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Film
,
Movie Feature
Mar 10, 2020
Chicago Movie Journal: Two Walshes, two
Invisible
s
Four films exploring humanity, made for the big screen.
By Ben Sachs
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Movie Feature
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Raoul Walsh
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The Big Trail
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The Bowery
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The Man I Love
,
the Strawberry Blonde
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Music Box Theatre
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Doc Films
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Ida Lupino
,
Invisible Life
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Facets
,
Amazon
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Karim Aïnouz
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Heroes for Sale
,
Blind Chance
,
The Edge of Heaven
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The Invisible Man
,
Leigh Whannell
,
Breaking the Waves
,
Dancer in the Dark
,
Upgrade
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 14, 2018
The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week
Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
By Patrick Friel
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Crime
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Film
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The Internet
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William A. Wellman
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Wings
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gangster
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The Public Enemy
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FilmStruck
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Mae Clarke
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Edward Woods
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Joan Blondell
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Donald Cook
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Dave KehrNight Nurse
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Warners
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Manny Farber
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Joan Blondell
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Clark Gable
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Safe in Hell
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Dorothy Mackaill
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Donald Cook
,
Reece Pendleton
,
Heroes for Sale
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Richard Barthelmess
,
Ben Sachs
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Wild Boys of the Road
,
Frankie Darro
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 26, 2014
A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014
The year in old movies
By Ben Sachs
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Arts
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Year in Review
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Film
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Year in review
,
repertory programming
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Aelita: Queen of Mars
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Block Cinema
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Northwestern University
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Logan Square International Film Series
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Moumen Smihi
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44 or Tales of the Night
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South Side Projections
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Attica
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Cinda Firestone
,
Logan Center for the Arts
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Noir City: Chicago
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The Black Vampire
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Music Box Theatre
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Bruce Nauman
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Clown Torture
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
The Constant Factor
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Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Corns-a-Poppin
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Northwest Chicago Film Society
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Dead Birds
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Robert Gardner
,
Nightingale Cinema
,
Domitor
,
University of Chicago
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Domitor
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Chicago Film Archives
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A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha
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Harun Farocki
,
Kevin B. Lee
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Green Fields
,
Edgar G Ulmer
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Doc Films
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Yiddish-language cinema
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Heroes for Sale
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William A Wellman
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Helen Hill
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John and Faith Hubley
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experimental animation
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Stanley Kramer
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
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Son of 70mm Film Festival
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Julius Caesar
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Mon Oncle d'Amerique
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Alain Resnais
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Lord Thing
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DeWitt Beall
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Black Harvest Film Festival
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Suzan Pitt
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Gallery 400
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A Rage in Harlem
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Bill Duke
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Roommates
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Chuck Vincent
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Jan Nemec
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Facets Multimedia
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A Report on the Party and the Guests
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The Shanghai Gesture
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Josef von Sternberg
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Henri Langlois
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Bruce Jenkins
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Mike Kuchar
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George Kuchar
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
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Hold Me While I'm Naked
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John Smith
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structuralist film
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Film Studies Center
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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Ivan Dixon
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Floyd Webb
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Black World Cinema
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William Friedkin
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Sorcerer
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Two Stars in the Milky Way
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Chinese opera films
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Waltzes From Vienna
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The Wind
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Victor Sjostrom
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Footsteps
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 14, 2014
I'm being haunted by the ghost of Wilson Mizner!
The legendary scam artist (and sometime Hollywood screenwriter) has been turning up all over Chicago in the past several months.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Paranormal
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Moviegoing
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Film
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History
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Wilson Mizner
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moviegoing
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Daniel Pinkwater
,
Stephen Sondheim
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John Weidman
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Road Show
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Assassins
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Heroes for Sale
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The Mind Reader
,
Warren William
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Roy Del Ruth
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William A. Wellman
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Chicago Public Library
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Harold Washington Library
,
the Brown Derby
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The Neddiad
,
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Blogs
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Bleader
Jun 19, 2014
Westward the Women
: A neglected classic about sexual politics on the frontier
Discovering William A. Wellman's rarely revived 1951 western, available for rent at the Chicago Public Library
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
On Video
,
Women's Issues
,
Film
,
William A. Wellman
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Westward the Women
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westerns
,
sexual politics
,
Heroes for Sale
,
John Ford
,
Robert Taylor
Blogs
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Bleader
May 30, 2014
Video
Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week's hard-to-spell screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Camouflage Zanussi
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The Constant Factor
,
Ben Sachs
,
The Dance of Reality
,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
,
El Topo
,
The Holy Mountain
,
Heroes for Sale
,
William A. Wellman
,
The Public Enemy
,
Nothing Sacred
,
American Jesus
,
Black Box
,
Stephen Cone
,
The Wise Kids
,
Chinese Puzzle
,
Cedric Klpaisch
,
When the Cat's Away
,
Cold in July
,
Michael C. Hall
,
Sam Shepard
,
Don Johnson
,
Just a Sigh
,
Emmanuelle Devos
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Manakamana
,
Leviathan movie
,
A Million Ways to Die in the West
,
Family Guy
,
Seth MacFarlane
,
The Supreme Price
,
M.K.O. Abiola
,
X-Men: Days of Future Past
,
Michael Snow
,
*Corpus Callosum
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Charles Chaplin
,
The Great Dictator
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Leo McCarey
,
Make Way for Tomorrow
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
To Be or Not to Be
,
Pete Docter
,
Bob Peterson
,
Up Pixar
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
movies
,
Video
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,
Bleader
Mar 25, 2010
Video
Hollywood When It Was Hot
Park Ridge Public Library presents a nine-week series on precode Hollywood.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Precode cinema
,
Motion Picture Production Code
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Wild Boys of the Road
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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
,
Matthew Hoffman
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LaSalle Bank Cinema
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Bank of America Cinema
,
Park Ridge Public Library
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
Trouble in Paradise
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William Wellman
,
Night Nurse
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Rouben Mamoulian
,
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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Dorothy Arzner
,
Merrily We Go to Hell
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Mervyn LeRoy
,
Three on a Match
,
Heroes for Sale
,
Midnight Mary
,
Alfred E. Green
,
Baby Face
,
Mitchell Leisen
,
Murder at the Vanities
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