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Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2018
Five masters of stop-motion animation

If you like the Czech animations by Jiri Trnka showing this month at Film Center, try out these other five greats of nontraditional animation.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Jiri Trnka, Gene Siskel Film Center, animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, 1001 Arabian Nights, J.R. Jones, Harlequin, The Stolen Heart, Papageno, The Magic Horse, The Gallant Little Tailor, The Frog Prince, Snow White and Red Rose, Dave Kehr, Heaven and Earth Magic, Harry Smith, avant-garde, Fred Camper, Kihachiro Kawamoto, The Book of the Dead, The Demon, A Poet's Life, Anthropo-Cynical Farce, House of Flame, Alice, Jan Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Kristyna Kohoutova, surrealism, Brothers Quay, Wladyslaw Starewicz, The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, The Comb, Escher, Stille Nacht, His Name Is Alive

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Music, On Video, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, underground, Half-Cocked, Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, Horns and Halos, Freakwater, Sleepyhead, Grifters, J.R. Jones, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, D.W. Harper, Charles Whitman, Stephen Grant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Straightman, Ben Berkowitz, Benjamin Redgrave, John Cassavetes, Shadows, The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, Columbia Record and Tape Club, 60 Minutes, Migrating Forms, James Fotopoulos, Fred Camper, Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Robert Dickerson, Smoke, AIDS, Patti Smith, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Putty Hill, Hamilton, Matthew Porterfield, David Gordon Green, George Washington, Your Highness, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Ronald Bronstein, Frownland, Carlen Altman, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Jake Williams, This Is My Land, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2018
Joe Rode wasn’t a great artist, but he lived a great Chicago life

A 2000 profile tells the story of an artist who sold exactly two pieces of art in 40 years.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Archive Dive, Arts, Visual Art, Joe Rode, Z Poor Polish Art Museum, assemblage art, Fred Camper, outsider art, CTA bus driver

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 Nov 6, 2015
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The Polish Film Festival comes to town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Polish Film Festival in America, Barista movie, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, I Smile Back, Sarah Silverman, Love Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone, Radical Grace, Spectre James Bond, John Landis, Animal House, Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon, Early Spring, Fred Camper, Walt Disney, Fantasia, Russ Meyers, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Eric Rohmer, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, Robert Altman Nashville, Sound Opinions at the Movies, Jacques Rivette, Out 1, Ingmar Bergman, Through a Glass Darkly, Clint Eastwood, American Sniper, Columbia College Cinema Slapdown, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Josh Oppenheimer, The Art of Killing, The Look of Silence, Mostra: Brazilian Film Series, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Lana Wachowski, The Matrix, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2015
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Life on Mars, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Ridley Scott, The Martian, Matt Damon, Yakuza Apocalypse, Takashi Miike, Big Stone Gap, Ashley Judd, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, National Lampoon, The Fool movie, Freeheld, Julianne Moore, He Named Me Malala, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, Labyrinth of Lies, Pan movie, Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Spring Night Summer Night, Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth, Buster Keaton, Battling Butler, Dennis Scott, George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Anthony Mann, Men in War, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Fred Camper, Eric Rohmer, Pauline at the Beach, Archie Mayo, The Petrified Forest, Gordon Parks, Shaft, Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night, Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World, Global Girls Film Fest, Heart Like a Hand Grenade, Green Day, American Idiot, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Beaches of Agnes, 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 25, 2015
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How to kick drugs while also surviving a hostage crisis, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Captive movie, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, A Brilliant Young Mind, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Goodnight Mommy, The Intern, Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, On Broadway, Joey McIntyre, New Kids on the Block, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Stonewall movie, Wildlike, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Rohmer, The Aviator's Wife, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, Chicago, David Drazin, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, Fred Camper, Jean-Luc Godard, A Married Woman, Whit Stillman Metropolitan, Ingmar Bergman, Monika, Gordon Parks, World of Piri Thomas, Bathtub Songs: And Other Extracurricular Activities, Killa (The Fort), Chicago South Asian Film Festival, The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead, Dancing & Drowning: Animations From Kate Raney & Jeremy Bessoff, In Search of the Black Knight, Kinosonik #15, Manhattan Short Film Festival, Conversations at the Edge, Wayne Boyer and Larry Janiak: Camera and Line, 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 Sep 4, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Queen of Earth, Ben Sachs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Alex Gibney, Danny Boyle, Michael Fassbender, I Touched All Your Stuff, Meru, Rosenwald, Stray Dog, Debra Granik, 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington (RSO (Registered Sex Offender), A Walk in the Woods, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, John Waters, Female Trouble, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Fred Camper, John Boorman, Zardoz, Sherlock Holmes, William Gilette, Essanay Studio, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fred Camper, Bill Stamets, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, L'Argent, Robert Bresson, Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Burden of Dreams, Les Blank, Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Bunuel, History is Made at Night, Frank Borzage, Mary Poppins, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger, Dana Andrews, Small Soldiers, Joe Dante, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gulliver's Travels

