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Film, Movie Feature Apr 12, 2021
Now playing: a return to the movies

After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Music Box Theatre, Tenet, Godzilla vs. Kong, Ryan Oestreich, Gunda, Creepy Co., Music Box of Horrors, the New 400 Theater, the Davis Theater, AMC, ShowPlace ICON, Regal Cinemas, Harper Theater, Brittany Low-Lipsey, Facets, Charles Coleman, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jen de St. Aubin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ann Hornaday, Sergio Mims, John Sayles, Jennifer Reeder, Rebecca Fons, Conversations on the Edge, Amy Beste, Black Harvest Film Festival, Doc Films, Nightingale Cinema, Emily Eddy, Malia Haines-Stewart, Alan Medina, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Pepe Vargas, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Sophia Wong Boccio, Comfort Film, Comfort Station, Rebecca Hall, Rebecca Lyon, Infuriating Times, Chicago Film Society

Film, Movie Feature Aug 14, 2020
(Re)discover Agnès Varda

A new Criterion Collection box set encompasses the filmmaker’s work—and reminds of her time spent in Chicago.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Agnès Varda, Criterion Collection, Dominique Bluher, Jonathan Rosenbaum, CinéVardaExpo

Film, Movie Feature Nov 26, 2018
Writer A.S. Hamrah on the crisis in film criticism

The new essay collection The Earth Dies Streaming collects his work from 2002 to 2018.
- By Anne Elizabeth Moore
- Tags: Movie Feature, A.S. Hamrah, film criticism, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Film, Movie Feature Nov 2, 2018
How Filip Rymsza finally finished Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind

A tale of a novice producer and a legendary film that no one ever thought would ever play in theaters.
- By Patrick Z. McGavin
- Tags: Movie Feature, The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles, Filip Rymsza, Frank Marshall, Jonathan Rosenbaum, unfinished films, Peter Bogdanovich, Mehdi Boushehri, Les Films d’Astrophore, Telluride Film Festival, Netflix, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, A Final Cut for Orson, Josh Karp, Orson Welles's Last Movie, F For Fake, Beatrice Ives Welles, Richard Welles, Todd School for Boys, Roger Hill, Wladyslaw Rymsza, Alina Rymsza, The Sacred Beasts, Oja Kodar, Joseph McBride, Gary Graver, Beatrice Welles, Francoise Widhoff, Cannes Film Festival, copyright law

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2018
There are Chicagoans in the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival!

A mostly complete local viewing guide
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, An Acceptable Loss, Joe Chappelle, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, Beautiful Boy, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, The City That Sold America, Ky Dickens, Assia Boundaoui, The Feeling of Being Watched, Bridgeview, Friedkin Uncut, William Friedkin, The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr., In Search of Greatness, Gabe Polsky, Olympia, McKenzie Chinn, Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Power and the Glory, Colleen Moore, Michael Kutza, Billy Hargrave, Relax It's Probably Just a Parasite, Joel Benjamin, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, Sandra Bland, Geneva Reed-Veal, Margaret Bialis, Opening Night, Michael Paulucci, Hashtag Perfect Life, Dan Rybicky, Accident MD, Felix Piñeiro, I Am Not Broken, Jake Zalutsky, Mike Mollo Prepares for a Fight, Pam Austin, Whimper, Spencer Parsons, Commodity/Fetish, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Blue, Deborah Stratman, Optimism, Melika Bass, Creature Companion, United Skates, Buddy Love, Rich City Skate, What They Had, Elizabeth Chomko, Widows, Steve McQueen

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2018
‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Humor, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Opera, Ernst Lubitsch, FilmStruck, Lubitsch touch, The Oyster Princess, Ossi Owalda, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sumurun, Pola Negri, Hollywood, Max Reinhardt, Dave Kehr, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, operetta, Lorenz Hart, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, MGM, Paramount, Cedric Gibbons, The Lady Dances, The Shop Around the Corner, Budapest, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Heaven Can Wait, Technicolor, Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Samson Raphaelson, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Spring Byington

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young

These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, LGBTQ+, Moviegoing, Poverty, RIP, The Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society City Girl, F.W. Murnau, L'Atalante, Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Michel Simon, Louis Lefebvre, Gilles Margaritis, Boris Kaufman, Maurice Jaubert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The House Is Black, Forugh Farrokhzad, leper colony, Iran, The Conqueror Worm, The Witchfinder General, Vincent Price, Matthew Hopkins, Ronald Bassett, Michael Reeves, Carl Dreyer, Day of Wrath, Tigon Films, Hammer Films, Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe, J.R. Jones, Wanda, Barbara Loden, Don Druker, Savage Nights, Jacques Fieschi, Cyril Collard, Les nuits fauves, Romane Bohringer, AIDS, Philadelphia, Carlos Lopez

