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Category: Chicago Film Scene Think Pieces

Do you ever find yourself, between movie marathons and TV binges, thinking about what you’re watching beyond pure entertainment value?

Maybe it’s about how the themes and attitudes of what you’re watching offer a snapshot of the cultural attitudes of the times? Maybe it’s about how film has evolved over the last century? Hell it could all of those and none of those. If so, then this is the place for you.

This is a place for all us CFS Folk to upload our in depth think pieces, both for the individual article and ongoing series, on anything film related. Cause, let’s be honest, we tend to think about movies and TV a lot.

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The McNeil Minute

Has Netflix Become The New Home For Independent and Prestige Filmmakers?

September 8, 2020September 18, 2020 Rob McNeil

What do you think of when you heard the word ‘Netflix?’ Do you think of the streaming platform filled with all your favorite TV shows

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The Current State of Movie Theatres, As I See It

September 6, 2020February 18, 2021 Rob McNeil

Movie theatres are dying. Or, at least, that would be the cynical way of looking at it. The theater-going experience was already ever-changing, long before

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Chicago Film Scene Think Pieces

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and The Psychology of Rewatching – Part 2

August 6, 2020September 18, 2020 CJ Hughes

We are choosing to watch things over and over again, the stories that we know the endings to, but still excite us.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and The Psychology of Rewatching – Part 1

July 28, 2020September 18, 2020 CJ Hughes

As millions of people fled into their homes, we were suddenly forced to face our own minds, and for many, this meant facing the things we had been using our busy lives as an excuse to run away from.

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The Crimes of COPS

July 3, 2020September 18, 2020 CJ Hughes

COPS ran almost unchecked for 30 years. Its sudden fall was cause for celebration for some, while others disdained it’s cancellation.

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Microaggressions

June 19, 2020September 18, 2020 CJ Hughes

While the argument can be made that awards don’t matter, the hinderance and inability of the industry to celebrate black artists does.

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Racism in Required Viewing

June 12, 2020September 18, 2020 CJ Hughes

The Birth of a Nation was required viewing within the first month of my film foundations class in 2016. I was encouraged to “look past”

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The Comfort of Documentary Film during Quarantine

May 12, 2020September 18, 2020 Jake Laystrom

It’s hard to say whether a sequence of elderly dancers joyfully participating in a regular class would have brought the same emotion if life as

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Chicago Film Scene Think Pieces

What Cinema Can Be: Part II | Streaming Risks

March 14, 2020May 24, 2021 Davy Walker

In the previous article, we took a look at what cinema could offer in terms of untraditional presentation. In that instance, it was galleries. But

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What Cinema Can Be: Part I | The Superhero Conundrum

February 22, 2020June 15, 2021 Davy Walker

“I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” – Martin Scorsese With everything that’s going on about the convoluted, contradictory, and

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