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Check out Chance The Rapper latest music video!
Watch the Behind The Scenes video, we are in it!
Watch the Trailer to Episode 8 of "Chicagoland"!!
Film Police recommends: ¸¸¸¸¸  “Inside Llewyn Davis” by Joel & Ethan
Coen As long-awaited as every Coen brothers movie is nowadays, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is worth
the wait. It’s a gem, a well-crafted period film that captures an epochal time and place.
Evoking the pivotal point of time in New York’s Greenwich Village circa 1961 when traditional coffee house folk
music was about to make way for singer songwriters who became rock stars, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is pitch
perfect. The title character is modeled after Dave Von Ronk, a Brooklyn-born traditional folk singer who
resisted writing his own songs even as it became clear he needed to re-invent himself if his career was to thrive. The very
young Bob Dylan, just arrived from northern Minnesota, famously took aspects of Von Ronk’s repertoire and stage persona
to create the Dylan mystique. Dylan was 20 in 1961 when he played his first New York gig, opening for John Lee Hooker
at Gerde's Folk City. As the movie rolls on, the fictional Von Ronk character’s career skews
downwards just before the ascendancy of the real Dylan as a folk music idol and eventual rock God. It’s
this counterpoint that is the film’s theme and it breaks your heart. Carey Mulligan, playing an American
singer inspired by Joan Baez, tries to shake him out of his self-inflicted downslide with blistering anger but he doesn’t
take the hint. Her bitter, caustic rants are both painful to hear, if you are her target like Llewyn, and a delight, if you
are a connoisseur of foul-mouthed rage and bluster.
In the middle of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
the great John Goodman steals the show, practically blowing Llewyn off the screen, spitting out venomous lines that are
both hilarious and stinging. F. Murray Abraham is Bud Grossman, a not very subtle depiction of real-life
manager Albert Grossman. Albert Grossman managed Dylan, created Peter, Paul and Mary, and early in his
career booked acts for the Gate of the Horn, a landmark folk club in Chicago that hosted Odetta, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Gibson
and many other legends. Llewyn goes to the Gate to audition for Bud. Bud’s comment:
“I don’t see a lot of money here,” after Llewyn plays a song, is another prediction that Llewyn disregards
without any second thought—a personal flaw that will be disastrous.
You won’t see Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Frances
McDormand, Holly Hunter, or Roger Deakins’ camera work in “Inside Llewyn Davis” but the film is
rich in wonderful acting, lovely set design, and lush, gorgeous photography by Bruno Delbonnel. Best of
all, we get the renowned Coen Brothers writing which represents the ne plus ultra of American filmmaking.
It’s a great film.
Tell us what you think of "Inside
Llewyn Davis"  Bravo! A can’t-put-down landmark
work that presents Chicago as the central cauldron for change in American Culture in the forties and fifties, precipitating
a Golden Age for Chicago that flourished, spread, peaked and sadly, vanished by the early sixties. Once
called “a real Chicago boy,” by Studs Terkel, author Thomas Dyja traces the history, the personalities, and the
cultural institutions that we take for granted that emerged first in Chicago, then emanated out to the rest of the world.
The Chess Brothers popularized blues and helped give birth to Rock and Roll, Nelson Algren wrote outlaw rebel literature
and inspired other literary landmark works, Mies van der Rohe single-handedly invented Modern architecture, all in Chicago.
Hugh Hefner made sex a legitimate pursuit of the young and moneyed class. Hef’s Playboy Magazine helped usher
in sex as an acceptable part of mass media, no longer a forbidden taboo, only seen in dirty book stores. Ray
Kroc industrialized fast food, from one Golden Arch in Des Plaines to over 50,000 across the world. Mahalia
Jackson popularized gospel music and helped lead and finance the Civil Rights movement. Improvisational
comedy from the Second City was invented and nurtured in Chicago, creating a whole industry that has wide reach through entertainment,
movies, and television. Mayor Richard J. Daley seized power and launched a massive new public housing campaign
that changed Chicago into a world-class economic power, albeit more segregated. When Hef moved to
LA, Nelson moved to Patterson, NJ, and others passed away, the Chicago Golden Age lost momentum. It was
a brief shining moment for Chicago that still resonates today—but what a moment! Also featured in
this comprehensive work are Chicago icons Burr Tillstrom, Walter Gropius, Sun Ra, Muddy Waters, Art Shay, Elaine May, Mike
Nichols, Stuart Brent and Simone de Beauvoir.
For a review and commentary on "Skyfall" click here!
Check out our pal Art Shay's blog! Art is an artist, a gentleman, a world-class photographer/writer and a national treasure.
Art Shay's blog on the Chicagoist, click here!
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company. We specialize in high-quality commercials, documentaries, corporate films, and feature films. We will assist you in developing your feature film
projects, preparing screenplays, budgets, and schedules for investor presentations. We are experienced in
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