The show runs out of provocations too soon.
Tag: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows
A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week’s best bets.
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Our favorite movies of 2014
The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
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How the influence of existentialist philosophy plays out in Richard Linklater’s filmmaking
Further thoughts on that Fassbinder-style tracking shot in Boyhood
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This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Andrea Gronvall about I Can’t Sleep and Trouble Every Day
A conversation about two of the French filmmaker’s most challenging and most lurid films
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The unbearable lightness of painter David Abed
The Chicago-based symbolist painter explores the modern human condition.
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When Nelson Algren Met Simone de Beauvoir . . .
An account from Carole Seymour-Jones’s new biography of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, A Dangerous Liaison (Overlook, due September 10), about Algren and de Beauvoir’s first meeting in Chicago: “[Mary] Guggenheim sent Algren a note warning him that the French novelist was on her way. The acclaimed author of Never Come Morning was not […]