Posts Tagged ‘Chicago’
Tippi Hedren visits Chicago’s Music Box Theatre
On March 27, I had the honor of attending a screening of The Birds (1963) at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, part of Turner Classic Movies’ annual “Road to Hollywood” film festival. Original Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren was present to introduce the film with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.
Hedren sat down for a very candid interview beforehand, openly discussing how Hitchcock made her a household name shortly before taking it all away after she refused to oblige the director’s requests for personal affection. Appreciative of what little time they shared professionally before things turned, she reflected, “He may have ended my career, but he didn’t end my life.”
Related:
Tippi Hedren On Alfred Hitchcock Biopic ‘The Girl’: ‘I Worry They Will Not Portray Me As Strong As I Was’. Moviefone. 13 Mar. 2012.
“Trapped in a Phone Booth” at MovieClips.com
Split-screen dissection of the infamous school scene in The Birds
The Birds of Anger: Rovio’s best-selling mobile game, told in the style of Hitchcock’s 1963 classic
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
“Like Curb Your Enthusiasm, which Garlin has directed on occasion, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With has a conversational tone. Unlike too many movies made and populated by comedians, it has no striving for effect, no anxiety that we won’t get the joke. It is a movie made by friends about friends, and we get to feel curiously as if they are our friends.”
- Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times
“Laid back and affectionate, Cheese is the movie version of a dear friend you could spend all day with.”
- Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times
“For those of you who don’t think food is an important factor in a relationship, just know that the leading cause of many divorces isn’t irreconcilable differences but lactose intolerance.”
- Mark Jordan Legan, National Public Radio
Chicago in winter
On Kawara
On Kawara
American, born Japan 1933
Oct. 31, 1978 (Today Series, “Tuesday”), 1978
Acrylic on canvas and newspaper
155 x 226 cm (61 x 89 in.)
Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund, 1980.2a-b
©On Kawara. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
Oct. 31, 1978 is one of more than two thousand “date paintings” that On Kawara has produced since 1966. Though they vary in size, each work shares a similar format—the specific date, which is painted without the use of stencils in white, occupies a central location on the monochromatic canvas and is the painting’s sole image. Utilizing the language of the country where he painted the canvas, Kawara either completes each work on the day emblazoned on its surface or destroys it. While usually not exhibited, a newspaper accompanies every work to document the date and location of its execution. Deceptively simple, Oct. 31, 1978, like all of Kawara’s date paintings, both records and celebrates the simple fact that the artist, and his creative energies, existed at this point in time.
Vivian Maier
Chicago, 1980
Chalk (2006)
Real teaching leaves a mark.
School is in session at Harrison High, and our schedule is packed: English with Stroope (this year, the prestigious “Teacher of the Year” award will be his); History with Lowrey (I hear this is his first year teaching); and P.E. with Coach Webb (“Not all P.E. teachers are gay.”). Mike Akel’s mockumentary was developed through improvisation from start to finish, and edited together from more than 60 hours of footage.
Featured music:
Stevens, Sufjan. “Chicago”. Illinois. Asthmatic Kitty, 2005.
“Surf”
Mucca Pazza is a 30 piece self-described “circus punk marching band” based out of Chicago. Conceived by composer Mark Messing, the band, whose name comes from the Italian for “crazy cow,” has been performing in and around the Chicago area for over four years. Here, a performance from Lollapalooza 2005.
Official: mucca-pazza.org
MySpace: myspace.com/muccapazza
