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Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2015
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Reeling roundup, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, 4th Man Out, Brokeback Mountain, I Am Love, Ben Sachs, The Second Mother, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Black Mass, Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger, Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers, Hippocrates Diary of a French Doctor, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Bobby Fischer, Tobey Maguire, Boris Spassky, Liev Schreiber, Sleeping With Other People, Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Time Out of Mind, Richard Gere, The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, Jason Blum, Paranormal Activity, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Josef von Sternberg, The Docks of New York, Robert Altman Nashville, Mario Monicelli, The Organizer, The Passionate Thief, Andrew Niccol, Gattaca, Shannon Hackett, Field Museum, Kevin Feldheim, Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, Slate Culturefest Live!, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 15, 2015
Our guide to the 2015 Chicago International Movies & Music Festival

New documentaries focus on Devo, Morphine, the Mekons, the Residents, and more
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Sara Ranganathan, Dominic Johnson, New Millennium Orchestra, Buster Keaton, Seven Chances, Marc Ribot, Josef von Sternberg, Docks of New York, Chandeliers, Feherlofia, Sones de Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein, Que Viva Mexico!, Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, DJ Sneak, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, Hank Shocklee, 1st Ward, Metro, Yakuza, the Gunshy, Local H, Clearance, John Primer, Liam Hayes, Ne-Hi, Spike Lee, Absolute Beginners, Basically, Johnny Moped, Danny Says, Don't Think I've Forgotten, Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come, Ray Davies: Imaginary Man, East Nashville Tonight, 808: The Movie, Hardcore DEVO Live!, Jaco, Morphine: Journey of Dreams, Never Release My Fist, Revenge of the Mekons, Shake the Dust, Teenage Ghost Punk, Theory of Obscurity: A Film About

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2014
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Your moment of Zen, 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, Jon Stewart, Rosewater, Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman, Chicago Italian Film Festival, Music Box, Coming to Terms, Jon Jost, Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller, Moneyball, Capote, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, Josef von Sternberg, The Devil Is a Woman, Akira Kurosawa, High and Low, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alain Berliner, My Life in Pink, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2014
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The real story behind Dog Day Afternoon, Nicolas Cage, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Opening, Film, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon, The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, John Wojtowicz, Facets, Nicholas Cage, Left Behind, Last Days in Vietnam, Music Box, Gone Girl, David Fincher, Gillian Flynn, Last Weekend, Patricia Clarkson, Men Women & Children, Jason Reitman, Juno, Avanti!, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Jonathan Rosenbaun, Nagisa Oshima, In the Realm of the Senses, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Gene Siskel Film Center, Francois Ozon, 8 Women, Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Exress, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2014
Hungry for more artful quasi-camp? Check out Lightning Strikes Twice!

To quote Dave Kehr, give this 1951 melodrama an ounce of respect, and you'll discover a remarkable aesthetic object.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Seriously?, Film, King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Beyond the Forest, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge

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 Sep 7, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Josef von Sternberg

Highlights from the filmography of Josef von Sternberg
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Josef von Sternberg, Underworld, Morocco, Shanghai Express, The Devil Is a Woman, The Docks of New York

Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2014
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Men behind bars, obsolete stars, 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, David Mackenzie, Young Adam, Asylum David Mackenzie, Mister Foe, Hallam Foe, Spread David Mackenzie, Spread Ashton Kutcher, Tonight You're Mine, Ben Sachs, Starred Up, Facets Cinematheque, J.R. Jones, The Congress, Robin Wright, Rich Hill, Norte the End of History, As Above/So Below, A Five Star Life, The Identical, The Last of Robin Hood, Kevin Kline, Errol Flynn, Dakota Fanning, Life After Beth, Aubrey Plaza, Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel, Music Box Chicago, Preston Sturges, Christmas in July, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Agnieszka Holland Interrogation, Chicago Cultural Center, Jean-Pierre Dardennes Luc Dardennes, Dardennes brothers, The Kid With a Bike, Transistor Chicago, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 3, 2014
This weekend the Music Box begins a three-month retrospective of the films of Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg

Noting a seven-film, 35-millimeter series, which begins with the classic The Blue Angel
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, History, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Music Box Theatre, The Blue Angel, Alfred Hitchcock, 1930s cinema

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2014
An interview with silent-film accompanist David Drazin (part two)

The longtime Chicago musician shares his knowledge of silent movie history and recalls some notable screenings he's accompanied.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, Music, David Drazin, silent cinema, Underworld, Josef von Sternberg, Arsenal, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Motion Picture Moods, Erno Rapee, The Big Parade, King Vidor, Charlie Chaplin, Napoleon, Abel Gance, movie music, Lon Chaney, The HUnchback of Notre Dame, Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Louis Feuillade, Les Vampires, Judex, Gene Siskel Film Center, Vladimir Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet cinema, Que Viva Mexico

