CHICAGO – YIPPIE! It’s back, in the neighborhood of its roots. YippieFest 2023 will be August 4th-6th in the Lakeview/Buena Park venue of PRIDE ARTS, 4139 North Broadway in Chicago. The space is less than a half mile from the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre, whose “Abbie Hoffman Festival” was the template for the three-day performance celebration. YippieFest currently has slots for theater acts, including one-act plays, monologue, sketch, improv, vaudeville and other stage performance arts. Artists get free admission to the rest of the festival, so click YiPPIE FEST 2023 to sign up.
The Theory of Everything
Podtalk: Director Tom Harper Flies High with ‘The Aeronauts’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 6, 2019 - 1:12pmCHICAGO – When we last saw Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones together, they were portraying husband and wife in the Stephen Hawking bio “The Theory of Everything.” Now they are 19th Century high-flying hot air balloonists in “The Aeronauts,” opening December 6th, 2019, and directed by Tom Harper.
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com’s 2015 Oscar Predictions
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 21, 2015 - 4:58amCHICAGO – Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Say it three times to win it, and you’ll win every Academy Award pool you enter – at least for the nine categories covered here – if you follow the advice of the HollywoodChicago.com “experts.” We have the Oscar magic, so if you believe in it, then we deliver.
Film News: ‘Life Itself’ Snub Mars 2015 Oscar Nominations
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 15, 2015 - 7:02pm- Academy Awards
- American Sniper
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- Film News
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Life Itself
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Nominations
- Oscars
- Patrick McDonald
- Roger Ebert
- Snub
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Gam. Selma
- The Theory of Everything
- Whiplash. Best Picture
CHICAGO – In an unprecedented oversight, especially for the film community in Chicago, film critic Roger Ebert’s biography “Life Itself” was snubbed for Best Documentary as the nominations were announced on Jan. 15, 2015 for the 87th Academy Awards. The films “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” tied for most Oscar nominations with nine.
Film Review: Heartfelt Tale of Human Needs in ‘The Theory of Everything’
Submitted by NickHC on November 14, 2014 - 6:36pmCHICAGO – The life story of iconic physicist Stephen Hawking is given a well-deserved cinematic treatment this weekend with “The Theory of Everything,” an earnest presentation of an existence that defies the usual.
Interview: Eddie Redmayne Explains ‘The Theory of Everything’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 13, 2014 - 12:33pmCHICAGO – Portraying Stephen Hawking, as Eddie Redmayne did in “The Theory of Everything,” required an intense physicality and emotionalism that was projected from different angles, much more challenging than a usual biographical role. In this instance, Redmayne projects the feeling of Hawking’s time and space.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘The Theory of Everything’ With Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on November 6, 2014 - 2:14pm- A Brief History of Time
- Adam Fendelman
- Anthony McCarten
- David Thewlis
- Eddie Redmayne
- Emily Watson
- Felicity Jones
- Focus Features
- Guy Oliver-Watts
- Harry Lloyd
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film
- James Marsh
- Jane Hawking
- Simon McBurney
- Stephen Hawking
- The Theory of Everything
- Tom Prior
- Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new biography/romantic drama “The Theory of Everything” starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking!
