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A beautiful young woman disrobes and runs into an empty ocean. All of a sudden, the serene waterscape is interrupted by something familiar on the soundtrack… ba dum ba dum baadum baadum… Panic begins to wash over the young woman’s...

Film critic and series lecturer Jonathan Rosenbaum opened his introduction to Jim McBride’s underground classic Hot Times by saying “Tonight, we’ll be watching softcore pornagraphy.” While it is true that Hot Times is exclusively interested in sex and at times...

Of the films I’ve covered in this series so far, Blonde Crazy is the closest to a traditional genre film. The previous films were all along the comedy spectrum, from the more romantic Laughter to the incredibly silly The Ladies...

My first exposure to Jerry Lewis (telethon aside) was just a few weeks ago, when I saw his most famous film (both as star and director), The Nutty Professor, as part of a classic cinema series at a local theater...

Preston Sturges was one of the great American filmmakers, noted as the first successful writer-director. He brought a sharp, sarcastic wit to his scripts and was able to find actors that best meshed with his sensibility. Any retrospective on American...

Twice a year at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, the School of the Art Institute provides a class that doubles as a film series open to the public — in the past, I’ve followed along with these series...