Switch to the mobile version of this page.

- Username
- View Profile
- Edit Profile
- Log Out
- Log in
- Create Account

The Chicago Reader

Articles

Loading...

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2018
‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Humor, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Opera, Ernst Lubitsch, FilmStruck, Lubitsch touch, The Oyster Princess, Ossi Owalda, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sumurun, Pola Negri, Hollywood, Max Reinhardt, Dave Kehr, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, operetta, Lorenz Hart, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, MGM, Paramount, Cedric Gibbons, The Lady Dances, The Shop Around the Corner, Budapest, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Heaven Can Wait, Technicolor, Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Samson Raphaelson, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Spring Byington

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2018
Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s

Men weren't the only ones making thoughtful and provocative independent films in the 1960s and '70s, as this selection demonstrates.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Art House, Film, History, Immigration, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Theater, independent filmmaking, Chicago Film Society, Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, The Connection, Living Theater, Jack Gelber, Judith Malina, The Lower Depths, The Iceman Cometh, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Shirley Clarke, Warren Finnerty, Carl Lee, Garry Goodrow, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Wanda, Barbara Loden, Don Druker, The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman, Dave Kehr, Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver, Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Harlan County, USA, Barbara Kopple Oscar

Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2018
Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema

Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Music, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Small Screen, Urgh! A Music War, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society, punk, post-punk, new wave, XTC, Devo, Gang of Four, Oingo Boingo, Magazine, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Cramps, Fleshtones, Go-Go's, Dead Kennedys, Police, The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, skinhead, Penelope Spheeris, Slash Records, Robert Biggs, X, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, the Germs, Fear, J.R. Jones, Wild Style, Charlie Ahearn, graffiti art, hip-hop, Lee Quinones, Bronx, Busy Bee, Rock Steady Crew, Fab Five Freddy, Ted Shen, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Dave Kehr, Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Melvin and Howard, Dave Kehr, Downtown '81, Glenn O'Brien, Edo Bertoglio, Jean-Michel Basquiat, DNA, the Plastics, Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
Five classic films by Latin American women

Zama, a new feature from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, inspires a look back a five other female directors from Latin America.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Dance, Film, Foreign, Gender Issues, Moviegoing, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Lucrecia Martel, Zama, Gene Siskel Film Center, Salta Trilogy, The Headless Woman, Latin America, Margot Benacerraf, Sara Gómez, María Luisa Bemberg, Suzana Amaral, Maria Novaro, Araya, Cannes, Andrea Gronvall, One Way or Another, Yolanda Cuellar, Mario Balmaseda, Fred Camper Camila, Elvira Madigan, Mayerling, Susu Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Hector Alterio, Dave Kehr, Hour of the Star, Marcelia Cartaxo, Jose Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Clarice Lispector, Pat Graham, Danzón, Maria Rojo, Daniel Rergis, Strictly Ballroom, Carmen Salinas, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2015
The 1930s chiller White Zombie is an experimental-horror masterpiece

Victor Halperin's film plays twice this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Kyle Westphal
- Tags: Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Paranormal, White Zombie, Victor Halperin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Monster Kids Classic Horror Forum, classic movies, monster movies, movie restoration, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Doc Cinema

Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2015
Did you read about Godzilla, Robby Mook, and 'shitphones'?

Also the new apps the monitor police activity, Jon Stewart on Rahm, Kate Bolick, Alison Jones, and he foiled attempt at setting the record for the largest egg hunt in the world?
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, News, Did you read?

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2015
Five movies you should watch tonight instead of the Oscars

And they're all streaming online!
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Weekly Top Five, Film, Young Mr. Lincoln, John Ford, Mafioso, Alberto Lattuada, Waking Life, Richard Linklater, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Ernst Lubitsch, I Don't Want to Be a Man!, Don Hertzfeldt, 87th Academy Awards, the Lego Movie

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2015
Sunset Boulevard, Andrei Rublev, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Andrei Rublev, Cat People, Sunset Boulevard, Nine Lives, The Witnesses

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2015
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The 39 Steps, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Bright Leaves, A nous la liberte, Mr. Arkadin, Ira and Abby, Faces, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The 39 Steps

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
WALL-E, An Affair to Remember, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, old movies to watch now, An Affair to Remember, Black Narcissus, Donnie Darko, The Grey, The Master, The Proposal, WALL-E

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2015
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Asylum, The Awful Truth, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Big Knife, Revolutionary Road, The Seven Year Itch

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2015
Pulp Fiction, The Glass Shield, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, L'Age d'Or, The Glass Shield, Intolerance, Scarlet Street, Pulp Fiction

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2015
The Wild Bunch, The Birds, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Weekly Top Five, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, The Birds, Bright Leaves, Casque d'or, North Sea Texas, Ricky, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wild Bunch

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2015
Marnie, The Turin Horse, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Blood in the Face, Blowup, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Frankenstein, Marnie, Hadewijch, The Turin Horse

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
Demonlover, Black Girl, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, The African Queen, Black Girl, The Long Voyage Home, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Woman Is the Future of Man, Demonlover, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming

Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2014
The Nightmare Before Christmas, Faust, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, The Circus, The Ground Truth, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Faust, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Notorious, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2014
Casablanca, Small Soldiers, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Casablanca, Cat People, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Our Hospitality, The Talent Given Us, Swing Time, Small Soldiers

Blogs, Bleader Dec 5, 2014
Dead Man, The Producers, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Abraham Lincoln, The Awful Truth, High Sierra, Let the Right One In, The Producers, Wake in Fright, Dead Man

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2014
Chasing Amy, Being John Malkovich, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Being John Malkovich, Casque d'or, Chasing Amy, Paths of Glory, The Grapes of Wrath, Funny Face, John Rabe

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2014
Time Bandits, Lola Montes, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Hombre, Naked, Pi, Lola Montes, RSO (Registered Sex Offender), Time Bandits, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2014
Breaking Away, Full Metal Jacket, and and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Breaking Away, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Full Metal Jacket, The Navigator, Ratatouille, Warrendale, Untamed

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
On the Waterfront, In a Dream, and and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, War Witch, One the Waterfront, In a Dream, The Invisible Man, The Fountainhead, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, California Dreamin' (Endless)

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2014
All About Eve, Top Hat, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, All About Eve, August the First, Eyes Wide Shut, Mr. Arkadin, Orgasm Inc., Seven Chances, Top Hat

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2014
Army of Shadows, Odds Against Tomorrow, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Odds Against Tomorrow, I've Always Loved You, Bamako, Hombre, River of No Return, Army of Shadows, Antonio Gaudi, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2014
Nobody Knows, Rope, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Le Grand Amour, Nobody Knows, The Leopard, The Dark Knight, Rope, Yojimbo, Mary Poppins

1 2 3 next »

Browse by Issue

Other Searches