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Todd McCarthy to join New York Film Festival
Fired as Variety's chief movie critic, McCarthy--an Evanston Township High School grad--has joined the New York fest's selection committee. He was hired by festival program director Richard Pena, formerly of the Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics |
Editor insists the changes "won't be noticed by readers." thewrap.com
Variety lays off top film and theater critics
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Where Every Man Is the Wolf

The killers are only the biggest, baddest misogynists in the grim "Red Riding" trilogy.

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Chicagoland / Food Chain / Film / Music / Food & Drink / Performing Arts Dinner & a Show: Saturday 3/13

Posted by Whet Moser on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM

Performing Arts

Show: Joe Frank "His stories range from penetrating personal discussions of love and mortality to outsize tales of outrageous folly, like the one about a businessman attempting to set up a luxury ski resort in the middle of the Sahara desert," writes Alex Yablon. "But regardless of subject matter, they generate the sort of deeply uneasy, darkly hilarious mood associated with a David Lynch movie."

8pm, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., 312-335-1650, $29

Dinner: Salpicon Though she didn’t actually cook for Rick Bayless—Priscila Satkoff was his assistant—the Mexico City native’s early training at the side of her mother and grandmother helped propel her tiny Old Town spot to an upscale destination rivaling her old boss’s.

1252 N. Wells St., 312-988-7811

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Media / Film Green Zone — Now We Know

Posted by Michael Miner on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM

A revisionist notion that has never gotten any serious traction, no matter how fervently the children of the 1930s isolationists keep putting it on the table, is the one arguing that America entered World War II under false pretenses. The argument isn't that the attack on Pearl Harbor didn’t take place — a whopper of that magnitude would have to await the historic breakthroughs in human credulity that have given us a staged moon landing and 9/11 as an American plot. It's that — or so they keep insisting — FDR knew about the attack in advance and kept his mouth shut because he wanted us in the war.

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Film / Free Shit / Environment School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM

School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama

School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama

It's an opportune time to explore Japan's relationship to nature, what with The Cove's Oscar win and yesterday's arrest in Tokyo of New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune.

Surely this isn't the kind of profile the Japan Information Center is going for with its Japan and Nature Film Series, concluding Friday 3/12 at Columbia College with a free screening of Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama.

“Children will not grow unless they are put in a risky environment. They will not grow healthily unless they get injured, covered in mud and play rough and physical games," Eijyu Miyazaki says in the film. Haramura examines Miyazaki's iconoclastic pedagogy and its impact at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School in Satoyama, Chiba.

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Movies To See Today

[Recommended] Shutter Island Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo star as federal marshals summoned to an island hospital for the criminally insane; a patient has gone missing, … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero ShowPlace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Gardens 1-6, Lake, New 400, Niles ShowPlace 12, Norridge, River East 21, Showplace 14 - Galewood Crossings, ShowPlace ICON and Webster Place 11

[Recommended] Avatar More than a decade in the making, James Cameron's 3-D fantasy about a colony of human astronauts hoping to plunder an alien rainforest … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Crown Village 18

[Recommended] [New] Red Riding: 1980 The real-life crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper figure heavily in this engrossing police procedural, the second installment in the neo-noir "Red Riding" trilogy … Music Box