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City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 4, 2020
A labor of love

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, livestream, drive-in, Wyatt Waddell, Vic Mensa, Artists Run Chicago 2.0, Hyde Park Art Center, Guy Fieri, Labor Day, Ben Sachs, Sammy Hagar, birthday, Promontory, cheese

Film, Movie Feature Dec 21, 2018
Ben Sachs picks the top ten—well, 13—movies of 2018

A mix of the new, the old, and new work by the old
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Best movies of 2018, Ben Sachs, L’Enfant Secret, Philippe Garrel, Zama, Lucrecia Martel, Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke, Bitter Money, Wang Bing, 24 Frames, Abbas Kiarostami, The Arboretum Cycle, Nathaniel Dorsky, Good Manners, Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra, Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Commuter, Jaume Collet-Serra, The Hate U Give, The Third Murder, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Rainbow: A Private Affair, Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2018
The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week

Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, William A. Wellman, Oscar, Wings, James Cagney, gangster, The Public Enemy, FilmStruck, Pre-Code, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Dave KehrNight Nurse, Warners, Manny Farber, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Safe in Hell, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Reece Pendleton, Heroes for Sale, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Sachs, Wild Boys of the Road, Frankie Darro

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Music, On Video, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, underground, Half-Cocked, Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, Horns and Halos, Freakwater, Sleepyhead, Grifters, J.R. Jones, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, D.W. Harper, Charles Whitman, Stephen Grant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Straightman, Ben Berkowitz, Benjamin Redgrave, John Cassavetes, Shadows, The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, Columbia Record and Tape Club, 60 Minutes, Migrating Forms, James Fotopoulos, Fred Camper, Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Robert Dickerson, Smoke, AIDS, Patti Smith, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Putty Hill, Hamilton, Matthew Porterfield, David Gordon Green, George Washington, Your Highness, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Ronald Bronstein, Frownland, Carlen Altman, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Jake Williams, This Is My Land, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2018
Five literary biopics whose pictures are worth a thousand words