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2012
What makes for a good introduction to a film screening?

They make you want to see more
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Moviegoing, LGBT, Film, Moviegoing, introductions, Fred Camper, avant-garde cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Some Came Running, Rebel Without a Cause, mise-en-scene, Vincente Minnelli, Rob Christopher, Queue Tips, David Kodeski, Back Street, Susan Hayward, gay subtext, Shaft, "hand acting", Ben Sachs on moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Fri 12/7

What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 7, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, The Den Theatre, Wicker Park, Vagina II, DJ Shadow, the Mid, West Loop, Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow, Peter Margasak, DJ Intel, Zebo, Moppy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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 Oct 25, 2012
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The 35-millimeter nanny, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Aardman Animations, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Laika Inc., Coraline, ParaNorman, Cloud Atlas, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Chicago Cultural Center, DePaul University, Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue, My Home movie, Reluctant Bachelor movie, No Men Allowed, The Sessions movie, John Hawke, Helen Hunt, The Seventh Companion, Aleksei Guerman, Vincent Grenier: Tabula Rasa, The Whisperer in Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Lake, Landmark's Century Centre, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rupert Julian, Phantom of the Opera, Beverly Arts Center, Isa Takahata, Pom Poko, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Northbrook Court, Englewood Film Festival, I Ain't Scared of You—A Tribute to Bernie Mac, Georges Melies Cine-Concert, Lawrence Leherissey-Melies, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Jirokichi the Rat, Kataoka Ichiro, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, 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 Sep 14, 2012
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A four-star movie, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Tonight You're Mine, Maurice Pialat, We Won't Grow Old Together, Susan Morgan Cooper, Mulberry Child, Arbitrage movie, Richard Gere, The Cold Light of Day, Mabrouk El Mechri, JCVD, Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Family Portrait in Black and White, Honey movie, Magnificat: Films by Pat O'Neill, Mulberry Child, Polluting Paradise, Faith Akin, Head On, The Edge of Heaven, Side by Side, The Words, Bradley Cooper, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, Shirley Clarke, The Connection movie, Eran Riklis, The Human Resources Manager, Film Movement, Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly, Fred Camper, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, David Byrne, Bettina Richards, Home Movies and the Avant-Garde, Cinema Borealis, Errol Magidson, The Making of a Documentary: Chicago's Only Castle, Terror in the Aisles 12, The Stuff movie, Larry Cohen, Frankenhooker, Patty Mullen, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
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A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, Music Box Theatre, Bone, Larry Cohen, Seeing the Light, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, The Crowd, King Vidor, Compliance, King Vidor, Love in Another Language, Turkish cinema, Green, Sophia Takal, The Possession, Sam Raimi, Queen of Hearts, Valerie Donzelli, Samsara, California State of Mind, Big Trouble in Little China, repertory screenings, Cinema Borealis, John Carpenter, I'm No Angel, Mae West, The Searchers, John Ford, Fred Camper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2012
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Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Studs' Place, Studs Terkel, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Sebastian Bane, Patrick Wang, In the Family movie, Facets Cinematheque, Compliance movie, Craig Zobel, Great World of Sound, Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, Ira Glass, Music Box, Christiaan Zwanniken, Convento movie, The Apparition movie, Warner Bros, For a Good Time, Call movie, Lawless movie, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, The Road, Little White Lies, Guillaume Canet, Tell No One, Oslo August 31, Joachim Trier, Reprise movie, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Gibson Gowland, Eric von Stroheim, Greed, Airplane!, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawks Scarface, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, movies, Video

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