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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

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 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 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

Film, Movie Review Aug 21, 2013
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The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Macy Gray, Shadowboxer, Precious, Vittorio De Sica, Two Women, The Paperboy, Vivienne Westwood, Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren, Section 8, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, The Butler, Eugene Allen, Forest Whitaker, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, David Oyelowo, Freedom Bus, Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Panthers, Oakland, Forrest Gump, Oprah Winfrey, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Robin Williams, Steven Boone, Terrence Howard, Elijah Kelley, Barack Obama, 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

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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.

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.

My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

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

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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The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.

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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.

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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.

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.

My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

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

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

Video The Butler: The anti-Gump

In Lee Daniels's film, painful social realities once again collide with delirious fantasy.

Video 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.

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

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The Butler: The anti-Gump

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