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Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2017
This year's edition of Noir City: Chicago expands its focus

The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, Noir City: Chicago, Music Box Theatre, film noir, Quiet Please: Murder, The Brink's Job, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, Odd Man Out, Carol Reed, The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, Sterling Hayden, New Hollywood, Richard Pryor, Drive a Crooked Road, Mickey Rooney, Richard Quine, Blake Edwards, William Friedkin, Walter Matthau, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Don Siegel, L.A. Confidential, The Aura

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2017
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Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is only a superficial success

Coppola's adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's novel is better directed than written.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Women's Issues, The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola, Colin Farrell, Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Thomas Cullinan, Video

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 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

Film, Movie Review Jul 30, 2015
How one Hemingway short story became three different movies

A recent Blu-Ray reissue of a Criterion Collection set features different cinematic interpretations of 1927's "The Killers."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Ernest Hemingway, David Lodge, Gene D. Phillips, Loyola University, Hemingway and Film, The Killers, Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak, Gene Phillips, Universal Studios, John Huston, Andre Anderson, Gene Coon, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, Stacy Keach, Andrei Tarkovsky

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2015
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Spike Lee drinks Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Spike Lee, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess, Manuscripts Don't Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Fifty Shades of Grey, Love Hunter, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Seventh Son, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako, Today movie, White Rabbit, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Gene Siskel Film Center, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Saint John Cantius Church, Jay Warren, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Music Box, Don Siegel, Escape From Alcatraz, University of Chicago Doc Films, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Music Box, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Marcel Carne, The Adultress, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago Opera Theater, Jennifer Reeder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Remembering Harold Washington, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Chatham 14, Black History Month, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Elmore Leonard adaptations

Top five Elmore Leonard adaptations.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Touch, Paul Schrader, Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino, Don Siegel, 52 Pick-Up, John Frankenheimer, Cannon Films, Cat Chaser, Abel Ferrara

Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2013
Visual allusions and optical illusions in David Fincher's Zodiac

Why the 2007 crime movie is so much more beguiling when you watch it on film
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Moviegoing, Film, David Fincher, Zodiac, HD video, Gene Siskel Film Center, 70s crime movies, The Boston Strangler, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, 35-millimeter film, digital projection, Harris Savides, optical illusions, The Conjuring, James Wan, The Taking of Pelham 123, Don Siegel, moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Don Siegel

Weekly Top Five: Don Siegel films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Patio Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Don Siegel, The Lineup, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dirty Harry, John Baxter, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Clint Eastwood, Shirley McClaine, Budd Boetticher, John Wayne, The Lineup, Charley Varrick, Walter Mathau, Fast 6

Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2013
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Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs 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, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, The Maid movie, Michael Cera, Rufus Norris, Broken movie, Broken Tim Roth, Broken Cillian Murphy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Chad Hartigan, This Is Martin Bonner, The Conjuring movie, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Death Rides a Horse, Lee Van Cleef, Grown Ups 2, Adam Sandler, Oconomowoc, Terms and Conditions May Apply, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spencer Williams, Juke Joint, Black Cinema House, Don Siegel, The Lineup, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nicholas Ray, The Lusty Men, University of Chicago Doc Films, Luis Bunuel, Mexican Bus Ride, Silent Summer Film Festival, Portage Theater, Des Plaines Theater, The Sheik, Rudolph Valentino, Jay Warren, South Side Projections, Black Panthers in Their Own Words, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, Philip Kaufman, Dave Kehr, Fearless Frank, sci-fi, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dead End Drive-In, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Aldrich, unk food, punk rock, B-movies, Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Cannes Film Festival, 9/11, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Ronald Reagan, Criterion Collection, Luis Bunuel, Scanners, David Cronenberg, The Fly, Roger Corman, It Conquered the Earth, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man From Planet X, Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, 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, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2012
Exploring the obsessive nature of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood's The Beguiled

A conversation about the 1971 psychodrama with Northwest Chicago Film Society programmer Kyle Westphal
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, The Beguiled, Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, The Lineup, 70s Hollywood, psychodrama, Sergio Leone, Kyle Westphal, Universal Pictures

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2012
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Kangaroo huntin', mate! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Kenneth Cook, Drew Hunt, A Late Quartet, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jerry & Me, Merhnaz Zaeed-Vafa, Jerry Lewis, Le Grand Amour, Pierre Etraix, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Flight, Denzel Washington, The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, Day Night Day Night, The Other Son, Shun Li and the Poet, The Zen of Bennett, Polish Film Festival in America, My Father's Bike, Michal Urbaniak, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Fred Camper, Jean Pierre-Melville, Bob le Flambeur, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Gang's All Here, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Logan theater Chicago, Bicycle Film Festival, Chicago Comedy Film Festival First Nations Film and Video Festival Mostra III, Chicago film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 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, Brighton Rock, Boulting brothers, Roy Boulting, John Boulting, Graham Greene, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Preacher movie, Daniel Kraus, Sheriff movie, Musician movie, Professor movie, The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, John Corbett, Peter Margasak, Disco and Atomic War, Dallas TV show, Soviet Union, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth, Earthwork movie, Stan Herd, Farmageddon, Kiss and Tell, Monga movie, The Mysterious Lady, Greta Garbo, Silent Summer Film Festival, Ode movie, Ode to Billy Joe, Kelly Reichradt, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, One Day movie, Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd, Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D, Robert Rodriguez, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

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The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.

Coppola's adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's novel is better directed than written.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A recent Blu-Ray reissue of a Criterion Collection set features different cinematic interpretations of 1927's "The Killers."

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Top five Elmore Leonard adaptations.

Why the 2007 crime movie is so much more beguiling when you watch it on film

Weekly Top Five: Don Siegel films

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A conversation about the 1971 psychodrama with Northwest Chicago Film Society programmer Kyle Westphal

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.

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

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