- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 20, 2013
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Best Underused Screening Room
Museum of Contemporary Art
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 19, 2013
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Best Late-Night Programming
Facets Cinematheque
- Music, In Rotation, Jun 6, 2013
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In Rotation: MCA curator Dieter Roelstraete on Constellation
Plus: Painter Lisa Alvarado on Esteban "Steve" Jordan's Echoplex accordion, the Reader's Peter Margasak on Afro-rockers Colomach, and more
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 7, 2013
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The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 2, 2013
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark pulls the mask off old Hollywood
The title character of Lynn Nottage's play is an amalgam of the African-American actresses whose roles were restricted in early cinema—and who are still expected to play to type.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 1/27: Ital, Music-About-Film & Film-About-Music Show, and No Bees for Bridgeport
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 27, 2013.
- Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Rebecca Hall, the projectionist"If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
- Music, Music Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Vern Hester, the photographer"I wanna be a dirty old man and I wanna shoot rock 'n' roll."
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2012
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Filmmaker Sean Dunne and his Vimeo catalog—juggalos included
In his Vimeo-specific documentaries, filmmaker Sean Dunne profiles a gaggle of juggalos, a record archivist, a bowling hustler, and a man living in his van in Manhattan.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 29, 2011
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Dead Snow
Nazi zombies terrorize snowmobiling Norse medical students in "Dead Snow," screening Tuesday 8/30 as the final installment in the Logan Square International Film Series's August "Summer Camp" program.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2011
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48-Hour Film Project
Join a team, make a movie in a weekend, watch it at the Logan, and vie for a chance to screen at Cannes, in the 48-Hour Film Project this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 5, 2011
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Hollywood Fail
The eminently creepy Dutch abduction thriller "The Vanishing" kicks off "Hollywood Fail," the Logan Square International Film Series's monthlong program of "amazing foreign films remade into American films."
- News & Features, Politics, Sep 23, 2010
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The Wingnuts Had a Point
A gay Chicago filmmaker arrives at a Missouri film fest to find the state has pulled its funding under pressure from "patriots." Was it the subject matter?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 20, 2010
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Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother
A love triangle plays out against a real-world agriculture protest in Kim Jong-Guk's partially scripted "Obbah: A Girl's Elder Brother," screening tonight at the School of the Art Institute.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 6, 2010
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"Filmspotting" Hosts on "The Interview Show"
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2010
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Movie Box Office Bets on Hold
Under industry pressure, CFTC postpones decision on movie box office futures trading to April 16.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2010
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2/25 — Free Screening of Stages at Gene Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center presents a free screening of the documentary Stages on Thu 2/25 at 3:30 PM.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 19, 2010
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How Sex-Segregated Oscars Have Been Good For Film
A film critic suggests that the Academy Awards make the acting categories gender-neutral, because male and female actors are evenly matched in Hollywood films. Could the gender-specific categories have been responsible for that?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 6, 2009
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Fuel
Fuel, a new documentary about our addiction to oil and some potential solutions, is compelling but misses some critical points about the environmental crisis we face.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 23, 2009
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Fashion and Film: Coco Before Chanel
The movie Coco Before Chanel highlights the evolution of the designer's legendary style--and the revolution in women's fashion.
