- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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My favorite book about Chicago moviegoing
Revisiting Daniel Pinkwater's young adult novel The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 10, 2013
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The Purge feels like one half of a grand night out
The new Ethan Hawke horror movie makes a good argument for the double feature.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 3, 2013
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Voyage to Italy, Before Midnight, and the movie theater as sanctuary
When big-screen presentation is essential to what a movie is saying
- Blogs, Bleader, May 28, 2013
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The best of times and worst of times for Chicago moviegoing
The Portage and Patio theaters may be closing, but screenings go on for the Northwest Chicago Film Society.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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The mixed blessing of watching movies online
Considering how online viewing shapes both film appreciation and filmmaking.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2013
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Does national culture determine moviegoing habits?
Thinking about Donald Richie's assessment of Japanese movie audiences
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2013
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Orson Welles, Terrence Malick, and Michael Bay: Three feet high and rising
Considering the use of low-angle shots in Mr. Arkadin, To the Wonder, and Pain & Gain
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2013
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When celluloid film bleeds over the screen
On the sensation of watching film stock exceed the screen's parameters
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Concerning those movies that exist only in spectators' imaginations
Imagining a nonexistent movie classic starring Peter Sellers
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2013
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When images are at the mercy of technology
From the art of the real to the art of manipulation
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 18, 2013
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Well-furnished movie theaters are some of the best places to nap
. . . but, alas, there are no good sleep-inducing movies playing in town this week.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 4, 2013
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Sense of place versus sense of purpose in two EU Film Festival titles
Considering those movies rich in sense of place and little else
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2013
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Getting big eyes for 70-millimeter film
Are audiences more excited to watch a movie if they're unfamiliar with the technology it employs?
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 11, 2013
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Does Within Our Gates "certify" Chicago?
On seeing your neighborhood in the movies
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2013
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Considering the phenomenon of movie audiences cheering for murder
When applause isn't the same thing as good cheer
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 28, 2013
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No matter what's playing, the multiplex is a great place to make out
It's January, also known as make-out season for moviegoers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2013
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Cosmopolis and the incredible shrinking theater
Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2012
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What makes for a good introduction to a film screening?
They make you want to see more
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2012
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An added attraction at Cloud Atlas
Observing the crowd dynamics of a weekday afternoon multiplex screening
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 27, 2012
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I miss Chicago's worst movie theater
Remembering the woebegone final years of the Pipers Alley movie theater
