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Michael Phillips

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2 years

550 people showed up for an 1130am @musicboxtheatre matinee of “Double Indemnity,” proving conclusively that moviegoing is dead.

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World premiere at Venice: MARRIAGE STORY is a knockout. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson marvelous in Noah Baumbach’s fully felt chronicle of a long-distance breakup and the child in the middle. Plus Driver performs a tip-top rendition of Sondheim’s “Being Alive.” #Venezia76

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Confirmed by one of his sons this morning: Director Stanley Donen has died at 94. With Gene Kelly he brought ON THE TOWN and SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN into the world; on his own, 7 BRIDES, CHARADE and TWO FOR THE ROAD. A huge, often neglected talent. #StanleyDonen

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“The healthy and optimistic among us,” said UChicago Medicine’s Dr. Emily Landon just now at the Pritzker/Lightfoot press conference, “will doom the vulnerable.” DON’T ASSUME YOU ARE HEALTHY.

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Attention must be paid: Brian Dennehy, a giant of Chicago and America’s stages, and the screen, is dead at 81

Brian Dennehy, a giant of Chicago and America’s stages, is dead at 81

Brian Dennehy, a veteran American actor of towering presence, a lover of Chicago theater, and the nation’s leading interpreter of the tragedies of Eugene O’Neill, died Wednesday followi…

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7 months

Jonathan Glazer: "The Zone of Interest" tried to show "where dehumanization leads, at its worst." Calls out Israel's crushing of Gaza. Eloquent, efficient words. #Oscars

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9 months

I just loved Tom Wilkinson, gone far too soon. Rewatched the first 3 minutes of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and his 1985 prologue--right down to the tiny, barely inflected aside ("it's all right") on camera to his remorseful son--is so very, very right indeed. RIP, and thanks.

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5 months

A.O. Scott/Michael Phillips reunion tour, aka brunch in Hyde Park. Picked right up where we left off a few years back.💜

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7 years

To say what @POTUS just said, implying that murderous white supremacy is no worse than those fighting it, should be an impeachable offense.

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3 years

Spent Saturday night luxury condo shopping.

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5 years

Happy 90th to one of the greats, and one of the Pasadena Playhouse conservatory students voted least likely to succeed. #GeneHackman

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Happy 8th anniversary, hon. Grateful every day, and no film can compare.

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7 years

Stating the obvious (a Twitter specialty), but this is a good day to reaquaint yourself with @ava 's SELMA, a reminder that fighting federally sanctioned moral bankruptcy is never easy. And never not worth it.

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4 years

From my wife. I can only add: For the good of all, feel free to tune out the most callous among us who downplay the pandemic in the name of personal liberty.

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4 years

I was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday. I'm isolating at home, away from my family (all of whom tested negative) and I haven't had to go to the hospital. I'm breathing fine, just very achy, tired and dizzy. I'm sharing this in the hopes that ...

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How can six minutes of poetry from @theamandagorman lift an entire nation's cultural hopes? Here's how. I'm still levitating.

Opinion: At the Biden inauguration, six minutes of poetry just revived a nation’s cultural hopes...

Our new president is a man for prose. In his inaugural address Wednesday, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Joe Biden defended the value of truth, facts, science. He spoke forcefully of the seeming…

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3 years

Tiny Sunday Night Football issue w Chris Collinsworth all in for Aaron Rodgers’ relentless “honesty” re: vaccination stance. Never mind the potentially lethal deception part.

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2 years

500+ turned out tonight for “All That Jazz” courtesy of @thefilmsociety and @musicboxtheatre .

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5 years

Re-sending: Roger died this day six years ago. No one ever distilled it the way he could: “It’s not what a movie is about. It’s how it’s about it.”

Farewell to a generous colleague and friend

Roger Ebert died Thursday, April 4, 2013. A lousy day. I rue it. But I will always remember Roger’s kindness and his eloquence. I’m not alone there. The loss is instantaneous, the absen…

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4 months

Last week Apple apologized for the most honest (and also terrible, and insidious) commercial it ever made. Everyone said it said "the quiet part out loud." But there's another angle here. Thanks to @mattzollerseitz for the conversation. Gift link:

Column: Why the stink of that bad, bad iPad ad won’t go away

Apple’s “Crush” commercial, unveiled last week, has people infuriated by its destruction of analog creative tools. But the same company’s forays into A.I. are more sinister still.

