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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

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 23, 2018
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The Originalist show us the man behind "the monster"

Antonin Scalia had his flaws, but he did recognize the power of the Notorious RBG.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, antonin scalia, barack obama, john strand, supreme court, roe v. wade, constitution, arena stage, washington d.c., mozart, bach, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Edward Gero, Jade Wheeler, Katharine Hepburn, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2018
David Lean, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, has more to offer than just Lawrence of Arabia

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, David Lean, FilmStruck, Charles Dickens, Madeleine, Madeleine Smith, Ann Todd, J.R. Jones, The Sound Barrier, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Nigel Patrick, Prometheus, Terence Rattigan, Hobson's Choice, Charles Laughton, Captain Bligh, Brenda de Banzie, John Mills, Dave Kehr, Summertime, Katharine Hepburn, Venice, Rossano Brazzi, The Bridge on the River Kwai, World War II, POWs, Burma, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins

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

Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 27, 2016
Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT's Feral, and nine more new theater reviews

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Feature, Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen, PrivateBank Theatre, Susan Stroman, Michael Williams, Even Longer and Farther Away, Appalachian Trail, Chelsea Marcantel, Thrisa Hodits, The New Colony, Byhalia, Mississippi, Deanna Reed-Foster, Evita, Eva Perón, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Che Guevara, Feral, Shepsu Aakhu, MPAACT, Black Lives Matter, Chicago Police Department, police shootings, Carla Stillwell, Victoria Allen, George C. Stalling, In the Heat of the Night, John Ball, Matt Pelfrey, Shattered Globe Theatre, Michael Stanfill, Theater Wit, Teatro Vista, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez, Rafael Trujillo, Maribal sisters, Ricardo Guitierrez, Uriel Gomez, Caridad Svich, Liviu Pasare, Victory Gardens Theater, The Lion in Winter, James Goldman, Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitane, Brian Pastor, Promethean Theatre Ensemble, Athenaeum Theatre, Brian Parry, Elaine Carlson, Empire, Lucious and Cookie Lyon, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Greenhouse Theater Center, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare, Keith Cavanaugh, Laura Sturm, Ann Keen, The Producers, Mercury Theater, L. Walter Stearns, Mel Brooks, Bill Larkin, Matt Crowle, Allison Sill, ABLA Productions, A Splintered Soul, Alan Lester Brooks, Keira Fromm, Holocaust survivors, Red Theater, Redtwist Theatre, Benjamin Brand, Aaron Sawyer, Gage Wallace, Kevin V. Smith, cannibalism, Two Rooms, Honest Theatre, Fury Theatre, Lee Blessing, Chad Gilliland, hostage crisis

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 Jan 24, 2014
Video
Adolf Hitler, Charles Dickens, Tom Clancy, 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, Generation War, Music Box Chicago, Black Jack Ken Loach, An Honest Living, Jordan Freese, Be Known, Kahil El'Zabar, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Devil's Due, Gimme Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens, The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes, Charles Dickens, Felicity Jones, Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit, Tom Clancy, Maidentrip, Laura Dekker, Ride Along, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams, University of Chicago Doc Films, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Northbrook Public Library, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, Gene Siskel Film Center, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, It Clara Bow, Underworld Josef von Sternberg, Dave Drazin, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2011
Poles Apart

Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Facets Film School, Polish Cinema in Exile, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Anna Karina, film noir, night classes, continuing education, screenings, movies

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2009
Pants Are Powerful
- By Heather Kenny
- Tags: Style, Sudan, pants, Lubna Hussein, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn

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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.

Recommended
The Originalist show us the man behind "the monster"

Antonin Scalia had his flaws, but he did recognize the power of the Notorious RBG.

David Lean, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, has more to offer than just Lawrence of Arabia

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.

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.

Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT's Feral, and nine more new theater reviews

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.

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?!?!

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Adolf Hitler, Charles Dickens, Tom Clancy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.

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George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.

Antonin Scalia had his flaws, but he did recognize the power of the Notorious RBG.

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.

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

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.

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

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.

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