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Gene Siskel Film Center to honor Gwyneth Paltrow June 15
Quick: Think of someone who's starred in many great films that you wouldn't want to actually hear speak in person. If "Gwyneth Paltrow" didn't spring to mind, then you're in luck. On June 15 at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago, the Gene Siskel Film Center...
Tags: Two Lovers (movie), Country Strong (movie), Gwyneth Paltrow
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Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'
From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...
Tags: Sergei Eisenstein, Terrence Malick, Movies, Steven Soderbergh, Cuba
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'Consuming Spirits': SAIC professor crafts an epic labor of love ★★★★
There's a billboard depicted in Chris Sullivan's animated wonder "Consuming Spirits" advertising beer that promises "the taste that haunts the lips." The same goes for the film. You've likely never tasted anything quite like it. Dense like a detailed...
Tags: Chris Sullivan, Consuming Spirits (movie), Movies, Entertainment, Alzheimer's Disease
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'Cat in Paris' is an elegant thriller about an elegant ... cat ★★★ 1/2
Old-school animation that does not traffic in photorealistic backgrounds or attempt to place the audience in three dimensions may not be tearing up the multiplexes. But like the wonderful, Cuban jazz-steeped "Chico & Rita" seen this year at the Gene...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Film Festivals, Animation (Movie Genre)
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In new film, actor Fry ponders his conflicted love affair with Wagner's music
Stephen Fry was all of 11 when his grandfather played him a recording of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture. For the boy who grew up to become a distinguished British actor on stage, in television and film ("Wilde," "Gosford Park"), it proved to be...
Tags: Celebrities, Documentary (genre), Movies, Classical Music (genre), Grant Park Chorus
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City Lights: Turning on new 'Lights'
This column has moved but will not require a new name. "City Lights" — I originally thought of that title as a play on the city editor position. Now, as I move into the features editor spot, I'm reminded of from where else the inspiration came....Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Movies, City Lights (movie), Lobbying, Modern Times (movie)
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'Qwerty' review: Angriest rom-com ever?
*1/2 (out of four) To each their own and all, but the Chicago-made romantic comedy “Qwerty” possesses a pretty warped perception of behavior that could be regarded as charming. When Scrabble devotee Zoe (Dana Pupkin) calls her boyfriend...
Tags: Bleep (euphemism), Scrabble (game), Romance (genre)
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Reese Witherspoon honored at Gene Siskel Film Center gala
Alexander Payne wasn’t the obvious choice to host the Gene Siskel Film Center’s “An Evening With Reese Witherspoon” on Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, but the director and screenwriter best known for “Sideways”...
Tags: Movies, Alexander Payne, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Reese Witherspoon
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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: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Descendants (movie), Movies, Entertainment, Academy Awards
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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: Movies, Entertainment, Samuel Beckett, Film Festivals, Potatoes
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Summer celebrity spotting about to heat up
Now is when Chicago’s celebrity scene gets interesting. Some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports will soon visit our city on vacation (NBA stars especially like to do this) or because they live here part-time (you can count on plenty...
Tags: Baseball, Olivia Wilde, Grant Park, Death Cab for Cutie (music group), Joel Murray
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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: Tito Puente, Rango (movie), Movies, England, Lena Horne
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