Sundance film festival

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
- Tags: Feature, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Ira Glass, Johanna Zorn, Julie Shapiro, WBEZ, This American Life, podcasts, podcasting, radio, public radio, Kitchen Sisters, Joe Richman, Radio Diaries, Jay Allison, Planet Money, 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, WNYC, Hans Buetow, Radiolab, Jad Abumrad, Re:sound, Us & Them, Trey Kay, Michael Barbaro, The Daily, New York Times, Ear Hustle, Nigel Poor, Reveal, Al Letson, Marketplace, Jenna Weiss-Berman, Pineapple Street Media, Women of the Hour, Transom.org, Code Switch, Max Linsky, All Things Considered, Why oh Why, Andrea Silenzi, John Biewen, Christopher Swetala, Eric Zorn, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, Sundance film festival, Harvey Weinstein

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2017
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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
- Tags: News, 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, Steppenwolf Theatre, Sundance Film Festival, Video

Movies, Movie Review Jun 23, 2016
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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
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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
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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

Movies, 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

Movies, 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
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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
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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
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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, Sundance FIlm Festival, 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
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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, Animal Collective, 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
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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: Music, Post No Bills, Sundance Film Festival, Music marketing, Park City, Utah, Ron Sexsmith, Chuck Prophet

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A trip to “the Sundance of radio” in the golden age of podcasting

Also, "Chuy" Garcia is not the only candidate running for Luis Gutierrez's congressional seat.

In Tickled and Pervert Park, shame is a powerful weapon.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between 1/3 and 1/9

Guerrilla filmmaking comes to the Magic Kingdom.

In Sebastian Silva's new Chilean feature, Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

Filmmaker Debra Granik appears at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Saturday to screen her Sundance award-winner Winter's Bone.

Deborah Stratman's meditation on Manifest Destiny, "O'er the Land," screens Monday 4/19 at UIC.

As of this morning, volunteers could get tickets to the sold out Animal Collective/Danny Perez film "Oddsac" tonight at the Music Box.

Califone (and Tim Rutili's first full-length movie) head to the Sundance Film Festival.

New movie reviews in the Chicago Reader.

Three documentaries about the news make the news.

Writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr. speaks at a screening of his 1991 feature Chameleon Street.

Live music elbows in on film at Sundance.

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