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David Elliott's Final Column

So long and thanks for all the fish. How about writing a book? Or starting a blog? Or creating a podcast? Facebook site? You are half way there with a loyal fan base...throw off the yoke of corporate bean counters and go straight to your public. You invented movie criticism when most newspapers only served up warmed-over PR releases. Reinvent yourself in the digital world. "O brave new world," [....]. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."
— June 15, 2012 3:51 p.m.

Movie Review: J. Edgar, Melancholia

Can we please stop tip toeing around this monument to hypocrisy? Looks like Eastwood can't quite pull the trigger on this icon of the edgy right...and that's a real shame. REMOVE HIS NAME FROM THE FBI BUILDING!!!
— November 11, 2011 5:13 p.m.

So Long, Harry Potter

A farewell The Clark Theater at Clark and Madison in the Loop operated as a repertory house, open 22 hours a day, until time and the neighborhood and dwindling box office caught up with it. The building itself was demolished in 1974. Filmgoers' memories are long, however, and many Chicago-area cinephiles recall the monthly Clark Theater schedule ("Hark! Hark! To the sound of the Clark!") promising double bills of every stripe, from classic Hollywood to Poverty Row programmers, foreign titles and marginal work of historical interest. The Clark drew the homeless, the drunks, the college students, the cinephiles, the nostalgists, the urban, the suburban, the curious and, as years went on and the Loop's reputation went south before coming back up north again, the brave. It had a place in this city's history, and does still. Bruce S. Trinz served as the Clark's operating manager. He was born in Chicago in 1917 and died July 7 in Philadelphia. He came from a family of motion picture business mavens, predating Balaban & Katz. Trinz is survived by a daughter, Bundy Trinz. He leaves behind an unfinished book chronicling the Clark, his life as a programmer and his longtime love of the movies. Rest in peace.
— July 18, 2011 7:43 a.m.