In 1997, the Chicago Underground Film Festival held its fourth annual edition on August 13-17 at the Theatre Building at 1225 W. Belmont Avenue. One way the festival promoted itself that year was it published a four-page pull-out section in the Chicago-based political magazine Lumpen, vol. 6 no. 4.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
- 12/10/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Love & Bananas Abramorama Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Ashley Bell Screenwriters: Ashley Bell, John Michael McCarthy, Fernanda Rossi Cast: Ashley Bell, Lek Chailert, Noi Na Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/18/18 Opens: April 22, 2018 for Earth Day in select theater. April 27, 2018 Wider. Ninety-nine percent of us use animal products for food. […]
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- 4/19/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
“Designated Survivor” star Maggie Q is set to introduce the opening night of Kcet and Link TV’s Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival, Variety has learned exclusively.
The actress, producer, and environmentalist will give the introduction for the West Coast premiere of the documentary “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story” on April 20 at Sony Pictures Studios’ Kim Novak Theatre. The film, from filmmaker Ashley Bell, follows a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a captive Asian elephant and set her free. A post-screening Q&A will follow with filmmakers Bell, Roddy Tabatabai and John Michael McCarthy, executive producer David Casselman as well as the film’s Sangdeaun Lek Chailert moderated by Kcet “Must See Movies” host and Deadline chief film critic Pete Hammond.
Five pairs of tickets will be given away to the opening night screening event via Kcet’s Facebook.
Following the opening night event at Sony Pictures Studios,...
The actress, producer, and environmentalist will give the introduction for the West Coast premiere of the documentary “Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story” on April 20 at Sony Pictures Studios’ Kim Novak Theatre. The film, from filmmaker Ashley Bell, follows a daring 48-hour mission across Thailand to rescue a captive Asian elephant and set her free. A post-screening Q&A will follow with filmmakers Bell, Roddy Tabatabai and John Michael McCarthy, executive producer David Casselman as well as the film’s Sangdeaun Lek Chailert moderated by Kcet “Must See Movies” host and Deadline chief film critic Pete Hammond.
Five pairs of tickets will be given away to the opening night screening event via Kcet’s Facebook.
Following the opening night event at Sony Pictures Studios,...
- 4/11/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Year: 2009
Directors: John Michael McCarthy
Writers: John Michael McCarthy
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 1 out of 10
Oh, Cigarette Girl! I was so looking forward to watching you. I got up early, eagerly skipped to the cinema like a big girl, sat in the back row and opened my notebook. Nothing could have prepared me for how bad you are. Nothing. The festival buzz around this film was big, with the awesome premise of future smokers having been segregated from the rest of society and living in ghettos, while gangsters illegally trade cigarettes for cash, drugs and favours. Cigarette Girl is part of this world, but decides after a death in her family to quit. Quit smoking, quit gang life, and quit all the hard and hateful things in her life. The cinema was packed for the press screening - near empty by the end.
The film is...
Directors: John Michael McCarthy
Writers: John Michael McCarthy
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 1 out of 10
Oh, Cigarette Girl! I was so looking forward to watching you. I got up early, eagerly skipped to the cinema like a big girl, sat in the back row and opened my notebook. Nothing could have prepared me for how bad you are. Nothing. The festival buzz around this film was big, with the awesome premise of future smokers having been segregated from the rest of society and living in ghettos, while gangsters illegally trade cigarettes for cash, drugs and favours. Cigarette Girl is part of this world, but decides after a death in her family to quit. Quit smoking, quit gang life, and quit all the hard and hateful things in her life. The cinema was packed for the press screening - near empty by the end.
The film is...
- 6/21/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Director/writer: John Michael McCarthy.
Cigarette Girl is the first production from Guerrilla Monster Films and the first film to also be distributed by this company. This is John Michael McCarthy's six feature film as a director and this film centrally revolves around Cori Dial's character Cigarette Girl, who peddles nicotine to a futuristic world (2035). This film will show at the Edinburgh 2010 Film Festival June 22nd and the well written narrative tale is mildly hampered by some flaws in sound and dialogue.
The film's story focuses in on "The Smoking Section" were those who choose to smoke must do so with other smokers (Cigarette). Cigarettes are $63 a pack and Cigarette Girl makes a living by selling these addictive death sticks at a cut rate price and competes with one of the biggest sellers in the district, the Vice Club. Events get a little more complicated for Cigarette Girl when...
Cigarette Girl is the first production from Guerrilla Monster Films and the first film to also be distributed by this company. This is John Michael McCarthy's six feature film as a director and this film centrally revolves around Cori Dial's character Cigarette Girl, who peddles nicotine to a futuristic world (2035). This film will show at the Edinburgh 2010 Film Festival June 22nd and the well written narrative tale is mildly hampered by some flaws in sound and dialogue.
The film's story focuses in on "The Smoking Section" were those who choose to smoke must do so with other smokers (Cigarette). Cigarettes are $63 a pack and Cigarette Girl makes a living by selling these addictive death sticks at a cut rate price and competes with one of the biggest sellers in the district, the Vice Club. Events get a little more complicated for Cigarette Girl when...
- 6/3/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The line-up of films for the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival has been announced and included in this years schedule is the social satire Cigarette Girl. The film shows June 22nd and in the trailer below, Cigarette Girl lives in a zone exclusively for smokers where cigarettes costs "$63/pack." What a nightmare! In this futuristic world (2035) Cigarette Girl, played by Cori Dials, tries to kick her addiction while killing off the cigarette cartel. Have a watch of the first trailer for the film, while Edinburgh shows the best and the brightest from the independent film world.
The synopsis for Cigarette Girl here:
"In 2035, smoking has been outlawed except in the dystopian, dangerous, nicotine-stained smoking section of town. Smokes cost $63/pack. Patrons buy them at the club from the old-fashioned Cigarette Girl. When she starts underselling the club on the street, the Vice Lord decides to smoke her.
Meanwhile, Cigarette Girl attempts to...
The synopsis for Cigarette Girl here:
"In 2035, smoking has been outlawed except in the dystopian, dangerous, nicotine-stained smoking section of town. Smokes cost $63/pack. Patrons buy them at the club from the old-fashioned Cigarette Girl. When she starts underselling the club on the street, the Vice Lord decides to smoke her.
Meanwhile, Cigarette Girl attempts to...
- 6/2/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
- 6/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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