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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 Jul 28, 2017
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Emanuel won't allow the Cubs to play more night games at Wrigley, and other Chicago news

Also, Kendrick Lamar popped up at his own West Loop pop-up shop.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Crane Kenney, Bruce Rauner, Election 2018, Democratic Governors Association, Gilbert Villegas, Kendrick Lamar, rap music, concerts, United Center, Ambassador East Hotel, the Pump Room, the Public hotel, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Journal Hotels, Lincoln Park Zoo, Otto the gorilla, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2016
A movie about mobsters Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana is in the works and other Chicago news

Also, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dominate Lollapalooza rumors.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, spring weather, organized crime, Chicago Outfit, mafia, mob, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo, Michael Mann, Marilyn Monroe, Public Enemies, Al Capone, Lollapalooza, Radiohead, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, J. Cole, Chicago Police Department, City of Chicago, Howard Brookins Jr., 606 Trail, Paseo trail, Little Village, Pilsen, South by Southwest, Austin, Tinder

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 18, 2015
Steppenwolf's Marie Antoinette takes the wrong side of the French Revolution

David Adjmi's teen-queen tragedy is closer to Sofia Coppola's movie than to Bertolt Brecht.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Marie Antoinette, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather Part III, David Adjmi, Robert O'Hara, Dave Bova, Dede M. Ayite, Alana Arenas, Tim Hopper, the French Revolution, Oxfam, Marilyn Monroe, Alan Wilder

Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2014
Revisiting Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: I was there for love!

Under the direction of Howard Hawks, the musical number "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" approaches pure cinema.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell, Hollywood cinema, Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?, John Ford, Marilyn Monroe, moviegoing, Music Box Theatre

Film, Movie Review Aug 21, 2013
Noir City: Shadowy films in vibrant color

Chicago 5 brings classics, rarities, and even Technicolor examples of the genre to the Music Box.
- Tags: Movie Review, Noir City: Chicago, Music Box, San Francisco, Film Noir Foundation, Jules Dassin, Night and the City, Leave Her to Heaven, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Edward G. Robinson, John Farrow, Ray Milland, The Big Clock, Alias Nick Beal, Cy Endfield, Try and Get Me!, Douglas Sirk, Marilyn Monroe, Niagara, Desert Fury, Leave Her to Heaven, CinemaScope, The Vikings

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Apr 8, 2013
Twentieth-century glamour, on auction at Leslie Hindman

Vintage gowns by Scaasi are among the finds on the block at the nation's largest couture department.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mr. Fabulous, Charles James, fashion, Marvin Davis, Scaasi, Versace, Hermès, Birkin, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Barbra Streisand, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Arnold Isaacs, The New York Times, Parker Ladd, Casey Monda, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Leslie Hindman, auctions, vintage couture, Sotheby's, fashion designers, Elizabeth Arden, Zandra Rhodes, Marilyn Monroe, Vogue Italia, Patricia Davis Raynes, Dynasty, accessories, clothing, jewelry, lesliehindman.com

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Nobody's perfect—the best of Billy Wilder

Top five Billy Wilder films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Edgar G. Ulmer, Detour, Max Ophuls, Caught, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, auteurists, Cahiers du Cinema, Irma La Douce, Andrew Sarris, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, History and Memory 1927–1949, Love in the Afternoon, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard, The Emperor Waltz, Bing Crosby, The Major and The Minor, Gregory La Cava, Leo McCarey, Some Like It Hot, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Marilyn Monroe, The Apartment, Avanti!, The Lost Weekend, One Two Three

Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2012
Street View 021: Marilyn + Modern

Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 021
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Style, womenswear, street style, fashion, punkish, marilyn monroe, skirts

Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2012
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Another side of Fritz Lang: Clash by Night (1952)

The great director made Marilyn Monroe break out in red blotches
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Marilyn Monroe, Fritz Lang, Patrick McGilligan, Clash by Night, Natasha Lytess, Barbara Stanwyck, House by the River, Republic Pictures, An American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 20th Century-Fox, Jerry Wald, Norman Krasna, Clifford Odets, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Cannery Row, Nicholas Musuraca, Cat People, Out of the Past, Monterey, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2011
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This week's movie action: special grandma edition

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 12, 2011
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Now Playing: My Week With Marilyn

Michelle Williams stars as Marilyn Monroe in this British drama, screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Colin Clark, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Prince and the Showgirl, Michelle Williams, Simon Curtis, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Vivien Leigh, Chicago International Film Festival, Adrian Hodges, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, en Sachs, The Housemaid, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Andrea Gronvall, Louder Than a Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Breath Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring Kim Ki-duk, Lemmy 49% Motherf**cker 51% Son of a Bitch, Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead, The Regretters, The Devilles, Chicago Filmmakers, The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe Rotunno, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Goodfellas, Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Music Box, W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Northbrook Public Library;, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hot Tub Time Machine, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Children of Invention, Treeless Mountain, Tze Chun, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Half Nelson, Sugar movie, City Island, Andy Garcia, Clash of the Titans, Head On, Last Song movie, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Mid-August Lunch, To Die for Tano, University of Chicago Doc Films, Richard Brooks, Blackboard Jungle, Music Box, Clue movie, Northbrook Public Library, Otto Preminger, Leon Uris, Exodus movie, Laurence Olivier, Henry V, Jean Eustache, Mother and the Whore, River of No Return, Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, Fritz Lang, Woman in the Window, film festivals, Chicago movies, Video

News & Politics, Feature Feb 4, 2010
What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy?

By day Peggy Wilkins runs Unix servers at the U. of C. By night she tends her apartment-size collection of Playboys, moderates the Playboy Mailing List, builds Playmate databases, and even sends free advice to Hef.
- By Katie Buitrago
- Tags: Feature, Playboy, Playboy collectors, Peggy Wilkins, University of Chicago, Hugh Hefner, Playboy Playmate, Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer, pinup girl, GlamourCon, Playboy Mansion, Jimmy Jellinek, Maxim

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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,

Also, Kendrick Lamar popped up at his own West Loop pop-up shop.

Also, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dominate Lollapalooza rumors.

David Adjmi's teen-queen tragedy is closer to Sofia Coppola's movie than to Bertolt Brecht.

Under the direction of Howard Hawks, the musical number "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" approaches pure cinema.

Chicago 5 brings classics, rarities, and even Technicolor examples of the genre to the Music Box.

Vintage gowns by Scaasi are among the finds on the block at the nation's largest couture department.

Top five Billy Wilder films

Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 021

The great director made Marilyn Monroe break out in red blotches

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

Michelle Williams stars as Marilyn Monroe in this British drama, screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

By day Peggy Wilkins runs Unix servers at the U. of C. By night she tends her apartment-size collection of Playboys, moderates the Playboy Mailing List, builds Playmate databases, and even sends free advice to Hef.

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