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Sunday, August 22, 2004   Chicago Underground Film Festival In keeping with its tradition of presenting a strong roster of music-oriented movies along with its other fare, the Chicago Underground Film Festival (which began Wednesday) has included among this year's offerings screenings of "My Brother Is James Chance," a documentary about the brother of the No-Wave legend; "Sound Class," a video history of the Jamaican sound systems of the reggae era and how they influenced the birth of hip-hop; "I Was Born But ...," a road movie by Roddy Bogawa that opens with the death of Joey Ramone and travels to Los Angeles to revisit punk clubs from the late '70s and early '80s, and "The Myth -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Fan Movie," which explores the followers of everybody's favorite literary goth-punk. But the most interesting of the music-related films is the world premiere of a documentary called "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" Read more at the Chicago Sun Times. posted by Ross Sunday, August 22, 2004

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