CHICAGO – Society, or at least certain elements of society, are always looking for scapegoats to hide the sins of themselves and authority. In the so-called “great America” of the 1950s, the scapegoat target was comic books … specifically through a sociological study called “The Seduction of the Innocent.” City Lit Theater Company, in part two of a trilogy on comic culture by Mark Pracht, presents “The Innocence of Seduction … now through October 8th, 2023. For details and tickets, click COMIC BOOK.
Jane Austin
Interview: Director Whit Stillman Celebrates ‘Love & Friendship’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 17, 2016 - 3:53pm- Adam Clayton Powell
- Barcelona
- Castle Rock
- Chloe Sevigny
- Damsels in Distress
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Interview
- Jane Austin
- Jemma Redgrave
- John F. Kennedy
- Kate Beckinsale
- Lady Susan
- Last Days of Disco
- Love & Friendship
- Metropolitan
- Patrick McDonald
- Roadside Attractions
- Stephen Fry
- Whit Stillman
- Xavier Samuel
CHICAGO – Say the name Whit Stillman in certain cinema circles, and a rush of admiration soon follows. The director made a name for himself with his debut film “Metropolitan’ (1990), and followed with the same emotional pallette in “Barcelona” (1994). He is back with an adaptation of a Jane Austin novel, entitled “Love & Friendship.”
Film Review: Hard to Find a Point to ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 5, 2016 - 11:39pmCHICAGO – Having not read this best-selling source novel, I had a hard time understanding the point of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’ Amazingly, it falls short as both a zombie movie and a satire of the original Jane Austin “Pride and Prejudice” story, which was its only achievement as a final result.
