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    Feb 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection

    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive back to Racine, she had to pull over and compose herself for a minute and, as the tears streamed down her cheeks, she said quietly: "Michael, I just ... have no idea." It didn't matter. I'd never seen anything like it, and the Star Child never looked bigger, or scarier, or better.
    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...

    Tags: Vertigo (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Kenneth Branagh, Music Box Theatre, Stanley Kubrick

    2. Nov 15, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2

    Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of craziness. You know. The charming kind. Happy ending, followed by a fade to a sunny shade of black.
    Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...

    Tags: The Master (movie), Bradley Cooper, Entertainment, The Fighter (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie)

    3. Sep 8, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!

    Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina” with Keira Knightley and Jude Law and the Wachowskis’ adaptation of “Cloud Atlas,” which takes place in six different time periods, the mind reeled and the cinematic appetite cried out for something straight and easy.
    Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...

    Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Film Festivals, There Will Be Blood (movie), Joaquin Phoenix, Music Box Theatre

    4. Sep 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures

    In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into Iran following the 1979 hostage crisis posing as a film producer scouting locations for a Canadian science-fiction film called "Argo." Under that cover story, Mendez engineered the rescue of six American hostages, themselves posing as part of the fake film crew.
    In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...

    Tags: The Matrix (movie), Toronto (Canada), Halle Berry, Dog Day Afternoon (movie), Amour (movie)

    5. May 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. What are the best movies based on books?

    Less than a year after “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. “Come and see it all!” beckons the trailer for the silent film. “And enjoy the entertainment thrill of your life!”
    Less than a year after “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. “Come and see it all!” beckons the trailer for the silent film. “And enjoy the entertainment thrill of...

    Tags: Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Literature, The Godfather (movie), Choke (movie), Animation (Movie Genre)

    6. Sep 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other

    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be described easily enough.
    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...

    Tags: Bridesmaids (movie), Jason Robards, Maya Rudolph, Scientology, Kenneth Branagh

    7. Apr 11, 2013 |Column| RedEye

  7. 'Upstream Color' review: Pretentious hogwash--sometimes literally

    <strong>* (out of four)</strong>
    * (out of four) Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters "poems." This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the frustrating, hollow “Upstream Color,&...

    Tags: The Master (movie), Entertainment, Poetry, Movies

    8. Feb 22, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season

    In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. &quot;An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his adopted residence to the south, La Jolla, Calif., as "nothing but a climate." In the Atlantic he vented: "An art which is capable of making all but the very best plays look trivial and contrived, all but the very best novels verbose and imitative, should not so quickly become wearisome to those who attempt to practice it with something else in mind than the cash drawer."
    In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...

    Tags: Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Academy Awards, Django Unchained (movie), Scientology, Entertainment Events

    9. Dec 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Spiritual themes get a patient, observational treatment in 'New Jerusalem' ★★★

    In the movies, evangelical Christians are seldom treated as anything other than blinkered bundles of piety, or worse. So in &quot;New Jerusalem," it's something of a shock to see the character played by Will Oldham (an actor-musician who performs, in his other career, as Bonnie "Prince" Billy) rendered as recognizably humane in his well-meaning imperfections.
    In the movies, evangelical Christians are seldom treated as anything other than blinkered bundles of piety, or worse. So in "New Jerusalem," it's something of a shock to see the character played by Will Oldham (an actor-musician who performs, in his other...

    Tags: The Master (movie), Entertainment, The Comedy (movie), Bonnie Prince Billy, Movies

    10. Dec 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. My favorite moments of 2012

    Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on &quot;information islands." We nodded, though we didn't entirely understand. What they meant was that broadcasting would soon end and <em>nichecasting</em> would take over. Your island would become a mirror of yourself, what you knew, liked and watched, and you would rarely have the incentive to venture off of your narrowly prescribed landmass.
    Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on "information islands." We nodded,...

    Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), The Cabin in the Woods (movie), The Grey (movie), Game Shows, Cloud Atlas (movie)

    11. Sep 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. 'The Master' is too much, but just right ★★★★

    &ldquo;I need to get the lighting right,&rdquo; mutters the man with the camera in &ldquo;The Master,&rdquo; one of the few truly vital and unruly American films in recent years.
    “I need to get the lighting right,” mutters the man with the camera in “The Master,” one of the few truly vital and unruly American films in recent years. The man is Freddie Quell, a World War II Navy veteran suffering from what...

    Tags: Prisons, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, Scientology, Christopher Evan Welch

    12. Sep 20, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  12. 'The Master' review (****): An extraordinary brain workout

    <strong>**** (out of four)</strong>
    **** (out of four) It doesn't take an Olympic judge to recognize the degree of difficulty in Paul Thomas Anderson's “The Master,” either in the writer-director’s execution or the audience’s task of processing it. For anyone...

    Tags: The Master (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment, Scientology, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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