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Film, Movie Review Jul 30, 2018
Northbrook Public Library: The best Chicago revival house not actually in Chicago

Some of the choicest repertory cinema in the Chicagoland area screens in 35-millimeter at the NPL.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Northbrook Public Library, Hoosiers movie, I Never Sang for My Father, The Beauty Inside, Alfred Hitchcock Rebecca, Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Margo Hill, Steve Gianni, Columbia College Chicago, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Vil

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Architecture, Film, Foreign, On Video, Gene Siskel Film Center, Always at the Carlyle, New York City, hotel Georges Méliès, Wes Andeson, The Shining, The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Universal, Dave Kehr, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, Playtime, The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Miami Beach, Fontainebleau Hotel, Cracking Up, Milton Berle, Walter Winchell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, Memphis, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Robby Müller, Barton Fink, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Hollywood, John Turturro, John Goodman, Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito

Film, Small Screen Jun 1, 2017
Recommended
Twin Peaks: The Return is a bizarre and brilliant retrospective

It’s not so much a TV show as an oblique survey of Mark Frost and David Lynch's careers.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Small Screen, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return, Showtime, Mark Frost, David Lynch, ABC network, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Laura Palmer, Agent Dale Cooper, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Frank Silva, Black Lodge, Michael J. Anderson, Catherine Coulson, Michael Horse, Hill Street Blues, The Patty Duke Show, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Inland Empire, Eraserhead, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
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The Revenant, Seijun Suzuki, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant, Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy, Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Band of Robbers, Mark Twain, The Benefactor, Richard Gere, Mustang movie, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Born to Boogie, Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Head movie, Monkees, George Cukor, Dinner at Eight, David Lynch, The Elephant Man, Robert Flaherty, Moana, Monica Flaherty, Richard Leacock, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice movie, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Experimental Film in Eastern Europe, New Romanian Cinema Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 11, 2015
Ryan Gosling's directorial debut is pretty good when you turn the sound off

Ryan Gosling could learn a lesson from Shaun the Sheep.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, On Video, Ryan Gosling, Lost River, Shaun the Sheep Movie, David Lynch, Benoit Debie, silent cinema

Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2015
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Will the real Brian Wilson please stand up, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Brian Wilson, Paul Dano, John Cusack, Love & Mercy, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Age of Panic, Fair Play, The Farewell Party, Insidious: Chapter 3, Insidious: Chapter 2, Jauja, Viggo Mortensen, Jurassic World, Live From New York!, Saturday Night Live, Madame Bovary, Mia Wasikowska, Gustave Flaubert, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Rendez-vous of Deja Vu, Results movie, Andrew Bujalski, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Landmark's Century Centre, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Music Box Chicago, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Saint John Cantius Church, Those Were the Days Radio Players, The Green Hornet, Jay Warren, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Chicago Filmmakers, Sharon Zurek, Midsommarest Mash-up Madness, film festivals, movies, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 1, 2015
Ebullient bop troupe Sicko Mobb drop their second mixtape

Plus: Savage Sister debuts the side project Eyes Behind the Veil, and East Room hosts a show with a Twin Peaks twist.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Gossip Wolf, Sicko Mobb, Super Saiyan Vol. 1, Super Saiyan Vol. 2, Savage Sister, BLVD Records, Michael Tenzer, Eyes Behind the Veil, Grouper, Frippertronics, My Bloody Valentine, Tylor O'Connor, Twin Peaks, East Room, David Lynch, Twin Hits, Spike & the Sweet Spot, Mike Donner

Music, Music Feature Feb 17, 2015
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Daniel Knox gives our derelicts the beautiful music they deserve

