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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Flight (movie), Steppenwolf Theatre, Post Tenebras Lux (movie), Toronto International Film Festival, Room 237 (movie)
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Restored movie house fits big picture for Mark Fishman
Famously, the old Logan Theatre at 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave. used to smell like pee. Urban legends abound of the stink detectable all over the Logan Square neighborhood. "You went in the lobby door, and there it was. The smell of urine. We found out during...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Politics, Lobbying, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day
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'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★
We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...
Tags: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment, Room 237 (movie)
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Pink Floyd (music group), Room 237 (movie)
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Chicago Reader, Transformers (movie), Mel Gibson, Room 237 (movie), Wicker Park
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Horror movies: Halloween's sweet spot
Countdown to Halloween: five days. I don't like wearing costumes, I'm not into haunted houses, candy corn is too sweet, and I prefer pumpkin pie to pumpkin carvings. But I do like horror movies — just not the kind with umpteen sequels. I saw...
Tags: Toby Jones, Truman Capote, Lifestyle and Leisure, Holidays, Keir Dullea
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2012: A Kubrick odyssey
Among the more than 1,000 objects on display in "Stanley Kubrick" -- a massive exhibition devoted to the legendary filmmaker that opens Thursday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- the piece that perhaps best captures the director's singular...
Tags: Tim Burton, Fine Artists, Game Playing, Paths of Glory (movie), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Music review: International Contemporary Ensemble's movie mood
In the decade since its founding, the International Contemporary Ensemble has become essential. The flexible collective of 33 musicians is likely the most accomplished new music group in New York, and it makes a significant contribution toward keeping the...
Tags: Entertainment, Tom Cruise, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Museums, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Five films fit for Father's Day
Father's Day is a day for family time, and one thing that always brings families together is a good movie. Looking to pop some popcorn today and settle in with a nice, old-fashioned feel-good flick about fathers and kids and warm fuzzies? We've got a...
Tags: Paul Dooley, Will Smith, Billy Crystal, Entertainment, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment, Arts, Paths of Glory (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Symbols and Symbolism, Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock
In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment, Skype, Room 237 (movie)
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