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Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2018
David Lean, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, has more to offer than just Lawrence of Arabia

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, David Lean, FilmStruck, Charles Dickens, Madeleine, Madeleine Smith, Ann Todd, J.R. Jones, The Sound Barrier, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Nigel Patrick, Prometheus, Terence Rattigan, Hobson's Choice, Charles Laughton, Captain Bligh, Brenda de Banzie, John Mills, Dave Kehr, Summertime, Katharine Hepburn, Venice, Rossano Brazzi, The Bridge on the River Kwai, World War II, POWs, Burma, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins

Film, Movie Feature Apr 5, 2018
Minority actors catch a break at the Asian American Showcase

Six new features, and one silent relic, screen at this year’s festival.
- By Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Feature, Film, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fish Bones, Joony Kim, Joanne Mony Park, Harold Pinter Betrayal, Aram Collier, Stand Up Man, Sessue Hayakawa, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Cecil B. DeMille, The Cheat, The Dragon P

Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
This Week on Filmstruck: Films about Hard Times

Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Television, Small Screen, Filmstruck, Greed, Erich von Stroheim, MGM, Frank Norris, McTeague, Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Death Valley, Citizen Kane, Jean Renoir, Jean Hersholt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Oliver Twist, Alec Guinness, Fagin, David Lean, Charles Dickens, Oliver!, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Artful Dodger, Don Druker, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Cannes, Francois Truffaut, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Pixote, Hector Babenco, Marilia Pera, Jorge Juliano, Dave Kehr, A Time for Drunken Horses, Bahman Ghobadi Camera d'Or, Djomeh, Alissa Simon

Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2017
James Gray talks about The Lost City of Z, re-creating history, and online writing trends that piss him off

The director of Two Lovers and The Immigrant discusses his latest film and his creative process.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, History, Visual Art, James Gray, The Lost City of Z, Two Lovers, The Immigrant, We Own the Night, Percy Fawcett, Henri Rousseau, Claude Lorrain, historical epic, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Senso, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, David Lean, Charlie Hunnam, Darius Khondji

Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2016
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European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, European Union Film Festival, Joost van Ginkel, The Paradise Suite, Bill Stamets, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, London Has Fallen, The Wave, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Vincente Minnelli, The Band Wagon, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Robert Wise, West Side Story, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Peace on Earth Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2014
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Not coming to a theater near you, 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, Gambit movie, Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Blood Ties, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Redbox, As It Is in Heaven, Colette movie, Arnost Lustig, The Girl From Antwerp, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, A Run for Your Money, Begin Again, John Carney, Once movie, Life Itself, Steve James, Roger Ebert, The New Rijksmuseum, Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho, The Host movie, Tammy, Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Catherine Breillat, Fat Girl, Chicago Cultural Center, Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night, Music Box Chicago, Robert Hamer, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Gene Siskel Film Center, George Roy Hill, Slaughterhouse-Five, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Son of 70mm Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2014
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Oscar shorts out the wazoo, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Landmark's Century Centre, Academy Awards, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Cation, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentary, Music Box, Hirokazu Kore-edu, Like Father Like Son, Ben Sachs, Chicago International Film Festival, Fire in the Blood, I Am Breathing, I Frankenstein, Aaron Eckhart, Jobriath A.D., Labor Day, Jason Reitman, Up in the Air, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Wong Kar-wai, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Gene Siskel Film Center, Terry Gilliam Brazil, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Northbrook Public Library, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Native Land, Block Museum of Art, John Cassavetes Shadows, George Cukor, Sylvia Scarlett, Jia Zhang-ke, A Touch of Sin, Crispin Glover, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine, White Light Cinema, Harun Farocki, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Has the Film Already Started?, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jan 1, 2014
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Back to school for Frederick Wiseman

