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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

Film, Movie Review Nov 12, 2014
Our guide to the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Lili Carré and Alexander Stewart present their annual cornucopia of mind-blowing imagery.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Lili Carré, Alexander Stewart, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, avant-garde cinema, alternative comics, Florence Miailhe, Hammam, Georges Schwizgebel, Jeu, M.C. Escher, trompe l'oeil, Nicole Hewitt, In/Dividu, Jan Svankmajer, llison Schulnick, Eager, Joshua Mosley, Jeu de Paume, Jake Fried, Headspace, Caleb Wood

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
Video
Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2012
Video
Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, Columbia College, Killer Joe, William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Cruising, Bug movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Knox College, Galesburg, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, A Black Harvest Feast, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, The Christmas Tree, Angel Krsiti Williams, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Girlfriend Boyfriend, The Loves of Pharoah, Ernst Lubitsch, The Queen of Versailles, Richard's Wedding, Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, Alice Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Jan Svankmajer, Abel Ferrara, The Driller Killer, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan theater, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Music Box, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, King Kong, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2006
That's disgusting!

Is Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Palfi the new Jan Svankmajer? Or does he just like to make your skin crawl?
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Taxidermia, Jan Svankmajer, Jean Painleve, Imre Makovec, Hukkle, Gyorgy Palfi

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 20, 2005
Alice
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Alice, Czech, Jan Svankmajer, Taxidermy, Film Block Museum of Art

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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.

Our guide to the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Lili Carré and Alexander Stewart present their annual cornucopia of mind-blowing imagery.

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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

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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.

Our guide to the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Lili Carré and Alexander Stewart present their annual cornucopia of mind-blowing imagery.

Video Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue

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That's disgusting!

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Alice

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