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Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2017
This month, three silent films will screen in the Chicago area with live music

See The Kid at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles on February 15, The Artist at the Logan Theatre on February 11, and 7th Heaven at St. John Cantius Church on February 26.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Silent Film Society of Chicago, SFSC, silent films, The Kid, The Artist, 7th Heaven, Felix in Hollywood, Logan Theatre, St. John Cantius, Arcada Theatre, Jay Warren, Dennis Wolkowicz, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Jean Dujardin, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, Phantom of the Opera, Battleship Potemkin, Ludovic Bource, Gaylord Carter, The Toy That Grew Up, Hal Pearl, Aragon Ballroom, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lon Cheney, Harold Lloyd

Film, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films

This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Fall Preview, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Alloy Orchestra, Varieté, Emil Jannings, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Jay Warren, Renée Baker, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul, The Flying Ace, Chicago Sinfonietta, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mantra Blue Free Orchestra, Don DiNicola, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Paul Robeson, Norman Studios, Richard E. Norman, Indiana University, Within Our Gates, The Symbol of the Unconquered, Ku Klux Klan, D.W. Griffith, silent cinema, silent film accompaniment

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2016
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Embrace of the Serpent slithers into 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, Ciro Guerra, Embrace of the Serpent, Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Trapped, Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, European Union Film Festival, The Fencer, Free Entry, Lolo, Julie Deply, Before Sunrise, Love Island, Viva movie, Wondrous Boccaccio, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, The Decameron, Martin Scorsese Hugo, Isao Takahata, Only Yesterday, Tom Palazzolo, Harold Lloyd, Speedy, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, David Cronenberg, Videodrome, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Spotlight, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2013
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, 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, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Portage Theater Chicago, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, About Sunny, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Fast & Furious 6, Jacquot Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Maisie New, Henry James, Zoolander, Ben Stiller, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, The Hangover Part III, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Douglas Sirk, All I Desire, Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts, Logan Center for the Arts, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Comfort Station, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Music Box Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Northbrook Public Library, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Logan Theater Chicago, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2012
Video
All this and air-conditioning too: the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Chicago French Film Festival, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, 17 Girls, A Cat in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Umberto Lenzi, Nightmare City, University of Chicago Doc Films. Hayao Miyazaki, Porco Rosso, Sacrifice movie, Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine, El Velador, Culiacan, The Watch movie, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, Marx Brothers, Leo McCarey, Duck Soup, Logan theater, Harold Lloyd, The Kid Brother, Portage theater, Tim Baker, Frank Borzage, Little Man What Now?, Stuart Schulberg, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Spertus Institute, Jame Whale, Show Boat, 50 Years @ 1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation, Lawndale 10, Block Museum of Art, Rare Baseball Films: The Newsreels, David Filipi, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Portage Theater, Sherlock Holmes, John Barrymore, George Eastman House, Hugh Hefner, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, William Gillette, Harold Lloyd, The Kid Brother, Fritz Lang, The Spiders movie, Douglas Fairbanks, The Gaucho, Stella Dallas, Joan Crawford, Our Dancing Daughters, silent movies, silent cinema, film festivals

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2012
Video
Studio Ghibli, Jane Fonda, and other notable screenings

An overview of reviews in this week's issue and notable screenings around town
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Castles in the Sky, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Only Yesterday, Jane Fonda, Peace Love and Misunderstanding, Elles, Juliette Binoche, Music Box Theatre, An American Werewolf in London, Portage Theatre, Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, John Landis, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Eric Rohmer, Summer, Block Cinema, Nate and Margaret, Pink Ribbons Inc., Snow White and the Huntsman, Matchmaking Mayor, Prometheus, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 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, Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, Limitless movie, Neil Burger, The Lucky Ones, The Illusionist, Paul movie, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Music Box, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Mick Garris, Critters 2: The Main Course, Chuck Russell, The Blob, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, The Arbor movie, Andrea Dunbar, The First Beautiful Thing, Letters to Father Jacob, Nenette movie, Le Quattro Volte, Rabbit a la Berlin, The Invisible Frame, Berlin Wall, The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey, Monogamy movie, Murderball, Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, Turner Classic Movies, Robert Osborne, Jane Powell, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Terrence Malick, Badlands movie, Jim Trainor, Charles Chaplin, The Kid movie, Mayne Stage, Marc Ribot, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Links Hall, Harold Lloyd, Movie Crazy, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage, Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire, Catherine Denueve, Roman Polanski, Repulsion movie, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Francois Ozon, 8 Women, Francois Truffaut, The Last Metro, Potiche, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2011
Video
Now Playing: Legends of Laughter