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2018
Five opera films that hit the high notes

If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center's screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, Foreign, History, Moviegoing, Music, Opera, Performing Arts, Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Flute, opera, Chuck Jones, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, What's Opera Doc?, Carmen Jones, Otto Preminger, Dorothy Dandridge, CinemaScope, Dave Kehr, Bluebeard's Castle, Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, Bela Bartok, Bela Balazs, Leni Riefenstahl, Hein Heckroth, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffman, Norman Foster, Anna Raquel Satre, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moses and Aaron, Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet, Arnold Schoenberg, Don Giovanni, Joseph Losey, Mozart, Freud, Marx, The Boy With Green Hair, Mr. Klein, Parsifal, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, King Ludwig, Karl May, Richard Wagner, Edith Clever, Yvonne Minton, Reiner Goldberg, Robert Loyd, Wolfgang Schone, Aage Haugland

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2018
The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week

Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, William A. Wellman, Oscar, Wings, James Cagney, gangster, The Public Enemy, FilmStruck, Pre-Code, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Dave KehrNight Nurse, Warners, Manny Farber, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Safe in Hell, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Reece Pendleton, Heroes for Sale, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Sachs, Wild Boys of the Road, Frankie Darro

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2018
Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s

Men weren't the only ones making thoughtful and provocative independent films in the 1960s and '70s, as this selection demonstrates.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Art House, Film, History, Immigration, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Theater, independent filmmaking, Chicago Film Society, Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, The Connection, Living Theater, Jack Gelber, Judith Malina, The Lower Depths, The Iceman Cometh, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Shirley Clarke, Warren Finnerty, Carl Lee, Garry Goodrow, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Wanda, Barbara Loden, Don Druker, The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman, Dave Kehr, Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver, Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple Oscar

Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2018
Jean-Pierre Melville's brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Jean-Pierre Melville, FilmStruck, film noir, French New Wave, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, . The Silence of the Sea, Vercors, Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain, Robert Bresson, Orson Welles, Dave Kehr, Bob le Flambeur, Pigalle, The Asphalt Jungle, Two Men in Manhattan, Pierre Grasset, Nicolas Hayer, J.R. Jones, Le Samourai, Alain Delon, John Woo, Le Deuxieme Souffle, Henri Decae, The Book of Bushido, Joan McLeod, The Ronin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Le Cercle Rouge, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, André Bourvil, François Périer, Bill Stamets

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2018
Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Media, Moviegoing, On Video, Television, Unfriended, Gene Siskel Film Center, Accumulator 1, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Sidney Lumet, television, TV, Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Taxi Driver Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Dave Kehr, Videodrome, David Cronenberg, James Woods, Deborah Harry, Kenneth Anger, Star Wars, Spin, Brian Springer, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Pat Robertson, Jerry Brown, Larry King, Dan Rather, Saddam Hussein, Ted Turner, PBS, POV, Bill Stamets, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey, Andrew Niccol, Peter Weir, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2018
FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor

George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Crime, Dance, Film, On Video, Small Screen, Television, George Cukor, Hollywood, auteur, FilmStruck, The Women, The Philadelphia Story, A Star Is Born, What Price Hollywood?, Lowell Sherman, Constance Bennett, Academy Award, Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory, Dave Kehr, Camille, Alexandre Dumas, Greta Garbo, Clarence Brown, MGM, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, William Daniels, Gaslight, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury, Joseph Cotton, Dame May Whitty, Adam's Rib, Spencer Tracy, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Les Girls, Andrew Sarris, John Patrick, Vera Caspary, Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor, Taina Elg, Gene Kelly, Bhowani Junction, Cole Porter, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2018
Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, History, LGBTQ+, On Video, Television, Derek Jarman, FilmStruck, Pride Month, Caravaggio, Jean-Luc Godard, Passion, homoerotic, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Pat Graham, The Last of England, Margaret Thatcher, Spencer Leigh, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe, Ronald Reagan, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Jerome Flynn, Elektra Quartet, Annie Lennox, Eurythmics, Cole Porter, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Cornell, Karl Johnson, Blue, AIDS, Simon Fisher Turner

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Music, On Video, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, underground, Half-Cocked, Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, Horns and Halos, Freakwater, Sleepyhead, Grifters, J.R. Jones, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, D.W. Harper, Charles Whitman, Stephen Grant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Straightman, Ben Berkowitz, Benjamin Redgrave, John Cassavetes, Shadows, The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, Columbia Record and Tape Club, 60 Minutes, Migrating Forms, James Fotopoulos, Fred Camper, Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Robert Dickerson, Smoke, AIDS, Patti Smith, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Putty Hill, Hamilton, Matthew Porterfield, David Gordon Green, George Washington, Your Highness, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Ronald Bronstein, Frownland, Carlen Altman, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Jake Williams, This Is My Land, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2018
Five literary biopics whose pictures are worth a thousand words

