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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 May 8, 2015
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Far From the Madding Crowd, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Far From the Madding Crowd, Carey Mulligan, Ben Sachs, The D Train, Jack Black, James Marsden, Queen and Country, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Boorman, Point Blank, Deliverance, Hope and Glory, M*A*S*H, Stripes, About Elly, Asghar Farhadi Separation, Aspen Frederick Wiseman, Black Souls, Heaven Adores You, Elliott Smith, Christina Noble documentary, Roar movie, Tippi Hedren, Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig, Music Box Chicago, Shira Piven, Joan Cusack, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, University of Chicago Doc Films, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, Hope and Glory, Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, Alexander Korda, That Hamilton Woman, Frank Tashlin, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, CineYouth Festival, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Dyke Delicious May Shorts, Chicago Filmmakers, For Educational Purposes Only, Washington Park Arts Incubator, Sing-A-Long Mamma Mia, Sonic Celluloid, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ruined Heart, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of New Hollywood

Top five New Hollywood films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, New Hollywood, Northbrook Public Library, The Cotton Club, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Siskel Film Center, Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, Roman Polanski, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Rainy People, Apocalypse Now, Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, Kent Jones, Point Blank, John Boorman, Lee Marvin

Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2013
Zardoz has spoken, and your penis may never be the same

John Boorman's futuristic camp classic screens tonight at the Portage.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Seriously?, Film, Deliverance, John Boorman, 20th Century-Fox, Sean Connery, James Bond, Charlotte Rampling, science fiction, fantasy, movies

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, 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, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2012
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What's screening this weekend

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar, James McTeigue, The Raven, John Cusack, Edgar Allan Poe, Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope, Lawrence Kasdan, Darling Companion, Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Daniel Nettheim, The Hunter, Willem Dafoe, Josef Astor, Lost Bohemia, Carnegie Hall, Percy Adlon, Felix Adlon, Mahler on the Couch, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, Dan Tanz, Triumph67, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Badlands, University of Chicago Doc Films, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Landmark's Century Centre, Johnnie To, Election Johnnie To, Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hong Sang-soo, Night and Day Hong Sang-soo, John Boorman, Point Blank, Music Box, Joss Whedon, Serenity movie, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Block Museum of Art, William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Adrian Martin, Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing, Heather McAdams, My Dad Heather McAdams, Scopitones, Sci-Fi Spectacular, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2011
Best of 2011, number 10: And Everything Is Going Fine

Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, J.R. Jones, 2011, Kafka, Schizopolis, The Limey, Point Blank, Richard Lester, Carol Reed, John Boorman

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2008
Eurotreasure

Gene Siskel Film Center releases its schedule for the European Union Film Festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ken Loach, European Union, European films, Olivier Assayas, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, John Boorman, Nick Broomfield, Giuseppe Tornatore

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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

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Far From the Madding Crowd, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013

Weekly Top Five: The best of New Hollywood

Top five New Hollywood films

Zardoz has spoken, and your penis may never be the same

John Boorman's futuristic camp classic screens tonight at the Portage.

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Incest, adultery, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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What's screening this weekend

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

Best of 2011, number 10: And Everything Is Going Fine

Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.

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Gene Siskel Film Center releases its schedule for the European Union Film Festival.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.

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