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Film, Movie Feature Dec 3, 2014
The Chicago Film Archives preserves midwest history one reel at a time

With two employees and vault in Pilsen, the CFA has been rescuing celluloid for a decade.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Film Archives, Nancy Watrous, JoAnn Elam, CFA Crashers, Media Mixers, Anne Wells, CFA, David Pasquesi, Theaster Gates, Olivia Block, Tomeka Reid, Black Cinema House, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Lord Thing, Andrew Davis, Stony Island, Medium Cool, Katemquin Films, Haskell Wexler, A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha, JoAnn Elam

Arts & Culture, Art Sidebar Sep 16, 2014
Five must-dos at Expo Chicago

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Art Sidebar, Expo Chicago, International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, Navy Pier, One and J. Gallery, South Korea, Tell Me the Truth, Seung Yui Oh, See Saw, In/Situ, Michael Rakowitz, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Expo Editions + Books, Medium Cool, Western Exhibitions, WesternXeditions, Lilli Carre, Paul Nudd and Onsmith, Deb Sokolow, Dialogues: "What Do Your Politics Get From Being in My Art?", Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports, Mess Hall, Abigail Satinsky, Jim Duignan, Expo Video, Studio Gang Architects, Monster Movie, Takeshi Murata, Jennifer K. Reeder, A Million Miles Away, Madonna, Like a Prayer, E.T.

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sat 8/9: Brain Frame finale, United Nations, and Medium Cool

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, August 9
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Bud Billiken Parade, Brain Frame, comics, Lyra Hill, Thalia Hall, Chicago Defender, Medium Cool, Western Exhibitions, art book fair

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2014
A bigger, better Medium Cool returns

Chicago's own art book fair and objects shop is back for a second year.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Books, Do This, Arts, medium cool, art books, western exhibitions, prairie production, west loop, art book fair, chicago, half letter press, sonnenzimmer, graham foundation, zines, haskell wexler

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2013
Audio Video
Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, Michael Winterbottom The Look of Love, Steve Coogan Paul Raymond Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Music Box, Crimes Against Humanity, Dealin' With Idiots, Jeff Garlin, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Matthew Goode, Deliver Us From Evil, Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, 20 Feet From Stardom, V/H/S/2, The Vikings, Kirk Douglas, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Grave of the Fireflies, Satyajit Ray, Charulata, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther, Northwestern University Norris Center, Hayao Miyazuki, Princess Mononoke, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Logan Theater Chicago, Tod Browning, The Unholy Three, Dennis Scott, In the Shadow of His Airness, Michael Jordan, South Side Community Arts Center, Stanley M. Freehling: Chicago's Man of the Arts, Facets Cinematheque, movies, Audio, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 10, 2013
Recommended Video
The lost Chicago of Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic convention.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, Robert Forster, Studs Terkel, Division Street: America, Jack Couffer, The Concrete Wilderness, Criterion Collection, John Cassellis, Appalachia, Uptown, Peter Bonerz, Lynn Erlich, Mickey Pallas, Morris Bleckman, Lester Brownlee, Chicago Daily News, Kuumba Theatre, Val Grey Ward, Soul Train, Sid McCoy, Muhal Richard Abrams, John Shenoy Jackson, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Jeff Donaldson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, AfriCOBRA, Verna Bloom, Harold Blankenship, Chicago Tribune, Bell & Howell, Teletype, Crane Packing, Clarus Backes, Amazing Grace, Look Out Haskell, It's Real!, Paul Cronin, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Michael Winterbottom, Summer in Genoa, Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Landmark's Century Centre, Beyond the Years, Im Kwon-taek, Sopyonje, Princess Kaiulani, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett; The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Shooting Robert King, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Northbrook Public Library, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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The Chicago Film Archives preserves midwest history one reel at a time

With two employees and vault in Pilsen, the CFA has been rescuing celluloid for a decade.

Five must-dos at Expo Chicago

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier

Reader's Agenda Sat 8/9: Brain Frame finale, United Nations, and Medium Cool

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, August 9

A bigger, better Medium Cool returns

Chicago's own art book fair and objects shop is back for a second year.

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Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic convention.

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The Chicago Film Archives preserves midwest history one reel at a time

With two employees and vault in Pilsen, the CFA has been rescuing celluloid for a decade.

Five must-dos at Expo Chicago

An installation by Ai Weiwei, video viewing stations by Studio Gang Architects, and more recommendations for the mammoth art exposition at Navy Pier

Reader's Agenda Sat 8/9: Brain Frame finale, United Nations, and Medium Cool

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, August 9

A bigger, better Medium Cool returns

Chicago's own art book fair and objects shop is back for a second year.

Audio Video Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended Video The lost Chicago of Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic convention.

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Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

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The lost Chicago of Medium Cool

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