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Tag: William Friedkin
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The Chicago International Film Festival returns, this time with more experiments and work by female directors
It lacks some of the buzzier movies from the international festival circuit, but there’s still plenty worth seeing. Our critics weigh in on 24 offerings.
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A year before Stonewall, there was The Boys in the Band, the first successful mainstream play with all gay characters
Mart Crowley’s controversial drama about gay liberation turns 50.
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This year’s edition of Noir City: Chicago expands its focus
The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.
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Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable sceenings in this week’s issue
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The Chicago Underground Film Festival highlights this week’s new movie reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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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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A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese’s debut to Lee Daniels’s achievement award
The Reader digs through the Chicago International Film Festival’s archives to assemble a time line covering the fest’s 50 years.
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Revisiting The Brink’s Job, William Friedkin’s neglected 1978 heist comedy
As long as we’re reviving Friedkin’s Sorcerer, currently touring the country in a new digital restoration, maybe it’s time to revisit this 1978 film.
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Who let that evil wizard into the Music Box Theatre?
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer is only a little wider in a theater than on home video, but the difference is striking all the same.
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William Friedkin’s Sorcerer rolls back into action at the Music Box
A restored version of the Exorcist director’s remake of The Wages of Fear screens as a midnight movie over the next two weekends.
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The home fires burn in August: Osage County
Meryl Streep is a fire-breathing matriarch in August: Osage County.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 4/16: “The Reinvention of Vivian Maier,” William Friedkin, and Rectify
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Tuesday, April 16, 2013.
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Weekly Top Five: “Violence is not funny”—the best of William Friedkin
Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films