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Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Get ready for Noir City Chicago 2025

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Noir City Chicago 2025 is a week-long film festival dedicated to celebrating classic film noir and neo-noir. The event will be held at Chica...
Friday, September 24, 2021

James Stewart decides to “Call Northside 777”

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Call Northside 777  (1948) is a docudrama directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, and Helen Walke...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Frank Sinatra is “The Man with the Golden Arm”

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The Man with the Golden Arm  (1955) is an American film drama directed by Otto Preminger and starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, and Kim...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

“American Street Kid” debuts in Chicago December 11

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In American Street Kid , filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don’t know exists. A world where in or...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

2018 Turner Classic Film Festival (#TCMFF) Day 1

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It’s hard to believe that the 2018 TCM Film Festival is over. My anticipation builds as soon as the weather turns chilly here in Chicago. Dr...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Screening of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" at the Daystar Center December 9

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“Holiday” Series:  The Apartment  (1960) Where: Daystar Center, 1550 S. State Street When: December 9, 2017 Time: 6:30 p.m. Hosted by St...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Noir City Chicago Opens with screening of “L.A. Confidential” at Music Box

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August 25, 2017 Noir City Chicago returned to the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., tonight with the  screening of Curtis Hanson’s...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Raiders of the Lost Ark at Daniel Webster Park, Chicago July 17, 2017

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The Greater South Loop Association is presenting Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) free of charge at Daniel Webster Park, 1357 S Indiana Av...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Great films of 1939: "Love Affair" October 1 at the Daystar Center

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Great films of 1939:  Love Affair Where: The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center, 1550 S. State Street, Chicago, IL When: October 1, 2016 Ti...
Monday, June 15, 2015

The Liebster Award

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Thanks to Jennifer Garlan (Virtual Virago blog) for nominating me for a Liebster Award! This is just a fun award that bloggers use to show ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Hitchcock in the 40s—New film series begins May 13, 2014

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New film series announced The 2014-15 Film Club is back at The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center, 1550 S. State St., Chicago. Hosted by Step...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Quiet Before the 1906 Earthquake

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This isn’t your typical Classic Movie Man blog post, but this historic piece of film was taken on April 14, 1906 on San Francisco’s Market S...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

“Play it Again, Sam”: Screen classic “Casablanca” has an encore screening this Thursday

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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in  Cassablanca Due to the success of last month’s one-night-only screening of  Casablanca , Turner ...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

Facets Holiday Warehouse Sale this Saturday and Sunday!

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Thousands of releases from small, independent labels and major studios alike, discounted up to 90% off. Rub shoulders with fellow Ch...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Coming Soon: Interview with Best-Selling Author Karen Abbott

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Check back next month for an interview with best-selling author Karen Abbott . Abbott's first nonfiction book, Sin in the Second City c...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Chicago and Movie History

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Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies Hollywood in the Midwest? Before anyone heard of a place called Hollywood, Chicago ...