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Author Archives: Donald Liebenson
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High Fidelity gets the oral history treatment
Andrew Buss spoke with the Reader about why High Fidelity tops his list of Chicago movies.
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Review: What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
It’s is long overdue vindication for the band, about whom Donn Cambern, director of the ill-fated concert film, succinctly states, “They really got screwed.”
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‘Let’s fuck up the frame’
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s monthlong celebration of Chicago native Haskell Wexler’s centennial concludes May 31.
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‘The way these people talk about themselves, you would think they were actually countries, not just actors’
Fran Lebowitz is coming to Chicago, which she considers to be one of two “real” American cities—the other, of course, is New York City, where she has lived since 1970 (a transplanted Jersey girl). She will be onstage April 15 at 7:30 PM at the Auditorium Theatre, where she will be engaged in conversation with […]
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Spare Us
Kingpin…is easily the funniest film of the year. It’s hard to recall a picture in which I laughed out loud at each and every one of, maybe, its first 25 jokes. And the jokes are not merely verbal or sight gags, but twists in the story as well.” –Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune, July 26 1. […]
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On the Prowl With Channel 11’s Station-Identification Film Crew
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The F Card
They went to the fourth annual Cubs Convention at the Hyatt Regency Hotel last weekend to rub elbows with beloved Cubs players, past and present, and to bend elbows with Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray. But 11 miles to the west, at the Hillside Holiday Inn, they came looking for “Fuck Face.” There were […]