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Jan 29, 2018
Video
The Post
is a
Happy Days
for old journalists
Steven Spielberg's film is a reminder of how much fun journalism can be.
By Michael Miner
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Film
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Media
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News
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Politics
,
"The Post
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" "All the President's Men
,
" "Spotlight
,
" Steven Spielberg
,
Kay Graham
,
Meryl Streep
,
Bob Odenkirk
,
"Breaking Bad
,
" Matthew Rhys
,
"The Americans
,
" Jesse Plemons
,
Tracy Letts
,
"Homeland" "Lady Bird." Carrie Coon
,
"Fargo
,
" Michael Stuhlbarg
,
"Boardwalk Empire
,
" ."Times
,
"Newsweek
,
" MSNBC
,
Pentagon Papers
,
Rachel Maddow
,
Chris Matthews
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Chris Hayes
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Lawrence O’Donnell
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Brian Williams
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Christopher Nolan
,
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Bleader
Jan 23, 2018
Academy Awards 2018: The Oscar nominees
Reader
reviews of the top films
By Steve Heisler
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Film
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
,
Frances McDormand
,
Sam Rockwell
,
Get Out
,
Jordan Peele
,
Daniel Kaluuya
,
Lady Bird
,
Saoirse Ronan
,
Laurie Metcalf
,
Greta Gerwig
,
The Shape of Water
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Sally Hawkins
,
Timothee Chalamet
,
Armie Hammer
,
Dunkirk
,
Christopher Nolan
,
The Post
,
Meryl Streep
,
Tom Hanks
,
Steven Spielberg
,
I Tonya
,
Margot Robbie
,
Allison Janney
,
The Florida Project
,
Willem Dafoe
,
The Big Sick
,
Kumail Nanjiani
,
Darkest Hour
,
Gary Oldman
,
Mudbound
,
Mary J. Blige
,
Molly's Game
,
Coco
,
All the Money in the World
,
The Disaster Artist
,
James Franco
,
Roman J. Israel Esq.
,
Denzel Washington
,
Stronger
,
Logan
,
First They Killed My Father
,
Beats Per Minute
,
A Fantastic Woman
,
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,
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Movie Review
Dec 7, 2017
Video
Gary Oldman is the complete Winston Churchill, but
Darkest Hour
tells only half the story
Joe Wright’s biopic captures a great leader but not the people who empowered him.
By J.R. Jones
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Bleader
Jul 26, 2017
Video
Dunkirk
and
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
are alive with the sound of money
The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.
By Ben Sachs
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,
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,
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,
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
,
Nowhere to Hide
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Zaradasht Ahmed
,
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Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 12, 2016
Video
A new film series focuses on the impact of Chicago architecture
ArcLight Cinemas is partnering with the Chicago Architecture Foundation on a monthly curated film series that will run from January to April 2017.
By Leah Pickett
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Stranger than Fiction
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Metropolis
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Fritz Lang
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Christopher Nolan
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Brian De Palma
,
Chicago Film Office
,
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Mar 4, 2016
Video
European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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,
Opening
,
European Union Film Festival
,
Joost van Ginkel
,
The Paradise Suite
,
Bill Stamets
,
Fred Camper
,
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
,
London Has Fallen
,
The Wave
,
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
,
Vincente Minnelli
,
The Band Wagon
,
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
Fargo
,
Marx Brothers
,
A Night at the Opera
,
Roman Polanski
,
Rosemary's Baby
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Shutter Island
,
Music Box 70mm Film Festival
,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
,
Cleopatra
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Interstellar
,
David Lean
,
Lawrence of Arabia
,
Robert Wise
,
West Side Story
,
Chicago Irish Film Festival
,
Peace on Earth Film Festival
,
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,
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,
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Bleader
Feb 19, 2016
Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?
The Music Box's festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.
By Ian Simmons
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,
Moviegoing
,
Seriously?
,
The Music Box
,
70-millimeter film festival
,
The Hateful Eight
,
Quentin Tarantino
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Paul Thomas Anderson
,
2001: A Space Odyssey
,
West Side Story
,
Vertigo film
,
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
,
The Wild Bunch
,
Ghostbusters
,
Lawrence of Arabia
,
Cleopatra
,
Krull
,
The Master
,
Inherent Vice
,
Interstellar
,
Mad Max: Fury Road
,
Inside Out
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,
Bleader
Oct 30, 2015
Video
Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Opening
,
Michael Almereyda
,
Experimenter
,
Stanley Milgram
,
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
,
The Stanford Prison Experiment
,
Taxi Jafar Panahi
,
The Assassin
,
Hou Hsiao-hsien
,
Burnt movie
,
Bradley Cooper
,
Jem and the Holograms
,
The Last Witch Hunter
,
Vin Diesel
,
Nasty Baby
,
Sebastian Silva
,
The Maid
,
Kristen Wiig
,
Our Brand Is Crisis
,
Suffragette
,
Carey Mulligan
,
Tokyo-Ga
,
Wim Wenders
,
Truth movie
,
Dan Rather
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
,
Christopher Nolan
,
The Dark Knight
,
Sam Raimi
,
Drag Me to Hell
,
William Friedkin
,
The Exorcist
,
Jean Epstein
,
The Fall of the House of Usher
,
Chris Marker
,
Le Joli Mai
,
Ingmar Bergman
,
The Magician
,
F.W. Murnau
,
Nosferatu
,
Trinity United Methodist Church
,
Fred Zinnemann
,
Oklahoma!
