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Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2016
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Bitchin Bajas conjure the life aquatic with a live film score

Experimental trio Bitchin Bajas accompany the dazzling Olivia Wyatt film Sailing a Sinking Sea on Thursday at the Den Theatre.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Bitchin Bajas, Olivia Wyatt, Moken, Sailing a Sinking Sea, 12 O'Clock Track, Drew Hunt, Yainang (Mermaid), Den Theatre, ethnography, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2015
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Our reviews of the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the rest of what's screening this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Beloved Sisters, Friedrich Schiller, Cheatin', Bill Plympton, Bosnia in Our Hearts, Chicago Festival of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film, Desert Dancer, Footloose, Marfa Girl, Larry, Peter Davis, Hearts and Minds, University of Chicago Social Sciences Research Building, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Music Box, Drew Hunt, Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Tales of Hoffman, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Frederick Wiseman Welfare, Dennis Clancy, Chasing Red, Showplace ICON, Tommy Heffron, Roots & Culture, Brock Riebe, Nightingale Cinema Chicago, Marisa Olson, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2015
Is there a Stuart Gordon school of cinema ghoulitry?

It turns out that horror maestro Stuart Gordan has protégés.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Paranormal, Moviegoing, Media, Film, News, Re-Animator, Chastity Bites, Stuart Gordon, Dave Kehr, Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, the Reader, Drew Hunt, the New Yorker, the Organic Theater, John and Lotti Pharriss Knowles, Re-Animator: The Musical, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2015
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David Cronenberg invades Hollywood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Cronenberg, Maps to the Stars, Drew Hunt, Joel Potrykus, Buzzard, Music Box Chicago, Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh, The Duke of Burgundy, Berberian Sound Studio, Life of Riley, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, European Union Film Festival, Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, John Lennon, How I Won the War, Merchants of Doubt, Run All Night, Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, La Sapienza, '71 movie, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Stations of the Cross, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chistopher Nolan, Interstellar, Dziga Vertov, The Man With a Movie Camera, Tomm Moore, The Secret of Kells, Facets Cinematheque, Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven, Dennis Scott, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Andrea Gronvall, Columbia College Chicago, Julian Grant, Disney Frozen, Cinema Slapdown, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Maidan movie, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Get Real: Docs at the Box, The Touch of an Angel, Society for Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
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Jennifer Aniston takes the Cake, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jennifer Aniston, Cake movie, Cake Jennifer Aniston, River East 21, Ben Sachs, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Drew Hunt, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action, Mommy Xavier Dolan, Amira & Sam, Freaks and Geeks, Martin Starr, Black or White, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Black Sea, Jude Law, The Bubble, Emptying the Skies, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Giuseppe Andrews, Independence Day, Still Life, Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky, Jean-Luc Godard, Les Carabiniers, Masculine Feminine, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Wim Wenders, Pina movie, Maya Deren, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious movie, Jacques Rivette, The Nun, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Remembering Harold Washington, The Day After Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Year in Review, Film, Ben Sachs, Drew Hunt, Bridesmaids, Alan Partridge, Bad Words, Dumb and Dumber To, Top Five, Big Eyes, Tim Burton, Margaret Keane, The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Meryl Streep, Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh, J.M.W. Turner, Pelican Dreams, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Strange Little Cat, Unbroken Angelina Jolie, Louis Zamperini, The Way He Looks, Zero Motivation, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975), A Clockwork Orang, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Shining, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2014
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The Tolkien franchise is over!—plus more new movie reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug, The Battle of the Five Armies, Drew Hunt, The Babadook, Annie movie, Quevenzhale Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Jamie Foxx, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, Paramahansa Yogananda, In Bloom, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Chicago, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Delilah's, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Johnny Cash Christmas Special, Stanley Kubrick, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2014
Three itineraries for Sunday's edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival

Staff writer Leor Galil, editorial assistant Drew Hunt, and Lemons multi-instrumentalist Kelly Nothing plot their day.
- Tags: Pitchfork Day Three, Music, Pitchfork 2014, Leor Galil, Drew Hunt, Kelly Nothing, Animal Kingdom, The Lemons

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2014
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The BOC stops here, 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, Drew Hunt, Music Box Chicago, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ivory Tower, Heli movie, Jackpot movie, Jo Nesbo; Korengal movie, Sebastian Junger, Restrepo, Miss Lovely, On Approval, Third Person movie, Paul Haggis, Crash movie, In the Valley of Elah, Charles Vidor, Cover Girl, Guy Hamilton, Goldfinger, Logan Theater Chicago, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Northwestern University Norris Center for the Arts, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Gregory La Cava, My Man Godfrey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2013
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LGBT, PFFA, and the rest of TWS*