In the epic At Berkeley, the director turns his lens on higher education in the age of George W. Bush.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Frederick Wiseman, At Berkeley, Domestic Violence, Belfast Maine, Ballet, Boxing Gym, Welfare, Public Housing, Manoeuvre, Missile, State Legislature, The Store, Hospital, Near Death, Robert Bresson, David Lean, High School, Law and Order, Near Death, University of California, Berkeley, Athens, Our Town, Thornton Wilder, Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy, Daniel Kasman, Free Speech Cafe, Republican Party, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2013
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The wolf, the leopard, the turkey, 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, The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese, Blast of Silence, Allen Baron, Cold Turkey, Peter Bogdanovich, Grudge Match, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Her Spike Jonze, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Idris Elba, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Affleck, James Thurber, Stranger Things, Ray Harryhausen, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Music Box Chicago, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Abel Ferrara, Ms. 45, Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, John Sturges, The Great Escape, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Akira Kurosawa, The Seven Samurai, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2013
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Almodovar takes flight, 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, Pedro Almodovar, I'm So Excited, Drew Hunt, Julian Roman Polsler, The Wall movie, A Hijacking movie, Despicable Me 2, The Hellbenders, Sergio Corbucci, Django, Navajo Joe, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, The Way Way Back, Steve Carell, Toni Colette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwestern Chicago Film Society, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard Visconti, Kenji Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan Theater Chicago, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2013
Lawrence of Arabia versus Tess: Looking up and looking around

Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Roman Polanski, Tess, DCP restoration, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, skyscrapers, Panavision, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Dec 30, 2012
Reader's Agenda Sun 12/30: Neurosis, a servants' tour, and Lawrence of Arabia

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 30, 2012
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Agenda, Neurosis, Atlast Moth, Bloodiest, Driehaus Museum, Help Wanted: The Holiday Servants' Tour, Music Box Theatre, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise film, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2012
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The best, the worst, 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, John Magaro, Not Fade Away, The Big Picture Eric Lartigau, The Guilt Trip, Seth Rogen, Barbara Streisand, Not Fade Away, Rolling Stones, The Sopranos, David Chase, Parental Guidance, Billy Crytal, Bette Midler, Promised Land, Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Dave Eggers, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man, Pim de la Parra, One People, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Anthony Mann, Winchester '73, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2010
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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, Sesame Street, Muppets, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Henson, Fran Brill, Chicago Reader, Unstoppable movie, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Polish Film Festival in America, Reeling The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cool It, Bjorn Lomborg, Four Lions, London marathon, The Freebie, Dax Shephard and Katie Aselton, Garbo the Spy, Juan Pujol In My Sleep movie, Left Bank movie, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams, 127 Hours, Danny Boyle, Rabia, Reenactments, Room in Rome, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Alliance Francais, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Music Box, King Vidor, The Fountainhead, Northwestern University Block Films, Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Peeping Tom, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr, Wilmette theater, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2010
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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, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cyrus John C. Reilly, Cyrus Marisa Tomei, Cyrus Jonah hill, Cyrus Deplass brothers, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Baghead, The Puffy Chair, I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, Jim Thompson, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Sweetgrass, Grown Ups Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jonah Hex, DC Comics series, Knight and Day, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, Shane Meadows, This Is England, Somers Town, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Jean-Luc Godard Breathless, Music Box, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Northbrook Public Library, Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo, DuSable Museum of African American History, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Howard Hughes The Outlaw, Bank of America Cinema, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2010
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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, Jack Rebney, Winnebago Industries, Ben Steinbauer, Winnebago Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ed M. Koziarski, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Cajun culture, Louisiana bayou, BP oil spill, Accomplices Frederic Mermoud, Daddy Longlegs, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Ondine, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, The A-Team, Iron Man 2, The Karate Kid, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Mort Sahl, Killers Ashton Kutchner, Killers Katherine Heigl, OSS 117 Lost in Rio, Music Box Films, Solitary Man, Michael Douglas, La Signora di Tutti, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Hotti Biscotti, First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells, Ray Harryhausen, Busby Berkeley, For Me and My Gal, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bank of America Cinema, David Lean, In Which We Serve, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Allan Arkush, Rock 'n' Roll High School, P.J. Soles, Ramones, Empty Bottle, Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Baghdad, Douglas Fairbanks, movies., Video

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FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.

Six new features, and one silent relic, screen at this year’s festival.

Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.

The director of Two Lovers and The Immigrant discusses his latest film and his creative process.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In the epic At Berkeley, the director turns his lens on higher education in the age of George W. Bush.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 30, 2012

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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