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The artist and filmmaker Stuart Sherman gets a retrospective at Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago Filmmakers presents a compilation of 16mm and 8mm short films by Stuart Sherman, a multitalented artist who emerged on the New York scene in the mid-70s. He wrote plays and essays, did public performance art, and made more than 40 imaginative, singular short films and videos, most of which are featured during this retrospective, […]
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Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario takes on the Mexican-American drug trade
Sicario is the latest film by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners), and it follows an ambitious FBI agent (Emily Blunt) who joins a government security force led by a pair of mysterious operatives (Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro) as they search the borderland for a Mexican drug lord. Villeneuve emerged as a major filmmaker after the […]
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The end of Weekly Top Five: Peter Bogdanovich’s five best films
Drew Hunt’s very last Top Five
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The top five kung-fu flicks by Shaw Brothers director Lau Kar-leung
Highlights from the filmography of Lau Kar-leung.
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Orson Welles’s five best performances in films he didn’t direct
Highlights from Orson Welles’s acting career
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Staten Island Summer: Revenge of the teen-sex comedy
A new feature from the SNL crew brings back the bad old days of Porky’s
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Pitchfork Music Festival cage match: Vince Staples vs. Ex Hex
What to do when the festival drops two of your favorite acts into the same time slot?