CHICAGO – What is one of the greatest survival instincts of the pandemic? Creativity. The Zoom web series “What Did Clyde Hide?” is the result of a creative effort from Executive Producer/Show Runner Ruth Kaufman, Producer Sandy Gulliver and Director Sean Patrick Leonard. Kaufman and Leonard talk about the series, naturally, via Zoom.!—break—>
1950s
Via Zoom: Director Sam Pollard Revives the History of 'MLK/FBI'
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 14, 2021 - 11:19am- 1950s
- 1960s
- Alabama
- assassination
- Civil Rights
- Director
- Editor
- FBI
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Interview
- J. Edgar Hoover
- January 15th
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Martin Luther King Day
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- MLK/FBI
- Montgomery
- Pat Über TV
- Patrick McDonald
- Sam Pollard
- Selma
- Spike Lee
- Surveillance
- USA
- Wiretap
- Zoom
CHICAGO – Sam Pollard has been a behind-the-scenes film editor/producer for most of his career, best known for his work with Spike Lee. But recently, after sporadic director assignments over the years, he has broken out with two major profile documentaries, one on Sammy Davis Jr. in 2017, and his most recent “MLK/FBI.”
Film Review: HollywoodChicago.com Reviews of ‘The High Note,’ ’The Vast of Night,’ Bonus
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 1, 2020 - 9:04amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on May 29th, 2020, discussing new releases “The High Note” (VOD) and “The Vast of Night” (Amazon Prime) and BONUS review.!—break—>
Film Review: ‘The Wife’ is Classic Drama & Relevant Social History
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 23, 2018 - 11:58pmCHICAGO – One of the more fascinating questions about civilization is ‘how much talent went unrealized because of time and place of birth?’ The patriarchy – which denied people of color and women for so long – often reduced fellow travelers into subservient roles. For example, there were women who were just known as “The Wife.”
Film Review: ‘Phantom Thread’ is Both Beautiful and Muddled
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 15, 2018 - 8:56pmCHICAGO – There is a certain beauty in human creation, and the fashion industry allows that we can be individual in the sense of our clothing choices. The perfection that those creators attend to is nicely defined in “Phantom Thread,” but as an exploration of their personal life, it is frustrating.
Interview: Jovan Adepo & Stephen McKinley Henderson of ‘Fences’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 21, 2016 - 10:25amCHICAGO – The film adaptation of a stage play by August Wilson, the late playwright known for his “Pittsburgh Cycle” of dramas, was aided by Denzel Washington, both portraying the lead role and directing “Fences.” Washington had done the play on Broadway, and recruited to the film his stage mate Stephen McKinley Henderson and newcomer Jovan Adepo.
Film Review: Two Stories Clash in Uneven ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 24, 2016 - 8:39amCHICAGO – Movie icon Warren Beatty had wanted to make a film about 20th Century billionaire Howard Hughes for close to 40 years. On the heels of Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” Beatty has written, directed and portrays Hughes in “Rules Don’t Apply,” and has created a strange farce about the mogul and a romance tale around him.
Interview: Lily Collins & Alden Ehrenreich of ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 22, 2016 - 10:01amCHICAGO – If there is one star-crossed couple in this fall’s movie line-up, it’s Marla and Frank of “Rules Don’t Apply,” as portrayed by Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich. The two popular young actors are trying to connect by the standards of late 1950s Hollywood in the film, a looser atmosphere but still difficult for two religious outsiders.
Interview: Film Icon Warren Beatty Knows ‘Rules Don’t Apply’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 21, 2016 - 11:06am- 1950s
- 20th Century Fox
- Alden Ehrenreich
- Alec Baldwin
- Annette Bening
- Candice Bergen
- Ed Harris
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hollywood
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Howard Hughes
- Interview
- Lily Collins
- Martin Sheen
- Matthew Broderick
- Oliver Platt
- Patrick McDonald
- Reds
- Rules Don’t Apply
- Splendor in the Grass
- Warren Beatty
CHICAGO – When encountering film producer, director, writer and “movie star” Warren Beatty, I entered into an interview that would be truly one of a kind. The spontaneous Mr. Beatty works a talk in a give-and-take Socratic method, searching for the truth underneath the rhetoric, as he did with his new film “Rules Don’t Apply.”
Film Review: Unexpected Lessons for the Student of ‘Indignation’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 10, 2016 - 8:23amCHICAGO – America was a very different place in 1951, and there are very few people around to tell us about it. That is why reminders of the more confining social order that existed back then is necessary, and is expressed in the film “Indignation.” This is an adaptation of a recent Philip Roth novel, and he was able to articulate the era.
Film Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!’ is Coen Bros. Excellence for Movie Lovers
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 5, 2016 - 10:15amCHICAGO – Writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen love the movies, and that love is magnificently played out in “Hail, Caesar!” As they riff on religion, geopolitics and 1950s morality, while wonderfully celebrating and spoofing an era in movies that will never be again, the Coens abide and deliver.