Five literary biopics whose visual style lives up to the words.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Poetry, Biopic, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haifaa al-Mansou, Mary Shelley, Chicago Film Society, Charles Vidor, Hans Christian Andersen, The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Paradjanov, Armenia, Sayat Nova, Sergei Yutkevich, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Karl May, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Germany, Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King, Our Hitler: A Film From Germany, Richard Wagner Third Reich Dave Kehr, An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion, Sweetie, New Zealand, Janet Frame, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Kerry Fox, Laura Jones, High Tide, Stuart Dryburgh, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Richard Lester, Amour Fou, Heinrich von Kleist, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Henriette Vogel, Eric Rohmer, The Marquise of O, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2015
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Reeling roundup, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, 4th Man Out, Brokeback Mountain, I Am Love, Ben Sachs, The Second Mother, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Black Mass, Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger, Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers, Hippocrates Diary of a French Doctor, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Bobby Fischer, Tobey Maguire, Boris Spassky, Liev Schreiber, Sleeping With Other People, Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Time Out of Mind, Richard Gere, The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, Jason Blum, Paranormal Activity, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Josef von Sternberg, The Docks of New York, Robert Altman Nashville, Mario Monicelli, The Organizer, The Passionate Thief, Andrew Niccol, Gattaca, Shannon Hackett, Field Museum, Kevin Feldheim, Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, Slate Culturefest Live!, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Queen of Earth, Ben Sachs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Alex Gibney, Danny Boyle, Michael Fassbender, I Touched All Your Stuff, Meru, Rosenwald, Stray Dog, Debra Granik, 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington (RSO (Registered Sex Offender), A Walk in the Woods, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, John Waters, Female Trouble, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Fred Camper, John Boorman, Zardoz, Sherlock Holmes, William Gilette, Essanay Studio, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2015
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My way or the Hemingway, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Criterion Collection, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Killers, Robert, Andrei Tarkovsky, Don Siegel, Ben Sachs, Samba, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, The Intouchables, All of Me, 54: The Director's Cut, Studio 54, Steve Rubell, Mike Myers, It's Trad, Dad!, Richard Lester, Beatles, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, Tom Cruise, Number One Fan, Music Box Chicago, Chicago French Film Festival, Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson, You the Living, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Vacation movie, Vacation Ed Helms, Harold Ramis, National Lampoon's Vacation, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Maysles brothers, Grey Gardens, Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, The Lost World, Willis O'Brien, King Kong, Pickwick Park Ridge, Silent Summer Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2015
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Batkid Begins (and ends), plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screeenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Batkid Begins, Ben Sachs, Minions, Despicable Me, The Ardor movie, Gael Garcia Bernal, Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey, Five Day Lover, Mr. Holmes, Tangerine, Bugs Bunny and Friends, Warner Brothers cartoons, Music Box Chicago, Dudley Digges, The Emperor Jones, Paul Robeson, University of Chicago Doc Films, Cameron Crowe, Say Anything . . ., Landmark's Century Centre, Michael Powell, Tales of Hoffman, Gene Siskel Film Center, Orson Welles, The Trial Orson Welles, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Northwestern University Norris Center, Steve Polta, Nightingale Cinema, Revere Park Chicago, Joe Garden, The Onion, The Wonderful World of Boning, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2015
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Deaf kids tear it up in The Tribe, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, The Tribe, Music Box Chicago, Gwynedd Stuart, The Gallows, Insidious, Paranormal Activity, Amy Winehouse, Batkid Begins, Cartel Land, From Caligari to Hitler, Jimmy's Hall, Ken Loach, James Gralton, A Murder in the Park, Medill Innocence Project, Northwestern University, Self/less, Ben Kingsley, Ryan Reynolds, Strangerland, Nicole Kidman, Robert Altman, Brewster McCloud, Chicago Filmmakers, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer, Gulliver's Travels, Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Auditorium, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Dennis Scott, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2015
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Suicide is painless in Amour Fou, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, The Lives of Robert Ryan, The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Set-Up, J.R. Jones, Music Box Chicago, Matthew Hoffman, Park Ridge Classic Film, Lisa Ryan, Ben Sachs, Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Heinrich von Kleist, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Chambermaid, Felix and Meira, Love at First Fight, Mamele, Molly Picon, Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper, Yves Saint Laurent, San Andreas, Saving Mes Aynak, Sunshine Superman, Carl Boenish, When Marnie Was There, Studio Ghibli, Frederick Wiseman, Domestic Violence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Music Box, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, African Metropolis: Six Stories From Six African Cities, Chatham 14, Hippies Doing Things Nude and Other Treasures From the Back Room, Comfort Station, Joanna Arnow, Nightingale Cinema Chicago, Joe Mantegna, Jon McDaniel, Bela Gandhi, Sideways movie, City Winery, Stop Making Nonsense: Japanese Surrealist Films 1960-1964, Co-Prosperity Sphere, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2015
