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Oscar night glamour, right here in Chicago
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe photographers were in place, the red-carpet guests were arriving and the cameras were rolling for Chicago's only Oscar party officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last Sunday. Oscar Night America, hosted by the...Tags: Academy Awards, Ceremonies, Awards and Prizes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Entertainment Events
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'The Turin Horse': An anecdote transforms into the story of a life ✭✭✭ 1/2
Since its premiere at the Berlin international film festival, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's latest and (so he has suggested) final feature,"The Turin Horse,"has been widely characterized as a grim slab of miserablism. Well. Maybe. It's no "Shop Around...
Tags: Samuel Beckett, Film Festivals, Potatoes, Movies, The Turin Horse (movie)
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'Chico & Rita' animated by the spirit of Cuban jazz stars ✭✭✭✭
"Rango"probably has the animated feature Academy Award in the bag, but the film that deserves it? A wonderful Spanish-British co-production called "Chico & Rita," making its Chicago debut for a week's run at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
I suppose if...Tags: New York City, Lena Horne, England, Dizzy Gillespie, Music
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City Lights: Movie experience still worthwhile
On New Year's Day, my wife and I saw Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" at the Cinemark at Bella Terra. For those who haven't seen it yet, it's about a young orphan who lives in a train station in Paris and finds escape through the silent movies that play at the...Tags: Harold Lloyd, New Year's Day, Movies, Cell Phones, Martin Scorsese
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Music Box gives movie geeks chance to Outguess Ebert at the Oscars
Geek To MeWhen I was a young teen, one of my favorite shows on television was At the Movies, the movie review show starring film-critic Roger Ebert and his late partner Gene Siskel. It was one of the most compelling things on television to me. I was convinced that... -
Mediators try to make streets a little less mean
In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national political level....Tags: Frontline Limited, Gang Activity, Hoop Dreams (movie), White House, The Interrupters (movie)
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Raw milk wars play out in new film at Siskel Center
You may not know it but thousands of Chicagoans--perhaps your friends and neighbors--are indulging daily in an illicit drink that most government agencies warn consumers to avoid.
It's raw, unpasteurized milk, a drink that supporters say is only growing...Tags: Mariel Hemingway, Movies, Consumers
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'Life Itself': Ebert autobiography a charming remembrance
In his easygoing, candid and altogether charming autobiography, or, as he calls it, "Life Itself: A Memoir," Roger Ebert fails to mention me: The nights he and I had many drinks on the porch of his house on Dickens Street and elsewhere, the favorable in-...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Woody Allen, Roger Ebert, Lee Marvin, Mike Royko
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WGN NewsCirque du Soleil - Phunny Business - Fathers' Day Gifts - Ahmed Ahmed - Jo Koy - Rent the Runway - Sha Na Na - Bobcat Goldthwait - Jeffrey Ross - Melissa Villasenor - AVERY*Sunshine - Dot and Ziggy - Deon Cole Monday, June 13 Cirque du Soleil's OVO...Tags: Rentals, Festa! Pasta! Vino!, Energy Resources, Circuses, Ravinia Festival
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Roger Ebert’s memoir, ‘Life Itself’
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThis book dropped on my desk Friday and I almost recoiled. A Roger Ebert memoir? What can you say about it? If it's trite, self-serving, and/or badly-written, who wants to beat up on the sick man? If it's great, who'll believe you? You're taking pity on... -
Robert Downey Jr. hosts A Night With Jamie Foxx at Gene Siskel Film Center gala
Few can own a room like Robert Downey Jr., but the never-dull "Iron Man" star opted to concede the spotlight to Jamie Foxx at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago hotel. Well, more like share it.
Foxx, who received the Renaissance Award Saturday at the Gene Siskel...Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Showtime (tv network), Edward Norton, Ray (movie), Chris Evans
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