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    Jul 26, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. 'Cat in Paris' is an elegant thriller about an elegant ... cat ★★★ 1/2

    Old-school animation that does not traffic in photorealistic backgrounds or attempt to place the audience in three dimensions may not be tearing up the multiplexes.
    Old-school animation that does not traffic in photorealistic backgrounds or attempt to place the audience in three dimensions may not be tearing up the multiplexes. But like the wonderful, Cuban jazz-steeped "Chico & Rita" seen this year at the Gene...

    Tags: Film Festivals, Animation (Movie Genre), Movies, Entertainment

    2. May 7, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. TV pitches: So I've got this idea for a show ...

    Two weeks from now, TV networks will announce their new slate of shows for next season. The majority of these series will be variations on a formula. Procedurals. High-concept sci-fi and fantasy dramas. Nighttime soaps. Comedies starring familiar faces. This is how it works. Out-of-the-ordinary shows tend to be too risky when the goal is big ratings.
    Two weeks from now, TV networks will announce their new slate of shows for next season. The majority of these series will be variations on a formula. Procedurals. High-concept sci-fi and fantasy dramas. Nighttime soaps. Comedies starring familiar faces....

    Tags: Television, Hulu, Newspaper and Magazine, Conde Nast Publications, AOL LLC

    3. Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Roger Ebert: Quintessential Chicagoan

    When Anthony Bourdain was in town last summer taping a Chicago-themed episode of his Travel Channel show “The Layover,” he asked various people, including me, to name the quintessential Chicagoan, and a consensus quickly emerged.
    When Anthony Bourdain was in town last summer taping a Chicago-themed episode of his Travel Channel show “The Layover,” he asked various people, including me, to name the quintessential Chicagoan, and a consensus quickly emerged. The...

    Tags: Academy Awards, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Twitter, Inc., Celebrities, Entertainment Events

    4. Apr 7, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. We'll still hear Ebert at the movies

    Roger Ebert's death is mourned by many, but I will remember it as bringing down the curtain on a special guy in a special time: He was multimedia before multimedia was cool. In today's angrily polarized political times, I particularly appreciate how...

    Tags: Roger Ebert, Chicago Tribune, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Reviews, Chicago Sun-Times

    5. Apr 7, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Rosenthal: Roger Ebert wrote a business script worth following

    We all knew Roger Ebert. Even those who knew Roger only through his words and insights felt a bond. That was one of Ebert's many gifts, and with his death leaving such a profound void, it is easy to overlook all that we still have from him.
    We all knew Roger Ebert. Even those who knew Roger only through his words and insights felt a bond. That was one of Ebert's many gifts, and with his death leaving such a profound void, it is easy to overlook all that we still have from him. Beyond the...

    Tags: Richard Roeper, Chicago Tribune, Social Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Twitter, Inc.

    6. Apr 1, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. From Death March to Hell Ships

    In 1991, Jan Thompson attended a reunion of World War II veterans who were prisoners of war in the Philippines. She accompanied her father, one of those veterans.
    In 1991, Jan Thompson attended a reunion of World War II veterans who were prisoners of war in the Philippines. She accompanied her father, one of those veterans. "I was just dumbfounded at what I heard," she said. "I walked out saying, 'Why doesn't...

    Tags: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Oak Park, Prisoners and Detainees, Jamie Farr

    7. Feb 7, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'

    From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they <em>do</em> that? A three-story-high tracking shot <em>above</em> a revolutionary martyr's funeral parade?!?" And: "Camera travels <em>down</em> the outside of the building, then noses in on Western scum drinking Bacardi by the pool, and then <em>into</em> the water!"
    From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...

    Tags: Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh, Cuba, Sergei Eisenstein

    8. Jan 24, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 'Consuming Spirits': SAIC professor crafts an epic labor of love ★★★★

    There's a billboard depicted in Chris Sullivan's animated wonder "Consuming Spirits" advertising beer that promises "the taste that haunts the lips." The same goes for the film. You've likely never tasted anything quite like it.
    There's a billboard depicted in Chris Sullivan's animated wonder "Consuming Spirits" advertising beer that promises "the taste that haunts the lips." The same goes for the film. You've likely never tasted anything quite like it. Dense like a detailed...

    Tags: Music, Consuming Spirits (movie), Alzheimer's Disease, Movies, Chris Sullivan

    9. Nov 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. In new film, actor Fry ponders his conflicted love affair with Wagner's music

    Stephen Fry was all of 11 when his grandfather played him a recording of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture. For the boy who grew up to become a distinguished British actor on stage, in television and film ("Wilde," "Gosford Park"), it proved to be a life-changing experience, releasing forces deep within, he says, such as he had not experienced before or since.
    Stephen Fry was all of 11 when his grandfather played him a recording of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture. For the boy who grew up to become a distinguished British actor on stage, in television and film ("Wilde," "Gosford Park"), it proved to be...

    Tags: Music Theater, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Theater, Book, Celebrities

    10. May 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. 'The Turin Horse': An anecdote transforms into the story of a life ✭✭✭ 1/2

    Since its premiere at the Berlin international film festival, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's latest and (so he has suggested) final feature,"The Turin Horse,"has been widely characterized as a grim slab of miserablism. Well. Maybe. It's no "Shop Around the Corner." But what about it retains the mysterious capacity to leave some of us feeling cinematically revived?
    Since its premiere at the Berlin international film festival, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's latest and (so he has suggested) final feature,"The Turin Horse,"has been widely characterized as a grim slab of miserablism. Well. Maybe. It's no "Shop Around...

    Tags: Film Festivals, Samuel Beckett, Potatoes, Movies, The Turin Horse (movie)

    11. May 22, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Summer celebrity spotting about to heat up

    Now is when Chicago&rsquo;s celebrity scene gets interesting.
    Now is when Chicago’s celebrity scene gets interesting. Some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports will soon visit our city on vacation (NBA stars especially like to do this) or because they live here part-time (you can count on plenty...

    Tags: Miami Heat, TV Land (tv network), Kevin Smith, Grant Park, Mike Ditka

    12. Jun 25, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Reese Witherspoon honored at Gene Siskel Film Center gala

    Alexander Payne wasn&rsquo;t the obvious choice to host the Gene Siskel Film Center&rsquo;s &ldquo;An Evening With Reese Witherspoon&rdquo; on Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, but the director and screenwriter best known for &ldquo;Sideways&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Descendants&rdquo; &mdash; neither of which starred Witherspoon &mdash; can say one thing about the Oscar-winning actress that few in Hollywood can: He knew her before she was famous. Well, A-list famous.
    Alexander Payne wasn’t the obvious choice to host the Gene Siskel Film Center’s “An Evening With Reese Witherspoon” on Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, but the director and screenwriter best known for “Sideways”...

    Tags: Academy Awards, Movies, Alexander Payne, Reese Witherspoon, Entertainment Events

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