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Film, Film Issue May 9, 2019
Silver screen influencers

Hollywood costumers changed Chicago wardrobes.
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Film Issue, Instagram, Hollywood, Fashion, Cary Grant

Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2018
Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood

Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, LGBTQ+, On Video, Hollywood, film, queer, gay, GLBT, Facets Cinémathèque, Basil Dearden, Victim, Nick Davis, Stonewall The Wild Party, Clara Bow, flappers, Joseph Moncure March, Fredric March, Dorothy Arzner, Paramount, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sylvia Scarlett, George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Edmund Gwenn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, French New Wave, John Collier, Joseph August, Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, Patrick Hamilton, Farley Granger, John Dall, Rear Window, James Stewart, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Dave Kehr, Tea and Sympathy, Vincente Minnelli, CinemaScope, Robert Anderson, Hays Office, censorship, John Kerr, Deborah Kerr, The Cobweb, Home From the Hill, Some Came Running, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman, Reflections in a Golden Eye, John Huston, Chapman Mortimer, Gladys Hill, Carson McCullers, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Aldo Tonti, Julie Harris, Brian Keith

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2016
Outdoor ice skating is hell frozen over

Why in the name of Michelle Kwan would anyone participate in this painfully tedious winter pastime?
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: The Contrarian, News, Things I Hate, The Contrarian, Michelle Kwan, McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink, Lincoln Park Zoo, ice skating, Mario Kart, Maggie Daley Park, Parson's Chicken & Fish, Humboldt Park, Cary Grant, Olympics, YMCA

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2014
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Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what's screening around town this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Happy Valley, Amir Bar-Lev, My Kid Could Paint That, The Tillman Story, Penn State, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, Union Carbide, Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, The Eagle and the Hawk, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Horrible Bosses 2, Steven Spielberg Jaws, Music Box Chicago, Steven Soderbergh, King of the Hill Soderbergh, University of Chicago Doc Films, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line, Ben Stiller, Zoolander, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Cary Grant

Highlights from the filmography of actor Cary Grant
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cary Grant, George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story, Merrily We Go To Hell, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Dorothy Arzner, Alfred Hitchcock, Leo McCarey, Stanley Donen, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday, Sylvia Scarlett, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Katherine Hepburn, Charade, Stanley Donen, The Grass is Greener, Peter Stone, Robert Mitchum, Notorious, Dave Kehr, The Awful Truth, Judd Apatow

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2014
This week's moviegoing dilemma: Katharine Hepburn or Nagisa Oshima?

George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett and Oshima's Death by Hanging both screen from 35-millimeter this Monday at 7 PM. Why? Why?!?!
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, It's Complicated, LGBT, Film, Sylvia Scarlett, Death by Hanging, Katharine Hepburn, George Cukor, Doc Films, Nagisa Oshima, Logan Center for the Arts, Cary Grant, Ursula Wagner

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2012
New York Times: A newspaper for the one-percenters

In the New York Times, stories about the rich lead nicely to ads for the rich
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: $$$, Media, News, Dwyane Wade, watches, New York Times Magazine, Miami Heat, Hublot Big Bang King Power, Madison Avenue, Domains, One-Percenters, Ryan Sheckler, skateboarding, reality TV, Life of Ryan, Harley-Davidson, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cary Grant, Michael Jordan, Usain Bolt, Sunday Styles, Chanel, Sunday Business, poverty, child poverty, census bureau, Peter Edelman, Georgetown University, So Rich So Poor, Robert F. Kennedy, Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Great Depression, innovations, carbon fiber, movie projectors, coffee, Jura, Roger Federer

Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2012
Dear Ocean's Eleven,

A letter to Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Ocean's Eleven, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Golden Era Hollywood, Cary Grant, Doc Films

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Lucy Walker, Waste Land, Jardim Gramacho landfill, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago International Film Festival, Music Box, Cedar Rapids movie, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, The Eagle movie, The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inspector Bellamy, Claude Chabrol, Loveless movie, The Roommate movie, The Woodmans, Francesa Woodman, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Harold Lloyd, Girl Shy, Doc Films, Robert Rossen, The Hustler, Block Museum of Art, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Loyola University, Ted Hardin, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Greta Garbo, Northbrook Public Library, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Cary Grant, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Clint Eastwood, Play Misty for Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2010
Video
Now Playing: The Tourist

A review of the new Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp thriller.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Tourist, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Cary Grant, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2010
Former Reader Freelancer Wins Pulitzer

Dance Criticism May Have a Future After All: Former Reader Freelancer Wins Pulitzer
- By Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Media, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Pulitzer, Washington Post, Jan Bartoszek, Julia Mayer, Winifred Haun, City Paper, Cary Grant, Michael Feingold, A.O. Scott

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Silver screen influencers

Hollywood costumers changed Chicago wardrobes.

Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood

Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.

Outdoor ice skating is hell frozen over

Why in the name of Michelle Kwan would anyone participate in this painfully tedious winter pastime?

Video
Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what's screening around town this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Weekly Top Five: The best of Cary Grant

Highlights from the filmography of actor Cary Grant

This week's moviegoing dilemma: Katharine Hepburn or Nagisa Oshima?

George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett and Oshima's Death by Hanging both screen from 35-millimeter this Monday at 7 PM. Why? Why?!?!

Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver

New York Times: A newspaper for the one-percenters

In the New York Times, stories about the rich lead nicely to ads for the rich

Dear Ocean's Eleven,

A letter to Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Now Playing: The Tourist

A review of the new Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp thriller.

Former Reader Freelancer Wins Pulitzer

Dance Criticism May Have a Future After All: Former Reader Freelancer Wins Pulitzer

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Hollywood costumers changed Chicago wardrobes.

Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.

Why in the name of Michelle Kwan would anyone participate in this painfully tedious winter pastime?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Highlights from the filmography of actor Cary Grant

George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett and Oshima's Death by Hanging both screen from 35-millimeter this Monday at 7 PM. Why? Why?!?!

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver

In the New York Times, stories about the rich lead nicely to ads for the rich

A letter to Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

A review of the new Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp thriller.

Dance Criticism May Have a Future After All: Former Reader Freelancer Wins Pulitzer

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