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Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2018
Five opera films that hit the high notes

If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center's screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, Foreign, History, Moviegoing, Music, Opera, Performing Arts, Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Flute, opera, Chuck Jones, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, What's Opera Doc?, Carmen Jones, Otto Preminger, Dorothy Dandridge, CinemaScope, Dave Kehr, Bluebeard's Castle, Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, Bela Bartok, Bela Balazs, Leni Riefenstahl, Hein Heckroth, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffman, Norman Foster, Anna Raquel Satre, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moses and Aaron, Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet, Arnold Schoenberg, Don Giovanni, Joseph Losey, Mozart, Freud, Marx, The Boy With Green Hair, Mr. Klein, Parsifal, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, King Ludwig, Karl May, Richard Wagner, Edith Clever, Yvonne Minton, Reiner Goldberg, Robert Loyd, Wolfgang Schone, Aage Haugland

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
Five must-see heist films

Great heist movies from 1955 to 2005 (that don't have "Ocean" in the title and aren't directed by Quentin Tarantino).
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Good Time, Music Box Theatre, 35mm, Quentin Tarantino, Rififi, Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, Jules Dassin, Auguste le Breton, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Night and the City, Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, Lionel White, Clean Break, Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, J.C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, Timothy Carey, Orson Welles, The Getaway, Jim Thompson, Sam Peckinpah, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Walter Hill, Dave Kehr, Going in Style, George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Martin Brest, Heat, Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Reservoir Dogs, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Elliot Goldenthal

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2015
The five best British films

Highlights from British film history
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Servant, Joseph Losey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Distant Voices Still Lives, Terence Davies, The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg

Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of film noir

The best of film noir
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Noir City, Music Box, film noir, They Live by Night, Sweet Smell of Success, the Big Heat, Fritz Lang, Behind Locked Doors, Budd Boetticher, The Big Night, Joseph Losey, 99 River Street, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Phil Karlson

Film, Movie Review Aug 27, 2014
It's a noir, noir, noir, noir world at the Music Box

Noir City: Chicago 6 presents international film noir rarities.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, Noir City, Music Box, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Quai des Orfevres, Juan Antonio Bardem, Death of a Cyclist, Criterion Collection, The Black Vampire, Fritz Lang, M, Joseph Losey, Too Late for Tears, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Dixon, Charles McGraw, Caged, Tension, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Audrey Totter, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Born to Be Bad, Drunken Angel, Pepe le Moko, Rififi

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
Video
Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Delivery Man, Starbuck, Vince Vaughn, Lenny Cooke, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Third Ward TX, Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky, Jane Adams, Claire Denis, Bastards, Kasi Lemmons, Black Nativity, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Langston Hughes, Disney Frozen, Hans Christian Andersen, Homefront movie, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, The Burbs, University of Chicago Doc Films, Olivier Assayas Carlos, Jean-Luc Godard Contempt, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Claire Denis, The Intruder, W.C. Fields, Million Dollar Legs, Joel McCrea, Girls About Town, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Patio Theater Chicago, The Sound of Music, Music Box Chicago, Block Museum of Art, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Logan Center for the Arts, From 2337 West Monroe Street, Fred Hampton, Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist, The Room movie, Cinema Minima, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deck the Holodeck, Cole's Bar, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 11/6: Reading Under the Influence, Sparks, and M

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, November 6
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Reading Under the Influence, Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic, Matt David, Art Nerd Chicago, Mason Johnson, Sad Robot Stories, Ashley Keenan, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, Lincoln Hall, M, Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Patio Theater

Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Palme d'Or winners

Weekly Top Five: Palme d'Or winners
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or, Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche, The Go-Between, Joseph Losey, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Viridiana, Luis Bunuel, Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami

