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
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.
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
We are choosing to watch things over and over again, the stories that we know the endings to, but still excite us.
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.
COPS ran almost unchecked for 30 years. Its sudden fall was cause for celebration for some, while others disdained it’s cancellation.
While the argument can be made that awards don’t matter, the hinderance and inability of the industry to celebrate black artists does.
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”
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
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
“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