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Tag: Steve McQueen
CTA on celluloid
The city’s iconic elevated tracks, subways, and buses star in Hollywood flicks.
There are Chicagoans in the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival!
A mostly complete local viewing guide
Five must-see heist films
Great heist movies from 1955 to 2005 (that don’t have “Ocean” in the title and aren’t directed by Quentin Tarantino).
The 2016 Chicago International Film Festival, reviewed
Another year, another slate of prestige movies from all over the world
Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon
Theaster Gates and Ken Vandermark join pianist Jason Moran in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
If you liked Inside Llewyn Davis . . .
Revisiting Robert Mulligan’s Love With the Proper Stranger in light of the Coen brothers’ latest
Year in review: 2013 at the movies
Year in review: J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.
The recent revival of Baby the Rain Must Fall is a good excuse to rediscover Robert Mulligan
Successful in his lifetime, the director of To Kill a Mockingbird and Summer of ’42 has been overlooked in recent decades.
Jia Zhang-ke, Alexander Payne, Stephen Frears, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Urban bombing, third-trimester abortion, the scourge of slavery, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
12 Years a Slave: Mighty white of you
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave tells of a free northerner taken into bondage.
Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue