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    Oct 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Al Pacino and Christopher Walken kick off Chicago International Film Festival

    It’s going to be tough for the Chicago International Film Festival to top this year’s opening night. The 48th annual festival kicked off Thursday with a screening of “Stand Up Guys” at the Harris Theater and appearances on the red carpet by cast members and Oscar winners Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin.
    It’s going to be tough for the Chicago International Film Festival to top this year’s opening night. The 48th annual festival kicked off Thursday with a screening of “Stand Up Guys” at the Harris Theater and appearances on the...

    Tags: Stand Up Guys (movie), Arts and Culture, Chicago International Film Festival, Movies, Entertainment

    2. Sep 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 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 <a href="http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/films_and_schedule/movies.php">announced its 48th edition slate</a> Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex, the juried festival (main competition jury president to be named later) runs Oct. 11-25 and opens with the world premiere of "Stand Up Guys," an autumnal mob comedy featuring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin and Julianna Margulies.
    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: Michael Haneke, Flight (movie), Arts and Culture, Stand Up Guys (movie), Millennium Park

    3. Sep 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'Won't Back Down' gets a D+ for a public school polemic ★ 1/2

    Bored and visibly sneering as she fiddles with her cellphone while sitting at her desk, the grade school teacher barely takes notice of the sweet young girl challenged by learning disabilities. The student stands nervously before the blackboard, struggling to read a sentence aloud. The other students mock her, cruelly. The teacher tacitly encourages the mockery. She is union-protected mediocrity incarnate, and she may as well be shown tying the student to a railroad track, Snidely Whiplash-style.
    Bored and visibly sneering as she fiddles with her cellphone while sitting at her desk, the grade school teacher barely takes notice of the sweet young girl challenged by learning disabilities. The student stands nervously before the blackboard,...

    Tags: Public Schools, Norma Rae (movie), Teaching and Learning, Collective Contract, PG Rated Movies

    4. Jan 19, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': Post-9/11 film milks viewer emotions with impunity -- 1 1/2 stars

    "Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock &hellip; Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman&hellip; thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.
    "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the...

    Tags: Autism, Tom Hanks, Kenneth Lonergan, Manhattan (New York City), Movies

    5. Oct 19, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Viola Davis plots a career, not just for herself

    Viola Davis has won two Tony Awards for her Juilliard-trained stage work in the August Wilson plays "King Hedley II" and "Fences." She has been Oscar-nominated twice, first for a supporting role in "Doubt," more recently for a much larger role, in "The Help." Playing the African-American domestic, Aibileen, in that hit brought her much acclaim and no little amount of grief, Davis told me the other day by phone. She's coming to Chicago Monday to pick up a career achievement award from the Chicago International Film Festival.
    Viola Davis has won two Tony Awards for her Juilliard-trained stage work in the August Wilson plays "King Hedley II" and "Fences." She has been Oscar-nominated twice, first for a supporting role in "Doubt," more recently for a much larger role, in "The...

    Tags: Public Schools, Doubt (movie), Arts and Culture, Won't Back Down (movie), Chicago International Film Festival

    6. Feb 13, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'Beautiful Creatures': Supernatural love in a small town, again ★★

    When classy, pedigreed British actors go hog-wild under the flowering dogwood trees of a Southern Gothic setting, often the results are good. Just as often they're so bad they're good. And sometimes, as is the case with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson in "Beautiful Creatures," they're simply doing the best they can under the circumstances.
    When classy, pedigreed British actors go hog-wild under the flowering dogwood trees of a Southern Gothic setting, often the results are good. Just as often they're so bad they're good. And sometimes, as is the case with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson in...

    Tags: Richard Chamberlain, Academy Awards, Arts and Culture, Jane Campion, Movies

    7. Oct 29, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. For film fest, is 'good enough' good enough?

    My own feelings about the Chicago festival, the 48th edition of which concluded Thursday, are necessarily shaped by individual taste as well as equally subjective notions of relevance. Does the event matter? Is it as vital as it could be, should be? Tough queries, tougher to answer.
    Is the Chicago International Film Festival good, good enough or not quite that? This is the question. This is the question to be asked of any festival, every perennial cultural mainstay in every city. It's the way to keep us all honest, whatever dog we...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Lincoln Center, Entertainment, Cinema Industry, Goodman Theatre

    8. Sep 27, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  8. 'Won't Back Down' review: It's that easy!

    <strong>** (out of four)</strong>
    ** (out of four) “Inspired by actual events,” reads the opening of “Won't Back Down,” which feels inspired but not by actual events. Armed only with rah-rah determination, this drama presents the troubled school system merely as a...

    Tags: Lance Reddick, Teaching and Learning, Movies, Entertainment, Maggie Gyllenhaal

    9. Sep 18, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  9. Chicago International Film Festival to honor Joan Allen, Viola Davis, Helen Hunt

    Congratulations to Joan Allen, Viola Davis and Helen Hunt, who will all attend the Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 11-25) to accept a Silver Hugo award for "significant achievements and contributions to the arts," the fest announced this morning.
    Congratulations to Joan Allen, Viola Davis and Helen Hunt, who will all attend the Chicago International Film Festival (Oct. 11-25) to accept a Silver Hugo award for "significant achievements and contributions to the arts," the fest announced this...

    Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady (movie), Academy Awards, The Sessions (movie), Won't Back Down (movie)

    10. Jan 24, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Oscar nominations a blast from the past

    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there&rsquo;s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year&rsquo;s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early 2012 is more like "Look Back with Bittersweet Nostalgia at the Industry&rsquo;s Salad Days."
    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...

    Tags: Meryl Streep, Midnight in Paris (movie), Marilyn Monroe, Jonah Hill, ABC (tv network)

    11. Mar 20, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  11. In defense of Channing Tatum

    The guy looks more like an Abercrombie model than an actor, probably because he used to be an <a href="http://www.abercrombie.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreView?storeId=10051&amp;langId=-1&amp;catalogId=10901" target="_blank">Abercrombie</a> model.
    The guy looks more like an Abercrombie model than an actor, probably because he used to be an Abercrombie model. In interviews, his laugh frequently turns into a giggle, like he’s unconcerned about possessing the protective coating of his more...

    Tags: Google Inc., Nia Vardalos, Jonah Hill, Comedy (genre), Katherine Heigl

    12. Jun 6, 2013 | Zap2It

  12. Love, Marilyn: HBO’s haunting documentary delves into the mind of Marilyn Monroe

    Channel Guide Magazine
    Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroešs death, HBO presents the insightful and often heartbreaking documentary Love, Marilyn from Oscar-nomiated filmmaker Liz Garbus on Monday, June 17, at 9pm ET/PT. Filmmaker Liz Garbus has spent...
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