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Peacenicks invade the Chicago Cultural Center, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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A paramount picture from Paramount Pictures
The studio releases a posed shot of 116 important artists as part of its centennial celebration
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My year in music photos
Village on a downtown rooftop, backstage with Tyler, the Creator, and ten more
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Terrence Malick moves heaven and earth in The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s new movie, The Tree of Life, made news last month for the prolonged boos it drew after its world premiere at the Cannes film festival, boos that were eventually turned back by sustained applause from the film’s champions. The polar reaction isn’t too surprising, given the multitudes Malick tries to contain in one […]
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Lupe, Ealy, and The People Speak
Lupe Fiasco and Michael Ealy perform at a screening of excerpts from the alternative history documentary “The People Speak,” Wednesday 11/11 at Northwestern.
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Give me one–just one–Harvey Milk
“Milk” may be about the gay rights movement in San Francisco in the 70s, but it has a lot to say about the state of politics in contemporary Chicago.
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Best films of 2008, west coast installment
Los Angeles Film Critics Association names WALL-E the year’s best movie.
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21 Grams
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga follow up their masterful Amores perros with another complex drama of disparate characters whose lives are linked by fateful misfortune–not nearly as panoramic or rewarding as the earlier film, but just as intimate and deeply felt. Naomi Watts is excellent as a woman whose husband (Danny Huston) […]
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Social Criticism
COLORS ** (Worth seeing) Directed by Dennis Hopper Written by Michael Schiffer and Richard Dilello With Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks, Grand Bush, Don Cheadle, Glenn Plummer, and Rudy Ramos. REPENTANCE *** (A must-see) Directed by Tengiz Abuladze Written by Nana Djanelidze, Tengiz Abuladze, and Rezo Kveselava With Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab […]