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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Arts and Culture, Reality (movie), Festive Events, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Restored movie house fits big picture for Mark Fishman
Famously, the old Logan Theatre at 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave. used to smell like pee. Urban legends abound of the stink detectable all over the Logan Square neighborhood. "You went in the lobby door, and there it was. The smell of urine. We found out during...
Tags: St. Patrick's Day, Politics, Arts and Culture, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Halloween
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'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★
We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Baking Powder, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment, Movies
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Pink Floyd (music group), Sundance Film Festival, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Easy Rider (movie), Willem Dafoe, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Columbia College Chicago, Sean Connery
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Horror movies: Halloween's sweet spot
Countdown to Halloween: five days. I don't like wearing costumes, I'm not into haunted houses, candy corn is too sweet, and I prefer pumpkin pie to pumpkin carvings. But I do like horror movies — just not the kind with umpteen sequels. I saw...
Tags: Pumpkin, Quentin Tarantino, Sylvia Kristel, Woody Harrelson, Damages (tv program)
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Arts, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Entertainment
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Mother takes synagogue to view son's film
Hollywood resident Brenda Ascher is a proud Jewish mother. Her son Rodney Ascher is the director of the documentary, "Room 237," where people provide numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining." Ascher and...Tags: Israel, Room 237 (movie), Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Movies
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Jack Nicholson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Entertainment
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O Cinema's B-movie series is all about the schlock
In a lineup that includes movies about overgrown, murderous alligators on growth hormones and surrealistic re-creations of witchcraft and mental illness, can Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" be too mainstream? If you ask Kevin Bosch, the answer is yes....
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Jack Nicholson, Entertainment, Movies, Stanley Kubrick
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Shining a light on metaphorical readings of 'The Shining'
Since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" has firmly embedded itself into the pop consciousness with its shudder-inducing cry of "Here's Johnny!" and its blood-soaked hallways. "Room 237," which opens...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Jack Nicholson, Arts, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic
On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Room 237 (movie), Francis Ford Coppola, Tony Kushner, On the Road (movie)
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