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Film, Movie Feature Mar 7, 2018
More than 60 new features premiere locally at the European Union Film Festival

New films by Arnaud Desplechin, Kornél Mundruczó, MIchel Hazanavicius, and Wim Wenders light up the festival's 21st edition.
- Tags: Movie Feature, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Casting movie, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Nicolas Wackerbarth, Chantal Akerman, Les Années 80, The Citizen movie, Marcelo Cake-Baly, Roland Vranik, The De

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2017
Unforgettable revives a worthy subgenre but adds nothing to it

It's also, alas, the only female-directed movie playing at most multiplexes right now.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Women's Issues, Unforgettable, Denise Di Novi, Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, Cheryl Ladd, Crime of Passion, Barbara Stanwyck, woman's film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chantal Akerman, Block Cinema, Doc Films, Lois Weber, Gene Siskel Film Center

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2016
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An ad man experiments with virtual reality, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Creative Control, The Automatic Hate, The Bronze, Melissa Rauch, The Big Bang Theory, The Cool World, Shirley Clarke, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Eye in the Sky, Hello My Name Is Doris, Sally Field, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, No Home Movie, Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Terence Davies, The Deep Blue Sea, One Floor Below, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Show us your Ibsen, 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, J.R. Jones, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, A Master Builder, Wallace Shawn, Henrik Ibsen, Andre Gregory, Philadelphia movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Lisa Joyce, DePaul University, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, One Day Pina Asked, Pina Bausch, Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Calvary movie, Calvary Brendan Gleeson, Unsound Darius Britt, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alive Inside, The 4th Meeting, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Helen Mirren, Into the Storm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Violette Emmanuelle Devos, Violette Leduc, What If, Zoe Kazan, Daniel Radcliffe, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Millennium Park, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Tivoli Downers Grove, After Hours Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail, John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, Logan Theater Chicago, Rouben Mamoulian, Silk Stockings, Music Box, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Scott, Hoot Gibson, King of the Rodeo, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Hideout Chicago, Jessica Hopper, Chicago Film Archives, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Aug 6, 2014
Recommended
Chicago Filmmakers revives Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked . . .

Choreographer Pina Bausch is profiled in the 1983 TV documentary.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Chantal Akerman, One Day Pine Asked. . ., Pina Bausch, German dance, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Toute une Nuit, The Golden Eighties, Window Shopping, Les Années 80, Chicago Filmmakers, documentary, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Marathon Films

The top five films with "marathon" running times
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Variations on a Theme, La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Fanny and Alexander, The Decalogue, Berlin Alexanderplatz, La Commune (Paris 1871), Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, Privilege, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2012
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Marcin Wrona, The Christening, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Andre Techine, Unforgivable movie, Footnote movie, I Am Secretly an Important Man, Jesse Bernstein, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Ed Helms, Jason Siegel, Kill List, Seeking Justice, Nicolas Cage, Roger Donaldson, The Snowtown Murders, 21 Jump Street, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Music Box, Lucrecia Martel, The Holy Girl, Daniel Eisenberg, Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Music Box, The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterrey, Columbia College, Dan Dinello, Kristen Day, Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2009
Video
Spend this lovely day in a darkened room

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Siskel Film Center, Otto Preminger, Music Box, J.R. Jones, Howard Hawks, Fred Camper, Chicago filmmakers, Andrea Gronvall, Steve McQueen, Hunger, Ed M. Koziarski, Cliff Doerksen, American Violet, Tim Disney, Chicago Latino Film Festival, A Forgotten Injustice, Vicente Serrano, 33 Days, Live From Bethlehem, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 17 Again, State of Play, Robert Todd, Chantal Akerman, Only Angels Have Wings, Jeannette Dielman, 12 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, Schopf & Weiss LLP, litigation, Video

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More than 60 new features premiere locally at the European Union Film Festival

New films by Arnaud Desplechin, Kornél Mundruczó, MIchel Hazanavicius, and Wim Wenders light up the festival's 21st edition.

Unforgettable revives a worthy subgenre but adds nothing to it

It's also, alas, the only female-directed movie playing at most multiplexes right now.

Video
An ad man experiments with virtual reality, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Chicago Filmmakers revives Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked . . .

Choreographer Pina Bausch is profiled in the 1983 TV documentary.

The Weekly Top Five: Marathon Films

The top five films with "marathon" running times

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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."

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New films by Arnaud Desplechin, Kornél Mundruczó, MIchel Hazanavicius, and Wim Wenders light up the festival's 21st edition.

It's also, alas, the only female-directed movie playing at most multiplexes right now.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Choreographer Pina Bausch is profiled in the 1983 TV documentary.

The top five films with "marathon" running times

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."

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