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Home » Cold War

Tag: Cold War

Posted inFilm

Cold War chronicles a passionate affair that blazes across the Iron Curtain

by Andrea Gronvall January 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to Ida celebrates individualism and unfettered emotion.

Posted inArts & Culture

Reagan and Gorbachev meet cute atop a pile of nukes in Blind Date

by Tony Adler February 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.

Posted inFilm

The Shape of Water is wondrous, but woefully narrow-minded

by Ben Sachs December 14, 2017August 18, 2021

The visual achievement of Guillermo del Toro’s new fantasy can’t alleviate its reductive worldview.

Posted inBlogs

The story behind the first vector arcade game in 30 years, now at Logan Arcade

by Ryan Smith December 7, 2015August 18, 2021

How three unconventional hobbyists haphazardly created a new arcade game out of dormant technology.

Posted inBlogs

George Klauba’s new exhibit recalls love in the time of revolution

by Colleen Cottet November 30, 2015August 18, 2021

A series of paintings look back on a brief affair in Cold War-era Cuba.

Posted inBlogs

A new documentary, Merchants of Doubt, has a hero, and it’s the Tribune

by Michael Miner March 26, 2015August 18, 2021

Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe, reporters at the Trib, are two of the most gallant figures in a new documentary.

Posted inBlogs

The Americans, a thriller? Not exactly

by Michael Miner February 27, 2014August 18, 2021

Bring your sense of humor to The Americans

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: The Best of Nicholas Ray

by Drew Hunt July 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Weekly Top Five: Nicholas Ray films

Posted inBlogs

Without le Carré, would we have The Americans?

by Michael Miner May 15, 2013August 19, 2021

When spies had to choose—marriage or the cold war?

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: “Film is like a battleground”—the best of Samuel Fuller

by Drew Hunt March 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Weekly top five: Samuel Fuller films

Dr. Strangelove
Posted inArts & Culture

All heil Dr. Strangelove

by Tony Adler February 14, 2013August 19, 2021

The screenplay of Dr. Strangelove, presented in a staged reading at Space

The high seas
Posted inFilm

Meet the skull and crossbones

by J.R. Jones February 6, 2013August 18, 2021

Stolen Seas dives deep into the economic waters of modern Somali pirates.

Posted inBlogs

Give it up for George Kennan

by Michael Miner January 19, 2012August 19, 2021

A diary entry recalls a 1992 encounter between George Kennan and a theater company from Milwaukee

Posted inBlogs

In the eye of the beholder

by Sam Worley October 18, 2011August 19, 2021

Street protesters’ complaints are falling on friendlier ears than they used to.

Posted inArts & Culture

Cold War frenemies

by Tony Adler August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods

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