CHICAGO: The first annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival has begun and runs through Sunday. The movie half of that equation includes documentaries and videos featuring Bonzo Dog Band/Monty Python/Rutles mainstay Neil Innes (The Seventh Python), Sonic Youth, the New Pornographers, Feist, Elliott Sharp, and the underground music scene of Beijing. Feature films include Punching the Clown, a comedy in which satirical singer-songwriter Henry Phillips plays a version of himself trying to break into the Los Angeles music scene, and Lech Kowalski's East of Paradise.
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