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3 things about Richard Linklater’s EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

Everybody Wants Some!! [2016] 1. “She looks like my fifth grade teacher.” 2. Splitting baseballs with an axe. 3. Cat in the fridge.

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3 things about Warren Beatty’s BULWORTH

Bulworth [1998] 1. Not collard greens. Kale. 2. “All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin’ …. everybody ’til they’re all the same color.” 3. The coke spoon just out … Continue reading

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3 things about George Pollock’s MURDER AHOY

Murder Ahoy [1964] 1. A waxy envelope with figures written on the back. 2. Curling his beard before bed. 3. Which direction is the hilt pointing?

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3 things about Walt Disney’s THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [1949] 1. A flock of paper airplanes. 2. He sticks his nose inside a book on which nothing is printed. 3. Scary tree with firefly eyes.

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3 things about Robert Altman’s STREAMERS

Streamers [1983] 1. He’s reading Ariel by Sylvia Plath. 2. “I talk bad, I don’t do bad.” 3. Top bunk/bottom bunk footsie.

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Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe join ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO.

An early summer afternoon in the house in Chicago. I’m ten years old. The sky is very dark. A thunderstorm. I’m sitting on the floor in my room, the cool tiles. The rain comes, at first very hard, then soft. … Continue reading

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In 3 short weeks …

Pause of the Clock will have its Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center! That’s Monday, October 3. Do you have your ticket yet? And have you checked out the Facebook page?  

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION

Inception [2010] 1. A Francis Bacon painting. 2. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” 3. He politely refuses a towel. 3 other things.

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3 things about Arthur Berthelet’s SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes [1916] 1. “An ill-suited watchdog.” Moriarty’s henchman has a bulldog. 2. A dissolve to a slightly tighter shot and then a dissolve back to the wider angle. Would a straight cut have been considered too disorienting at the … Continue reading

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3 things about Stanley Donen’s ARABESQUE

Arabesque [1966] 1. A long green eel in a tank. 2. Microdot. 3. “You can ride a horse, Prime Minister?” “You ask this of an Arab?”

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