And you can still see a lot of it on 35 mm—the way it was meant to be seen.
Tag: cinema
The weird world of Guy Maddin
Five great films by Canadian indie Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Green Fog, screens this week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
What movies can tell us about dying
A close look at the climax of Paul Newman’s Sometimes a Great Notion, which screened in Chicago this past Monday.
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark pulls the mask off old Hollywood
Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark pulls the mask off old Hollywood.
Opera in the movies, and vice versa
A consideration of the relationship between opera and film.
Editing Bordwell and Kehr
Rodney Powell of University of Chicago Press details the publication of new books by Dave Kehr and David Bordwell.
Persepolis now
Marjane Satrapi, creator of the Persepolis comics and animated feature, will lecture next Friday at Columbia College.
Tom Gunning on the celluloid Lincoln
Noted U. of C. professor Tom Gunning lectures on cinematic portrayals of the 16th president at Loyola next week.