FilmStruck’s “star of the week” Lana Turner shines in these five films.
Tag: Sigmund Freud
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In CDC in 4-D, the Comedy Dance Collective indulges its oral fixation
It’s a show better consumed in a state of inebriation.
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House
Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.
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The U. of C. makes its play for the Obama library
The University of Chicago out-Rahms the mayor in shamelessness with a cunning land grab involving the Obama presidential library.
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Tomorrow, join a discussion on Adam Curtis’s The Century of the Self at the Edgewater branch library
Noting a free screening and conversation about the provocative 2002 series of essay films
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“The Way of the Shovel” could dig a little deeper
An MCA exhibit about art and archaeology could dig a little deeper.
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Alison Bechdel remembers Mama
A review of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother?
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Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 2)
The second of a three-part series on Adam Curtis’s All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
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Artificial Intelligence/Steppenwolf Strikes a Nerve
Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf’s 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of “trigger warnings” before the term had come into use.
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Final Analysis
Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson