise noted.
For advance tickets, call 312-332-FILM, go to ticketmaster.com/chicagofilmfestival or stop by the festival office (30 E Adams St, Suite 800). For passes, go to chicagofilmfestival.com.
Thursday 6
7pm The Last Rites of Joe May Dir. Joe Maggio. 2011. 103mins. USA. The festival shows off its Chicago cred with this year’s opening-night movie, produced by Steppenwolf Films and shot entirely in our city. Maggio (last year’s Bitter Feast) does a credible job with this story of a small-time operator (Dennis Farina) so ineffectual that when he’s hospitalized for pneumonia, everyone assumes he’s dead. Predictably, he finds redemption caring for a battered single mother and her kid. The movie is watchable, but there’s barely a scene in it that’s not a cliché. Harris Theater (205 E Randolph St).—Ben Kenigsberg
Thursday 6 | Friday 7 | Saturday 8 | Sunday 9 | Monday 10 | Tuesday 11 | Wednesday 12
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