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Tag: Roger Ebert
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Books we can’t wait to read: The back half of 2016 edition
There’s plenty to look forward to in the rest of 2016.
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Experience Cannes vicariously by reading Roger Ebert’s journal
University of Chicago Press reprints the film critic’s account of the 1987 edition of the festival.
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Can movies like Concussion fudge facts in the name of art?
The new feature about the NFL raises the question: Do movies have any obligation at all to tell us the truth?
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Is there a Stuart Gordon school of cinema ghoulitry?
It turns out that horror maestro Stuart Gordan has protégés.
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Freedom of speech, artistic license, snow, and the Sunday Trib
Arguing with the Sunday Chicago Tribune
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A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese’s debut to Lee Daniels’s achievement award
The Reader digs through the Chicago International Film Festival’s archives to assemble a time line covering the fest’s 50 years.
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In football, colleges fatten calfs and the NFL sacrifices them
The strange life of an NFL player begins long before the pros
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The Newberry Book Fair turns 30
Newberry Book Fair celebrates three decades of selling rare lit.
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Not coming to a theater near you, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.
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How a story about the horrors of housing projects became part of a horror movie
On the parallels between a 1987 Reader article and the movie Candyman.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 1/24: Vertigo, Stepz, and Action Bronson
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, January 24
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Hedy’s review was a rave—why is everybody so upset?
If you read it closely, the Sun-Times critic’s review of Invasion! was a rave.
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Bill Granger’s November Man is finally coming to the movies
Pierce Brosnan is filming one of the author’s November Man novels.