Five great films by Canadian indie Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Green Fog, screens this week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
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With The Green Fog, Guy Maddin delivers an experimental feature that’s pure entertainment
Clips from movies shot in San Francisco are edited into a dreamlike reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq opens today, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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What we learned at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival
Here are the nuggets wisdom and trivia we gleaned from the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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The Massacre: Shocks around the clock
The long-running horror marathon the Massacre relocates to the Patio Theater.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian Pintilie, and other keywords
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s Reader
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Wholesome entertainment
Heartwarming family movies deserve more respect. A fancy prize will bring it
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Coming soon: Mr. Smith goes to Roxaboxen
The upcoming South Side Projections event featuring Jack Smith’s avant-garde classic, Flaming Creatures
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Pink Hotel DVD release party
Chris Hefner’s surreal Super 8 tribute to early talkies “The Pink Hotel” screens tonight in a free DVD release party at Lincoln Hall.
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Bud of a poet
Brand Upon the Brain! director Guy Maddin looks to poet John Ashbery as both friend and collaborator.
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Bumped and ground
Only in release a week, already Grindhouse has been written off as a failure. Will producer Harvey Weinstein ever live it down?