The 43rd Chicago International Film Festival is dedicated to Roger Ebert, and opens with Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner. Tony Gilroy’s debut feature Michael Clayton screens, as does Anthony Hopkins’ directorial debut, Slipstream. The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips hosts an evening honoring 100 years of filmmaking of Chicago’s Essanay Film Manufacturing Company at the Music Box Theatre.
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