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Film
,
Movie Feature
Feb 26, 2021
The Father
faces the reality of growing old
Florian Zeller’s drama is a brilliant exploration of dementia, pain, and vulnerability.
By Josh Flanders
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Movie Feature
,
The Father
,
Florian Zeller
,
Anthony Hopkins
,
Olivia Colman
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
dementia
Film
,
Movie Review
Oct 9, 2020
Recommended
Black women have mid-life crises, too
The 40-Year-Old Version
deftly offers a fresh and exciting perspective on a tired film trope.
By Sheri Flanders
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The 40 Year Old Version
,
Radha Blank
,
mid-life crisis
,
Netflix
,
Peter Kim
,
Oswin Benjamin
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Watchmen
,
Recommended
Film
,
Movie Feature
Jul 7, 2020
Documenting the final years of Walter Mercado’s remarkable life
How the filmmakers behind Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado brought a Latino story to the masses
By Josh Flanders
Tags:
Movie Feature
,
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
,
Walter Mercado
,
Netflix
,
Kareem Tabsch
,
Cristina Constantini
,
Sundance Film Festival
Film
,
Movie Feature
Feb 10, 2020
What we loved at Sundance
There are a lot of great movies coming your way in 2020.
By Josh Flanders and Sheri Flanders
Tags:
Movie Feature
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
And Then We Danced
,
City So Real
,
Coded Bias
,
Crip Camp
,
The Father
,
The 40-Year-Old Version
,
Hillary
,
Into the Deep
,
The Perfect Candidate
,
Scare Me
,
Uncle Frank
,
Zola
Film
,
Movie Feature
Feb 5, 2020
Reviewing while Black at Sundance
On criticism, inclusion—and exclusion—at one of the most diverse Sundance festivals in history.
By Sheri Flanders
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Movie Feature
,
Sheri Flanders
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
diversity
,
inclusion
,
Press Inclusion Initiative
,
Chaz Ebert
,
Janicza Bravo
,
Jacqueline Coley
,
Chicago Theater Accountability Coalition
,
Salt Lake City
,
Park City
,
Crip Camp
,
Zola
,
Coya Paz
Arts & Culture
,
Feature
Dec 13, 2017
An ear to the ground at the Third Coast International Audio Festival
A trip to “the Sundance of radio” in the golden age of podcasting
By Maya Dukmasova
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,
Third Coast International Audio Festival
,
Ira Glass
,
Johanna Zorn
,
Julie Shapiro
,
WBEZ
,
This American Life
,
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,
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,
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,
Kitchen Sisters
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Joe Richman
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Jay Allison
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Planet Money
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Robert Smith
,
Roman Mars
,
99% Invisible
,
Radio Atlas
,
Lynnae Brown
,
Knight Foundation
,
MacArthur Foundation
,
Eleanor McDowall
,
Public Radio Exchange
,
PRX
,
Kerri Hoffman
,
John Barth
,
American Public Media
,
Audible
,
Spotify
,
Last Podcast on the Left
,
Dirty John
,
KUOW
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WNYC
,
Hans Buetow
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Radiolab
,
Jad Abumrad
,
Re:sound
,
Us & Them
,
Trey Kay
,
Michael Barbaro
,
The Daily
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New York Times
,
Ear Hustle
,
Nigel Poor
,
Reveal
,
Al Letson
,
Marketplace
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Jenna Weiss-Berman
,
Pineapple Street Media
,
Women of the Hour
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Transom.org
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Max Linsky
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All Things Considered
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Why oh Why
,
Andrea Silenzi
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John Biewen
,
Christopher Swetala
,
Eric Zorn
,
sexual harassment
,
sexual misconduct
,
Sundance film festival
,
Harvey Weinstein
Blogs
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Bleader
Dec 6, 2017
Video
The battle of the billionaires heats up as Rauner calls Pritzker 'one of the worst investors on the planet,' and other Chicago news
Also, "Chuy" Garcia is not the only candidate running for Luis Gutierrez's congressional seat.
By Kate Shepherd
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,
Did You Read __________?
