CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
Federico Fellini
Living La Vita! Audio Blu-ray Review of Federico Fellini's ‘La Dolce Vita’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 28, 2022 - 11:22amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio Blu-ray DVD review of “La Dolce Vita,” the Federico Fellini film masterpiece that introduced the 1960s to itself, and the term “Paparazzi” to the language, now available through Paramount Pictures wherever Blu-rays are sold.
Via Zoom: Rebecca Fons of the Gene Siskel Film Center, ReOpening on August 6, 2021
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 4, 2021 - 5:30amCHICAGO – A cinema treasure, the Gene Siskel Film Center, reopens in-theater screenings on Friday, August 6th, 2021, the first since the pandemic closure in March of 2020. During the closure, they also named a new Director of Programming, Rebecca Fons.
Blu-ray Review: ‘Identification of a Woman’ Drifts Through Fog of Ennui
Submitted by mattmovieman on November 8, 2011 - 7:10amCHICAGO – “Framing a shot?” asks Ida (Christine Boisson), the latest photogenic lover of Italian filmmaker Niccolò (Tomas Milian), in Michelangelo Antonioni’s hypnotic 1982 effort, “Identification of a Woman.” Like Guidio, the hero of Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece, “8 1/2,” Niccolò has the desire to create but has no story to tell, just “an idea of the female form” that perpetually haunts his imagination.