He learned to play piano in hotel lobbies and likes to wander the city alone at night. Now he's made one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the year.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Music Feature, Daniel Knox, Columbia College, downtown pianos, Hilton Towers, Fine Arts Building, Music Box Theatre, David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Inland Empire, Gregory Jacobsen, Carrot Top Records, Patrick Monaghan, Interzone: A Burroughs Birthday Bash, Evryman For Himself, Electrical Audio, Greg Norma, Blue Car, Springfield, The Misfit, Ross Wetzel Framing Company, Brandon Wetherbee, David Coulter, Barbican Centre, The Handsome Family, Brett Sparks, Rufus Wainwright, Watermill Center, John Atwood, Jarvis Cocker, Further Complications, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2014
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Young love, old bones, 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, Dinosaur 13, Sue dinosaur, Field Museum of Natural History, Ben Sachs, Eric Rohmer, A Summer's Tale, Land Ho!, Paul Eenhoorn, This Is Martin Bonner, Aaron Katz, Cold Weather, Martha Stephens, Are You Here, Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, The Forgotten Kingdom, From Above, If I Stay, Chloe Grace Moretz, Moebius, Kim Ki-duk, The One I Love, Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Waltzes From Vienna, Alfred Hitchcock, Johann Strass II, When the Game Stands Tall, Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern, James Cameron, Avatar, Millennium Park, Howard Hawk, The Dawn Patrol, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, David Lynch, Mulholland Drive, Music Box, Mel Brooks, The Producers, Bill Duke, A Rage in Harlem, Gene Siskel Film Center, Under Capricorn, Terror in the Aisles, Night of the Demons, Davis Theater Chicago, Linnea Quigley, Nightingale Chicago, Dearest Chicago Please Love Me Yours Truly Detroit, Basement Media Fest: Lo-Def Lo-Tech Lo-Fi, 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

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2014
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Escape From the Battle for the Conquest of the Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 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, Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rod Serling, Ben Sachs, Sex Tape, Boyhood Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Waking Life, School of Rock, Flamenco Flamenco, Carlos Saura, House of Sweet Magic The Animated Films of Helen Hill, The Promoter, Alec Guinness, Ronald Neame, The Horse's Mouth, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Wish I Was Here, Zach Braff, Garden State, Robert Gardner, Dead Birds, Nightingale Chicago, David Lynch, Eraserhead, University of Chicago Doc Films, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Alexander Mackendrick, The Ladykillers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Music Box Chicago, Son of 70mm Film Festival, Eliza Kazan, On the Waterfront, Northwestern University Norris Center, Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Highlights from the filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Lynch, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Canterbury Tales, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Bunuel, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles, Mamma Roma, Mantegna, Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Mar 6, 2014
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Lafayette Leake

This brilliant pianist cut countless sides with blues giants as a Chess Records session player, but he released little music of his own.
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Lafayette Leake, The Secret History of Chicago Music, blues piano, studio musicians, Winona, Mississippi, blues, Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston, Big Three Trio, Willie Dixon, David Lynch, soundtracks, Chess Records, Chuck Berry, Otis Rush, Junior Wells, session musicians, Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Yambo Records, Val Records, Black and Blue Records, Blue Phoenix Records, Chicago Blues All Stars, Chicago Blues Festival

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 2/9: Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson, Twin Peaks, and Snow Days

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, February 9
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Anne Charlotte Robertson, At Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson, White Light Cinema, Super-8, Twin Peaks, Laura Palmer, David Lynch, Delilah, Navy Pier, Snow Days, Shedd Aquarium, Magellanic penguins

Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of David Lynch

Highlights from the filmography of David Lynch
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, David Lynch, The Grandmother, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2014
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An old-fashioned take on today's armed forces, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between January 10 and 16
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Lone Survivor, Peter Berg, war movies, August: Osage County, Tracy Letts, The Past, Asgar Farhadi, A Separation, Papadopoulos & Sons, Greek Film Fest Chicago, Stranger Than Fiction, Gene Siskel Film Center, A Song for You, Spilled Water, These Birds Walk, The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard, The Arbor, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Filmmakers, Links Hall, Lincoln Hall, Joseph R. Lewis, Extinct Entities Festival, Chester N. Turner, Tales From the Quadead Zone, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch, Doc Films, Katherine Hepburn, Morning Glory, A Bill of Divorcement, Sisters, Brian De Palma, Ingmar Bergman, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Changing Husbands, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Commercials directed by major filmmakers

