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Columns & Opinion, On Culture Nov 25, 2020
Keep your distance

Bending the COVID curve’s not enough.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, COVID-19, Gary Slutkin, Anthony Fauci, Emily Landon, Cure Violence, The Interrupters

Film, Small Screen Nov 3, 2020
Recommended Video
City So Real is peak Chicago

Steve James’s docuseries authentically captures the people and places that define the city.
- By Josh Flanders
- Tags: Small Screen, City So Real, Steve James, Sundance, Hulu, Hoop Dreams, America to Me, Participant Media, Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters, Life Itself, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, Zak Piper, Jackson James, Recommended, Video

Film, Flopcorn Aug 5, 2020
The worst Chicago movies are still worth a watch

Exploring the depths of Tubi TV for a glimpse at the Second City
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Flopcorn, Tubi, Tubi TV, tubitv.com, Chicago movies, movies filmed in Chicago, The Fugitive, Thief, The Interrupters, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Alley Cat, Meathead Goes Hog Wild, Canvas, Fools, bad movies, Why watch bad movies, What to watch on Tubi, Criterion Channel

Music, Music Feature Apr 17, 2019
Video
Natural Information Society make the stage a home—and vice versa

Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado help give this Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Natural Information Society, Joshua Abrams, Mandatory Reality, Simultonality, guimbri, gimbri, guembri, sintir, Gnawa, Lisa Alvarado, Eremite Records, Drag City, Thrill Jockey, Don Cherry, Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, Mike Reed, Prefuse 73, Roots, Dave Rempis, Will Oldham, Steve James, Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters, Life Itself, America to Me, Bridget Donahue, Ari Brown, Monika Cherry, Moki Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Organic Music Society, Bitchin Bajas, Jason Stein, Ben LaMar Gay, Mikel Patrick Avery, Frank Rosaly, Emmett Kelly, Ben Boye, Nick Mazzarella, Fred Anderson, From the River to the Ocean, Bindu, Natural Information, Jason Adasiewicz, Nori Tanaka, harmonium, Represencing, Magnetoception, Jeff Parker, Autoimaginary, Constellation, Finite, Electrical Audio, In Memory’s Prism, Simon Starling, Project for a Rift Valley Crossing, Frieze New York, Video

Film, Movie Feature Feb 22, 2018
Video
An interview with Laura Checkoway, director of the Oscar-nominated Edith+Eddie

The Kartemquin Films release profiles nonagenarian newlyweds who were torn apart.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Laura Checkoway, Edith+Eddie, Edith and Eddie, Edith & Eddie, Edith Hill, Eddie Harrison, Rebecca Wright, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Kartemquin Films, Lucky documentary, Lucky Laura Checkoway, P. Corwin Lamm, elder care, le, Video

Film, Movie Feature Jul 2, 2014
Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, film, filmmakers, PBS, Hoop Dreams, CeaseFire, The Interrupters, Stevie, Big Brothers, The New Americans, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, movies, Oak Park, Kartemquin Films, gardening, Rushville, Illinois, work, Judy James, sex offenders, careers, family, Hollywood, narrative film, television, TV, documentaries, Peter Gilbert, Prefontaine, James Madison University, auteurs, Alex Kotlowitz, Frederick Marx, film credits, SIU, Southern Illinois University, Big Muddy Film Festival, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, David Simpson, Leslie Simmer, film criticism, Errol Morris, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, humor, Flame-O Coby

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2013
Coming Tuesday: The first Good Pitch Chicago, a fund-seeking round table for documentary filmmakers

After success in other American cities, a forum that sits documentary filmmakers down with potential backers comes to the Chicago Cultural Center.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Film, News, Good Pitch Chicago, Danny Alpert, Steve Cohen, The Dreamcatchers, Lisa Stevens, The Homestretch, Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly, The Message: The (R)evolutionary Power of Climate Change, Avi Lewis, Private Violence, Cynthia Hill, Sister, Rebecca Parrish, Strong Island, Yance Ford, Facing History and Ourselves, Bully, Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen, The Interrupters, Kartemquin Films, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, MacArthur Foundation

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2013
Ceasefire Illinois head charged with domestic battery

The Illinois director of CeaseFire is charged after his wife filed a report.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Crime, Seriously?, News, Ceasefire Illinois, Tio Hardiman, Hillside Police Department, The Interrupters, Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James, Kartemquin

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2013
Fifty years ago: A basketball title and a school boycott for Chicago