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2013
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The year's most Seussian-named film festival, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between October 4 and 10
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Music Box Theatre, Docs at the Box, Shepard and Dark, Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself, A Fierce Green Fire, documentaries, nonfiction filmmaking, Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, Jean-Pierre Melville, Gene Siskel Film Center, French Classics Conserved, A Pig Across Paris, Our Children, Un Flic, Dirty Money, Dead Man, Nick Offerman, Jim Jarmusch, Doc Films, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, John Cassavetes, Faces, Josef von Sternberg, Thunderbolt, Cold Water, Olivier Assayas, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Goldstein, Mr. Bug Goes to Town, Symphony for the Soil, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Jacques Audiard, A Prophet, Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Parkland, JFK assassination, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Kartemquin Films, Our Nixon, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2013
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Getting personal in the theater, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 13 and 19
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Short Term 12, review, Riddick, Drew Hunt, Faces of Women, Blacklight Cinema, Floyd Webb, Fall Arts Preview, Beyond the Hill, Turkish cinema, Ximena Cuevas, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Massacre, pre-Code cinema, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Muslims Are Coming!, Populaire, A Teacher, Facets Multimedia, John Ford, Straight Shooting, The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Chase, Arthur Ripley, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, Francois Truffaut, The Green Room, Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, Josef von Sternberg, Underworld, Docks of New York, Northbrook Public Library, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2012
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Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Elia Kazan, Wild River, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Battleship movie, Ben Sachs, Hick movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hysteria movie, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Man Who Will Come, Marzabotto, Men in Black 3, Polisse movie, Wallander: The Revenge, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Jackson, Dead Alive, Music Box, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Lee Chang-dong, Poetry movie, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Block Museum of Art, River East 21, Crown Village 18, Pixar, Ratatouille movie, Up movie, WALL-E, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2012
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Screening this week: Richard Linklater's Bernie, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bernie Richard Linklater, Bernie Jack Black, Bernie movie, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Paul Simon, Under African Skies, Battleship movie, Liam Neeson, Mansome, Morgan Spurlock, The Moth Diaries, The Outfit movie, Robert Duvall, Robert Ryan, Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, The Samaritan movie, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick, Jennifer Lopez, Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, Caramel Nadine Labaki, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, Block Museum of Art, Jean Renoir, The Golden Coach, University of Chicago Doc Films, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Landmark's Century Centre, Vincente Minelli, Lust for Life, Bong Joon-ho Mother, Jean Eustache, The Mother and the Whore, Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Express, Sonic Celluloid, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2012
I'm outta here!

Thinking about a few great endings to play on Chicago screens this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Children of Paradise, Marcel Carne, Morocco, Josef von Sternberg, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Legend of Lylah Clare, Two English Girls, endings to movies

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2012
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Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian Pintilie, and other keywords

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Reader
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Raven movie, John Cusack, Facets Cinematheque, Lucian Pintilie, The Avengers movie, Marvel Comics, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, The First Season, Hit So Hard, Hole Live Through This, Patty Schemel, Keyhole movie, Guy Maddin, Sing Your Song, Harry Belafonte, Surviving Progress, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel, Roman Polanski, Chinatown movie, Music Box, Jack Hill, Coffy movie, Johnnie To, Exiled movie, Kim Jee-woon, The Good the Bad and the Weird, Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bob Mizer, Nightingale, Romanian cinema, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 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, Universal Pictures, Bridesmaids, Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, Albert Brooks, The Double Hour, Meeks' Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Coming Back for More, Sly Stone, The Devil's Trap, Frantisek Vlacil, Everything Must Go, Raymond Carver, Will Ferrell, Forks Over Knives, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Make Believe, World Magic Seminar, Mia and the Migoo, Twelve Thirty movie, Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored, Portage theater, Clara Bow, It movie, It Clara Bow, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid movie, The Kid Chaplin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wim Wenders, King of the Road, Block Museum of Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie movie, Marnie Hitchcock, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, Peter Pan movie, Wilmette theater, Bela Tarr, Satantango, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New releases and fresh reviews in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Chicago Independent Movies and Music Festival, European Union Film Festival, Hooked, The Other Irene, Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton, The Blindness Series, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Brooklyn's Finest, Training Day, Antione Fuqua; The Crazies, George Romero, The Good Guy, Julio DePietro, The Paranoids, Terribly Happy, Baby Face, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jesus Camp, Columbia College, Jet Pilot, Josef von Sternberg, John Wayne, Janet Leigh, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2009
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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 Feb 12, 2007
Lost, lost, lost ...

If you're still puzzling over Laura Dern's performance in Inland Empire, rest assured that she is too.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, David Lynch, Laura Dern, Inland Empire, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Isabella Rossellini, Svengali

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