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Film, Movie Feature Aug 7, 2020
Chicago Film Archives discovers The First Degree

The regional archive brings Edward Sedgwick’s 1923 silent film back to life.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Film Archives, The First Degree, Edward Sedgwick, Library of Congress, Olivia Babler, Nancy Watrous, The Mountain Eagle, London After Midnight, The Cameraman, American Silent Film, William K. Everson

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2017
CFA receives MacArthur Grant to produce International Media Mixer

Chicago Film Archives and Lab 80 film (Bergamo, Italy) will exchange digitized film footage and then commission media artists from their respective countries to create new works from the partner's footage.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Film, Media, Chicago Film Archives, CFA, Lab80, International Media Mixer, Media Mixer, MacArthur Grant, Nancy Watrous, Karianne Fiorini, Margaret Conneely, the Hideout

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2016
Northalsted Halloween Parade, Art Spiegelman, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Ten fun things to do in Chicago on Halloween and the rest of the week.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Food & Drink, Lit & Lectures, Halloween, Northalsted, Parade, Chicago Sinfonietta, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Film Archives, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Medea Benjamin, City Lit, Tuesday Funk, NaNoWriMo, Taste of Clark Street, Phillip Glass, Art Spiegelman, Louder Than a Bomb

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2015
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The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Yona Wallach, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, The Amazing Nina Simone, Experimenter, Peter Sarsgaard, Modern Metropolis: Mid-Century Chicago on Film, Chicago Film Archives, Rock the Kasbah, Bill Murray, Afghan Star, Room movie, Lenny Abrahamson, Frank movie, Charles Barton, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Chris Costello, Wim Wenders, The American Friend, Robert Bresson, L’Argent, Edmund Goulding, Dark Victory, Bette Davis, Don Siegel, Dirty Harry, George Cukor, My Fair Lady, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Dennis Scott, Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist, La Promesse, Paul Verhoeven, Robocop, Eric Rohmer, The Green Ray, Charles Burnett, To Sleep With Anger, Chicago International Film Festival, Andrew Stanton, WALL-E, Abigail Derby Lewis, Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago Rot, The Cockups, Mad Max: Fury Road, Cinema Slapdown, Music Box of Horrors, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2015
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The best Chicago International Film Festival coverage (plus more new reviews and notable screenings)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Chicago International Film Festival, Rebecca Parrish, Radical Grace, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin, Thomas McCarthy, Spotlight, Andrew Haigh, 45 Years, Jacques Audiard, Dheepan, The Animation Show of Shows, Don Herzfeldt, Everything Will Be OK, Beasts of No Nation, Cary Fukunaga, Idris Elba, The Big Broadcast, Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Mills Brothers, George Burns, Gracie Allen; Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Her Sister's Secret, Edgar G. Ulmer, Steve Jobs, Michael Fassbender, Buena Vista Social Club, Carrie movie, The Conversation, Hugo movie, Jezebel Bette Davis, The Last Picture Show, A New Leaf, The Quay Brothers in 35mm, The Seventh Seal, To Sleep With Anger, Wim Wenders, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Chicago home movies, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2015
Memories of growing up in an Uptown hotel in the 1930s and '40s

Diane Glick Berolzheimer recalls a childhood spent in the New Lawrence Hotel.
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, News, New Lawrence Hotel, Diane Glick Berolzheimer, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago Film Archives, Wrigley Field

Film, Movie Feature Dec 3, 2014
The Chicago Film Archives preserves midwest history one reel at a time

With two employees and vault in Pilsen, the CFA has been rescuing celluloid for a decade.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Film Archives, Nancy Watrous, JoAnn Elam, CFA Crashers, Media Mixers, Anne Wells, CFA, David Pasquesi, Theaster Gates, Olivia Block, Tomeka Reid, Black Cinema House, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Lord Thing, Andrew Davis, Stony Island, Medium Cool, Katemquin Films, Haskell Wexler, A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha, JoAnn Elam

Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2014
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Good old Bill, good old Bob, 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, Gene Siskel Film Center, Burroughs: The Movie, Howard Brookner, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Yony Leyser, Robert Altman, Ron Mann, Grass movie, Twist movie, Tales of the Rat Fink, Comic Book Confidential, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Bad Turn Worse, Beyond the Lights, Diplomacy Volker Schlondorff, Dumb and Dumber To, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, The Invisible Front, Our Daily Poison, The Overnighters, Pulp: A Film About Life Death & Supermarkets, Rosewater Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, The Theory of Everything, Stephen Hawking, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Dudley Andrew, Josef von Sternberg Dishonored, Joe Dante Matinee, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Scarlet Empress, Music Box Chicago, Victor Sjostrom, The Wind movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago Food Film Festival, Kendall College, Reel Recovery Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Kinosonik, Black Cinema House, Chicago Film Archives, Experimental Sound Studio, 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 17, 2014
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Ten more CIFF reviews, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger and Me, Michael Moore, The Best of Me, Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, The Book of Life, Expedition to the End of the World, Fury World War II, Brad Pitt, The Green Prince, Keep On Keepin' On, Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Rudderless, Billy Crudup, St. Vincent, Bill Murray, 20, 000 Days on Earth, Nick Cave, Whiplash, The Yank movie, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, Gremlins movie, John Carpenter Halloween, Music Box Chicago, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen, David Bowie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Massacre marathon, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, 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

Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2014
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Presents of the Lords, 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, Lord Thing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Conservative Vice Lords, Lawndale Chicago, Richard J. Daley, Chicago Film Archives, Robert Ford The Corner, Lance Williams, Northeastern Illinois University, Cynthia Kobel, Second Chance Initiative, Benneth Lee, National Alliance for the Empowerment of the Formerly Incarcerated, Ben Sachs, The Fluffy Movie, Gabriel Iglesias, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Chicago, Get On Up, Chadwick Boseman, James Brown, Jayhawkers, Wilt Chamberlain, Kevin Willmott, C.S.A.: Confederate States of America, Melvin & Jean: An American Story, Delta Air Lines, Black Liberation Army, Kevin Smith Clerks, New 400 Chicago, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Poison Friends, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, The Sky's the Limit, Cecil B. DeMille, The Whispering Chorus, Pickwick Park Ridge, Silent Film Society of Chicago, David Lynch, Frank Herbert Dune, Frank Pavich, Jodorowsky's Dune, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 30, 2014
A Chicago street gang tries to go straight in Lord Thing

DeWitt Beall's 1970 documentary recalls the doomed reform of the Conservative Vice Lords.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, gangs, street gangs, documentaries, 1970, Chicago Film Archives, Conservative Vice Lords, Lawndale, Edwin Perry, crime, VLs, Vice Lords, Cobras, social programs, The African Lion, CVLs, Rockefeller Foundation, DeWitt Beall, Bobby Gore, Kenneth Parks, Dartmouth College, Leonard Sengali, Blackstone Rangers, Richard J. Daley, Fred Hampton, Alfonso Alford

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Itinerant Programming

Chicago Film Archives
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Chicago Film Archive, Chicago Film Archives, film, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Black Cinema House, South Shore, Constellation, Avondale, University of Glasgow, EYE Film Institute, CFA, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Streeterville, Avondale, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2014
This Friday Black Cinema House presents its first 'Movies Under Stars' event of the summer

Noting a free outdoor program hosted by the South Shore arts organization
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Black Cinema House, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago Film Archives, Movies Under the Stars, Textured Lives, Gwendolyn Brooks, Fat Albert, Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2014
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This coming week early cinema abounds in Chicago

The 13th international Domitor conference, for scholars and fans of early filmmaking, takes place at U. of C. and Northwestern University from Saturday through Wednesday.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, History, Domitor, University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts, Northwestern University, Block Museum, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Adler Planetarium, early cinema, Chicago Film Archives, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 18, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Anatomy of Habit signs to Relapse

Plus: A mixed-media mixer from the Chicago Film Archives and a history lesson on house at Northwestern
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Anatomy of Habit, Indian, Tortoise, Bloodyminded, Joan of Arc, shoegaze, Relapse Records, Mark Solotroff, Pieter Schoolwerth, The Limits of a Sequence, Chicago Film Archives, Hideout, Latham Zearfoss, Bastardgeist, Darling Shear, Lori Felker, Cheer-Acc, Deborah Stratman, Olivia Block, Arcade Fire, Pitchfork, Dusty Groove, WBEZ, Tony Sarabia, Northwestern's Dittmar Memorial Gallery, The Beat Goes On: The Evolution of House Music in Chicago, Frankie Knuckles, House Music in the Continuum of African American Music Forms

Film, Movie Feature Jun 17, 2014
The Robert Altman film Altman never wanted you to see

Legendary filmmaker Robert Altman wanted Corn's-a-Poppin' to be forgotten. And it was. Until a crew of cinephiles set about restoring the 1955 musical comedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Robert Altman, M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, California Split, Nashville, Kansas City, Missouri, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Rebecca Hall, Julian Antos, Kyle Westphal, Calvin Company, Hobie Shepp, Cowtown Wranglers, Cora Rice, The Player, Short Cuts, Kansas City, Gosford Park, A Prairie Home Companion, Patrick McGilligan, Elmer Rhoden Jr., Commonwealth Theatres, Robert Woodburn, Bob Altman, Jerry Wallace, eBay, Maxine Ducey, Kartemquin Films, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, FotoKem, Mystery Science Theater 3000, University of Chicago, Doc Films, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, George Eastman House, Universal Studios, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Music Box, Patrick Friel

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2014
City to See—and more movies to see—at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Noting three upcoming film programs in January: a shorts collection from Chicago Film Archives, a retrospective of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, and a multimedia performance piece co-coordinated by the Nightingale Cinema
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Visual Art, History, Museum of Contemporary Art, Best of Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Nightingale Cinema, Stress/De-Stress, City to See, Pablo Larraín, No, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, Tom Palazzolo

Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2013
The year in movie revivals, A through G

The first in a three-part series on Chicago's best repertory film screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Repertory film programming, Jacques Becker, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Antoine and Antoinette, Casque d'Or, Altered States, John Corigliano, Ken Russell, Harris Theater, Hitchcock 9, Music Box Theatre, Champagne, The Manxman, Alfred Hitchcock, Coming Out, East German cinema, The Driver, Walter Hill, Bruce Dern, Doc Films, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Terence Davies, Dust in the Wind, L.A. Rebellion, Emma Mae, Jamaa Fanaka, Film Studies Center, Far From Vietnam, Block Cinema, documentary filmmaking, The Flying Ace, race films, Portage Theater, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, silent film, Goldstein, Chicago Film Archives, Patio Theater, Second City

Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, 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, Wild Chicago, WTTW, Ben Hollis, John Davies, Patio Theater Chicago, Comfort Station Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Vanishing Neighborhoods, The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney, Lance Armstrong, The Book Thief, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, R.E.M., Benjamin Smoke, No Time for Love, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Northern Lights, Cannes film festival, Voices of the Gods, Al Santana, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Gene Siskel Film Center, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, University of Chicago Doc Films, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Gus Van Sant, To Die For, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Bagdad, Pickwick Theater Park Ridge, Jay Warren, Jaromil Jires, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Music Box Chicago, Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler, TheGirl With the Dragon Tattoo, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, Showtime, The Untold History of the United States, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
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Urban bombing, third-trimester abortion, the scourge of slavery, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, MOVE, Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, After Tiller, Jacques Becker, Antoine and Antoinette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Escape Plan, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenneger, The Fifth Estate, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John, Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, Phil Morehart, Facets Fright School, Terence Davies Distant Voices Still Lives, David Fincher, Fight Club, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Gene Siskel Film Center, Olivier Assayas, Late August Early September, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Todd Haynes Safe, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Roberto Rossellini, Voyage to Italy, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Nosferatu, Carl Schurz Slocum Hall, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Chicago History Museum, Music Box, Werner Herzog, Music Box of Horrors, Sound Opinions, High Fidelity, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2013
Jazz movies under the open skies

Chicago Film Archives presents a free program of jazz films.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Film, Music, Post No Bills, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Elvin Jones, Chicago Film Archives, Black Cinema House, jazz, Chicago Jazz Festival

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