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Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2018
Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Media, Moviegoing, On Video, Television, Unfriended, Gene Siskel Film Center, Accumulator 1, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Sidney Lumet, television, TV, Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Taxi Driver Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Dave Kehr, Videodrome, David Cronenberg, James Woods, Deborah Harry, Kenneth Anger, Star Wars, Spin, Brian Springer, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Pat Robertson, Jerry Brown, Larry King, Dan Rather, Saddam Hussein, Ted Turner, PBS, POV, Bill Stamets, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey, Andrew Niccol, Peter Weir, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Architecture, Film, Foreign, On Video, Gene Siskel Film Center, Always at the Carlyle, New York City, hotel Georges Méliès, Wes Andeson, The Shining, The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Universal, Dave Kehr, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, Playtime, The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Miami Beach, Fontainebleau Hotel, Cracking Up, Milton Berle, Walter Winchell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, Memphis, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Robby Müller, Barton Fink, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Hollywood, John Turturro, John Goodman, Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito

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 Apr 3, 2015
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The year's best movie (so far), 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, White God, European Union Film Festival, Asian American Showcase, Man From Reno, Dave Boyle, Surrogate Valentine, Daylight Savings, Ben Sachs, Charlie Minn, Es El Chapo?, Human Capital, Law & Order, Frederick Wiseman, Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing the Road Is All, Chicago: City on the Make, The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Sebastiao Salgados, Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren, Gustav Klimt, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, Kartemquin Films, Almost There, Daniel Sousa, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2014
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The Marx Brothers TV Collection follows the legendary comedy team into the 1950s, '60s, and '70s

A new three-DVD set from Shout! Factory collects the Marx Brothers' TV appearances.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: On Video, We're Old, Television, Film, Comedy, The Marx Brothers TV Collection, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Shout! Factory, Celebrity Bridge With Charles Goren, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Bet Your Life, The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, Labatt’s Beer, The College Bowl, General Electric Theater, Dennis Hopper, I've Got a Secret, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Incredible Jewel Robbery, Ronald Reagan, Stan Laurel, Jerry Lewis, Adam Sandler, I Love Lucy, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, The Wonderful World of Toys, The Dupont Show With June Allyson, The Jack Benny Show, ITV Television, The Jackie Gleason Show, Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, Al Shean, The Dick Cavett Show, Minnie's Boys, Lewis J. Stadlen, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, Peasie Weasie, vintage television, comedy, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 21, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Jerry Lewis

The best of Jerry Lewis
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man, Frank Tashling, Who's Minding the Store?, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, The Nutty Professor, the Patsy, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2014
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Romania mania, revealing Reeling, and the rest of this week's careening screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Music Box Chicago, Boy Meets Girl movie, Chicago Romanian Cultural Marathon, Facets Cinematheque, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Jess Weixler, See You Next Tuesday, Through a Lens Darkly, Thy Womb, God Help the Girl, Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch, The Guest movie, In Search of Chopin, Phil Grabsky, The Notebook movie, This Is Where I Leave You, Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Liam Neeson, The Zero Theorem, Brazil Terry Gilliam, Tusk Kevin Smith, The Human Centipede, David Fincher, Fight Club, Logan Theater Chicago, Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Transistor Chicago, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco Marlene Dietrich, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2014
Further thoughts on 22 Jump Street, devils, and cartoons

How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Comedy, 22 Jump Street, 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Christopher Miler, Pete Lord, The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy, Looney Tunes

Film, Movie Review Sep 18, 2013
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A fish-out-of-water comedy that’s just Godunov

The Family features Robert De Niro parodying not just his past films but Americans abroad.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, witness protection program, My Blue Heaven, Sister Act, The Family, Luc Besson, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo, Boris Godunov, Looney Tunes, mafia, The Heat, Identity Thief, We're the Millers, Grown Ups 2, The Hangover Part III, The Lone Range, R.I.P.D., Despicable Me 2, Monsters University, The Croods, Buster Keaton, Mack Sennet, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Joe Dante, Sam Raimi, the Coen brothers, Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men, Bruno Dumont, Video

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Film Retrospective

"Pierre Etaix: The Lost Laugh"
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2013, Jacqueline Stewart, Northwestern University, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Jacques Tati, The Suitor, Yoyo, Le Grand Amour, Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis, Criterion Collection, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 30, 2013
Susan Nussbaum's next act

The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Lit Feature, Susan Nussbaum, Barbara Kingsolver, Twitter, writing, Carrie Sandahl, profiles, Remains Theatre, theater, Highland Park, Mike Nussbaum, Roosevelt University, Goodman School of Drama, DePaul University, Theatre School at DePaul University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, writers, Mike Ervin, Smart Ass Cripple, blogs, books, Roger Ebert, radio theater, Jerry Lewis, novels, plays, Empowered FeFes, Utne Reader, Access Living, playwrights, Algonquin Books, documentaries, disability, Jerry's Kids, Fidel Castro, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, disability activism, Venceremos Brigade, Organization of Disabled Revolutionaries

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2012
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The funniest filmmaker you've never heard of

French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Jackie Chan, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Rumba movie, The Fairy movie, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket movie, Pierre Etaix Rupture, Happy Anniversary Pierre Etaix, Pierre Etaix The Suitor, Buster Keaton, Cirque Medrano, Spite Marriage, Pierre Etaix Yoyo, Chaplin The Circus, Chaplin Limelight, Sherlock Jr, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Belle de Jour, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, As Long As You're Healthy, Pierre Etaix Le Grand Amour, Jacques Tati Playtime, Land of Milk and Honey, The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis, Micmacs, Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Aki Kaurismaki, Le Havre, French cinema, comedy, 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 Jun 25, 2012
Hitting the books with writer-director Alex Ross Perry

An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, Film, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire, Sabbath's Theater, Zuckerman Bound, literary adaptation, independent filmmaking, Sean Price Williams, Kim's Video, Ben Sachs, Facets Multimedia, When She Was Good, Jerry Lewis, Jewish humor, Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, The Plot Against Harry

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2010
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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 Jan 30, 2009
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What's Old: Frank Tashlin at Northbrook Public Library

Frank Tashlin screens in 35-millimeter at Northbrook Public Library.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Walt Disney, Jerry Lewis, Northbrook Public Library, Frank Tashlin, Warner Brothers, Bob Hope, Son of Paleface, Dean Martin, Artists and Models, Hollywood or Bust, Susan Slept Here, The Girl Can't Help It, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2008
Scott Marks is alive and well and living online

Whatever became of Scott Marks?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Martin Scorsese, Classic Film Series, Scott Marks, Museum of Photographic Art, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, Emulsion Compulsion, Jerry Lewis

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Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A new three-DVD set from Shout! Factory collects the Marx Brothers' TV appearances.

The best of Jerry Lewis

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.

The Family features Robert De Niro parodying not just his past films but Americans abroad.

"Pierre Etaix: The Lost Laugh"

The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.

French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel

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

Frank Tashlin screens in 35-millimeter at Northbrook Public Library.

Whatever became of Scott Marks?

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