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Film
,
Movie Tuesday
Sep 10, 2019
Movie Tuesday: The male animal
Five films that examine, interrogate, or critique traditional male behavior.
By Ben Sachs
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Movie Tuesday
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Nicholas Ray
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Robert Aldrich
,
Kenji Mizoguchi
,
Maurice Pialat
,
Hong Sang-soo
,
Erich von Stroheim
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Elaine May
,
Clint Eastwood
,
Dorothy B. Hughes
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 23, 2018
John Huston, FilmStruck's Director of the Week, had a way with actors
FilmStruck "Director of the Week" John Huston always got great performances, from Humphrey Bogart in the 1940s to his daughter Anjelica Huston in the '80s,
By Patrick Friel
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Books
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Crime
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Film
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Moviegoing
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On Video
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Television
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John Huston
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Walter Huston
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Anjelica Huston
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FilmStruck
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Key Largo
,
Maxwell Anderson
,
To Have and Have Not
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Lionel Barrymore
,
Florida
,
Edward G. Robinson
,
Thomas Gomez
,
Marc Lawrence
,
Claire Trevor
,
Oscar
,
Richard Brooks
,
Karl Freund
,
Dave Kehr
,
The Asphalt Jungle
,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
,
The Badlanders
,
Cairo
,
Cool Breeze
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Sam Jaffe
,
Sterling Hayden
,
Louis Calhern
,
Jean Hagen
,
James Whitmore
,
Marilyn Monroe
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The Night of the Iguana
,
Richard Burton
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Mexico
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Deborah Kerr
,
Ava Gardner
,
Sue Lyon
,
Tennessee Williams
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Kinsey Report
,
Grayson Hall
,
Cyril Delevanti
,
Gabriel Figueroa
,
The Man Who Would Be King
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Sean Connery
,
Michael Caine
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Afghanistan
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Rudyard Kipling
,
Oswald Morris
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Saeed Jaffrey
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Wise Blood
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The Dead
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Flannery O'Connor
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Brad Dourif
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No Exit
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Sartre
,
Freud
,
Harry Dean Stanton
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Amy Wright
,
Daniel Shor
,
Ned Beatty
,
Michael Fitzgerald
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 2, 2018
This Week on FilmStruck: Bette Davis
FilmStruck celebrates the great Bette Davis.
By Patrick Friel
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Film
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History
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On Video
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Film
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Hollywood
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Bette Davis
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Filmstruck
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Jezebel
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Dark Victory
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The Little Foxes
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Now
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Voyager
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Joan Crawford
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Three on a Match
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The Public Enemy
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Ann Dvorak
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Joan Blondell
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Humphrey Bogart
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Lyle Talbot
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Allen Jenkins
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Edward Arnold
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J.R. Jones
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Marked Woman
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Thomas Dewey
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Lucky Luciano
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Robert Rossen
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Abem Finkel
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Lloyd Bacon
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Red Hollywood
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Jane Bryan
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Eduardo Cianneli
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Isabel Jewell
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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Maxwell Anderson
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Queen Elizabeth
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Lord Essex
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Errol Flynn
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Olivia de Havilland
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Donald Crisp
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Vincent Price
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Henry Stephenson
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Alan Hale
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Michael Curtiz
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Dave Kehr
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
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George S. Kaufman
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Moss Hart
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Broadway Warner Brothers
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Monty Woolley
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Alexander Woolcott
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Gore Vidal
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Ann Sheridan
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Jimmy Durante
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Reginald Gardner
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Billie Burke
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Mary Wickes
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William Keighley
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Grand Guignol
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Robert Aldrich
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The Dirty Dozen
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Ulzana's Raid
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Emperor of the North
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Kiss Me Deadly
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Don Druker
Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 23, 2016
Video
How
Hail, Caesar!
handles Hollywood history
The Coen brothers' latest film is a fever dream of the Red-baiting right.
By Kyle Westphal
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Film
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History
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Hail Caesar!
