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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

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 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, Ed M. Koziarski, Daniel Kraus, Cliff Doerksen, Gene Siskel Film Center, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room, Jack Abramoff, Lourdes, Jessica Hausner, Forbidden Cinema, Dennis Nyback, Chicago Filmmakers, Breathless movie, Just Wright, Queen Latifah, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Jay Warren, Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan, Botnik, Robert Siodmak, Cobra Woman, Kurosawa Ikiru, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, Alfred Hitchcock Lifeboat, Bank of America Cinema, Rashomon, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2010
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Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ed M. Koziarski, Lake County Film Festival, Junko Kajino, First Breath of Tengan Rei, College of Lake County, Andrea Gronvall, Elmhurst College, Poverty on the Silver Screen, Schaible Science Center, John Ford, Grapes of Wrath, Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire, Chicago Reader, film festivals, film series, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fred Camper, Jacques Tati, Gene Siskel Film Center, Mon Oncle, Traffic Jacques Tati, Gone Rogue: An Iconoclastic Look at Church and State, Tom Palazzolo, Life As Lincoln, Ed M. Koziarski, Orgasm Inc., Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, Saint John of Las Vegas, Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Peter Dinklage, Sarah Silverman, Still Bill, Bill Withers, Valentine's Day Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, The Wolfman, Benicio Del Toro, John Ford, The Searchers, Doc Films, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, Hellzapoppin', Ivan Brunetti, John Badham, Saturday Night Fever, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Music Box, Casablanca, Bank of America Cinema, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Lars von Trier, Antichrist, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Eileen Yaghoobian, Died Young Stayed Pretty, Merle Becker, American Artifact The Rise of American Rock Poster Art, The Chase, Wilco, Ashes of American Flags, Extraordinary Measures, Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, The Indian Boundary Line, Thomas Comerford, Legion, Steve James, Allen Iverson, No Crossover, Ed M. Koziarski, Prodigal Sons, John Ford, Rio Grande, University of Chicago Doc Films, Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Carol Reed, Odd Man Out, The Third Man, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2009
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Up: Yours!

The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week's issue, Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," the Oscar-winning "Departures," and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation "Easy Virtue."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Cinematheque, North Avenue Beach, Andrea Gronvall, Ed M. Koziarski, Spider-Man, RiffRaff, Up Pixar, Up Pixar movie, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Easy Virtue, Noel Coward, Stephan Elliott, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Alison Lohman, Departures, Eldorado, Dillinger Is Dead, Courting Condi, Condoleezza Rice, What Goes Up, Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2009
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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Siskel Film Center, Otto Preminger, Music Box, J.R. Jones, Howard Hawks, Fred Camper, Chicago filmmakers, Andrea Gronvall, Steve McQueen, Hunger, Ed M. Koziarski, Cliff Doerksen, American Violet, Tim Disney, Chicago Latino Film Festival, A Forgotten Injustice, Vicente Serrano, 33 Days, Live From Bethlehem, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 17 Again, State of Play, Robert Todd, Chantal Akerman, Only Angels Have Wings, Jeannette Dielman, 12 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, Schopf & Weiss LLP, litigation, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 30, 2008
First breath, second wind

Film Center brings back the local indie "The First Breath of Tengan Rei."
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Columbia College, Victory Gardens Theater, The First Breath of Tengan Rei, Junko Kajino, Ed M. Koziarski, Antioch College, Ed Radtke, The Dream Catcher, Hirokazu Kore-eda, After Life, Erika, Sean Nix, TimeLine Theatre Company, Ric Arthur, Urban Theater Company, Big Works, David Christopher Krause, indie films

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

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This Week's Movie Action

New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.

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Up: Yours!

The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week's issue, Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," the Oscar-winning "Departures," and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation "Easy Virtue."

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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."

First breath, second wind

Film Center brings back the local indie "The First Breath of Tengan Rei."

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Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

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New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.

The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week's issue, Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," the Oscar-winning "Departures," and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation "Easy Virtue."

This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of "Half Nelson," a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk "12 Angry Men."

Film Center brings back the local indie "The First Breath of Tengan Rei."

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