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Film, Movie Feature Aug 7, 2020
Chicago Film Archives discovers The First Degree

The regional archive brings Edward Sedgwick’s 1923 silent film back to life.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Film Archives, The First Degree, Edward Sedgwick, Library of Congress, Olivia Babler, Nancy Watrous, The Mountain Eagle, London After Midnight, The Cameraman, American Silent Film, William K. Everson

Film, Movie Feature Sep 27, 2017
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How Bill Morrison makes magic with found footage

The Chicago-born filmmaker’s astonishing documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the story of one of the greatest film finds in history by using the discovery itself.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Bill Morrison, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Dawson City film find, film preservation, film restoration, Klondike Gold Rush, Yukon Gold Rush, Library of Congress, Unievrsity of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Alex Somers, Chicago White Sox, 1919 World Series, Chicago Black Sox scandal, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Kenwood neighborhood Chicago, State and Lake movie theater Chicago, Hyde Park Harper Theater Chicago, Dunes Drive-In Gary Indiana, University of Chicago Cobb Hall, University of Chicago Doc Films, Reed College, Cooper Union, Robert Breer, Robert Breer Eyewash, Robert Breer Blazes, Cynosure, Film Center Building, Hell’s Kitchen, Ridge Theater, Video

Music, In Rotation Oct 5, 2016
Video
Eternals drummer Areif Sless-Kitain on Hieroglyphic Being’s futuristic house

Plus: I Kong Kult bassist Fred Wells on the song of Jupiter’s auroras, Reader critic Peter Margasak on a rare recording of music by neglected genius Julius Eastman, and more
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: In Rotation, Julius Eastman, composer, Femenine, Unjust Malaise, S.E.M. Ensemble, Frozen Reeds, Game Theory, The Big Shot Chronicles, reissue, Scott Miller, Mitch Easter, Negro Leo, Agua Batizada, Leonardo Campelo Goncalves, Areif Sless-Kitain, I Kong Kult, Eternals, Brokeback, Paul Bowles, Morocco, Library of Congress, Dust-to-Digital, Hieroglyphic Being, The Disco’s of Imhotep, Africans With Mainframes, K.M.T., Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever, Popcast, Fred Wells, Equiknoxx, Bird Sound Power, Demdike Stare, DDS, Juno, Jupiter, auroras, radio, Soundscaper, app, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2016
Dexter Fowler makes surprising return to the Cubs and other Chicago news

Also, Cook County plans mental health crisis center to aid police, and Obama appoints a former Chicagoan to head the Library of Congress.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, Chicago Cubs, Dexter Fowler, Cook County Jail, Quintonio LeGrier, Laquan McDonald, mental health facilities, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Public Schools, computer science, Library of Congress, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Tribune, Afghanistan, Tina Fey, Kim Barker, Carla Hayden, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2015
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Hyena movie, Chicago Film Critics Festival, Music Box Chicago, Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios, Blind Frederick Wiseman, Alabama School for the Blind, In Country, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Material World Kaycee Conaway Molly Hewitt, Scraps in Black and White, Library of Congress, Tangerines movie, Michael Haneke, Cache, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Frank Tashlin, Hollywood or Bust, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Peter Weir, The Last Wave, My Neighbor Totoro, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppet Master, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge, Colleen Moore, Why Be Good?, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jay Warren, CFA Crashers, Levon Pettis, Black Cinema House, Cinemetrics Across Borders, Logan Center for the Arts, Ulysses Jenkins, Black Cinema House, Using Classroom Films to Teach About Race, South Side Community Art Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Way to Grab a Slice of Immortality

StoryCorps recording booth
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Chicago Cultural Center, Story Corps, oral history, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Feature May 23, 2013
StoryCorps puts Chicago behind the microphone

The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Feature, StoryCorps, NPR, National Public Radio, radio, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Ritesh Parekh, Tina Shah, documentation, Mariana Motherway, Michael Motherway, adoption, race, recording, Shirley Alfaro, conversation, dialogue, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, Griot Initiative, Historias, Military Voices Initiative, Chicago Public Library, CPL, One Book One Chicago, Great Migration, audio recording, stories, oral history, Chicago Cultural Center

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2010
Video
25 for the History Books

The Library of Congress has announced the 2009 inductees into the National Film Registry.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, National Film Registry, James H. Billington, Library of Congress, Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon, Kent Mackenzie, The Exiles, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, William Wyler, Bette Davis Jezebel, Mrs. Miniver, Rouben Mamoulian, The Mark of Zorro, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, Michael Gordon, Pillow Talk, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Michael Jackson, John Landis, Michael Jackson Thriller, Heroes All, American Red Cross, World War I, Walter Reed Hospital, Hot Dogs for Gaugin, Martin Brest, Beverly Hills Cop, Scent of a Woman, Danny De Vito, Rhea Perlman, The Jungle, Mabel's Blunder, Mabel Normand, Precious Images, Chuck Workman, Quasi at the Quackadero, Sally Cruikshank, Red Book Janie Geiser, Stark Love, Karl Brown, film preservation, movies, Video

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Chicago Film Archives discovers The First Degree

The regional archive brings Edward Sedgwick’s 1923 silent film back to life.

Video
How Bill Morrison makes magic with found footage

The Chicago-born filmmaker’s astonishing documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the story of one of the greatest film finds in history by using the discovery itself.

Video
Eternals drummer Areif Sless-Kitain on Hieroglyphic Being’s futuristic house

Plus: I Kong Kult bassist Fred Wells on the song of Jupiter’s auroras, Reader critic Peter Margasak on a rare recording of music by neglected genius Julius Eastman, and more

Dexter Fowler makes surprising return to the Cubs and other Chicago news

Also, Cook County plans mental health crisis center to aid police, and Obama appoints a former Chicagoan to head the Library of Congress.

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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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.

Critics' Picks
Best Way to Grab a Slice of Immortality

StoryCorps recording booth

StoryCorps puts Chicago behind the microphone

The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.

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25 for the History Books

The Library of Congress has announced the 2009 inductees into the National Film Registry.

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The regional archive brings Edward Sedgwick’s 1923 silent film back to life.

The Chicago-born filmmaker’s astonishing documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the story of one of the greatest film finds in history by using the discovery itself.

Plus: I Kong Kult bassist Fred Wells on the song of Jupiter’s auroras, Reader critic Peter Margasak on a rare recording of music by neglected genius Julius Eastman, and more

Also, Cook County plans mental health crisis center to aid police, and Obama appoints a former Chicagoan to head the Library of Congress.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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.

StoryCorps recording booth

The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.

The Library of Congress has announced the 2009 inductees into the National Film Registry.

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