Sign O The Times will be projected from some type of video this Thursday night in Chicago, 6pm, with a discussion to follow. Here's a review, with other info, from Jim Gabriel at http://cine-file.info/list.htm

Prince and Albert Magnoli’s SIGN O’ THE TIMES (American Revival)
Black Cinema House at Bing Art Books (307 E. Garfield Blvd.) — Thursday, 6pm (Free Admission)
Succumbing to the joys of SIGN O’ THE TIMES at a thirty year remove from a first viewing hardens my belief that films don’t change, but we do, or can; what once upon a time seemed slapdash and often didactic to eye and ear now feels spirited and downright charming. It’s a scrappy production, with interstitial footage, a bit of story, Skid Row set design, and restaged performances turned into a satisfying rhythmic whole miraculously pulled out of the fire of unusable arena concert shoots. Prince is as generous as can be, a leader who lets everyone play and cut loose; there’s a sweet interlude where the band plays a fat slab of Mingus leading into Sheila Escovedo ripping into a drum solo—everyone gets room to roam, especially the stunning dancer/singer Cat Glover, who on occasion seems like a strip club Cyd Charisse. The man himself is, of course, Himself. You experience Prince’s very body as cinema, his quicksilver bursts and twitches, the pop-and-lock, the clenched, deep-into-it eyes moving to high doe-eyed flirtatiousness in a millisecond, the hunch over the guitar moving into splits—his movements contain the paces of satisfying editing, with its intuitive variances, jaggedness butting up against slow flow. There’ll be no more displays of that munificent talent and giant heart, but screenings like this afford opportunities to commune with each other, and with that spirit and body equalized by pain, to love anew the will and wit and sexy, churchy funk of it all. And if that seems overly sentimental, I would submit that a life given over to art that doesn’t contain a measure of sentiment is worth less than nothing; you might as well take up solitaire.Followed by a conversation between Black Cinema House Curator Jacqueline Stewart and popular music/performance studies scholar Daphne Brooks (Yale University). (1987, 85 min, Video Projection - Unconfirmed Format) JG

[Edited 6/11/16 9:40am]