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The best film opening in Chicago this week can’t be found at the multiplex, or Facets, or the Gene Siskel Film Center, or in the private projection booth whirring continuously in your brain, the one your doctor keeps urging you to do something about.

It’s called “Must Read After My Death” (3 1/2 stars), a bloodcurdling 75-minute diary assembled from an astonishing stash of audiotapes and Dictaphone recordings, cries and whispers out of one documentary filmmaker’s family history. It opens in limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles. Everywhere in between, director Morgan Dews’ film goes out digitally as a “broadband cinema” offering.

Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, (Feb. 20), the doc is yours for three days of unlimited viewing for $2.99 at www.giganticdigital.com. Mark Lipsky, president of Gigantic Releasing and a former Miramax Films marketing head as well as an Independent Film Channel alum, acknowledges that “anybody can throw a movie up on the Internet and call it a ‘release.’ But we’re a bona fide distributor.”

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