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Coen brothers
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Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
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Inside Llewyn Davis
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John Howard Lawson
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Communist Party
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communism
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Gene Kelly
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Betsy Blair
,
Henry Wallace
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Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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Committee for the First Amendment
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Gale Sondergaard
,
Lloyd Gough
,
Channing Tatum
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Louis B. Mayer
,
Eddie Mannix
,
Josh Brolin
,
George Clooney
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Video
Columns & Opinion
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On Culture
Mar 17, 2015
A touring exhibit of work by Archibald Motley is a visual feast—and a revelation
The African-American painter is Chicago's own Jazz Age modernist.
By Deanna Isaacs
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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
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Chicago Cultural Center
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Chicago History Museum
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Art Institute
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Knock on Any Door
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Pulitzer
,
John Norton
,
Karl Buehr
,
Edith Granzo
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Columbia College
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Amy Mooney
,
Bronzeville
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Mending Socks
,
Richard J. Powell
,
Robert Colescott
,
Kara Walker
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The First One Hundred Years: He Amongst You Who Is Without Sin Shall Cast the First Stone; Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do
,
Renzo Piano
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 11, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
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Film Noir Foundation
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Egyptian Theater
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Noir City Chicago 3
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Music Box
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Brute Force
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Burt Lancaster
,
Sorry Wrong Number
,
Barbara Stanwyck
,
Deadline USA
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
The Dark Mirror
,
Olivia De Havilland
,
The Blue Dahlia
,
Alan Ladd
,
Veronica Lake
,
Loophole movie
,
Larceny movie
,
Andrea Gronvall
,
The Interrupters
,
Steve James
,
Alex Kotlowitz
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video
,
Yelling to the Sky
,
Gabourey Sidibe
,
Precious movie
,
Autumn Execution
,
Lee Hsing
,
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
,
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
,
Detroit Wild City
,
The Help movie
,
Emma Stone
,
Sissy Spacek
,
Viola Davis
,
Jessica Chastain
,
The Tree of Life
,
Sleep Furiously
,
Wales
,
30 Minutes or Less
,
Reuben Fleischer
,
Zombieland
,
Jesse Eisenberg
,
The Social Network
,
Aziz Ansari
,
Funny People
,
The Whistleblower
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Bosnia-Herzegovina
,
Robert Wiene
,
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Samuel Fuller
,
I Shot Jesse James
,
The Steel Helmet
,
Portage theater
,
Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
F.W. Murnau
,
Sunrise movie
,
Sunrise Murnau
,
Silent Film Society of Chicago
,
Jay Warren
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
News & Politics
,
Feature
Apr 29, 2011
What's Happening With Sulzer Library's VHS Tapes?
(Not to mention the chairs and tables)
By Sarah Louise Klose
Tags:
Feature
,
Chicago Public Library
,
Sulzer Regional Library
,
VHS
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The Kiss
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Greta Garbo
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum
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Humphrey Bogart
,
The Paris Express
,
Claude Rains
,
Jean Pioret
,
The Elegant Criminal
,
The Saint
,
Roger Moore
,
Nancy Drew Mysteries
,
Pamela Sue Martin
,
Time
,
Newsweek
,
Life
,
Look
,
National Geographic
,
Ladies' Home Journal
,
Saturday Evening Post
,
Vogue
,
House Beautiful
,
Historic Illinois
,
Theatre Arts Monthly
,
Architectural Digest
,
Museum of Science and Industry
,
Thomas Beeby
,
Woodworking Corporation
Reader
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Matches blog
Sep 29, 2010
Video
A Second Rate Imitation, Watered Down Simulation
Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can't think clearly when I'm dizzy.
By Heartbroker
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Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories
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Chicago
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Pinhead Gunpowder
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LTR
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smiley
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drifting
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Mary Tyler Moore
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Frank Sinatra
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Derek Hess
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Husker Du
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pill
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juice
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Humphrey Bogart
,
Casablanca
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Ingrid Bergman
,
story time
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travel
,
travels
,
friends
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family
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boyfriend
,
girlfriend
,
regret
,
Easy Rider
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Peter Fonda
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Dennis Hopper
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Suck City
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U.S.A.
,
resolve
,
prison
,
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,
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,
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