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Michael Phillips

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3 years

I’m hearing reports of the death of longtime Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington. Shocked and saddened. More when I learn more, but for now: very tough news about an ardent lover of the medium.

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2 years

Lin Brehmer, gone. So many morning commutes made better by this man. So many Chicagoans, poorer for this news.

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2 years

Heartbroken for Lin’s family and for all who loved him. We are legion 💔

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5 years

Hate to even dignify this with a response, but: What a fucking idiot

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5 years

There was nobody in Hollywood in 1940 or 1950 that came close to the raw acting talent of someone like Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis or one of our great actors today. The "greats" of that era were turning in performances that would be considered hammy and contrived today.

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3 years

Here's the obituary and remembrance of longtime Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington, who died Jan. 6 at age 75.

Longtime Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington dies at 75

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune film critic for 15 years and a singular, ardent lover of cinema, died Thursday in hospice care at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was di…

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7 months

RIP David Bordwell: singular cinema champion, professor and educator. “Film Art: An Introduction,” written with his wife and inspired collaborator Kristin Thompson, probably did more than any book in existence to activate young cinephiles, a classroom at a time. He was a friend.

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6 years

When a film as good, and as "small" ($2.4 million domestic box office) as THE RIDER wins an award, even if that award urges a few hundred or a couple thousand more people to take a chance on it, any platform...this is why awards aren't entirely full of shit. @NatSocFilmCrix

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8 years

Almost too much to believe, or to take in right now: A photo of Debbie Reynolds onstage, with daughter Carrie Fisher in the wings.

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This. Just this devastatingly moving photograph. Just this.

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4 years

My wife, the valiant.

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4 years

I donated convalescent plasma this weekend after reading in my @chicagotribune that the Red Cross is seeking donations from COVID survivors to help treat patients hospitalized with the virus. It takes about 2 hours, but they plunk you in front of Netflix (1/2)

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Kim Novak with unidentified ⁦ @chicagotribune ⁩ critic, backstage at @RaviniaFestival ’s VERTIGO accompanied by ⁦ @chicagosymphony ⁩. It was an honor to do the pre-show talk on Bernard Herrmann.

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4 years

A giant has passed, gracefully, into history. #CarlReiner created so much sheer pleasure in his 98 years. Endless riches, from "Your Show of Shows" to "The Dick Van Dyke Show" to the "Ocean's" movies to his final, defiant anti-Trump tweet. Rest in peace.

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3 years

Recovering at home now from sepsis. Have to say, it’s a fairly harsh way to finally get a year off from covering the Oscars.

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3 years

My father-in-law: a gem.

Heidi Stevens

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3 years

My dad used a portable DVD player to make a drive-in for his toy train village. (Today’s feature is “American Graffiti,” despite what the marquee says.) Cheers to all the grown-ups going to tremendous lengths to create some wonder today ❤️

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5 years

Incredibly gracious speech from best director Bong Joon Ho, calling out Scorsese and Tarantino primarily, but Phillips and Mendes as well. "If the Academy allows, I would like to get a Texas chainsaw" and split it five ways. Keep it going, folks. #Oscars

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3 years

Glenn Close just retroactively won her Oscar. #DaButt

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3 years

"Sound of Metal" wins for editing, and Mikkel E.G. Nielsen delivers a shout-out to Danish government for its federal arts support, film-school division. America, are you listening? #StupidQuestion #Oscars2021

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7 months

"American Fiction," adapted screenplay, Cord Jefferson. Very popular win. Instead of one $200 million dollar movie, he urges the conglomerates, "try making 20 10-million dollar movies." YES YES YYYYYYYYYYES #Oscars

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6 years

My appreciation of the late Stanley Donen is up here. Additional material to come. A giant has passed, and screen musicals from SINGIN' IN THE RAIN on down were made infinitely more alive, and truly cinematic, by his work.

Stanley Donen, the last of the great Golden Age Hollywood directors, dead at 94

Stanley Donen brought a new kinetic freedom to the screen musical. Until news of his death, at 94, came Saturday, many considered him the last of the great Golden Age Hollywood directors. Donen beg…

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Michael Phillips

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5 years

At @Facets , BURNING CANE, a supple and auspicious feature film debut getting a deserved release thanks to @ava and @ARRAYNow . The filmmaker shot it when he was 17.

