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Film, Film Issue May 8, 2019
Doc Films is movie history

And you can still see a lot of it on 35 mm—the way it was meant to be seen.
- By Quinn Myers
- Tags: Film Issue, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Max Palevsky Cinema, Martin Awano, film, reel, Nora Gonzalez, Ursula Wagner, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films, Doc Films Festival, cinema, film series, film programming, south side movie theater, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
Chicago International Film Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Pop-Up Magazine's Fall Issue tour and other goings on Mon 10/15-Thu 10/18.
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Arts, Music, Film, art, performing art, visual art, music, film, culture, theater, Chicago International Film Festival, Pop-Up, magazine, improv

Film, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To gets a fall retrospective at Doc Films

The masterpiece Life Without Principle and nine more greats screen from October through December.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Fall Preview, Johnnie To, Doc Films, retrospective, Life Without Principle, Hong Kong, film, fall preview, fall preview 2018

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2018
Five low-budget (but still amazing) science-fiction films

These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Television, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man from Planet X, science-fiction, film, Beyond the Time Barrier, Robert Clarke, Island of Lost Souls, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Sokoloff, Dave Kehr, Planet of the Vampires, Mario Bava, Demon Planet, Barry Sullivan, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Hercules in the Haunted World, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Dark Star, John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, cult film, Eraserhead, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, David Blair, William S. Burroughs, Alamogordo, New Mexico, Trinity nuclear test site, MTV

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, Crime, mystery, thriller, film, boats, FilmStruck, Macao, Josef von Sternerg, Paramount, RKO, Howard Hughes, Nicholas Ray, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Dave Kehr, L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Roberto Rossellini, La Notte, Eclipse, L’Eclisse, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Purple Noon, Alain Delon, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rene Clement, Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Henri Decae, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet, Playtime, Bill Kearns, Knife in the Water, Jerzy Skolimowski, Moonlighting, Roman Polanski, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Don Druker, Night Moves, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Watergate, Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Florida Keys, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Alan Sharp, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, James Woods

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 Mar 2, 2018
This Week on FilmStruck: Bette Davis

FilmStruck celebrates the great Bette Davis.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, History, On Video, Film, Hollywood, Bette Davis, Filmstruck, Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, Joan Crawford, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Three on a Match, The Public Enemy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, Mervyn LeRoy, Humphrey Bogart, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold, J.R. Jones, Marked Woman, Thomas Dewey, Lucky Luciano, Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel, Lloyd Bacon, Red Hollywood, Jane Bryan, Eduardo Cianneli, Isabel Jewell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Maxwell Anderson, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Essex, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz, Dave Kehr, The Man Who Came to Dinner, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Broadway Warner Brothers, Monty Woolley, Alexander Woolcott, Gore Vidal, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Reginald Gardner, Billie Burke, Mary Wickes, William Keighley, Grand Guignol, Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, Ulzana's Raid, Emperor of the North, Kiss Me Deadly, Don Druker

Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2017
Video
Chicago jazz bassist Joe Policastro shares a love for film and TV themes on his new trio album

The Joe Policastro Trio's Screen Sounds transforms score and soundtrack music with energetic imagination and a charmingly Catholic sensibility.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Joe Policastro, Dave Miller, Mikel Avery, jazz, film, television, Screen Sounds, Yojimbo, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2017
Mystery Science Theater 3000 at the Vic and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

The United States of Women’s Galvanize Chicago, The Chiraq Wall closes, and other happenings from July 14-16
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, united states of women, mccormick place, galvanize chicago, benfest, mystery science theater 3000, the vic, bikes and brews, beverly, the chiraq wall, hot shot productions, david weinberg, what's real, jean albano gallery, dance in the park, city of chicago, comedy, film, movies, visual arts, photography, lectures, networking, theater, closing night

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 13, 2016
Moonlight urges the need for deep self-reflection

The Golden Globe-nominated film poses a simple but profound question.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, News, Moonlight, film, movie, art, black, queer, identity, LGBT, young people, safe spaces

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2016
Local filmmaker David Singer finds humor and charm in Imperfections

The jewel-heist caper will have its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 14.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Imperfections, David Singer, Ed Begley Jr, Marilu Henner, Virginia Kull, film, comedy, Chicago International Film Festival

Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 27, 2014
Slideshow Video
How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world

For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer responsible for a treasure trove of images from 1940s India.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, photographs, photography, Jerri Zbiral, Alan Teller, state sales, India, Irving Leiden, 10th PTU, 1945, anthropology, World War II, Okinawa, Evanston, Lake Forest College, Gwynn Milbeck Stupar, U.S. Army, West Bengal, 10th Photographic Technical Unit, Army Air Corps, cameras, Speed Graphic, Library of Congress, Maxwell Air Force Base, archives, University of Chicago, photography archives, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Library, Jim Nye, Ralph Nicholas, Marta Nicholas, American Institute of Indian Studies, AIIS, Karanagarh Temple, Schneider Gallery, art, sculpture, Fulbright Program, grants, Kolkata, University of Iowa, Philp Lutgendorf, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Amritah Sen, Alakananda Nag, photographers, history, Bengal, Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence, Prabir Purkayastha, Bengal Famine of 1943, racism, minorities, Salur, Kharagpur, Asid Agarwal, SJ Ghosh, Salua Air Force Base, Salua, IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology, Gurkhas, Facebook, Balaji Temple, priests, Lewis Paltz, David Paltz, film, Texas, exhibits, video, paintings, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, auctions, Nandeswar temple, jungle, Swarna Chitrakar, story scrolls, painting, Slideshow, Video

