(Mini) Episode #24 On this special episode of the Cine-Cast, co-managing editor Kat Sachs interviews filmmaker Ira Sachs in advance of his new film, PASSAGES, opening at the Music Box Theatre. The introductory theme is by local film composer Ben Van Vlissingen. Find out more about his work here: www.benvanv.com Sign up now to receive Cine-File's Cine-List via email every Friday: www.cinefile.info/subscribe

Episode #23 On this special episode of the Cine-Cast, co-managing editor Kat Sachs interviews London-based non-fiction filmmaker Charlie Shackleton about his 2021 film THE AFTERLIGHT (82 min, 35mm), which screens Wednesday at 7:30pm, at Northeastern Illinois University, as part of the Chicago Film Society's new season. Sachs and Shackleton chat about TikTok, what makes this a particularly unique screening, and why the print's first real scratch will be a rite of passage. This event is the essence of Crucial Viewing—it’s a singular film-going experience that you're unlikely to encounter again. Preceded by Paul Weiland's 1991 short MR. BEAN GOES TO A PREMIÈRE (6 min, 35mm), selected by Shackleton from the Chicago Film Society's collection. The introductory theme is by local film composer Ben Van Vlissingen. Find out more about his work here: www.benvanv.com Sign up now to receive Cine-File's Cine-List via email every Friday: www.cinefile.info/subscribe

Episode #22. In anticipation of the "Highs and Lows" series starting February 12 at the Music Box (which comprises eight double features of a lowbrow movie paired with an art film), Cine-File editors Ben and Kat Sachs talk high and low cinema with series programmers Will Morris and John Dickson (who's also a Cine-File contributor). The discussion topics range from Robert Bresson to '90s teen comedies, with considerations along the way of critic Robin Wood, programmer Henri Langlois, and the 1980s work of Francis Ford Coppola. The introductory theme is by local film composer Ben Van Vlissingen. Find out more about his work here: www.benvanv.com Sign up now to receive Cine-File's Cine-List via email every Friday: www.cinefile.info/subscribe