Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival
Toronto, Los Angeles…..and now CHICAGO. LOGAN Cinemas in midtown Chicago.
The Nikon F3 is an iconic 35mm SLR camera, with the distinctive red line. Being one of my main manual cameras, I have written my thoughts about it.
Nikon F3 – Legend with a red stripe — Photo Thinking
It’s New Year’s once again, a time to celebrate humanity surviving long enough to make one more lap around the sun. Instead of doing this by spending time with family and friends, I decided to spend my time hunched over the computer waxing poetic about werewolf movies. I did something similar last year, compiling a […]
My Top Ten Favorite Werewolf Movies (+1) — William Tea
In 1945 the world still had time for one decent old-school mad scientist film before the genre imploded on itself. Swedish heart-throb Nils Asther shines in a Dorian Gray-inspired major studio production by Paramount about a 120 year old genius searching for the secret of everlasting life, while telling everyone around him that he is only 35. 6/10
The Man in Half Moon Street — scifist 2.0
Although they had appeared onscreen together in The Lucky Dog (1921), the Hal Roach short Duck Soup (1927) marks the first time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were paired as comedy leads. They play a couple of hoboes who flee a surly forest ranger conscripting tramps to fight a raging fire. The film begins in […]
How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Duck Soup — Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more)
Call & Response had a conversation with Will Ayers about imagination, Zoom, individualism, and much more.
“Let’s dust off our imaginations”: In Conversation with Bill Ayers — Call & Response
The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright. Co-starring Babe Ruth. Directed by Sam Wood. B&W, 128 minutes. The son of immigrant parents, Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) takes an interest in the All-American sport of baseball at an early age. He’d like to pursue it as a career, but […]
The Pride of the Yankees — Classic for a Reason
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. –Victor Skrebneski Chicago’s photographer He became interested in photography when he found a camera in a park. Seven-year old Victor Skrebneski turned the camera into lost and found. He said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in 2000, “I took it inside […]
On Photography: Vicktor Skrebneski, 1929-2020 — Photofocus
There was no ballroom, club scene or wedding to attend to, but make no mistake — last Sunday I was ready to dance. Like so many sports fans I was glued to the television set to watch the first two parts of the documentary, “The Last Dance” on the Chicago Bulls last season (1997-98) with […]
Gase: There are other great sports documentaries besides ‘The Last Dance’ — Times-Herald
Reader Edward sent this breathtaking photo of a mirage of the Chicago Skyline, just featured as the Earth Science Photo of the Day. It was taken in 2008 from the Indiana Dunes, a state park 37 miles from the city, and a place from which the city isn’t visible. It is in fact an inferior […]
A mirage of Chicago — Why Evolution Is True
RED THREAD, 3min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Yijun Pan, Anh Vo
A red thread connects your destiny, but perhaps not the only one you find.
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