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When our heroes are revealed to be flawed ...
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this captain was high as he sat behind the throttle. To some degree,...Tags: Movies, OWN (tv network), Entertainment, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey
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Al Pacino and his 'Stand Up Guys' among the stars slotted for CIFF
With its founder Michael Kutza nearing his half-century mark as leader, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its 48th edition slate Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex,...
Tags: Stand Up Guys (movie), Millennium Park, Something in the Air (movie), Michael Haneke, Chicago International Film Festival
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'Falling': Here's why there aren't more plays about air disasters
At the top of Gary Kirkham's "Falling: A Wake," the startling new show at the Rivendell Theatre, there is an almighty crash and parts of an airplane start falling out of the sky, including one of the passengers.
Although blessedly rare, such events have...Tags: Arts and Culture, Symbols and Symbolism
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Set an evening aside for Goodman's 'Matinee'
John Goodman is everywhere right now. Such has been the case for this popular actor for a long time, but at the multiplexes presently he's a valuable ensemble member in two worthwhile pictures, "Argo" (in which he plays a real-life Hollywood makeup artist...
Tags: Argo (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Key West, John Goodman, University of Chicago
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
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: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Scientology, Django Unchained (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, World War II (1939-1945)
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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: The Shining (movie), New York Film Festival, Room 237 (movie), Chicago International Film Festival, Holy Motors (movie)
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Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a...
Tags: Jeffrey Tambor, The New York Times, Roseland, Reviews, Chicago International Film Festival
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Ex-Whalers GM Emile Francis Remembers Fierce Rangers-Bruins Rivalry
The Hartford CourantBefore there was a Game 1 between the Rangers and Bruins in 1973 at Boston Garden, there was a Stanley Cup Final Game 1 between the teams there in 1972. "The cops come into our dressing room before that game," Emile "The Cat" Francis said Wednesday from...Tags: John Tortorella, Henrik Lundqvist, Bill Walton, The Sting (movie), Sports
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'Day's' end: McClane tale tapped out in final 'Die Hard' ★ 1/2
"A Good Day to Die Hard" isn't just the weakest of the "Die Hard" pictures; it's a lousy action movie on its own terms, even without comparing it to the adored 1988 franchise launch starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, the New York cop who's a carnage...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Max Payne (movie), John Moore, Skyfall (movie), A Good Day to Die Hard (movie)
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Jim Harbaugh tops list for The Times' Sports Oscars
Oscars, smoshkers. With his scenery-chewing performance on the sidelines last weekend, Jim Harbaugh has elevated himself to the top of this year’s list of the world’s greatest dramatic actors. “Maybe he’s just being himself?&...Tags: Football, Sports, Atlanta Falcons, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Jim Harbaugh
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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Les Miserables (movie), Life of Pi (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie)
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Amelia (movie), Human Interest, Pilsen, Northwestern University, Students
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