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Polish Film Festival in America, Andrzej Wajda, Walesa Man of Hope, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Drew Hunt, Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By the Lake, Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Nightingale Chicago, The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Bill Siegel, The Weather Underground, How I Live Now, Marvel Comics, Thor: The Dark World, Claire Denis, Beau Travail, Nenette and Boni, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, Music Box, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Good Men, Good Women, Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, Haile Gerima, Sankofa, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Ben Stiller, Zoolander, Logan Theater Chicago, Mostra IV: Brazilian Film Series in Chicago, Natural Life documentary, Tirtza Even, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2013
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Getting personal in the theater, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 13 and 19
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Short Term 12, review, Riddick, Drew Hunt, Faces of Women, Blacklight Cinema, Floyd Webb, Fall Arts Preview, Beyond the Hill, Turkish cinema, Ximena Cuevas, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Massacre, pre-Code cinema, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Muslims Are Coming!, Populaire, A Teacher, Facets Multimedia, John Ford, Straight Shooting, The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Chase, Arthur Ripley, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, Francois Truffaut, The Green Room, Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, Josef von Sternberg, Underworld, Docks of New York, Northbrook Public Library, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2013
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A couple of smoke screens and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 30 and September 5
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Drew Hunt, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery, Terrence Malick, Charles Fairbanks, The Nightingale, Richard Linklater, "Before" trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah, Laurence Knapp, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Northbrook Public Library, Greed, Eric von Stroheim, Gus Van Sant, Mala Noche, Doc Films, Patio Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Rebecca Hall, One Hour With You, Ernst Lubitsch, American Made Movie, The Attack, Closed Circuit, Eric Bana, Off Label, pharmaceutical industry, Saturday Morning Mystery, 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 May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, 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, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2013
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Treasure, treachery, pirates, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Film, Stolen Seas, Thymaya Payne, Facets Cinematheque., Drew Hunt, Concrete Parlay: An Evening With Fern Silva, Ben Sachs, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-San: The Making of a Prostitute, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Atomic States of America, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Jakob the Liar, Frank Beyer, John Dies at the End, Don Coscarelli, Bubba Ho-Tep, Lucky movie, Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, The Turning Point, East German cinema, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Cover Girl Rita Hayworth, Charles Vidor, Bela Lugosi, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai, Fallen Angels, University of Chicago Doc Films, William Friedkin, The French Connection, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Block Museum of Art, Mikhail Kalatozov, I Am Cuba, Louis Malle, Murmur of the Heart, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2013
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Spouses at odds, a ghostly guardian, a trip to the hospital, 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, Drew Hunt, Tiger Tail in Blue, Frank V. Ross, Audrey the Trainwreck, Mama Guillermo del Toro, Andres Muschietti, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Ben Sachs, The Waiting Room docuentary, Peter Nicks, Broken City, Allen Hughes, Menace II Society, Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, The End of Time, Peter Mettler, The Flying Ace, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, The Last Stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, and Kim Jee-woon, I Saw the Devil, A Tale of Two Sisters, Little by Little, Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, Quartet Dustin Hoffman, Tom Courtenay, Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, John Huston, Beat the Devil, Northbrook Public Library, Casablanca, Patio Theater, Sergei Paradjanov, The Color of Pomegranates, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Louis Malle, The Fire Within, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jaguar Jean Rouch, Gene Siskel Film Center, Frank Borzage, Little Man, What Now?, Alec Guinness, The Man in the White Suit, Music Box, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Logan Theater Chicago, Civic Cinema, The United States of ALEC, American legislative Exchange Council, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Sundance Film Festival, Touchy Feely, Lynn Shelton, Your Sister's Sister, Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Rosemarie DeWitt, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2012
The Red Dawn remake looks like a strong argument for ending the war in Afghanistan

Am I the only one who thinks you could switch a few nationalities in the new Red Dawn and have a documentary of America's invasion of Afghanistan?
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Crime, Shots Fired, Film, war, Red Dawn, invasions, America, Afghanistan, Drew Hunt, insurgency, Red Army, protest films

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 Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul W.S. Anderson, Mortal Kombat, Death Race, Resident Evil: Retribution, How to Survive a Plague, David France, ACT UP, The Master movie, Paul Thomas Anderson, United Film Festival Chicago, Music Box, Chicago Farmer, Fast Talk, Sadermania: From Fanship to Friendship, Michael Pena, Jake Gyllenhaal, Detropia, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Jesus Camp, End of Watch, David Ayer, Training Day, Hello I Must Be Going, Melanie Lynskey, Liberal Arts, Majority movie, Brenna Murphy, Robert Nelson, 10 Years, Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long Trouble With the Curve, Clint Eastwood, James Stewart, Vertigo, Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1933, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, Landmark's Century Centre, Sight & Sound, Vertigo, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2012
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, Columbia College, Killer Joe, William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Cruising, Bug movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Knox College, Galesburg, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, A Black Harvest Feast, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, The Christmas Tree, Angel Krsiti Williams, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Girlfriend Boyfriend, The Loves of Pharoah, Ernst Lubitsch, The Queen of Versailles, Richard's Wedding, Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, Alice Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Jan Svankmajer, Abel Ferrara, The Driller Killer, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan theater, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Music Box, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, King Kong, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2012
The mastery of French filmmaker Philippe Garrel

In praise of the intensely personal director, whose latest, A Burning Hot Summer, is currently playing in Chicago
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Philippe Garrel, A Burning Hot Summer, Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Maurice Garrel, Brigitte Sy, Emergency Kisses, Regular Lovers, Jean-Luc Godard, autobiography, Daniel Kasman, Maximilian Le Cain, Drew Hunt, Facets Multimedia

Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2012
Reader film criticism, in focus at last

The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Reader, Rotten Tomatoes, The Muppets, Cliff Doerksen, Alien vs. Predator, J.R. Jones, The Adjustment Bureau, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, D.W. Griffith, America D.W. Griffith, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ali movie, Army of Shadows, The Aviator movie, Drew Hunt, Asher Klein, film criticism, movies

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