TV commercials directed by major filmmakers
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Wes Anderson, Prada, Castello Cavalcanti, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Léa Seydoux, Gus Van Sant, Miller Genuine Draft, Edgar Wright, Pizza Hut, Nick Frost, Victoria's Secret, Michael Bay, Parisienne, the Coen brothers, Emir Kusturica, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, David Lynch, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Gap, American Express, Francois Truffaut, Day for Night, Jules et Jim, Fahrenheit 451, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Horror-fest essentials

Criteria and picks for your own scary-movie marathon
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Massacre, Patio Theater, horror movie marathons, The Phantom Carriage, Halloween, Kill Baby. . . Kill!, Dead Alive, Twentynine Palms, Cache, Inland Empire, Shaun of the Dead, Cemetery Man, Kuroneko, Wolf Creek, The Shining, Psycho, Nosferatu, A Page of Madness, Deep Red, April Fool's Day, Martin, David Lynch, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Bruno Dumont, Peter Jackson, Mario Bava, Victor Sjöström

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 7/17: VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, a David Lynch dance tribute, and Future Bible Heroes

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, July 17
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, LiveWire Chicago Theatre, VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, Philip Dawkins, The Homosexuals, Ike Holter. Hit the Wall, Bekah Brunstetter, Take Her to See the Maco Lights, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, David Lynch, Martyrs', Future Bible Heroes, Stephen Merritt, Magnetic Fields, Partygoing, Merge, Tal Rosenberg, 69 Love Songs, The Luxury Liners

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: David Lynch and Lykke Li team up on "I'm Waiting Here"

A haunting preview from The Big Dream
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, David Lynch, Lykki Li, Sacred Bones, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, Lana Del Rey, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2012
The virtual realities of Brenna Murphy

A conversation with artist Brenna Murphy.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Brenna Murphy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge, David Lynch, Werner Herzog

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 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, Milestone Film & Video, On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin, The Perfect Team, Rampart movie, Oren Moverman, L.A. Confidential, Declaration of War, In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, London River, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Outside the Law, Safe House, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, The Story of Lover's Rock, This Means War, Charlie's Angels movie, McG, The Vow movie, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, The Devil Probably, Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker!, Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, David Lynch, Mulholland Dr., Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Harlan County U.S.A., The Film That Changed My Life, The Interrupters, Bob Hercules, Joffrey Ballet, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Tony Adler, Steve Bogira, Deanna Isaacs, Michael Miner, Sam Worley, movies, Video

Film, Artist on Artist May 12, 2011
Will Sergeant of Echo & the Bunnymen on the line with My Gold Mask

Give me the minimalist, atmospheric route any day. Give me David Lynch.
- Tags: Artist on Artist, Will Sergeant, Echo & the Bunnymen, My Gold Mask, Jack Armondo, Gretta Rochelle, Black Sabbath, Joy Division, The Police, Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Lynch

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2011
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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, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Architecture and Design Film Festival, Ben Sachs, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne and Robin Day, The Beaver movie, Mel Gibson, I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, Jumping the Broom, Paula Patton, Loretta Devine, Angela Bassett, The Princess of Montpensier, Bertrand Tavernier, Queen to Play, Sandrine Bonnaire, Something Borrowed, Ginnifer Goodwin, Summer of Goliath, There Be Dragons, Opus Dei, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Trainor, Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Music Box, Ella Cinders, Jay Warren, Portage Theater, Frank Perry, Mommie Dearest, Dick O'Day, Psycho movie, Manuel Munoz, Wilmette Theatre, Wattstax, Staple Singers, Albert King, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Bar-Kays, Richard Pryor, film festivals, movies, Video

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