Indie Essentials: Tilda Swinton
Attending this year’s Ebertfest was tremendously moving for a multitude of reasons. I loved experiencing an uncompromising artwork with a thousand cinephiles eager to take the plunge. I loved observing […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Salute These Shorts
One of the great unexpected pleasures of the first-ever Chicago Critics Film Festival was its rich and varied assortment of short subjects curated by critic Collin Souter. Though I missed […]
CCFF Preview: Emily Hagins on “Grow Up, Tony Phillips”
The first-ever Chicago Critics Film Festival has a great deal of cinematic goodies in store for cinephiles this weekend, from acclaimed indies like Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” and James […]
Ode to My Hero, Roger Ebert
It’s fitting that the film scheduled to screen for Chicago film critics tomorrow is “To the Wonder,” the latest film from Terrence Malick, a filmmaker that Roger Ebert adored. The […]
Haunted “Room 237” is Worth a Return Visit
There’s no question Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was one of the seminal moviegoing experiences of my life. I saw it at a young age with my beloved Uncle Chuck in […]