Five literary biopics whose visual style lives up to the words.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Poetry, Biopic, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haifaa al-Mansou, Mary Shelley, Chicago Film Society, Charles Vidor, Hans Christian Andersen, The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Paradjanov, Armenia, Sayat Nova, Sergei Yutkevich, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Karl May, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Germany, Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King, Our Hitler: A Film From Germany, Richard Wagner Third Reich Dave Kehr, An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion, Sweetie, New Zealand, Janet Frame, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Kerry Fox, Laura Jones, High Tide, Stuart Dryburgh, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Richard Lester, Amour Fou, Heinrich von Kleist, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Henriette Vogel, Eric Rohmer, The Marquise of O, Ben Sachs

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
- Tags: Books, Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Television, John Huston, Walter Huston, Anjelica Huston, FilmStruck, 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, Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe, The Night of the Iguana, Richard Burton, Mexico, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon, Tennessee Williams, Kinsey Report, Grayson Hall, Cyril Delevanti, Gabriel Figueroa, The Man Who Would Be King, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Afghanistan, Rudyard Kipling, Oswald Morris, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Wise Blood, The Dead, Flannery O'Connor, Brad Dourif, No Exit, Sartre, Freud, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright, Daniel Shor, Ned Beatty, Michael Fitzgerald, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Architecture, Film, Foreign, On Video, Gene Siskel Film Center, Always at the Carlyle, New York City, hotel Georges Méliès, Wes Andeson, The Shining, The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Universal, Dave Kehr, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, Playtime, The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Miami Beach, Fontainebleau Hotel, Cracking Up, Milton Berle, Walter Winchell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, Memphis, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Robby Müller, Barton Fink, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Hollywood, John Turturro, John Goodman, Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2018
The weird world of Guy Maddin

Five great films by Canadian indie Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Green Fog, screens this week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Small Screen, Guy Maddin, Canada, cinema, The Green Fog, Gene Siskel Film Center, J.R. Jones, Doc Films, My Winnipeg, Archangel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Heart of the World, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Winnipeg, Angela Heck, Margaret-Anne MacLeod, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Lisa Alspector, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Rotterdam Film Festival, Brand Upon the Brain!, Isabella Rossellini, Jason Staczek, The Forbidden Room, Evan Johnson, Geraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Amalric, Jacques Nolot, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2018
FilmStruck’s ‘Early Hitchcock’ shows the master of suspense mastering suspense

The streaming-video channel FilmStruck collects early films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, The Internet, FilmStruck, Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger, Frenzy, Dave Kehr, Rich and Strange, Marnie, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Joan Barry, Henry Kendall, Number 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sabotage, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, Young and Innocent, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Derrick de Marney, Nova Pilbeam, The Birds, Basil Radford

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
Five classic films by Latin American women

Zama, a new feature from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, inspires a look back a five other female directors from Latin America.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Dance, Film, Foreign, Gender Issues, Moviegoing, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Lucrecia Martel, Zama, Gene Siskel Film Center, Salta Trilogy, The Headless Woman, Latin America, Margot Benacerraf, Sara Gómez, María Luisa Bemberg, Suzana Amaral, Maria Novaro, Araya, Cannes, Andrea Gronvall, One Way or Another, Yolanda Cuellar, Mario Balmaseda, Fred Camper Camila, Elvira Madigan, Mayerling, Susu Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Hector Alterio, Dave Kehr, Hour of the Star, Marcelia Cartaxo, Jose Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Clarice Lispector, Pat Graham, Danzón, Maria Rojo, Daniel Rergis, Strictly Ballroom, Carmen Salinas, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
Undercover cops infiltrate FilmStruck this week

FilmStruck showcases undercover cop films this week, with movies by Anthony Mann and Quentin Tarantino.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, FilmStruck, crime films, thrillers, undercover cops, Anthony Mann, T-Men, Louis de Rochemont, Treasury Department, Dennis O'Keefe, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, John Alton, Dave Kehr, Border Incident, The Narrow Margin, film noir, Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Richard Fleischer, Earl Fenton, George E. Diskant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, The Killing, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, CinemaScope, Infernal Affairs, Hong Kong, Christopher Doyle, Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love, Andy Lau, Days of Being Wild, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Wai-Keung Lau, Alan Mak, J.R. Jones

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

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