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Film, Movie Tuesday Oct 8, 2019
Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals

Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Todd Phillips, Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, Lon Chaney, Federico Fellini, Jacques Tati, Bill Murray, Howard Franklin, Errol Morris

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2017
Errol Morris’s Wormwood should have been a film, not a miniseries

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker's new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, History, Small Screen, Wormwood, Errol Morris, Frank Olson, Eric Olson, CIA, Netflix, Hamlet, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sarsgaard, Bob Balaban, Tim Blake Nelson

Film, Movie Feature Apr 19, 2017
A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera

With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Arlen Parsa, Columbia College, Eustasio Rosales, Bolero Eustasio Rosales, The Way to Andina, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Three Spanish Dances, Athenaeum Theatre, Expatriation Act of 1907, Errol Morris, Bronzeville, Chris Ramaekers, Luis Carlos Rodríguez Álvarez, University of Antioquia, National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, immigration, Colombian music, Latino film, documentaries

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2015
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The Chicago Underground Film Festival highlights this week's new movie reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, James D. Cooper, Lambert & Stamp, The Who, Cousin Jules, Dominique Benicheti, The Film Critic, Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, I Am Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Iris Apfel, Lost in the White City, Metalhead, The People vs. Paul Crump, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, The French Connection, She's Lost Control, Soul Boys of the Western World, Spandau Ballet, Frederick Wiseman Ballet, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Orson Welles, The Immortal Story, Mario Bava Kidnapped, Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire, Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Bert Williams Rediscovered, Logan Center for the Arts, Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, Links Hall Chicago, Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath 1953-Present, Black Cinema House, film festivals, underground film, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2014
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Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what's screening around town this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Happy Valley, Amir Bar-Lev, My Kid Could Paint That, The Tillman Story, Penn State, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, Union Carbide, Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, The Eagle and the Hawk, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Horrible Bosses 2, Steven Spielberg Jaws, Music Box Chicago, Steven Soderbergh, King of the Hill Soderbergh, University of Chicago Doc Films, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line, Ben Stiller, Zoolander, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2014
Are some documentaries above criticism?

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Media, Film, History, Watchers of the Sky, documentaries, Edet Belzberg, Rafael Lemkin, genocide, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Errol Morris, The Fog of War

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2014
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The inmates take over the asylum, 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, Stonehearst Asylum, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis, Anda Korsts, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Michael Keaton, The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric, Creative Writing, Dear White People, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Levitated Mass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jason Schwartzman, Music Box Chicago, Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, Empire of Passion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter Halloween, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, University of Chicago Doc Films, Avi Nesher Secrets, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm, South Side Projections, Robert Downey Sr., Putney Swope, Black Cinema House, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Wyatt Cenac, Lav Diaz, Norte the End of History, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Aug 20, 2014
Dinosaur 13: Who owns the bones?

A new documentary looks at the legal battle over Sue the T. rex.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Todd Douglas Miller, Dinosaur 13, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tyrannosaurus rex, Sue, Field Museum of Natural History, Peter Larson, outh Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Sue Hendrickson, Cheyenne River Indian, South Dakota, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Alex Gibney, Rex Appeal, paleontology, Terry Wentz, Neal LarsonRuth Mason Quarry, Neal Larson, Maurice Williams, Kevin Schieffer, Richard Battey, Kristin Donnan, Nova, Sotheby's, Paleontologia Electronica, Donald Trump

Film, Movie Feature Jul 2, 2014
Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, film, filmmakers, PBS, Hoop Dreams, CeaseFire, The Interrupters, Stevie, Big Brothers, The New Americans, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, movies, Oak Park, Kartemquin Films, gardening, Rushville, Illinois, work, Judy James, sex offenders, careers, family, Hollywood, narrative film, television, TV, documentaries, Peter Gilbert, Prefontaine, James Madison University, auteurs, Alex Kotlowitz, Frederick Marx, film credits, SIU, Southern Illinois University, Big Muddy Film Festival, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, David Simpson, Leslie Simmer, film criticism, Errol Morris, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, humor, Flame-O Coby

Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2014
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The Patio's last shows for a while, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Patio Theater, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin, Chicago Silent Film Society, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, Ann Dvorak, Christina Rice, Oculus, Scarface, Howard Hawks, Pickwick Theatre, Big Men, Rachel Boynton, Hateship Loveship, Alice Munro, Natural Life, Tirtza Even, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, The Railway Man, Colin Firth, The Unknown Known, Errol Morris, Donald Rumsfeld, Under the Same Sun, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Doc Films, Joyce Wieland, Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges, California Split, Robert Altman, Love Unto Death, Alain Resnais, Music Box Theatre, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 5: Tabloid

Our countdown of 2011's best films continues with Errol Morris's Tabloid, J.R. Jones's number five film of the year.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Errol Morris, Abu Graibh, Standard Operating Procedure, New York Times, Tabloid movie, Tabloid Errol Morris, Joyce McKinney, Katherine Zwick, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2011
Oscarus interruptus

Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steve James, The Interrupters, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, CeaseFire Chicago, Deanna Isaacs, Columbia College, Andrea Gronvall, Gene Siskel Film Center, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Errol Morris, Tabloid movie, Asif Kapadia, Senna movie, Buck movie, Battle for Brooklyn, Academy Awards, Oscars, best documentary feature shortlist, documentaries, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 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, Kaneto Shindo, The Naked Island, Gene Siskel Film Center, Seto Inland Sea, Tabloid movie, Errol Morris, Beats Rhymes & Life The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Candy Darling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Identification Marks None, Jerzy Skolimowski, A Love Affair of Sorts, Mother Kaneto Shindo, Hiroshima, Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese, HBO, Fran Lebowitz, Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile Part One The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie and The Battle of Chile Part Two The Coup D'Etat, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buck Privates, Buck Privates Come Home, Pritzker Military Library, Ed Tracy, Rene Clair, The Crazy Ray, University of Chicago Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot, Music Box, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 14, 2011
Movie Review: Tabloid

How to kidnap a cute Mormon, fail to win his heart, but become a tabloid sensation
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Tabloid, Errol Morris

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2010
Toronto International Film Fest Review: Tabloid

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Errol Morris, Mr. Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr, Vietnam war, The Fog of War Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. MacNamara, Abu Ghraib, Standard Operating Procedure, Joyce McKinney, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Florida, Showtime, Mormonism, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, film festivals, documentaries, movies

News & Politics, Our Town Aug 28, 2009
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William Burroughs, Unabridged

Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering the literary icon's entire life.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Our Town, Jonathan "Yony" Leyser, Jonathan Leyser, William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Junky, Queer, Naked Lunch, James Grauerholz, John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Jello Biafra, Amiri Baraka, Peter Weller, Yony Leyser, David Cronenberg, Bill Ayers, Anne Waldman, Errol Morris, Hal Willner, Maysles brothers, Elgin Mental Health Center, Northern Illinois University, ThinkArt, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2008
AMPAS announces documentary short list

The Oscar race for best documentary has begun.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Indiewire, Werner Herzog, Oscar, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, At the Death House Door, documentaries, Trouble the Water, I.O.U.S.A., Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Betrayal, Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, Encounters at the End of the World, Fuel, The Garden, Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, In a Dream, Made in America, Man on Wire, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, They Killed Sister Dorothy

Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2008
Errol Morris SOP

Is paying interviewees kosher when you're Errol Morris?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, New Yorker, New York Times, documentary films, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Abu Ghraib, prisoner abuse, Philip Gourevitch

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Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker's new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson

Our critics weigh in on 22 new films making their local premieres.

With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A new documentary looks at the legal battle over Sue the T. rex.

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24

Our countdown of 2011's best films continues with Errol Morris's Tabloid, J.R. Jones's number five film of the year.

Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.

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

How to kidnap a cute Mormon, fail to win his heart, but become a tabloid sensation

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering the literary icon's entire life.

The Oscar race for best documentary has begun.

Is paying interviewees kosher when you're Errol Morris?

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