Henry Johnson
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About Last Night
Based upon "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" by
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Redbelt
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Spartan
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Heist
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Lakeboat
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Hannibal
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State and Main
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The Winslow Boy
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The Spanish Prisoner
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Wag the Dog
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The Edge
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American Buffalo
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Oleanna
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Hoffa
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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We’re No Angels
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Things Change
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House of Games
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Blog Posts That Mention David Mamet
Features
Courtney Grace, “Disclosure Day,” and the One-Scene Wonder
Tributes
Something Lasting and Unforgettable: Robert Duvall (1931-2026)
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2025: Stellan Skarsgård on “Sentimental Value,” Ingmar Bergman, and Cinematic Empathy
Tributes
The Most Unsung Leading Man of His Generation: Val Kilmer (1959-2025)
Interviews
Sex, Love and Pickles: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert and Susan Sandler on “Crossing Delancey”
Features
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
Features
The Brat Pack Movies, Ranked
Tributes
A Chicago Legend: Mike Nussbaum (1923-2023)
Interviews
Chicago Style: Andrew Davis on the Making of The Fugitive, Stony Island, and More
Interviews
Every Character Has All These Layers: Graham Moore on The Outfit
Tributes
Uncanny Talent: Clarence Williams III, 1939-2021
MZS
Bonded and Unbound: Sean Connery, 1930-2020
MZS
Touring Masterworks: Adam Nayman Discusses His New Book on Paul Thomas Anderson
Features
Stuart Gordon: 1947-2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 30, 2019
TV/Streaming
The Monster of Florence: Ridley Scott’s Hannibal on 4K Blu-ray
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 14, 2019
Interviews
John McNaughton on 1993’s Mad Dog & Glory, Directing Robert De Niro, the Loss of Luke Perry and More
Chaz's Journal
A Look Back at Those We Lost in 2018
Features
Ricky Jay: 1946-2018
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2018: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Climax, In Fabric, Freaks
TV/Streaming
Showtime’s Billions Maintains Creative, Clever Energy
MZS
A difficult friend: Ed Copeland, AKA Scott Schuldt, 1969-2015
MZS
8 things about Albert Maysles
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2015: “The D Train,” “Don Verdean,” “The Overnight,” “Partisan,” “Sleeping with Other People,” “Unexpected”
MZS
Stay, little Valentine: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014
Features
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967–2014
Features
Thumbnails 9/17
Features
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Features
David Mamet’s “Lost Masterpieces of Porn,” with your host, Ricky Jay
Scanners
Mamet’s Spector of reasonable doubt
Roger Ebert
Mamet completes his trilogy
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1998
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1992
Roger Ebert
Questions of morality
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1991
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1987
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1988
Scanners
Are You An Extra In Your Own Life?
Scanners
High rollers and lowlifes
Scanners
My scene with Kristofferson
Scanners
Mourning (and assessing) Bergman
Scanners
Glengarry Bear Stearns
Scanners
Directed by David Mamet
Scanners
David Mamet says he’s not a brain-dead liberal anymore
Far Flungers
The Boulevard of Broken Manhood
Roger Ebert
Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?”
Roger Ebert
A new genre? The Twister
Roger Ebert
Hillary and Bill: The movie
Roger Ebert
The best documentaries of 2011
Roger Ebert
Roger’s little rule book
Festivals & Awards
Overlooked Film Festival, Take 8
Festivals & Awards
Telluride #2: Bio-pics lay Oscar bait
Festivals & Awards
Telluride #1: Premieres & rarities
Festivals & Awards
Film lovers’ treat
Festivals & Awards
Candid Cannes
Festivals & Awards
All’s fair in Toronto
Festivals & Awards
Meatier movies at fall festival
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Film Festival Celebrates 30 Years
Interviews
How did Ricky Jay DO that?
Interviews
Artists pay tribute to Bergman
Interviews
Ingmar Bergman: In Memory
Interviews
Bai Ling: Slice, dice, smile
Interviews
Hoffman shines in Truman show
Interviews
Neil LaBute looks at how people are consumed
Interviews
Mamet’s ‘Prisoner’ is sleight of film
Interviews
Al Pacino, Among Lost of ‘Glengarry’
Interviews
Greed is good and funny in DeVito’s hands
Interviews
Pull up a seat for ‘My Lunch with David’
Interviews
‘Things Change’ for Don Ameche
Interviews
Sean Connery learns “The Chicago Way”
Movie Answer Man
‘Juno’ is bad because the people who made it are too old? Ellen Page too?!
Movie Answer Man
Scorsese does Hitchcock
Movie Answer Man
Sorry, haters, all you need is love
Movie Answer Man
Movie Answer Man (03/10/2002)
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Movie Answer Man (12/30/2001)
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Movie Answer Man (01/13/2002)
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Movie Answer Man (10/07/2001)
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Movie Answer Man (11/04/2001)
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Movie Answer Man (02/25/2001)
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Movie Answer Man (02/07/1999)
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