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Mad Max is back, plus the rest of our new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Ben Sachs, The Thoughts That Once We Had, Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Animals movie, Good Kill, Ethan Hawke, I'll See You in My Dreams, Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, The Lesson movie, On the Way to School, Slow West, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Tomorrowland, George Clooney, Douglas Sirk, Magnificent Obsession, Music Box Chicago, Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Othello, Frederick Wiseman, Public Housing, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jay Levey, Weird Al Yankovic, UHF, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chris Sullivan, Consuming Spirits, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2015
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Far From the Madding Crowd, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Far From the Madding Crowd, Carey Mulligan, Ben Sachs, The D Train, Jack Black, James Marsden, Queen and Country, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Boorman, Point Blank, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, M*A*S*H, Stripes, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi Separation, Aspen Frederick Wiseman, Black Souls, Heaven Adores You, Elliott Smith, Christina Noble documentary, Roar movie, Tippi Hedren, Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig, Music Box Chicago, Shira Piven, Joan Cusack, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, University of Chicago Doc Films, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, Hope and Glory, Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, Alexander Korda, That Hamilton Woman, Frank Tashlin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, CineYouth Festival, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Dyke Delicious May Shorts, Chicago Filmmakers, For Educational Purposes Only, Washington Park Arts Incubator, Sing-A-Long Mamma Mia, Sonic Celluloid, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ruined Heart, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2015
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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Dominigue Strauss-Kahn, The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, Tommy Tedesco, Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll, Dior and I, Little Boy, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe, White Cop, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Gene Graham, The Godfather of Disco, Black Cinema House, David O. Selznick, Gone With the Wind, Lon Chaney, Laugh Clown Laugh, Patio Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, Ivan Dixon, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Gallery 400, Circles and Ciphers, Jean Renior, The Woman on the Beach, Robert Ryan, Nightingale Cinema, Facets Cinematheque, Oracle Theatre, Cinemetrics Across Borders, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Creative Music Summit, Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kirby Dick, The Hunting Ground, Kartemquin Members' Work for Hire, Kartemquin Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2015
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The year's best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Cronenberg, Maps to the Stars, White God, European Union Film Festival, Asian American Showcase, Man From Reno, Dave Boyle, Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings, Ben Sachs, Charlie Minn, Es El Chapo?, Human Capital, Law & Order, Frederick Wiseman, Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing the Road Is All, Chicago: City on the Make, The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Sebastiao Salgados, Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren, Gustav Klimt, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, Kartemquin Films, Almost There, Daniel Sousa, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2015
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Peacenicks invade the Chicago Cultural Center, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Jerome McDonnell Worldview, Ben Sachs, In a Foreign Land, Iciar Bollain, Take My Eyes, It Follows, John Carpenter, Danny Collins, Al Pacino, John Lennon, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Gunman, Sean Penn, An Honest Liar, James Randi, Horse Money, Pedro Costas, Colossal Youth, The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War, Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Bernstein, Spring movie, Tip Top, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras, Gene Siskel Film Center, Lisa Cholodenko, High Art, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Music Box Chicago, The Divine Feminine, Black Cinema House, Festival du Film Francophone, Alliance Francais, Gameboarding: Rise of the Indies, Lincoln Hall Chicago, Indie Horror Film Festival, Carl Schurz Slocum Hall, Jennifer Reeder, Nightingale Chicago, Juggernaut Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Nick Broomfield, Kurt & Courtney, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2015
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Taste the blood of Jemaine Clement, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, What We Do in the Shadows, Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Eagle vs Shark, Shaun of the Dead, Music Box Chicago, Ben Sachs, Wild Tales, Actress movie, Ballet 422, New York City Ballet, Bluebird movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Amy Morton, Focus Will Smith, Focus movie, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, The Lazarus Effect, Poison Pen, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Tales movie, What's the Time in Your World?, Leila Hatami, A Separation, Jean-Luc Godard, Every Man for Himself, Hail Mary, Gene Siskel Film Center, Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man, Marx Brothers, Horse Feathers, Annoyance Film Night, Annoyance Theatre, An Evening With Ernie Gehr, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
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Jennifer Aniston takes the Cake, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jennifer Aniston, Cake movie, Cake Jennifer Aniston, River East 21, Ben Sachs, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Drew Hunt, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action, Mommy Xavier Dolan, Amira & Sam, Freaks and Geeks, Martin Starr, Black or White, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Black Sea, Jude Law, The Bubble, Emptying the Skies, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Giuseppe Andrews, Independence Day, Still Life, Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky, Jean-Luc Godard, Les Carabiniers, Masculine Feminine, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Wim Wenders, Pina movie, Maya Deren, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious movie, Jacques Rivette, The Nun, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Remembering Harold Washington, The Day After Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2015
Tonight at Columbia: A rare chance to see work by one of America's most undersung filmmakers

