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Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 1, 2015
A second printing for
Reader
film critic J.R. Jones's book on Robert Ryan
Having nearly sold out,
The Lives of Robert Ryan
gets a second pressing.
By Michael Miner
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The Lives of Robert Ryan
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J.R. Jones
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Cheyney Ryan
,
Lisa Ryan
,
Wesleyan University Press
,
Music Box Theatre
,
Noir City: Chicago
,
The Racket
,
Stephanie Elliott
,
Michael Phillips
,
Chicago Tribune
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Anthology Film Archives
,
Turner Classic Movies
,
New York Times
,
Associated Press
,
Douglass K. Daniel
,
Wall Street Journal
,
Peter Tonguette
,
Film Comment
,
Sight & Sound
,
Library Journal
Film
,
Movie Review
May 27, 2015
In
Amour Fou
, a brilliant Prussian writer seeks a partner in suicide
A new drama from
Lourdes
director Jessica Hausner chronicles the final exit of German Romantic playwright Heinrich von Kleist.
By Ben Sachs
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Amour Fou
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Lourdes
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Christian Friedel
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Sandra Hüller
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Birte Schnoeink
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19th century Europe
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Keir Dullea
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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The Marquise of O
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Film
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Movie Review
May 8, 2013
Recommended
Olivier Assayas takes another crack at his radical adolescence
The director's
Something in the Air
circles back to the 70s.
By Tal Rosenberg
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James Joyce
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Dubliners
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Stephen Dedalus
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Something in the Air
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Music Box
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Cold Water
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Janis Joplin
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Carlos
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World War II
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May 1968
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The Chairman's New Clothes
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Mao
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Soft Machine
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Why Are We Sleeping
,
Dr. Strangely Strange
,
Strings in the Earth and Air
,
Amazing Blondel
,
Celestial Light
,
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Film
,
Movie Review
Mar 27, 2013
Recommended
Return of the
L.A. Rebellion
A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
By J.R. Jones
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Charles Burnett
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
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Spike Lee
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Haile Gerima
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Daughters of the Dust
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Bleader
Aug 29, 2012
Cosmopolis
and other talking books
Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg's faithful Don DeLillo adaptation
By Ben Sachs
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The Music of Chance
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Blogs
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Bleader
Dec 1, 2011
Now playing:
Afraid to Talk
Afraid to Talk
, playing Friday at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art.
By J.R. Jones
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Block Museum of Art
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Afraid to Talk
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Edward L. Cahn
,
Louis Calhern
,
Dave Kehr
,
Film Comment
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Evanston
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 18, 2011
You've seen the movie—now write the book!
A new
Film Comment
piece by Grady Hendrix explores the disreputable world of movie novelizations.
By J.R. Jones
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Star Trek
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Gremlins 2
,
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,
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Bleader
Dec 16, 2010
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
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J.R. Jones
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Film Comment
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Enter the Void
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Gene Siskel Film Center
,
David O. Russell
,
The Fighter movie
,
Kuroneko
,
How Do You Know
,
Broadcast News
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James L. Brooks
,
The King's Speech
,
Colin Firth
,
Geoffrey Rush
,
The Tempest William Shakespeare
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Across the Universe
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Julie Taymor
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Tron Legacy
,
Lincoln Hall
,
You Won't Miss Me
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Stella Schnabel
,
Julian Schnabel
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Antonio Gaudi
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Andy Warhol
,
Edie Sedgwick
,
The Velvet Underground in Boston
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Facets Cinematheque
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Marco Bellochio
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Fists in the Pocket
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The Conviction movie
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The Nanny movie
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Dogtooth
,
Henri-Georges Clouzots Inferno
,
Please Give
,
The Kids Are All Right
,
Enter the Void
,
Restrepo movie
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The Social Network
,
Carlos movie
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Winter's Bone
,
The Square movie
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Black Swan
,
Cyrus
,
Animal Kingdom
,
Red Riding 1974
,
Leap Year
,
I Am Love
,
Mesrine Killer Instinct
,
Shutter Island
,
The Oath
,
The Company Men
,
movies
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Bleader
Dec 18, 2008
Now that's more like it
Film Comment has spoken.
By J.R. Jones
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,
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,
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,
Wendy and Lucy
,
Kelly Reichardt
,
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Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 14, 2008
Rosenbaum on Oliveira; Oliveira at Film Center
Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira is the subject of a Film Center retrospective and a new Film Comment essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
By J.R. Jones
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,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
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,
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Film Comment
,
Day of Despair
,
Rite of Spring
,
Doomed Love
,
Inquietude
,
Christopher Columbus, the Enigma
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