,
Chicago
,
Illinois
,
J.B. Pritzker
,
Bruce Rauner
,
Election 2018
,
Robeson High School
,
Chicago Public Schools
,
football
,
University of Chicago
,
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
,
Raymond Lopez
,
Luis Gutierrez
,
Proco "Joe" Moreno
,
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
,
Illinois Board of Elections
,
Spike Lee
,
Pass Over
,
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,
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,
Video
Film
,
Movie Review
Jun 23, 2016
Recommended
Video
Two new documentaries reveal cycles of cruelty and control
In
Tickled
and
Pervert Park
, shame is a powerful weapon.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Pervert Park
,
Frida Barkfors
,
Lasse Barkfors
,
Florida Justice Transitions
,
Tickled movie
,
Nancy Morais
,
Jamie Turner
,
Patrick Naughton
,
Tracy Hutchinson
,
Bill Fuery
,
David Farrier
,
Jane O'Brien Media
,
Debbie J. Kuhn
,
Dylan Reeve
,
Kevin Clarke
,
T.J. Gretzner
,
David P. D'Amato
,
Terri DiSisto
,
Dave Starr
,
Hal Karp
,
Deborah Scoblionkov
,
Nick Broomfield
,
Jordan Schillachi
,
Sundance film festival
,
Recommended
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 12, 2014
Video
Chris Rock is an auteur now, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Top Five
,
Chris Rock
,
Paramount Pictures
,
The Theory of Everything
,
The Imitation Game
,
Exodus: Gods and Kings
,
Ridley Scott
,
Gladiator movie
,
Once Upon a Time Veronica
,
Point and Shoot
,
Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation
,
Antonio Gaudi
,
Sagrada Família basilica
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
The Two Faces of January
,
Patricia Highsmith
,
Viggo Mortensen
,
Kirsten Dunst
,
Oscar Isaac
,
Steve James
,
Hoop Dreams
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Frank Capra
,
It's a Wonderful Life
,
White Christmas
,
Music Box Chicago
,
John McTiernan
,
Die Hard
,
Chris Columbus
,
Home Alone
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 3, 2014
Video
A heap of nonfiction and the rest of this week's screenings
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between 1/3 and 1/9
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
At Berkeley
,
Frederick Wiseman
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Stranger Than Fiction
,
Liv and Ingmar
,
Eric Steel
,
Kiss the Water
,
Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
,
documentaries
,
Aftermath
,
47 Ronin
,
Doc Films
,
Dirty Ho
,
Katherine Hepburn
,
A Bill of Divorcement
,
Peggy Sue Got Married
,
George Cukor
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
The Great Beauty
,
Paolo Sorrentino
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Sundance Institute 2013 Shorts Program
,
Abel Ferrara
,
Ms. 45
,
Blazing Saddles
,
Mel Brooks
,
Music Box Theatre
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Odd Man Out
,
Video
Film
,
Movie Review
Oct 23, 2013
All the Disney World's a stage in
Escape From Tomorrow
Guerrilla filmmaking comes to the Magic Kingdom.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Randy Moore
,
Lake Bluff
,
Escape From Tomorrow
,
Walt Disney Pictures
,
Roy Abramsohn
,
Elena Schuber
,
Jack Dalton
,
Village of the Damned
,
Epcot Center
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Saving Mr. Banks
,
Mary Poppins
,
Tom Hanks
Film
,
Movie Review
Jul 17, 2013
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
: the spines are all mine
In Sebastian Silva's new Chilean feature, Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
,
Music Box
,
Michael Cera
,
Augustin Silva
,
Chile
,
Santiago
,
Gaby Hoffmann
,
Sebastian Silva
,
The Maid
,
Magic Magic
,
Pablo Larrain
,
Tony Manero
,
No
,
Juan de Dios
,
La Vida Me Mata
,
Sundance Film Festival
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 25, 2013
Video
Spouses at odds, a ghostly guardian, a trip to the hospital, and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Drew Hunt
,
Tiger Tail in Blue
,
Frank V. Ross
,
Audrey the Trainwreck
,
Mama Guillermo del Toro
,
Andres Muschietti
,
Hellboy
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Ben Sachs
,
The Waiting Room docuentary
,
Peter Nicks
,
Broken City
,
Allen Hughes
,
Menace II Society
,
Mark Wahlberg
,
Russell Crowe
,
The End of Time
,
Peter Mettler
,
The Flying Ace
,
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
,
The Last Stand
,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
Johnny Knoxville
,
and Kim Jee-woon
,
I Saw the Devil
,
A Tale of Two Sisters
,
Little by Little
,
Jean Rouch
,
Chronicle of a Summer
,
Quartet Dustin Hoffman
,
Tom Courtenay
,
Maggie Smith
,
Billy Connolly
,
John Huston
,
Beat the Devil
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Casablanca
,
Patio Theater
,
Sergei Paradjanov
,
The Color of Pomegranates
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Louis Malle
,
The Fire Within
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Jaguar Jean Rouch
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Frank Borzage
,
Little Man
,
What Now?