In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Books, Arts, Education, Segregation, Film, Sports, News, Jerry Harkness, Vic Rouse, Jack Egan, NCAA Championship, Loyola University, University of Cincinnati, Freedom Hall, Mike Lenehan, Ramblers, George Ireland, Chicago Reader, segregation, integration, George Wilson, Marshall High School, Benjamin Willis, Chicago Public Schools, Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, '63 Boycott

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2012
Video
This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Milestone Film & Video, On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin, The Perfect Team, Rampart movie, Oren Moverman, L.A. Confidential, Declaration of War, In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, London River, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Outside the Law, Safe House, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, The Story of Lover's Rock, This Means War, Charlie's Angels movie, McG, The Vow movie, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, The Devil Probably, Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker!, Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, David Lynch, Mulholland Dr., Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Harlan County U.S.A., The Film That Changed My Life, The Interrupters, Bob Hercules, Joffrey Ballet, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Tony Adler, Steve Bogira, Deanna Isaacs, Michael Miner, Sam Worley, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2012
Frontline, tonight: The Interrupters

The Interrupters tonight on PBS's Frontline
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Crime, Media, Film, The Interrupters, Kartemquin Films, Ameena Matthews, violence interrupters, crime in Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2011
Oscarus interruptus

Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steve James, The Interrupters, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, CeaseFire Chicago, Deanna Isaacs, Columbia College, Andrea Gronvall, Gene Siskel Film Center, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Errol Morris, Tabloid movie, Asif Kapadia, Senna movie, Buck movie, Battle for Brooklyn, Academy Awards, Oscars, best documentary feature shortlist, documentaries, movies

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2011
Video
This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Michael James Perry, Death Row movie, Investigation Discovery, Kartemquin Films, At the Death House Door, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, The Interrupters, Peter Gilbert, Fred Camper, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Every Song Is About Me, Lope movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 3 movie, Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run, Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows, University of Chicago Doc Films, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Music Box, Jean-Luc Godard, Week-end movie, Chicago Food Film Festival, Kendall College, Intelligentsia Roasting Works, Illinois International Film Festival, Viaduct Theater, Kinky Film Festival, Leather Archives and Museum, film festivals, movies, Video

Music, Three Beats Aug 25, 2011
Three Beats: Jazz bassist Joshua Abrams soundtracks The Interrupters

Plus: Emo band CSTVT takes an unlikely route to Hot Topic, and the Mike Kinsella all-stars play the Cure for Girls Rock! Chicago
- By Leor Galil, Peter Margasak, and Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Three Beats, The Interrupters, Joshua Adams, CSTVT, Hot Topic, Kinsella, Nanna, Trohman, The Cure, Girls Rock!

Blogs, Bleader Aug 11, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Film Noir Foundation, Egyptian Theater, Noir City Chicago 3, Music Box, Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Sorry Wrong Number, Barbara Stanwyck, Deadline USA, Humphrey Bogart, The Dark Mirror, Olivia De Havilland, The Blue Dahlia, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Loophole movie, Larceny movie, Andrea Gronvall, The Interrupters, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Yelling to the Sky, Gabourey Sidibe, Precious movie, Autumn Execution, Lee Hsing, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Detroit Wild City, The Help movie, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, Sleep Furiously, Wales, 30 Minutes or Less, Reuben Fleischer, Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network, Aziz Ansari, Funny People, The Whistleblower, Rachel Weisz, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, University of Chicago Doc Films, Samuel Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, The Steel Helmet, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Sunrise Murnau, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Aug 11, 2011
Video
Movie Review: The Interrupters

Filmmaker Steve James and author Alex Kotlowitz team up for a documentary about short-circuiting street violence
- By Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Review, The Interrupters, Steve James, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, Alex Kotlowitz, Hoop Dreams, There Are No Children Here, Video

Film, Movie Feature Jul 7, 2011
The Interrupters: Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz document CeaseFire
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, CeaseFire, Tio Hardiman, The Interrupters, Cobe Williams, Eddie Bocanegra, Ameena Matthews, Hoop Dreams

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Bending the COVID curve’s not enough.

Steve James’s docuseries authentically captures the people and places that define the city.

Exploring the depths of Tubi TV for a glimpse at the Second City

Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado help give this Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.

The Kartemquin Films release profiles nonagenarian newlyweds who were torn apart.

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.

After success in other American cities, a forum that sits documentary filmmakers down with potential backers comes to the Chicago Cultural Center.

The Illinois director of CeaseFire is charged after his wife filed a report.

In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Interrupters tonight on PBS's Frontline

Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.

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

Plus: Emo band CSTVT takes an unlikely route to Hot Topic, and the Mike Kinsella all-stars play the Cure for Girls Rock! Chicago

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

Filmmaker Steve James and author Alex Kotlowitz team up for a documentary about short-circuiting street violence

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