At Facets: ‘Burning Cane,’ a sweet ‘n sour Louisiana story from an auspicious teenage filmmaker

The slow-burn feature debut “Burning Cane” works like a supple, elliptical short story, 78 minutes front to back, set among the residents and regrets of a rural Louisiana community. It&…

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This is my editor's last day at the @chicagotribune . Thank you, @CarmelCarrillo , for all the tightening, improving and elevating, action verb by action verb, over the years. You are the best. The buyout's gain is your writers' loss.

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4 years

Our local movie theater. This is late 2020.

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6 years

Agnes Varda has died, age 90. The "Cleo from 5 to 7" and "Faces Places" director's cinematic curiosity became our eternal reward. In 2015 in Chicago, she told me: "I'm most interested in the moment somebody goes out of the frame. Where do they go?" #AgnesVarda

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5 years

Every word of this superb @britmarling @nytimes essay tells the story we need to hear. "What we really mean when we say we want strong female leads is: 'Give me a man but in the body of a woman I still want to see naked.'”

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2 years

First Ray Liotta. Now James Caan. American cinema lost two indelible forces of nature, far too soon. A Liotta tribute opens today at @filmcenter .

Column: ‘Field of Dreams’ sounds good right now. A Ray Liotta movie tribute opens Friday at Siskel...

Update: Due to technical problems announced by the Siskel Film Center Friday, “Something Wild” is no longer part of the “Remembering Ray” programming. This story has been ch…

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5 years

#Parasite makes history. Four #Oscars including best picture. First in another language. We'll call it even re: "Green Book" now. The crowd in the Dolby Theatre is ecstatic.

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5 years

Just announced: Gael Garcia Bernal, Toronto winner ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘Knives Out’ director Rian Johnson confirmed for Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago Film Fest lineup: Gael Garcia Bernal, Hitler satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and a ‘Star Wars’ director

Opening Oct. 16 with screenwriter-director-star Edward Norton’s detective story “Motherless Brooklyn,” followed by a late-night screening of the “Zombieland” sequel, t…

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5 years

Anyone selling the romantic myth of "The show must go on" right now is dangerous. "The show will come back" is what we need, and then we need to sustain and support it when everybody's open again.

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4 years

A long-lost 1923 silent feature turned up in a storage closet in Peoria. Here's the story of its rescue and restoration, with thanks to @ChiFilmArchives :

Long-lost 1923 silent movie turns up at Chicago Film Archives

It played in Peoria, and everywhere else. Then, the world’s only remaining copy of a 1923 silent melodrama produced by Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle, presumed lost by film historian…

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4 years

Whether you're our president, a functioning politician or a columnist: When you use the words "I'm not advocating violence" followed by the loudest silent "but" imaginable --that says it all, and makes you complicit.

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7 years

I was thinking these #Oscars tribute montages were far shrewder and better than usual, even before that lovely Roger @ebertchicago footage about movies as machines that generate empathy showed up.

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3 years

Review: #TheBatman . We've been here before--the vastly inferior "Joker," mainly--and I thought I'd had it with this stuff. But it's the best Batman since "The Dark Knight," by a Gotham mile.

‘The Batman’ review: Dark, reckless and well paired with Catwoman, this is the best since ‘Dark...

Just when you’ve had it with Gotham City, caped crusaders and the whole murked-up franchise, along comes a good Batman movie — easily the best since “The Dark Knight” 14 yea…

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8 years

Thanks to Starbucks, we can safely retire the word "curated." Or give it a nice long vacation, at least.

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1 year

Our house tonight: a six-boy sleepover—-13-yr-olds, friends since they were 4—are heading out to see “Barbie.” YEAH!

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4 years

My dad turns 89 today. Here he is, in his @ebertfest cap.

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5 years

For various work reasons I saw but didn’t review the new SHAFT. But it’s probably the worst film I’ve seen so far this year. Thought you should know. All the best!

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"Oppenheimer" Oscar-winning dp Hoyte Van Hoytema" urges up-and-coming cinematographers to shoot on "that incredible new hip thing called celluloid."

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3 years

All I want for the holidays is a federal vaccine and booster mandate, and if you think that's a political rather than a medical issue, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

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1 year

Really wish "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" had opened July 21 instead of "Barbie," so we could've made "Opa!heimer" a thing

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4 years

Expect TENET to open in dozens of countries other than the U.S. sometime later this year, while we take our sweet time not taking care of the pandemic. #freedom

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5 years

Not that it matters, but: How to make an acceptance speech sharp and politically urgent: Michelle Williams. Laura Dern. How not to: Joaquin Phoenix. How to come off like a tool: Quentin Tarantino. #GoldenGlobes

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5 years

Lovely to see ⁦ @filmspotting ⁩ and ⁦ @LarsenOnFilm ⁩ topping ⁦ @emmdib ⁩’s excellent list of film podcasts in today’s ⁦ @nytimesarts ⁩. Way to go!

