Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as part of Aaron’s A Series of Crimes series. Jean-Luc Godard, like his French New Wave contemporaries, was fascinated by Hollywood...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as part of Aaron Pinkston’s series following the Gene Siskel Film Center’s class on trangressive American Comedies. My first exposure to Jerry Lewis (telethon aside)...
This article originally ran as part of Aaron’s series on American Films of the 1950s. Up until this point in the 1950s film series, a specific demographic had been completely unrepresented — strangely enough, the demographic that is the largest...
This originally ran in September 2012 as a part of Aaron’s series on 1950s American films. In his introduction of Touch of Evil at the Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute professor Fred Camper called the 1950s...
It just isn’t fair to pick only 10 films to represent the best of 2018—this is a year that could easily warranted a Top 20. In fact, I could completely rearrange this list, including 10 different titles, and be completely...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...
Repertory screenings may not be as abundant in Chicago as they are in LA/NY but when you look around, there are many theatergoing delights. The Chicago Rep-port is a weekly(ish) series highlighting the best and most compelling repertory screenings in...
