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Film, Movie Feature May 24, 2017
Shorts, sharp and shocking, at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

Five days’ worth of features and short subjects screen in the festival’s 24th edition.
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Deborah Stratman, Xenoi, Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration, Lonnie Edwards, One Way Ticket, Kent Lambert, Reckoning 4, Mark Borchardt, American Movie, Coven, The Dundee Project, Jodie Mack Curses, All the Rage, Michael Galinsky, John Sarno, Dim the Fluorescents, Claire Armstrong, Naomi Skwarna, Daniel Warth, Miles Barstead, Drifting Towards the Crescent, Laura Stewart, Hannibal Missouri, Kuro movie, Tujiko Noriko, Joji Koyama, Manlife: The Last of the Lawsonians, Lawsonomy, Alfred Lawson, Merle Hayden, Ryan Sarnowski, Neighborhood Food Drive, Bruce Bundy, Lyra Hill, Jerzy Rose, The Pink Egg, Jim Trainor, Weather House, Frauke Havemann, Eric Schefter, Mark Johnson, underground film, film festivals

Film, Movie Feature Apr 19, 2017
Eight films playing the 33rd Chicago Latino Film Festival, reviewed

More than 50 new features make their local debuts in this year’s festival.
- Tags: Movie Feature, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, Chicago Latino Film Festival, At Your Doorstep, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Oriol Vila, Ivan Benet, Eduard Cortés, Piti Español, Between Sea and Land, Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Serna, Carlos del Castillo, Dark Skull, Lisandro Alonso, Jauja, Los Muertos, Kiro Russo, Dogs movie, John Leguizamo, Jacques Audiard, A Prophet, Harold Trompetero, The Holy Biker, Latino cinema, film festivals, movies, Homero Olivetto, Olancho movie, Manuel Chirinos, Los Plebes de Olancho, Chris Valdes, Ted Griswold, One Night of Love, Sebastian Wainraich, Carla Peterson, Hernán Guerschuny, Tamara movie, Elia K. Schneider, Tamara Adrián, Luis Fernández

Film, Movie Feature Mar 29, 2017
Recommended
The Doc10 film festival offers an alternative to alternative facts

Ten new documentaries make their Chicago premieres at this year’s edition.
- Tags: Movie Feature, Doc 10, Society for Arts, Chicago International Doc Film Festival, Bus 174, The Murder of Emmitt Till, The Same River Twice, OT: Our Town, Chicago Media Project, Casting JonBenet, Kitty Green, The Cinema Travelers, Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya, A Useful Life, Death in the Terminal, Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry, Obit movie, New York Times, Vanessa Gould, William McDonald, Bruce Weber, Rat Film, Theo Anthony, Sweet Dillard, James Virga, Christopher Dorsey, Dillard Center School for the Arts, Trophy movie, Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau, Whose Streets?, Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis, Ferguson Missouri, Michael Brown Jr., documentaries, film festivals, Recommended

Film, Movie Feature Sep 22, 2016
Reeling film festival looks back, and ahead

The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival opens at Music Box with Hurricane Bianca.
- Tags: Movie Feature, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Music Box, Matt Kugelman, Hurricane Bianca, Chicago Filmmakers, Landmark's Century Centre, Justin Kelly, King Cobra, Brenda Webb, Roy Haylock, Ryan Matthieu Smith, Alan Cumming, Sandra Cho, RuPaul, IFC Films, IFC Midnight, Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, James Franco, Keegan Allen, Molly Ringwald, Alicia Silverstone, The Landscape Within, Eric "Nui" Cabales, Andrea Capranico, Princess Nabingka, Lazy Eye, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis, Slash movie, Clay Liford, Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks, Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, Deborah Esquenazi, Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, Anna Vasquez, Tomcat, Klaus Händl, Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair, Upstairs Inferno, Robert L. Camina, UpStairs Lounge, gay cinema, LGBTQ+ cinema, film festivals

Film, Movie Feature Jul 21, 2016
Ten new French features come to the Music Box

Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Films, Bang Gang A Modern Love Story, Eva Husson, The Brand New Testament, Jaco Van Dormael, The Eighth Day, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, Benoît Poelvoorde, Michel Gondry, Catherine Deneuve, Disorder movie, Alice Winocour, Matthias Schoenaerts, The Danish Girl, Diane Kruger, Gesaffelstein, Down by Love, Pierre Godeau, Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Microbe and Gasoline, Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Be Kind Rewind, Audrey Tautou, Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, A Cat in Paris, Scene of the Crime, Nicolas Giraudi, Wadeck Stanczak, Victor Lanoux, Danielle Darrieux, Seasons movie, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, French cinema, film festivals

Film, Movie Feature Apr 14, 2016
In the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, there's no place like home

Gene Siskel Film Center presents stories of occupation and exile.
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, On the Bride’s Side, Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele del Grande, Khaled Soliman al Nassiry, 3000 Nights, Mai Masri, Amr Kawji, Detaining Dreams, Amber Fares, Speed Sisters, Anna Fahr, Transit Game, film festivals

Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2016
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European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, European Union Film Festival, Joost van Ginkel, The Paradise Suite, Bill Stamets, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, London Has Fallen, The Wave, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Vincente Minnelli, The Band Wagon, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Robert Wise, West Side Story, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Peace on Earth Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2016
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The director of A Hijacking is back with A War, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Tobias Lindholm, A Hijacking, A War, Eddie the Eagle, Eddie Edwards, The Last Man on the Moon, Eugene Cernan, Magical Girl, Triple 9, The Proposition, The Vanished Elephant, Carl Reiner, All of Me, Martin Scorsese, The Departed, Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Maurice Pialat, A Nos Amours, Stanley Donen, Singin' in the Rain, Kutlug Ataman, Kuzu, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2016
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Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Deadpool, Marvel Comics, The Camera Obscura, Alejandro Riera, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway, Sergei Eisenstein, Race movie, Jesse Owens, Risen movie, Rolling Papers, Denver Post, Time to Love, Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, A Separation, Touched With Fire, Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Erich von Stroheim, Greed movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, Mel Brooks, High Anxiety, Kutlug Ataman, Lola + Bilidikid, Roman Polanski, Repulsion, Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, Charles Walters, Summer Stock, Saul Levine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Vertigo, Ghostbusters, The Master, The Wild Bunch, Inherent Vice, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
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The Revenant, Seijun Suzuki, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant, Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy, Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Band of Robbers, Mark Twain, The Benefactor, Richard Gere, Mustang movie, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Born to Boogie, Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Head movie, Monkees, George Cukor, Dinner at Eight, David Lynch, The Elephant Man, Robert Flaherty, Moana, Monica Flaherty, Richard Leacock, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice movie, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Experimental Film in Eastern Europe, New Romanian Cinema Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2015
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Michael Shannon wants you outta here now, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, 99 Homes, Ramin Bahrani, Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, Dukhtar, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, The Cut, Fatih Akin, Head On, The Edge of Heaven, The Martian, Ridley Scott, Alien, Blade Runner, Matt Damon, Mississippi Grind, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson, Sugar movie, Partisan movie, Vincent Cassel, Prophet's Prey, The Walk movie, Robert Zemeckis, Man on Wire, Welcome to Leith, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Fred Camper, Eric Rohmer, Le Beau Mariage, Douglas Sirk, The First Legion, John Ford, How Green Was My Valley, The Long Voyage Home, Ingmar Bergman, Sawdust and Tinsel, George Cukor, Sylvia Scarlett, CineKink Film Festival, Nightcrawler, Cinema Slapdown series, 3-D Rarities, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2015
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Reeling roundup, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, 4th Man Out, Brokeback Mountain, I Am Love, Ben Sachs, The Second Mother, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Black Mass, Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger, Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers, Hippocrates Diary of a French Doctor, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Bobby Fischer, Tobey Maguire, Boris Spassky, Liev Schreiber, Sleeping With Other People, Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Time Out of Mind, Richard Gere, The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, Jason Blum, Paranormal Activity, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Josef von Sternberg, The Docks of New York, Robert Altman Nashville, Mario Monicelli, The Organizer, The Passionate Thief, Andrew Niccol, Gattaca, Shannon Hackett, Field Museum, Kevin Feldheim, Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, Slate Culturefest Live!, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2015
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Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I, Stuart Sherman, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Rahmin Bahrani, Man Push Cart, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile, Thomas McCarthy, The Station Agent, Steven Spielberg, The Sugarland Express, Denis Villeneuve, Incendies, Dreamcatcher, Brenda Myers-Powell, 4th Man Out, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Meet the Patels, The Mend, Sandra Luchino Visconti, The Transporter Refueled, Milos Forman, Amadeus: The Director's Cut, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Fred Camper, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Ernst Lubitsch, So This Is Paris, Jay Warren, Frank Capra Submarine, Dennis Scott, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, Red Squads and Beyond 1960s to Present, Reel Abilities Film Festival, film festivals, movies, 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

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2015
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Andrew Bujaski gets Results, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Results Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess, Inside Out, Pixar, The Face of an Angel, Amanda Knox, Michael Winterbottom, The Trip, The Look of Love, Everyday movie, From Mayerling to Sarajevo, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de . . ., Grand Central, Heaven Knows What, To See the Sea, The Wolfpack, The Yes Men Are Revolting, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Music Box Chicago, Field Museum Chicago, Josh Engel, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Chicago Curiosities, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Andy Resek, Tom Palazzolo, Heather McAdams, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Century 12/CineArts 6, The Thieves movie, Chicago Cultural Center, What Happened Miss Simone?, Nina Simone, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2015
The Reader's guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend

The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Israeli Film Festival, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Century 12/CineArts 6, Victory Gardens Theater, Illinois Holocaust Museum, Landmark's Century Centre, David Chack, Friends From France, The Dove Flyer, Mr. Kaplan, Night Will Fall, Julie Cohen, The Sturgeon Queens, Russ and Daughters, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morley Safer, Calvin Trillin, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, William Gazecki, Bing Crosby, Mae West, Bette Midler, Madonna, Bert Tucker, Paul McCartney, Beatles, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, Nora's Will, Mariana Chenillo, Little White Lie, Lacey Schwartz, Compass Cabaret 55, Mark Siska, Second City, film festivals, Jewish culture, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2015
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Will the real Brian Wilson please stand up, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Brian Wilson, Paul Dano, John Cusack, Love & Mercy, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Age of Panic, Fair Play, The Farewell Party, Insidious: Chapter 3, Insidious: Chapter 2, Jauja, Viggo Mortensen, Jurassic World, Live From New York!, Saturday Night Live, Madame Bovary, Mia Wasikowska, Gustave Flaubert, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Rendez-vous of Deja Vu, Results movie, Andrew Bujalski, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Landmark's Century Centre, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Music Box Chicago, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Saint John Cantius Church, Those Were the Days Radio Players, The Green Hornet, Jay Warren, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Chicago Filmmakers, Sharon Zurek, Midsommarest Mash-up Madness, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2015
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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gwynedd Stuart, Aloha Cameron Crowe, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Entourage movie, Aloft movie, Claudia Llosa, The Milk of Sorrow, Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Hard to Be a God, The Icing, Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down, Love & Mercy, Paul Dano, Brian Wilson, John Cusack, The Nightmare, Rodney Ascher, Room 237, Spy Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Bridesmaids, Tonnerre, A Wolf at the Door, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box Chicago, Tsai Ming-liang, Rebels of the Neon God, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Cameron, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Frank Tashlin, Who’s Minding the Store?, Jerry Lewis, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Group 312 Films 2014 Annual Report, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Chicago, Retour de Flamme, Serge Bromberg, The Russian Woodpecker, Docs at the Box, film festivals, movies, Video

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 May 8, 2015
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Far From the Madding Crowd, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Far From the Madding Crowd, Carey Mulligan, Ben Sachs, The D Train, Jack Black, James Marsden, Queen and Country, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Boorman, Point Blank, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, M*A*S*H, Stripes, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi Separation, Aspen Frederick Wiseman, Black Souls, Heaven Adores You, Elliott Smith, Christina Noble documentary, Roar movie, Tippi Hedren, Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig, Music Box Chicago, Shira Piven, Joan Cusack, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, University of Chicago Doc Films, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, Hope and Glory, Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, Alexander Korda, That Hamilton Woman, Frank Tashlin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, CineYouth Festival, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Dyke Delicious May Shorts, Chicago Filmmakers, For Educational Purposes Only, Washington Park Arts Incubator, Sing-A-Long Mamma Mia, Sonic Celluloid, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ruined Heart, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2015
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Hyena movie, Chicago Film Critics Festival, Music Box Chicago, Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios, Blind Frederick Wiseman, Alabama School for the Blind, In Country, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Material World Kaycee Conaway Molly Hewitt, Scraps in Black and White, Library of Congress, Tangerines movie, Michael Haneke, Cache, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Frank Tashlin, Hollywood or Bust, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Peter Weir, The Last Wave, My Neighbor Totoro, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppet Master, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge, Colleen Moore, Why Be Good?, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jay Warren, CFA Crashers, Levon Pettis, Black Cinema House, Cinemetrics Across Borders, Logan Center for the Arts, Ulysses Jenkins, Black Cinema House, Using Classroom Films to Teach About Race, South Side Community Art Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Eyes of a Thief, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago Internatonal Movies & Music Festival, Canal Zone, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, The Longest Ride, Nicholas Sparks, George Tillman Jr., Soul Food, True Story, Jonah Hill, James Franco, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Alaka Wali, Frank Tashlin, The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Mary Harron, The Notorious Bettie Pag, Orson Welles, The Trial, Nick Kroll, Adult Beginners, Roger Beebe, Andy Warhol, Dan Savage, Hump! Film Festival, Poetry on Public Television: The 1960s, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, 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 Mar 19, 2015
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Peacenicks invade the Chicago Cultural Center, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Jerome McDonnell Worldview, Ben Sachs, In a Foreign Land, Iciar Bollain, Take My Eyes, It Follows, John Carpenter, Danny Collins, Al Pacino, John Lennon, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Gunman, Sean Penn, An Honest Liar, James Randi, Horse Money, Pedro Costas, Colossal Youth, The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War, Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Bernstein, Spring movie, Tip Top, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras, Gene Siskel Film Center, Lisa Cholodenko, High Art, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Music Box Chicago, The Divine Feminine, Black Cinema House, Festival du Film Francophone, Alliance Francais, Gameboarding: Rise of the Indies, Lincoln Hall Chicago, Indie Horror Film Festival, Carl Schurz Slocum Hall, Jennifer Reeder, Nightingale Chicago, Juggernaut Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Nick Broomfield, Kurt & Courtney, film festivals, movies, Video

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

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