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Arts & Culture, Book Review Nov 9, 2020
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The South Never Plays Itself reckons with the south onscreen

Ben Beard’s new book attempts to answer the question of which versions of the south are represented on screen and why.
- By Cody Corrall
- Tags: Book Review, The South Never Plays Itself, Ben Beard, Birth of a Nation, Moonlight, Magic Mike, Jezebel, Gone With the Wind, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Aug 8, 2018
BlacKkKlansman retells the true story of a black cop who joined his local Klan chapter

Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, Ku Klux Klan, KKK, Jungle Fever, Cannes Film Festival, Ron Stallworth, John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Kevin Willmott, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Alec Baldwin, Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Gone With the Wind

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2016
Patio Theater lights up its silver screen again

Under general manager Dennis Wolkowicz, the Patio Theater in Portage Park reopens as a neighborhood movie house.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Neighborhoods, Dennis Wolkowicz, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, Patio Theater, Portage Park, Alexander Kouvalis, Demetri Kouvalis, Eddie Carranza, Congress Theater, Nicholas Sposato, Charlie Burns, Steven Spielberg, Jaws, The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Frank Capra, Lost Horizon, Billy Wilder, One Two Three, Harold Ramis, Caddyshack, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Carmen Miranda, That Night in Rio, movies

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2015
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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Dominigue Strauss-Kahn, The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, Tommy Tedesco, Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll, Dior and I, Little Boy, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe, White Cop, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Gene Graham, The Godfather of Disco, Black Cinema House, David O. Selznick, Gone With the Wind, Lon Chaney, Laugh Clown Laugh, Patio Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, Ivan Dixon, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Gallery 400, Circles and Ciphers, Jean Renior, The Woman on the Beach, Robert Ryan, Nightingale Cinema, Facets Cinematheque, Oracle Theatre, Cinemetrics Across Borders, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Creative Music Summit, Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kirby Dick, The Hunting Ground, Kartemquin Members' Work for Hire, Kartemquin Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2014
Stromboli, Quills, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Cry Danger, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Gone With the Wind, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Quills, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Stromboli

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Cast Against 8, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal movie, Citizen Koch, Carl Deal, Tia Lessen, Trouble the Water, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Seduction, Seducing Dr. Lewis, Night Train, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myer, 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Music Box, Gene Saks, The Odd Couple, Logan Theater Chicago, Rare Baseball Films, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 16mm Animation Showcase, George Griffin, Kathy Laughlin, Sally Cruikshank, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2013
Life Without Principle, Our Hospitality, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Monkey Business, Daisies, Gone with the Wind, North by Northwest, Our Hospitality, Life Without Principle, The Terminator

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2013
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Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, R.I.P.D., Robert Schwentke, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Theatre, Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker, Blackfish, Girl Most Likely, Still Mine, The To Do List, Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Francis Ford Coppola, One From the Heart, Northbrook Public Library, Des Plaines Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Gone With the Wind, 4K DCP, The Sleeping Tiger, Joseph Losey, The Late George Apley, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Patio Theater, The Happy Poet, Paul Gordon, Red 2, Landmark Century Center, movies, Chicago, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 2, 2013
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.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Vera Stark, Goodman Theatre, black women filmmakers, Tamberla Perry, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Baby Face, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, cinema, Gloria Mitchell, vaudeville, Broadway, theater, NAACP, Gone With the Wind, Baby Face, IMDB, film, Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, actresses, black actresses, Chuck Smith, stereotyping, roles, Hollywood, Clare Boothe Luce, The Women

Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2011
"Saggy pants under assault"

Lynwood's ban on sagging pants.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Paranormal, Politics, Clout City, saggy pants, Lynwood, Eugene Williams, ACLU, Trenton, New Jersey, Collinsville, Illinois, Greenspoint Mall, Houston, Texas, Evanston, Lionel Jean-Baptiste, Steve Schmadeke, Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, Midlothian, Gone With the Wind, Barack Obama, Pull Up Your Pants, Oliver Vance Pull Up Your Pants

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The South Never Plays Itself reckons with the south onscreen

Ben Beard’s new book attempts to answer the question of which versions of the south are represented on screen and why.

BlacKkKlansman retells the true story of a black cop who joined his local Klan chapter

Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.

Patio Theater lights up its silver screen again

Under general manager Dennis Wolkowicz, the Patio Theater in Portage Park reopens as a neighborhood movie house.

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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Stromboli, Quills, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Life Without Principle, Our Hospitality, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

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Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1

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.

"Saggy pants under assault"

Lynwood's ban on sagging pants.

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Ben Beard’s new book attempts to answer the question of which versions of the south are represented on screen and why.

Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.

Under general manager Dennis Wolkowicz, the Patio Theater in Portage Park reopens as a neighborhood movie house.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1

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.

Lynwood's ban on sagging pants.

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