Two films by independent filmmaker and former Reader writer Dan Sallitt screen tonight.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Film, Dan Sallitt, Eric Rohmer, Ben Sachs, the Unspeakable Act, All the Ships at Sea, Honeymoon, Ray Pride, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Columbia College's Film Row Cinema, Cinema Guild, Noah Baumbach, My Night at Maud's

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2015
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Jean-Luc Godard goes 3-D, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language, Ben Sachs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Logan Center for the Arts, American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, Chris Kyle, Two Days One Night, Luc Dardennes, Jean-Pierre Dardennes, Blackhat movie, Michael Mann, Heat movie, Collateral movie, The Insider movie, The Decent One, Heinrich Himmler, A Fuller Life, Samuel Fuller, If You Don't I Will, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, A Most Violent Year, J.C. Chandor, Margin Call, All Is Lost, Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis, Still Alice, Julianne Moore, Golden Globe Awards, Taken 3, Liam Neeson, Federico Fellini, Il Bidone, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Music Box, Contempt movie, House of Wax, A Man Escaped, Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt, Vivre sa Vie, Dusan Makavejev, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Force Majeure, Gone Girl, The Overnighters, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Year in Review, Film, Ben Sachs, Drew Hunt, Bridesmaids, Alan Partridge, Bad Words, Dumb and Dumber To, Top Five, Big Eyes, Tim Burton, Margaret Keane, The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Meryl Streep, Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh, J.M.W. Turner, Pelican Dreams, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Strange Little Cat, Unbroken Angelina Jolie, Louis Zamperini, The Way He Looks, Zero Motivation, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975), A Clockwork Orang, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Shining, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
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Polish Film Festival in America, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida movie, Ben Sachs, James Grey, The Immigrant movie, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Chrisopher Nolan Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey Interstellar, Camp X-Ray, Kristen Stewart, Twilight movie, Peyman Moaadi, A Separation, Low Down, John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Big Hero 6, Marvel Comics, Bird People, Laggies, Lynn Shelton, Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, 1000 Times Good Night, Juliette Binoche, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Watchers of the Sky, Chicago Eight (Seven) on Film, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Francois Truffaut, Jules and Jim, Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, E.A. Dupont, Picadilly movie, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Christine Carter, Busy Beaver Button Company, Chicago Film Archives, Mark Quigley, Jeff Martin, Alexander Stewart, Lilli Carre, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2014
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Everyone else is wrong, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Ben Sachs, Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal, CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Hellaware, J'Accuse, Abel Gance, E-Team, Human Rights Watch, Harmontown, Community Dan Harmon, Horns Daniel Radcliffe, The X-Ray of Civilization, Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner, Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chicago Symphony Center, Cameron Carpenter, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box Chicago, Albert Brooks, s Modern Romance, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor, WIP Theater Chicago, Lee Kepraios, Mostra V: Brazilian Film Series, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, First Nations Film and Video Festival, Mitchell Museum, LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2014
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The inmates take over the asylum, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Stonehearst Asylum, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis, Anda Korsts, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Michael Keaton, The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric, Creative Writing, Dear White People, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Levitated Mass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jason Schwartzman, Music Box Chicago, Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, Empire of Passion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter Halloween, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, University of Chicago Doc Films, Avi Nesher Secrets, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm, South Side Projections, Robert Downey Sr., Putney Swope, Black Cinema House, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Wyatt Cenac, Lav Diaz, Norte the End of History, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2014
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Men behind bars, obsolete stars, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Mackenzie, Young Adam, Asylum David Mackenzie, Mister Foe, Hallam Foe, Spread David Mackenzie, Spread Ashton Kutcher, Tonight You're Mine, Ben Sachs, Starred Up, Facets Cinematheque, J.R. Jones, The Congress, Robin Wright, Rich Hill, Norte the End of History, As Above/So Below, A Five Star Life, The Identical, The Last of Robin Hood, Kevin Kline, Errol Flynn, Dakota Fanning, Life After Beth, Aubrey Plaza, Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel, Music Box Chicago, Preston Sturges, Christmas in July, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Agnieszka Holland Interrogation, Chicago Cultural Center, Jean-Pierre Dardennes Luc Dardennes, Dardennes brothers, The Kid With a Bike, Transistor Chicago, movies, Video

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