Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it’s having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
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Posted inArts & Culture
In Manual Cinema’s The End of TV, two women help each other rediscover their humanity
The multimedia ensemble’s latest production is a beautiful and transfixing examination of the effects of the industrial age.
Posted inBlogs
Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
Posted inArts & Culture
Still no proof #MeToo has changed Hollywood, says writer who challenged Letterman
Nell Scovell brings her fight to change the entertainment industry to Chicago next week.
Posted inMusic
Pitchfork loves TV, so Pitchfork loves Survive
Survive’s retro horror-synth score for Stranger Things means they benefit from Pitchfork’s courtship of the prestige-television audience.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television
The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.
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Various Artists Independent Film Festival kicks off its inaugural year in Chicago
Submissions for the 2016-2017 festival season open on November 1.
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Orange Is the New Black’s loaded fourth season gets it wrong
Orange Is the New Black returns with a fourth season that fails its feminist sensibilities.
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O.J.: Made in America isn’t about O.J., it’s about us
ESPN’s O.J.: Made In America is about so much more than just O.J. Simpson.
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F Is for Family: The last show to binge-watch in 2015
Bill Burr delivers his raunchy take on life in a lower-middle class family during the 1970s in his new animated Netflix series.
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Why this season of True Detective is such a bummer
A lot of things are wrong with season two—but two things really stand out.
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Our ten favorite things on TV in 2014
We didn’t watch it all—but here’s the best of what we did watch.
Posted inFilm
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.
Posted inBlogs
Fans of HIMYM should’ve seen this ending coming
Also, did anyone else think Lily and Marshall were smug jerks?
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Real best friends play best friends on HBO’s Doll & Em
Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells play themselves (sort of) on their new show.