Thursday, July 7, 7:00 pm ICE Theaters Chatham 210 W 87th Street DESERT FLOWER, 120 min 2009, Austria/Germany/UK A Film by Sherry Hormann Based on the Novel by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while…(Read More)
Wednesday, June 1, 7:00pm ICE Theaters Lawndale | Admission: $5.00 3330 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL. | (773) 783-8812 icetheaters.com | blackworldcinema.net Just imagine… Teen moms becoming urban farmers. Utopia? Not in Detroit! Nature is taking over the city and the new generation is taught to harvest its profit. The award winning documentary…(Read More)
Director: Mahamat_Saleh Haroun Chad, France, Belgium / 2010 / Drama / French and Arabic w. English Subtitles / / 92 min. Thursday, June 2, 7:00pm ICE Theaters Chatham 14 | Admission: $5.00 210 W. 87th Street Chicago, IL. | (773) 783-8812 icetheaters.com | blackworldcinema.net Adam, a 60-something former swimming champion, is a pool attendant at…(Read More)
Thursday, April 7, 7pm ICE THEATERS 210 W 87th Street Chicago, IL Admission: $5.00 JOSEPHINE BAKER Black Diva in a White Man’s World, Director: Annette von Wangenheim Germany, 2006, 45 min. English/French/German with English subtitles A tender, revealing documentary about one of the most famous and popular performing artists of the…(Read More)
Thursday, May 5, 7pm ICE THEATERS 210 W 87th Street Chicago, IL Admission: $5.00 Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio, is sometimes named as a great work of fiction that cannot be filmed. Daniel Nearing demonstrates in “Chicago Heights” that’s not necessarily true. Nearing finds an approach that in 90 minutes accomplishes the uncanny…(Read More)
Thursday, March 3, 7pm ICE THEATERS 210 W 87th Street Chicago, IL Admission: $5.00 “Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave” Director: Tetchena Bellange Canada, 2010, 52 minutes Production company: Bel Ange Moon Productions “Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave” is a 52 minutes documentary about a hidden story of Canadian history: the…(Read More)
Thursday February 17, Adm: $5.00 ICE Theaters Chatham 14 210 West 87th Street Chicago, IL 60620 (773) 892-3204 Subway: 87th Street Lady Sings the Blues (R) 2h 24m 1972 A film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from one of Holiday’s…(Read More)
Kiss & Tell (NR) 70m 2010 “Kiss & Tell” is more than just a movie about movies. It’s a poignant, sometimes funny, and insightful documentary that turns the microscope on our past, present, and future images in movies from the perspective of over 70 actors, directors and producers. “Kiss and tell” also balances as…(Read More)
Thursday February 03 Adm: $5.00 ICE Theaters Chatham 14 210 West 87th Street Chicago, IL 60620 (773) 892-3204 Subway: 87th The Guest at Central Park West (NR) 1h 37m 2009 Two Harvard graduates, a noble prize winning professor and a homeless, epileptic sociopath share a secret past that explodes when an uninvited guest…(Read More)
The Wayman Tisdale Story (NR) , 2010, 72 min. “The Wayman Tisdale Story” gives a detailed account of the life of the late basketball star and jazz musician, Wayman Tisdale. Told through his own words in two exclusive interviews captured in May of 2009, Tisdale leads a journey through his own life story, from his…(Read More)