2003

In October, the Festival honors Nicolas Cage, Robert Benton, Robert Downey, Jr., and Taye Diggs. Stars Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott also attend, along with international auteurs Tsai Ming-liang and Peter Greenaway. Crimson Gold, from Iranian director Jafar Panahi, takes home the Gold Hugo for Best Feature, while top Chicago film critics present some of their favorite classics: the Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert hosts Japan’s esteemed benshi narrator to perform at Yasushiro Ozu’s I Was Born, But… (1932), the Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum selects Manoel De Oliveira’s Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1974) and the Chicago Tribune‘s Michael Wilmington revives Elia Kazan’s Wild River (1961).