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5 years

Awful to say it, but: It’s time. Let’s close the movie theaters for a while.

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4 months

As critic, civilian and Chicagoan, I can only say that my ass thanks you in advance

Music Box Theatre is spending $750k for new seats and a spiffing up

Of all the Music Box Theatre’s pertinent attributes — the breadth of the programming; the atmospheric appeal of the main auditorium, lobby and adjoining lounge; the wine at the bar, direct fr…

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4 years

Until the last conservative I know personally decides not to vote for the current occupant, I’m not counting a single chicken before the November hatch.

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A photo I’ve never seen before, by @chicagotribune colleague @jkimpictures . Me and Boots Riley, summer of 2018.

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Ad in today’s ⁦ @chicagotribune ⁩ for our previous home, now luxury condos, with the 1922 Aesop’s Fables-inspired arches reminding “all who pass beneath them to be responsible, honest, and fair.” No comment.

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1 year

Spoken like a man who really, really, really wants to keep that Netflix money comin’

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David Fincher on the ongoing Hollywood strikes: "I can understand both sides, and I think all we can do is encourage them to talk.”

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4 years

This is just awful, awful news. He carried it with him through so much fine work. Rest in peace.

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Chadwick Boseman has died at 43. His Twitter account reported that he had been battling colon cancer

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Thinking and writing about movies has been infernally challenging this year, amid such momentous ugliness. The best work, I hope, will outlive the worst surrounding it.

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3 years

Years ago, @Nina_Metz made a name for herself when the Tribune hired her full-time. Today the Tribune (finally) gave her the "critic" designation, and I couldn't be happier for my pal and my valuable and valued colleague. On we go!

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To our @POTUS : I’m just a damn film critic, but thank for leading us through the mess since 2020. And for doing the difficult right thing today. Imagine @realDonaldTrump doing anything for the good of anyone or anything beyond himself.

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So sorry to hear of Robert Forster’s death at 78. Fine, honest and true every second on screen. Lovely guy in person. “Catch ya on the bounce,” he told me after an interview last year.

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I will not rest until next year's Oscars are held in Chicago's Union Station, just so Soderbergh can riff on the Odessa Steps scene from "The Untouchables." #Oscars2021

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That's Mitt: A man of principle, a little too late.

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First Father’s Day without him. ❤️

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Not that you’ll ever take the time to see it, junior, but “Ratfilm” deals with redlining, racist housing practices and a lot of other aspects of American life on which your corrosive family made fortunes.

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Elijah Cummings has done such a wonderful job representing Baltimore that people made a documentary about its Rat (aka vermin) problem. Wonderful Democrat leadership. Rat Film' highlights Baltimore's rat warfare, urban planning failures - Baltimore Sun

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Column: Eight months in the life and resourcefulness of Chicago's grandest film emporium, as Chicago and Illinois shut the doors once more. May we all mitigate the spread and catch a break so we can see what's on the other side.

For Chicago’s movie theaters, particularly the Music Box Theatre, ‘the gloom and doom has returne...

Like so much else in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two-screen 1929 landmark Music Box Theatre, on North Southport Avenue not far from Wrigley Field, closed down March 17, aka “…

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Twenty seconds of Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Laura Dern photo call, “Marriage Story,” #Venezia76 .

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This hurts. Milos Stehlik of @facets has died, at age 70. He's on a short list of Chicago cultural tastemakers (Roger Ebert being an obvious fellow champion) who, beginning in the 1970s, democratized and globalized our film horizons.

Milos Stehlik, longtime force and eloquent voice in Chicago and international film, dies at 70

Facets Multimedia founder Milos Stehlik, a key figure in the development, sophistication and global reach of Chicago’s film culture, died Saturday. He was 70. Program director Charles Coleman…

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This farewell column from @gregkot is just beautiful. As a reader and a colleague, I can only say: Thanks for being so good. May @soundopinions opine for decades more.

Greg Kot says farewell to readers, industry folks but most importantly to the thing that made it...

