CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
The Best Films of 2014
Film Feature: The 10 Best Films of 2014, By Nick Allen
Submitted by NickHC on December 31, 2014 - 4:19pm- A Most Violent Year
- Boyhood
- Christopher Nolan
- David Wain
- DMX
- Film Feature
- Frank
- Gary Poulter
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- Interstellar
- Joe
- List
- Locke
- Marion Cotillard
- Michael Bay
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- Nightcrawler
- Obvious Child
- Selma
- The Babadook
- The Best Films of 2014
- The LEGO Movie
- The Raid 2
- They Came Together
- Top Five
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Two Days One Night
- Whiplash
CHICAGO – Just like every year before it, there were no perfect films in 2014. I do not see this as a negative thing - reaching for greatness is far more electrifying than the plateau of achieving it, as presented in a hustler’s opus like ‘Whiplash,” which specifically eschews applause after a drum solo that just may have been perfection.