Silent comedy classics by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd screen at Park Ridge Public Library, introduced by Matthew Hoffman.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Park Ridge Public Library, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Matthew Hoffman, Legends of Laughter, Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Buster Keaton, The Navigator, Sherlock Jr, Steamboat Bill Jr, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, The Freshman, The Kid Brother, silent movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Lucy Walker, Waste Land, Jardim Gramacho landfill, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago International Film Festival, Music Box, Cedar Rapids movie, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, The Eagle movie, The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inspector Bellamy, Claude Chabrol, Loveless movie, The Roommate movie, The Woodmans, Francesa Woodman, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Harold Lloyd, Girl Shy, Doc Films, Robert Rossen, The Hustler, Block Museum of Art, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Loyola University, Ted Hardin, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Greta Garbo, Northbrook Public Library, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Cary Grant, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Clint Eastwood, Play Misty for Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Harold Lloyd, Harold Lloyd The Freshman, Portage, Silent Summer Film Festival, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Ben-Hur, Ramon Navarro, The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks, The Penalty Lon Chaney, Harold Teen, Arthur Lake, Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie, Pollyanna, Mary Pickford, Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Rachel Weisz, Alexandria, Lovers of Hate, Bryan Poyser, Mercy Scott Caan, Ramona and Beezus, Beverly Cleary, Salt Angelina Jolie, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Bank of America Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Laurent Cantet The Class, Laurent Cantet Human Resources, Abbas Kiarostami Close-Up, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, David Lynch, Lost Highway, Music Box, Scott Tobias, Onion A/V Club, Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, Doc Films, film festivals, silent movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2009
Madam, I'm Adam
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Max Mayer, Adam movie, Adam Hugh Dancy, Adam Max Mayer, Hugh Dancy, Asperger's syndrome, Rose Byrne, Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andrea Gronvall, The Seed, Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968, Orangeburg massacre, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, Marion Barry, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden, Scott Hamilotn Kennedy Garden, South Central Los Angeles, Revanche, Rumba, The Answer Man, Jeff Daniels, The Cove, In Sickness and In Health, In My Father's Church, Irene in Time, Henry Jaglom, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Julia Child, Paper Heart, Michael Cera, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Busby Berkeley, Footlight Parade, James Cagney, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Silent Summer Film Festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Psycho, Grant Park, Rear Window, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Chicago movies, film festivals

Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2009
Video
Quiet time

The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Josef von Sternberg, Harold Lloyd, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Silent Summer Film Festival, silent films, W.C. Fields, Douglas Fairbanks, Frank Borzage, Anna May Wong, Running Wild, Gregory La Cava, The Thief of Bagdad, The Thief of Baghdad, Janey Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Girl Shy, Underworld Sternberg, Underworld von Sternberg, Piccadilly Anna May Wong, silent movies, Portage, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2008
Video
Harold Lloyd opens this year's Silent Summer Film Festival

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, Dennis Scott, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Silent Summer Film Festival, silent films, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields, Douglas Fairbanks, Video

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This month, three silent films will screen in the Chicago area with live music

See The Kid at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles on February 15, The Artist at the Logan Theatre on February 11, and 7th Heaven at St. John Cantius Church on February 26.

Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films

This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.

Video
Embrace of the Serpent slithers into town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Audio Video
Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
All this and air-conditioning too: the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

Video
Studio Ghibli, Jane Fonda, and other notable screenings

An overview of reviews in this week's issue and notable screenings around town

Video
This Week's Movie Action

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

Video
Now Playing: Legends of Laughter

Silent comedy classics by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd screen at Park Ridge Public Library, introduced by Matthew Hoffman.

Video
This Week's Movie Action

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

Video
This Week's Movie Action

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

Madam, I'm Adam

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Quiet time

The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.

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Harold Lloyd opens this year's Silent Summer Film Festival

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.

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See The Kid at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles on February 15, The Artist at the Logan Theatre on February 11, and 7th Heaven at St. John Cantius Church on February 26.

This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

An overview of reviews in this week's issue and notable screenings around town

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

Silent comedy classics by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd screen at Park Ridge Public Library, introduced by Matthew Hoffman.

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

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

The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.

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