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2 Nov

“Priscilla”Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, November 3-9, 2023Latest reviews include “Priscilla,” “Divinity,” “Quiz Lady,” “The Persian Version” and “Fingernails.” Repertory & Revival highlights include “Cooley High,” “Strange Days,” 1923 silent “The Vibrant Shawl,” David Lynch’s dazzling dud “Dune,” “Dazed And Confused,” a Chicago Filmmakers anniversary salute to the pioneering film festival Blacklight, and Wakefield Poole’s “Take One.”The twenty-ninth Black Harvest Film Festival takes over the Siskel Film Center November 3-16. “Revolutionary Visions” is the 2023 theme; the whole calendar is here. (Our interview with Black Harvest festival coordinator-curator Nick Leffel and curator Jada-Amina is here.)The Children’s International Film Festival marks its fortieth yr at FACETS, featuring recent animation, live-action and documentary movies for audiences ages two to eighteen...

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11 Aug

Interview: I Fell Head Over Heels In Love Talking

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Fashion, Featured

SAG-AFTRA members are currently on strike; as a part of the strike, union actors should not promoting their film and TV projects. This interview was conducted prior to the strike.The tires of Taylor Zakhar Perez’s plane have just touched ground at LaGuardia airport the morning of July 13, mere hours before the Hollywood actors’ strike can be made official. It’s likely he’s only just now seeing the text from his team telling him to call some journalist from Allure magazine as soon as he can. He calls me just as he’s finding a seat by the airport’s gaudy Latest York City-themed “water show” installation that blasts Frank Sinatra every five minutes (“It seems like Fantasia”). It’s not a really perfect...

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13 Apr

Talking Screens, April 14-20, 2023: Zemeckis Retrospective | Kelly

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Beauty, Featured

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in Robert Zemeckis retrospectiveTalking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, April 14-20, 2023 A highly selective view of one other tumultuous week of Chicago film programming, highlighted by an outstanding recent film by an American great. Such easy, shivering surfaces: “Showing Up,” Kelly Reichardt’s beautiful and slyly wicked comedy, her ninth feature, explores, with minimalist remark, a single figure’s tribulations and ministrations across a confined time period. Opens Friday, April 14 at River East and Landmark Century.Most notable of revival and repertory attractions: the Music Box’s Robert Zemeckis retrospective fills out the approaching week, details below and here.“How To Blow Up A Pipeline” is director Daniel Goldhaber’s meta-adaptation of Andreas Malm’s philosophical manifesto that’s not a how-to-book...

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16 Dec

Why Aren’t More People Talking About The Death Of

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The necklines of her gowns hung riskily low. Like, prudish audible gasp low. Too quick of an arm flourish would’ve placed Joyce Bryant at the middle of a scandal. Possibly she knew that. She shook her curves and sang her tunes, her even-toned, tawny body at all times threatening to spill out of her dress. Over 35 years before Mary J. Blige wailed Black girls’ blues in a blonde coif, Bryant’s platinum hair gleamed as she trilled for packed crowds. Her eyes were naturally low, and he or she stared on the camera (with its tongue little doubt unfurled) like she knew exactly what she wanted from you. She used her airy upper register to the touch on subjects too...

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