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Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2017
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Strong performances can’t undo the self-importance of It Comes at Night

Trey Edward Shults's arty horror film is a case of form overwhelming content.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Shots Fired, Trey Edward Shults, It Comes at Night, Joel Edgerton, George A. Romero, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, postapocalyptic America, A.O. Scott, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
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Guerrillas, gamma people, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Escape From Tomorrow, Disneyland, Disney World, Ben Sachs, Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine, School of the Art Institute, All Is Lost, Robert Redford, Bad Grandpa, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Carrie movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sissy Spacek, The Counselor, Ridley Scott, Cormac McCarthy, The Gamma People, Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Hou Hsiao-hsien, City of Sadness, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Reeves, The Conqueror Worm, Gene Siskel Film Center, Far From Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter Halloween, Logan Theater Chicago, River East 21, Landmark's Century Centre, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, John Cassavetes, Minnie and Moskowitz, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Music Box Chicago, Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark, George Pal, War of the Worlds, Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man, Englewood International Film Festival, Chatham 14, Chicago International Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Chris & Heather's Halloween Hootenanny, Fitzgerald's, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 2, 2012
Revolting babies

In punky, dystopian Rise of the Numberless, outlawed children take to the ramparts
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Ursula Le Guin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, rock musical, New Colony, Bailiwick Chicago, dystopia, Patraic Coakley, Andrew Hobgood, Evan Linder, Chris Gingrich, Julie Nichols, rebellion, terrorism, paramilitary

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2009
Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Typewriter

Cormac McCarthy's typewriter up for auction
- By Jessica Hopper
- Tags: RE Gift, Lit & Lectures, Books, Cormac McCarthy, charity auction, Christie's, Olivertti typewriter, Oprah, The Road, affordable typewriters, Luddite gifts, Christmas, Hanukkah

Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2009
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No One's Pardoning These Turkeys

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Old Dogs, Ninja Assassins, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, John HIllcoat, Road Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, John Woo, Red Cliff, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, The SOund of Music, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, La Danse--The Paris Opera Ballet, An Education, Good Hair, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Where the Wild Things Are, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2009
TIFF Review: Short Takes
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven, Blessed, Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Melbourne Workers Theater, The Grapes of Wrath, Ana Kokinnos, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara, Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Cage, Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon, Cannes film festival, Palme d'Or, The Road, Road Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, Dimension Films, Henny Youngman, Viggo Mortensen, film festivals, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2008
How the west wasn't won

Best film westerns? Some people have no business picking 'em.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Cormac McCarthy, John Ford, Blood Meridian, The Searchers, Cinematheque Top 5 Project, Budd Boetticher, Ride Lonesome, Sam Peckinpah, Ride the High Country, Sergei Eisenstein, The Sun Shines Bright, The Ruse, William S. Hart, Hell's Hinges, The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry, Max Ernst, William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come, The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Mole People

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2007
Strangers in bad company

We're still trying to figure out what the Coen brothers have in common with Cormac McCarthy.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Terrence Malick, The Road, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Gere, Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, Border trilogy, Miller's Crossing

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2007
Contemplate the apocalypse with Oprah

Contemplate the apocalypse with Oprah.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Oprah, The Road, Cormac McCarthy

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Strong performances can’t undo the self-importance of It Comes at Night

Trey Edward Shults's arty horror film is a case of form overwhelming content.

Video
Guerrillas, gamma people, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Revolting babies

In punky, dystopian Rise of the Numberless, outlawed children take to the ramparts

Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Typewriter

Cormac McCarthy's typewriter up for auction

Video
No One's Pardoning These Turkeys

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.

TIFF Review: Short Takes

How the west wasn't won

Best film westerns? Some people have no business picking 'em.

Strangers in bad company

We're still trying to figure out what the Coen brothers have in common with Cormac McCarthy.

Contemplate the apocalypse with Oprah

Contemplate the apocalypse with Oprah.

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Trey Edward Shults's arty horror film is a case of form overwhelming content.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In punky, dystopian Rise of the Numberless, outlawed children take to the ramparts

Cormac McCarthy's typewriter up for auction

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.

Best film westerns? Some people have no business picking 'em.

We're still trying to figure out what the Coen brothers have in common with Cormac McCarthy.

Contemplate the apocalypse with Oprah.

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