British filmmaker Emily Wardill screens her debut feature, the adoption reunion gone wrong “Game Keepers Without Game,” Friday 4/9, and a collection of her shorts, “Everything I Tell You Now Is True,” Thursday 4/8.
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Ministry of Fear
Released mental patient Ray Milland uncovers a Nazi spy ring in Fritz Lang’s 1944 noir “Ministry of Fear,” screening Sunday 1/3 at Delilah’s.
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Bonding With Male Bonding
My friend Krystal has an uncanny ability to go to any city and find the coolest people and best artists living there. She could probably go to the blighted Rust Belt hole that I grew up near and find someone making post-shoegaze electro-noise or earth art or exquisitely crafted recycled-glass bongs or something. It’s just […]
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The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Author
As the movie adaptation of her first book comes to the screen, Audrey Niffenegger gets ready to plug her second, writes her third, and mounts an art show.
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Adventures in Modern Music
The London-based avant-garde monthly the Wire, which has increased steadily in gloss and sales over the years while remaining committed to very unglossy music, recognizes how much Chicago has given it in terms of material. It’s hosted a three- or four-day blowout at the Empty Bottle every year since 2003; this fall’s it’s the magazine’s […]
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Are cities the new countries?
In the old days, cities were fed by their hinterlands (food and inhabitants both). Now maybe they’re feeding each other.
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Alain de Botton
Londoner Alain de Botton kicked off his writing career with three well-received novels, but he’s probably better known for his subsequent nonfiction–self-help for the intellectual crowd like How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, and The Art of Travel. The concept of his latest, Status Anxiety (Pantheon), isn’t foreign to modern American […]
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AKA
As a teenager Duncan Roy escaped the London working class by passing himself off as a British noble and infiltrating the high society of Paris and New York; he got away with it for five years before he was busted for fraud. Now a veteran playwright and stage director, Roy makes his feature film debut […]