,
Michael Curtiz
,
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
,
Victor Halperin
,
White Zombie
,
Wim Wenders
,
Wings of Desire
,
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
,
A Day's Work
,
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
,
First Nations Film & Video Festival
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 10, 2014
Is
Interstellar
better when you're stoned?
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic has a few things in common with
2001: A Space Odyssey
, you say? Let's put it to the test.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Science
,
The Reefer
,
Moviegoing
,
Film
,
Moviegoing
,
Interstellar
,
Christopher Nolan
,
science fiction
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
2001: A Space Odyssey
,
marijuana
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
Ray Bradbury
,
Olaf Stapledon
,
the Internet
,
Andrew Sarris
Movies
,
Movie Review
Nov 5, 2014
Video
Matthew McConaughey goes nowhere fast in
Interstellar
The new sci-fi epic from Christopher Nolan is long on ideas but short on story.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Interstellar
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Jonathan Nolan
,
Matthew McConaughey
,
Anne Hathaway
,
Steven Spielberg
,
2001: A Space Odyssey
,
Jessica Chastain
,
Wes Bentley
,
David Gyasi
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 24, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Korean New Wave
Weekly Top Five: Korean New Wave
By Drew Hunt
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,
Film
,
Korean New Wave
,
Oldboy
,
Music Box
,
Spike Lee
,
Kim Jee-woon
,
Kim Ki-duk
,
The Host
,
Bong Joon-ho
,
Peppermint Candy
,
Lee Chang-dong
,
Memento
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Spring
,
Summer
,
Fall
,
Winter . . . and Spring
,
Cinema Scope
,
Woman Is the Future of Man
,
Hong Sang-soo
,
Memories of a Murder
Movies
,
Movie Review
Jun 13, 2013
Video
Superman returns (again) in
Man of Steel
The screenwriters of the "Dark Knight" trilogy take a crack at the original superhero.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Bryan Singer
,
Superman Returns
,
Warner Bros.
,
Christopher Nolan
,
David S. Goyer
,
Dark Knight trilogy
,
Man of Steel
,
Henry Cavill
,
Henry Cavill
,
Michael Shannon
,
Russell Crowe
,
Marlon Brando
,
Kansas
,
Diane Lane
,
Kevin Costner
,
Gary Cooper
,
Detective Comics
,
Dave Fleischer
,
DC Comics
,
Video
Movies
,
Movie Review
Jun 6, 2013
Ricky Jay has something up his sleeve
In
Deceptive Practice
the master illusionist remembers the stage magicians who shaped him.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Deceptive Practice
,
Molly Bernstein
,
Ricky Jay
,
Tony Slydini
,
Francis Carlyle
,
Al Flosso
,
Dai Vernon
,
Charlie Miller
,
Francis Carlyle
,
Los Angeles
,
David Mamet
,
Paul Thomas Anderson
,
Christopher Nolan
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 18, 2012
Video
Opening soon:
The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan delivers the last installment of his blockbuster Batman trilogy
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
The Dark Knight
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Batman Begins
,
Christian Bale
,
Heath Ledger
,
Anne Hathaway
,
Julie Newmar
,
Jonathan Nolan
,
Tom Hardy
,
Marion Cotillard
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Gary Oldman
,
Michael Caine
,
Morgan Freeman
,
Cillian Murphy
,
Liam Neeson
,
comic books
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 19, 2012
Punch-Drunk Love
and a film's usefulness
How
Punch-Drunk Love
is the most useful film I've ever seen
By Drew Hunt
Tags:
Best Week
,
Film
,
Adam Sandler
,
Paul Thomas Anderson
,
Boogie Nights
,
Magnolia
,
Punch-Drunk Love
,
Fight Club
,
Donnie Darko
,
Tim Burton
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Variations on a Theme
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 6, 2008
Knight moves
When it comes to "authentic" Chicago, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is more like a Gray Line tour.
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Michael Atkinson
,
The Dark Knight
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Timur Bekmambetov
,
Wanted
,
Walter Hill
,
Streets of Fire
,
Joe Versus the Volcano
,
Tom Hanks
Movies
,
Movie Review
Jul 17, 2008
A Batman for the 21st Century
It's not just about good and evil anymore—it's about order and chaos.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The Dark Knight
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Christian Bale
Movies
,
Movie Review
Jun 16, 2005
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad City?
Americans, that's who—and that fear has kept Batman alive for nearly 70 years.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Batman Begins
,
Christopher Nolan
,
Christian Bale
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