As a Tribune music critic for the last 30 years, I’ve attended more than 2,000 concerts where pretty much anything could happen, and often has. While scrawling in my notepad, I’ve been …

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"I was not a tough guy," Kirk Douglas once told the Guardian. "I just acted like one.” A giant died today at the age of 103. Few, if any, Hollywood stars conveyed more effortless, roiling intensity, at rest or in motion. RIP. #KirkDouglas

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My Top 10:

10 best movies of 2017

Tribune critic Michael Phillips picks his favorite movies of 2017, a year that saw one quiet, witty selection rise in symbolic defiance of everything toxic and stupid in the culture right now.

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3 years

Sondheim’s death hits so hard. He used the great Broadway tradition (and his love for movies and great film composers, from Raksin to Herrmann) to imagine an art form’s brave and enduring future. A genius and a fervent craftsman. And a terrific interview. #Sondheim

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Nothing’s going to speed up the death of the multiplex faster than this shit

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4 years

Theaters Prepare to Reopen with TSA-Style Check-in, Temperature Screenings, and Plexiglass

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Kristen Stewart's blithe version of a merry screwball heiress is the best thing about CHARLIE'S ANGELS, Elizabeth Banks' woke-up call of a franchise reboot. Review:

‘Charlie’s Angels’ review: Kristen Stewart and Elizabeth Banks update the tacky, sexualized ’70s...

ABC-TV wasn’t alone. But in the network’s flesh-peddling harem era of the 1970s, an adolescent boy could tune into “Charlie’s Angels” (or “Fantasy Island,”…

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4 years

THE VAST OF NIGHT is terrific. Now streaming on Amazon. Wish I hadn't been on furlough last week, when it opened.

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2 years

Tested positive for Covid this morning. Careful, all.

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6 years

You know what? No they won’t.

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6 years

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: Viewers Will Love ‘Roma’ on Their Phones

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It's one story among thousands: How @musicboxtheatre is planning for a profoundly uncertain future. Thanks to all for the time and the input.

Chicago’s Music Box Theatre: After the screen fades to black, considering what the coronavirus...

There’s nothing exceptional about the situation confronting the Music Box Theatre and its sister companies, Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing. This week in pandemic disorder, ev…

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Nothing (much) against the winner, but if @ManohlaDargis doesn't win a criticism Pulitzer one of these years, she'll be the official, never-Oscared Alfred Hitchcock of journalism.

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Michael Phillips

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4 years

This was what I needed to see, this sad day.

Tracie Hunte

@TracieHunte

4 years

This look he exchanged with Michael B. Jordan when Green Book won best picture is the moment I realized Chadwick Boseman wasn’t just a beautiful and gifted performer, but also a shady king. We’ll miss you. Rest easy.

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Michael Phillips

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7 years

Happy holidays, everyone. And I actually mean it.

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Michael Phillips

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4 years

Rewatching "The Godfather," which makes me long for movies that weren't afraid to be. Footnote: the 5 Families montage w Carmine Coppola at the piano--a scene assembled by an uncredited George Lucas--is purer filmmaking than most of what Lucas did later. #IncludingStarWars #SueMe

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Michael Phillips

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3 years

Tonight’s sunset over the ⁦ @MahoningDIT ⁩, the all-35MM wonder outside Lehighton, PA.

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Michael Phillips

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7 years

A wonderful actor has died: John Mahoney, 77, longtime Chicago stage star, sterling work in every medium. "Frasier" was just the icing on the cake. So good in "Moonstruck," among dozens of others.

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Michael Phillips

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4 years

I'm eating a cheddar jalapeno biscuit, homemade by our enterprising 15-year-old baker, and while it's technically a different medium I'm still giving it "Best Film of 2020."

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Michael Phillips

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3 years

For those who haven't seen it: #SummerOfSoul is terrific. I talked to Questlove about finding the people who remembered being there in '69.

Talking to ‘Summer of Soul’ movie maestro Questlove: How do we tell the concert history without...

Now in theaters and on Hulu, “Summer of Soul” is two hours of amazing. It’s the feature debut of a 50-year-old musician, working from rarely seen videotapes of six different 52-ye…

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Michael Phillips

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I think I would really really really really like to see this at @musicbotheatre as soon as it can be arranged thanks appreciate it signed, Chicago moviegoer

American Cinematheque

@am_cinematheque

5 months

Newly struck 70mm print! 🎞️ John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS (1956) is coming to the Egyptian + Aero for a 70mm limited engagement 4/28 - 5/4! 🤠⭐️ See a stunning new print of one of the most influential movies ever made: