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News & Politics, Feature May 16, 2017
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, News, Politics, Rent control, Rent Control Preemption Act, Will Guzzardi, eviction, gentrification, Logan Square, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Realtors, Jan Schakowsky, Louis Lang, Koch brothers, Bronzeville, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Jawanza Malone, J.W. Mason, Chuck Hartke, James “Pate” Philip, Lee Daniels, Michael Madigan, Tom Walsh, Greg St. Aubin, Frank Avellone, Lawyers Committee for Better Housing, Richard Nixon, price controls

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 18, 2016
Steppenwolf's The Flick, BoHo Theatre's Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Adoration of the Old Woman, José Rivera, UrbanTheatre Company, Juan Castañeda, Another Word for Beauty, Andrew Neftalí Perez, Melissa DuPrey, First Floor Theater, The Awake, Ken Urban, Chicago Dramatists, Scott Woldman, Beautiful Autistic, Blueberry Toast, Tympanic Theatre Company, Mary Laws, Cabaret, Kander and Ebb, Roundabout Theatre Company, Randy Harrison, Far From Heaven, Porchlight Music Theatre, Todd Haynes, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Summer Naomi Smart, The Flick, Annie Baker, Steppenwolf Theatre, Dexter Bullard, From These Fatal Loins, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, The Ruckus, Derek Van Barham, Christopher Waldron, Jillian Rea, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, Fugitive Songs, BoHo Theatre, Zachary L. Gray, Jeffrey Poindexter, Interrogation, Scott Westerman, The Artistic Home, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, Manny Buckley, Alonzo Fields, Lee Daniels, The Butler, James Still, Marc Salem, Marnie & Phil, Actors Gymnasium, Chris Mathews, House Theatre of Chicago, Jeremy Sonkin, Kevin O'Donnell, Malic White, Molly Brennan, Pop Waits, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Neo-Futurarium, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance, Paterson Joseph, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare 400 Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2015
Fox's Empire is a brand new 'Lear'

The new FOX drama is damn entertaining.
- By Danette Chavez
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, Empire, Fox, Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Timbaland, The Butler

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2014
A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, Martin Scorsese, I Call First, Roger Ebert, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Dusan Makavejev, Gold Hugo, Michael Kutza, Leo Burnett, Andrzej Wajda, Krysztof Zanussi, Mel Brooks, Ann Miller, Edith Head, Richard B. Ogilvie, Nagisa Oshima, Satyajit Ray, Frantisek Vlacil, Mike Leigh, Milos Forman, Werner Herzog, Maurice Pialat, King Hu, The Valiant Ones, Lindsay Anderson, Orson Welles, Filming "Othello", Billy Wilder, Jules Dassin, John Carpenter, Ingmar Bergman, William Friedkin, Gloria Swanson, Neil Simon, John Houseman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Menahem Golan, Francois Truffaut, Fanny Ardant, Rod Stewart, Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon, Mia Hansen-Love, Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe, Frederick Wiseman, Jafar Panahi, James Gray, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Abdellatif Kechiche, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-Edu, Van Halen, Luchino Visconti, Michael Haneke, Saul Bass, Elizabeth C. Morris, Jim Healy, Spike Lee, Coretta Scott King, FIRPRESCI, Robert Altman, Bill Kurtis, Robert Benton, Nicolas Cage, Robert Downey Jr., Manoel de Oliveira, Cristi Puiu, Huey Lewis and the News, Douglas Trumbull, Peter Greenaway, Ken Russell, John Akomfrah, Jean Rouch, Raul Ruiz, Andre Techine, Bela Tarr, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jean-Luc Godard, Leon Golub, Kartemquin Films, Arch Oboler, Abbas Kiarostami

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2014
Ten recent movies that I wish had been directed by Lee Daniels

Daniels's exuberance and weird integrity could have benefitted a good number of recent movies.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, LGBT, Film, Lee Daniels, The Butler, moviegoing, John Waters, The Paperboy, Precious, Shadowboxer, Wong Kar-wai, Vivienne Westwood

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2014
Why does John Turturro's sex comedy make some viewers so angry?

Fading Gigolo and the threat of role-play
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Seriously?, Film, Fading Gigolo, John Turturro, Lee Daniels, Shadowboxer, The Paperboy, gender as social construction

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Magic Magic, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, year in review, 2013 movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Immigrant, James Gray, Frank Borzage, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, The World's End, Bastards, Claire Denis, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2013
Now on DVD: Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as the most adorable assassins you'll ever meet

Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, is now available at Redbox.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Shots Fired, Film, Violet & Daisy, Alexis Bledel, Saoirse Ronan, Geoffrey Fletcher, James Gandolfini, Enough Said, Pistol Opera, Seijun Suzuki, Precious, Lee Daniels

Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2013
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The 'Scope of Fleischer's vision, and the rest of this week's movies

A preview of new and notable films playing in Chicago from August 23 to 29
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, The Butler, Lee Daniels, long review, Noir City: Chicago, Music Box Theatre, Richard Fleischer, Violent Saturday, CinemaScope, Austenland, Jerusha Hess, Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg, Paranoia, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, You're Next, Adam Wingard, Four of Hearts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home, Destination: Planet Negro!, David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Duck You Sucker!, Sergio Leone, spaghetti westerns, Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa Vie, Bruce Baillie, experimental cinema, Day of Wrath, Carl Dreyer, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, A Useful Life, Chicago Cultural Center, Uruguayan cinema, Federico Veiroj, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2013
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Ulzana's Raid, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Emperor of the North, The Longest Yard, The Spectacular Now, The Act of Killing, Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Apache, Vera Cruz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Precious, The Paperboy, The Canyons, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser, Expose Me Lovely, Raymond Chandler, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Gene Siskel Film Center, Highland Park, In a World..., lake Bell, Kick-Ass 2, comic book adaptation, Steve Jobs, Jobs, biopic, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, Sabata, spaghetti western, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home Again, Jamaica, The Retrieval, revival screenings, Faust, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill, Doc Films, Diamond Jim, Preston Sturges, Patio Theater, David Fincher, Zodiac, Panic Room, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2013
Four evil eyes in Winchester '73 and The Paperboy

Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester '73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: This Will Kill You, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Winchester '73, Anthony Mann, James Stewart, psychopaths, Bend of the River, The Man From Laramie, It's a Wonderful Life, John Cusack, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels, drag revue

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2012
A film festival audience goes to Paradise

Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Moviegoing, Film, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love, Chicago International Film Festival, Lee Daniels, The Paperboy, film festivals, Ben Sachs on moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2012
Video
Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Oct 3, 2012
The foul brown water of your love

Snakes and gators aren't the only dangerous critters in The Paperboy
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Lee Daniels, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, John Cusack, Florida, bayou, drive-in cinema

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The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

Steppenwolf's The Flick, BoHo Theatre's Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes

Fox's Empire is a brand new 'Lear'

The new FOX drama is damn entertaining.

A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.

Ten recent movies that I wish had been directed by Lee Daniels

Daniels's exuberance and weird integrity could have benefitted a good number of recent movies.

Why does John Turturro's sex comedy make some viewers so angry?

Fading Gigolo and the threat of role-play

My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

Now on DVD: Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as the most adorable assassins you'll ever meet

Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, is now available at Redbox.

Video
The 'Scope of Fleischer's vision, and the rest of this week's movies

A preview of new and notable films playing in Chicago from August 23 to 29

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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

Four evil eyes in Winchester '73 and The Paperboy

Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester '73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy

A film festival audience goes to Paradise

Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes

The new FOX drama is damn entertaining.

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.

Daniels's exuberance and weird integrity could have benefitted a good number of recent movies.

Fading Gigolo and the threat of role-play

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, is now available at Redbox.

A preview of new and notable films playing in Chicago from August 23 to 29

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester '73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy

Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Snakes and gators aren't the only dangerous critters in The Paperboy

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