Film, Movie Feature Jul 2, 2014
Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, film, filmmakers, PBS, Hoop Dreams, CeaseFire, The Interrupters, Stevie, Big Brothers, The New Americans, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, movies, Oak Park, Kartemquin Films, gardening, Rushville, Illinois, work, Judy James, sex offenders, careers, family, Hollywood, narrative film, television, TV, documentaries, Peter Gilbert, Prefontaine, James Madison University, auteurs, Alex Kotlowitz, Frederick Marx, film credits, SIU, Southern Illinois University, Big Muddy Film Festival, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, David Simpson, Leslie Simmer, film criticism, Errol Morris, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, humor, Flame-O Coby

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Queer-Friendly Multimedia Variety Show

Upstairs/Downstairs at the Bijou Theater
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Jeff Steinbrunner, Bijou, variety showcases, Old Town, Ricky von Anham, Miriam Webster, performance art, video, film, installations, stand-up, improv, dance, music, poetry, Chris Sowa, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Dead Artist Marketing Campaign

Vivian Maier
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Vivian Maier, John Maloof, photography, Flickr, exhibits, books, documentaries, film, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best South-Side Filmmaking Collective

Bridgeport Film Club
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Lance Eliot Adams, film, Bridgeport Film Club, movies, filmmaking, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Multiplex for Coffee

Showplace ICON
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Showplace ICON, coffee, movie theaters, S&D Coffee & Tea, moviegoing, film, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Itinerant Programming

Chicago Film Archives
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Chicago Film Archive, Chicago Film Archives, film, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Black Cinema House, South Shore, Constellation, Avondale, University of Glasgow, EYE Film Institute, CFA, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Streeterville, Avondale, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best New Local Production (Documentary)

An Honest Living
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Jordan Freese, documentaries, Gene Siskel Film Center, film, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Place to Pretend You're Robert De Niro

Club Lago
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Club Lago, Italian restaurants, Louis Prima, Robert De Niro, John McNaughton, film, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, jukeboxes, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Chicago Story

The Trials of Muhammad Ali
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Muhammad Ali, film, documentaries, Kartemquin Films, Bill Siegel, Critics' Picks

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Extended Birthday Party

Chicago International Film Festival
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, WTTW, Chicago International Film Festival, Tod Lending, Mike Leigh, Rebecca Camisa, Rob Frutchman, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Catherin Breillat, Kim Ki-duk, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, film, Chicago Cultural Center, film screenings, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 16, 2014
Making art out of the data of everyday life

For followers of a growing self-discovery movement preoccupied with personal-data mining, the quantities in our lives can say a lot about its quality.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, data, personal data, art, Eugene Granovsky, quantified self, self-knowledge, Gary Wolf, Kevin Kelly, Wired, lifeloggers, lifelogging, Mark Moschel, 1871, OK Cupid, Instagram, uncurated life, AskMeEvery, happiness, Stephen Cartwright, sculpture, Elmhurst Art Museum, EAM, Nadine Wasserman, Rachel Seligman, Carleton College, privacy, GPS, location, Staci Boris, Jennifer Dalton, appraisals, Christie's, value, John Peña, drawings, travel, Natalie Miebach, music, Suzanne Szucs, Polaroids, photography, film

Music, Music Feature May 28, 2014
Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon

Artist Theaster Gates and reedist Ken Vandermark join the jazz pianist in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Jason Moran, The Bandwagon, Nasheet Waits, Tarus Mateen, Symphony Center, multimedia, CSO, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Theaster Gates, Ken Vandermark, MacArthur Fellows, Eric Revis, artists, writers, Joan Jonas, Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Stan Douglas, Terrance Hayes, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Katie Ernst, Jazz Ahead, Kennedy Center, jazz, Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, Gerad Powell, Chicago Jazz Festival, Black Monks of Mississippi, Dorchester Projects, Manhattan School of Music, Bruce Nauman, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Bob Thompson, painters, Charles Lloyd, Slug's, Lee Morgan, contemporary art, Venice Biennale, Glenn Ligon, Thomas Edison, Edwin S. Porter, film, Bert Williams, video art, Ken Vandermark, Jeff Parker, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Documenta 13, James Fahey, AAM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Steve Coleman, Andrew Hill, Albert King, blues, commissions, Willie Pickens, Bethany Pickens, Roy Eldridge, Franz Schubert, saxophone, hip-hop, composers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Guggenheim, Velvet Lounge, street preachers, sculptors

Music, In Rotation May 5, 2014
In Rotation: Metro publicist Jenny Lizak on a punk documentary to give teenage girls for Christmas

Plus: Smart Bar booker Marea Stamper on the best bathhouse party in Pittsburgh and Reader music editor Philip Montoro on French black metal that's mad for Lovecraft
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: In Rotation, Metro, Smart Bar, Philip Montoro, Chicago Reader, Godflesh, Justin Broadrick, The Breeders, Amazon, Steve Albini, The Great Old Ones, black metal, documentaries, Kathleen Hanna, Music Box, Netflix, iTunes, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, Questlove, essays, Vulture, CHIRP Record Fair, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Jenny Lizak, Black Madonna, Hi-NRG disco, Frankie Knuckles, Pet Shop Boys, remixes, Neil Tennant, Pittsburgh, Jerry's Records, film, records, Marea Stamper, Patrick Cowley

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