As Silent Sundays and International Women’s Day collide, a look back at the life and work of Alice Guy-Blaché, The Mother of Cinema
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Happy Birthday Robert! Hope you have a good one!
For my contribution to #WomenWritersWeek at @ebertvoices.bsky.social I wrote a look back at the film industry 100 years ago – the arrival of synced sound, the death of Valentino, Gilbert and Garbo, and more – and what we might be able to glean from its storied history.
Need a break? Over at the Globe, I wrote a quiz about famous Oscar firsts and Oscar records. Take it and see how well you do!
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/a...
The wonderful & beloved @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ranks #9 on TimeOut's list of the 100 greatest cinemas in the world! You love to see it!
www.timeout.com/film/the-100...
pop art style poster of the Music Box Theatre marquee that reads Chicago Critics Film Festival May 1-7, 2026
We're two months out from the 13th Chicago Critics Film Festival, which will be held May 1-7, 2026 at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social 🍿
Early bird passes go on sale next week 🎟️
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates soon 👀
Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with #WomenInNoir with Dorothy Hughes, crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote 14 novels, primarily crime/hardboiled & #filmnoir styles like The Fallen Sparrow ('42) In a Lonely Place ('47), & Ride the Pink Horse ('46).
for the evening crowd
Live Action Oscar Shorts and Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie are SOLD OUT
what’s playing today at the Music Box Theatre
at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, but saw that three screenings for other things today are sold out already and it’s only 11am! You just LOVE to see it. Moviegoing is NOT dead here in Chicago!
Everything about the empire’s attack on Iran was illegal. There was no UN Security Council vote, no congressional approval, no imminent attack from Iran, no evidence of nukes. It’s Iraq all over again.
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-could-s...
I'm furious at every single person who put this man back in office.
Our WORKING GIRL: THE FILMS OF BARBARA STANWYCK series ends with one of her finest performances, in King Vidor's STELLA DALLAS!
Presented in 35mm, this Sunday at 11:30am
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Can’t wait for this new release. Happy to have played a part in it. #noircity #NoirAlley #TCM #filmnoir
The Music Box Of Horrors presents William Castle's THE NIGHT WALKER, starring Barbara Stanwyck in her final film role!
Presented In 35mm, with a Live William Castle-inspired, interactive preshow💀
This Friday 2/27 at 10pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Awesome! I’m going to see it tomorrow.
This is so cool! Such an interesting examination.
For this week’s Silent Sundays post I look at the production, critical reaction, and legacy of the first adaptation of Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, A.V. Bramble’s 1920 adaptation that is now considered lost.
We just got home from a packed screening of Amélie and it’s so easy to forget how nice it is to see, with a bunch of people, something we all had to find.
Cool, thanks!
Great way to start the day. I think the film is a masterpiece!
I have four articles in the paper today, but this is the one of which I'm most proud. BOYZ N THE HOOD turns 35 this year, so I wrote an anniversary tribute.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/13/a...
The new digital issue of Noir City Magazine releases today to subscribers. Here’s my cover for our 45th issue. Wow, 45 issues of NOIR CITY! The print edition will be out soon.
SO THIS IS HAPPENING ON FEB 21. JOIN IN! #NoirAlley #TCM #filmnoirfoundation #NoirVity
In honor of this month, I'll be posting an article a day that celebrates us folks. Today, it's an excerpt from my book BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS. I hosted a screening of SUPER FLY in Chicago back in 2024 and my beloved Ebert site ran this excerpt.
www.rogerebert.com/features/boo...
Things are getting tense. #PuppyBowl
Watching the Big Game! #PuppyBowl
Labor Day weekend steps into the darkness, Chicago! #NoirCity @noirfoundation.bsky.social
Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
This looks fun, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. They also have some cool merch for sale!
I *did* lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars *this* year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in - sixty years.
#TCMParty #CitizenKane
