Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
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A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014
The year in old movies
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I’m being haunted by the ghost of Wilson Mizner!
The legendary scam artist (and sometime Hollywood screenwriter) has been turning up all over Chicago in the past several months.
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Westward the Women: A neglected classic about sexual politics on the frontier
Discovering William A. Wellman’s rarely revived 1951 western, available for rent at the Chicago Public Library
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Tom Cruise, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week’s hard-to-spell screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Now playing: Wings (1927)
A short review of William Wellman’s Wings, playing tomorrow at the Music Box