Film, Movie Review Oct 30, 2013
The (re)making of M

Joseph Losey takes another crack at the Fritz Lang masterpiece.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Casablanca, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Hollywood, Fritz Lang, M, Joseph Losey, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dartmouth College, Soviet Union, Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, New York, Bertolt Brecht, Galileo, Charles Laughton, The Boy With Green Hair, The Prowler, Seymour Nebenzal, Third Reich, Berlin, Weimar Republic, Thea von Harbou, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Metropolis, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Peter Lorre, Arsenic and Old Lace, My Favorite Brunette, David Wayne, Production Code Administration, Seymour Nebenzal, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, Thomas Elsaesser

Film, Movie Review Aug 14, 2013
In Ulzana's Raid, the Vietnam War's in the Arizona desert

Robert Aldrich's allegory depicts a struggle that continues.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Arizona, 19th century, Apache, Burt Lancaster, Ulzana's Raid, Northwest Chicago Film Society, the Patio Theater, Robert Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller, Charles Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Robert Rossen, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey, McCarthyism, militarism, mass media, chauvinism, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich, Tony Williams, Clifford Odets, New York, Group Theatre, Enterprise Studios, The Big Knife, John Garfield, Art Smith, the Cultural Front, Alan Sharp, Body and Soul, The Legend of Lylah Clare, Joseph Biroc, Frank DeVol, Michael Luciano, The Killing of Sister George, Too Late the Hero, The Grissom Gang, Twilight's Last Gleaming, John Ford, Monument Valley

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2013
Video
Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, R.I.P.D., Robert Schwentke, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Theatre, Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker, Blackfish, Girl Most Likely, Still Mine, The To Do List, Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Francis Ford Coppola, One From the Heart, Northbrook Public Library, Des Plaines Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Gone With the Wind, 4K DCP, The Sleeping Tiger, Joseph Losey, The Late George Apley, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Patio Theater, The Happy Poet, Paul Gordon, Red 2, Landmark Century Center, movies, Chicago, Video

Film, Movie Review Jan 16, 2013
Recommended
Western swing

Phil Karlson's politically minded films pushed the genre leftward.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Review, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Tab Hunter, Van Heflin, James Darren, Phil Nugent, John Ford, Wagon Master, Fort Apache, The Searchers, They Rode West, Robert Francis, The Phenix City Story, Daniel Mainwaring, Joseph Losey, The Lawless, Crane Wilbur, Hell to Eternity, revisionist Western, Pearl Harbor, Japanese American imprisonment, The Brothers Rico, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2013
This winter at Doc Films: Mitchum, Wong, Coens, and more

Previewing the University of Chicago film society's winter calendar
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Doc Films, Robert Mitchum, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Ernie Pyle, 1928, King Vidor, The Driver, Walter Hill, Howard Hawks, El Dorado, Rio Bravo, The Patsy, Marion Davies, Secret Ceremony, Joseph Losey, The Wind, Victor Sjostrom, Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs, University of Chicago, Joel and Ethan Coen, Louis Malle, Amy Taubin, Wong Kar-Wai, Christopher Doyle, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Gus Van Sant, Psycho, Zhang Yimou, Hero

Blogs, Bleader Aug 2, 2012
Harold Pinter and the sound of silence

Harold Pinter's screenplays deepen our understanding of his work.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Dick Borgade, James Fox, Robert Maughman, William Friedkin, Killer Joe, The Birthday Party, The Boys in the Band, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, F. Scott Fitzgerland, Figures in a Landscape, McCarthyism, David Caute, Accident, The Go-Between, Secret Ceremony, Robert Mitchum, Elleston Trevor, The Quiver Memorandum, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon, Galileo

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2010
It's Not That Good, but If I Use a Photo From It, Will You Please Read My Post?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre, Renaissance Place, Good the Bad the Weird, Iron Man 2, Babies movie, Ferlinghetti A City Light, Human Centipede, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron, Gene Siskel Film Center, Takedowns and Falls, Vincent A Life in Color, Joseph Losey, Galileo, Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Glenn Miller Story, Northbrook Public Library, Maurice Pialat, Loulou, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Vittorio de Sica, Umberto D, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Word Is Out, Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago movies, movies.

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