- Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Dream on—the American dream on film
Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2013
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2013
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Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part two
The second part of an interview with two Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2011
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Oscarus interruptus
Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2011
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This week's movie action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 3, 2011
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This week's movie action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- Movies, Movie Review, Aug 11, 2011
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Movie Review: The Interrupters
Filmmaker Steve James and author Alex Kotlowitz team up for a documentary about short-circuiting street violence
- Movies, Movie Feature, Jul 7, 2011
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The Interrupters: Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz document CeaseFire
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2011
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The Interrupters
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 28, 2010
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Typeface
Kartemquin executive director Justine Nagan's "Typeface" premieres Friday 1/29 in the Gene Siskel Film Center's Stranger Than Fiction documentary series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2009
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Elevation
"Hoop Dreams" producer/editor Frederick Marx follows two monks and 17 children across a Himalayan path to preserve Tibetan Buddhist tradition in his documentary "Journey from Zanskar," playing in two benefit preview screenings this weekend at Primitive.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 27, 2009
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Walter Payton Prep publishes Cabrini-Green issue
The Walter Payton College Prep student newspaper devotes an issue to the community it borders, Cabrini-Green.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 28, 2008
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Free screening of "At the Death House Door"
Free screening of the Kartemquin Films documentary "At the Death House Door"
