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This week’s Must Read is an excellent profile of one of Bad Lit’s favorite fimmakers Usama Alshaibi, written by Ed M. Koziarski for the Chicago Reader. The article really captures Alshaibi’s growth as a film artist and his unique background that eventually led him to make the still-in-production documentary American Arab. Plus, a radio interview with Alshaibi for Wjjg. Second Must Read is Electric Sheep’s long, engaging interview with Peter Whitehead, who returns to film with Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Plus, the Sheep analyzes the new non-political U.S. war film genre. At long last, the great experimental media journal Incite! returns with its always insightful “back & forth” interview series. This time Penny Lane has tea and a very long and insightful chat with political animator Jacqueline Goss. Well, this is still relevant today and in the U.S.: Landscape Suicide...

Via David Hudson’s The Daily, who got it via Ed M. Koziarski’s brief piece in The Chicago Reader: Queer Cinema 101 is a five-week film series showcasing gay-themed films picked by gay film critics. The weekly series kicks off Monday, April 13 at Chicago’s Glbt Center on Halsted and continues through Monday, May 11. The five films are: The Celluloid Closet (1995, above, k.d. lang sings "Secret Love"), hosted by Richard Knight Jr., Cinema Writer, Windy City Times, Monday, April 13; round table discussion afterward the screening Velvet Goldmine (1996), hosted by Hank Sartin, Film section Editor and Critic, Time Out Chicago, screens Monday, April 20 The Killing of Sister George (1968), hosted by Charlie Shoquist, Film Critic, Gay Chicago Magazine , screens Monday, April 27 Parting Glances (1986), hosted by Gregg Shapiro, Film Critic, Chicago Free Press, screens Monday, May 4 Victor/Victoria (1982), hosted by Jonathan Lewis, Editor and Film Critic, Gay Chicago Magazine, screens Monday, May...