,
Alec Guinness
,
The Man in the White Suit
,
Music Box
,
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Civic Cinema
,
The United States of ALEC
,
American legislative Exchange Council
,
Columbia College Film Row Cinema
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Touchy Feely
,
Lynn Shelton
,
Your Sister's Sister
,
Ellen Page
,
Allison Janney
,
Rosemarie DeWitt
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 26, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Jake Gyllenhaal
,
Pfizer
,
Anne Hathaway
,
Love and Other Drugs
,
Jamie Reidy
,
Hard Sell The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman
,
Jake Whitney
,
Burlesque movie
,
Cher
,
Christine Aguilera
,
Doghouse movie
,
Faster
,
Dwayne Johnson
,
Billy Bob Thornton
,
Made in Dagenham
,
Sally Hawkins
,
Happy Go Lucky movie
,
Ford Motor Company
,
7 Days in Slow Motion
,
Sing The Music of Sesame Street
,
Stigmata movie
,
Sundance Institute 2010 Shorts Program
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Tangled movie
,
Rapunzel
,
Three Days With the Family
,
Terrence Malick
,
Badlands movie
,
Music Box
,
D.W. Griffith
,
Broken Blossoms
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
Eyes Wide Shut
,
Georges Franju
,
Eyes Without a Face
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Frenzy (1972)
,
Saturday and Sunday at Music Box; the full-length cut of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate
,
Frank Capra
,
It's a Wonderful Life
,
Pritzker Park
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 21, 2010
Video
Ozark Mountain Daredevil
Filmmaker Debra Granik appears at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday to screen her Sundance award-winner Winter's Bone.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Debra Granik
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Winter's Bone
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Down to the Bone
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Jennifer Lawrence
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 19, 2010
O'er the Land
Deborah Stratman's meditation on Manifest Destiny, "O'er the Land," screens Monday 4/19 at UIC.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Free Shit
,
Swag
,
Deborah Stratman
,
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,
O'er the Land
,
Manifest Destiny
,
UIC
,
3290 FIlm Club
,
experimental
,
documentary
,
William Rankin
,
Lt. Col.
,
machine gun
,
cheerleaders
,
battle reenactors
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 17, 2010
Video
Oddsac
As of this morning, volunteers could get tickets to the sold out Animal Collective/Danny Perez film "Oddsac" tonight at the Music Box.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Music
,
Free Shit
,
Swag
,
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,
Oddsac
,
Danny Perez
,
Music Box Theatre
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
art rock
,
freakout
,
tickets
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 18, 2009
Califone Back on the Road, at Music Venues and Film Festivals
Califone (and Tim Rutili's first full-length movie) head to the Sundance Film Festival.
By Peter Margasak
Tags:
Film
,
Music
,
Post No Bills
,
Califone
,
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
,
Lincoln Hall
,
Tim Rutili
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Secretly Canadian
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 18, 2009
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New movie reviews in the Chicago Reader.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
James Cameron Avatar
,
Avatar
,
The Young Victoria
,
Broken Embraces
,
Cloud 9
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Sundance shorts
,
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
,
Into Temptation
,
Showman: Albert Maysles Retrospective
,
Albert Maysles
,
David Maysles
,
Maysles brothers
,
Lewis Klahr
,
Tales of the Forgotten Future
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 22, 2008
Ripped from the headlines
Three documentaries about the news make the news.
By Andrea Gronvall
Tags:
Film
,
Israel
,
Iraq
,
Academy Awards
,
documentary
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Chicago International Film Festival
,
Toronto International Film Festival
,
Oscar
,
Ari Folman
,
Waltz with Bashir
,
West Bank
,
Blood Trail
,
Robert King
,
Robert Capa
,
broadcast news
,
United Arab Emirates
,
The Heart of Jenin
,
Ahmed Khatib
,
Ismael Khatib
,
Ophir Awards
,
Alex Gibney
,
Taxi to the Dark Side
,
South by Southwest
Blogs
,
Bleader
Sep 2, 2008
What's Old: Chameleon Street
Writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr. speaks at a screening of his 1991 feature Chameleon Street.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Movies
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
African-American filmmakers
,
Chameleon Street
,
Wendell B. Harris Jr.
,
Arbiter Roswell
,
William Douglas Street
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 22, 2007
Rock City, Utah
Live music elbows in on film at Sundance.
By Peter Margasak
Tags:
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,
Post No Bills
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Music marketing
,
Park City, Utah
,
Ron Sexsmith
,
Chuck Prophet
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