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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 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 Feb 14, 2014
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Iranian westerns, French madwomen, Laotian rocketeers, 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, Bruno Dumont, Camille Claudel 1915, Gene Siskel Film Center, Juliette Binoche, Auguste Rodin, The Rocket, Tim's Vermeer, Johannes Vermeer, The Music Lesson, Detroit Unleaded, In No Great Hurry, Saul Leiter, My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns, Parviz, Robocop, Paul Verhoeven, Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead, Winter's Tale, Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Downton Abbey, Spike Jonze Adaptation, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Music Box, Michael Roemer, Nothing But a Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, King Vidor, Our Daily Bread, Block Museum of Art, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Northbrook Public Library, Alfonso Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Doc Films, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Games on Stage, Eddo Stern, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Hump! Film Festival, Dan Savage, Pictures and Sounds, WHPK, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2013
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Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drug War, Johnnie To, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alfred Hitchcock, Music Box Theatre, Hitchcock 9, silent films, popular art, 2 Guns, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, South Side Projections, Logan Center for the Arts, Revolution on Film, ONO, Trick Bag, Kartemquin Films, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Kuttner, Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Europa Report, Sebastian Cordero, sci-fi, Lovelace, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, biopic, Kid-Thing, Facets Multimedia, The Spectacular Now, Landmark Century Center, We're the Millers, The Year I Broke My Voice, Chicago Filmmakers, Doc Films, Our Daily Bread, Babe, King Vidor, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, The Game, Fight Club, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2013
Oscar-nominated animated shorts: Veteran Pixar animator John Kahrs's 2-D Paperman

A review of the 2012 Disney short
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Paperman, Oscar-nominated animated shorts, John Kahrs, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar Studios, The Crowd, King Vidor, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Johnnie To, Cinderella, 2-D animation, Midtown Manhattan

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 Sep 12, 2012
Loss in The Crowd

Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Poverty, Film, Politics, The Crowd, King Vidor, silent cinema, Music Box Theatre, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Dennis Scott, urban life, poverty, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
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A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, Music Box Theatre, Bone, Larry Cohen, Seeing the Light, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, The Crowd, King Vidor, Compliance, King Vidor, Love in Another Language, Turkish cinema, Green, Sophia Takal, The Possession, Sam Raimi, Queen of Hearts, Valerie Donzelli, Samsara, California State of Mind, Big Trouble in Little China, repertory screenings, Cinema Borealis, John Carpenter, I'm No Angel, Mae West, The Searchers, John Ford, Fred Camper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2010
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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, Sesame Street, Muppets, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Henson, Fran Brill, Chicago Reader, Unstoppable movie, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Polish Film Festival in America, Reeling The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cool It, Bjorn Lomborg, Four Lions, London marathon, The Freebie, Dax Shephard and Katie Aselton, Garbo the Spy, Juan Pujol In My Sleep movie, Left Bank movie, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams, 127 Hours, Danny Boyle, Rabia, Reenactments, Room in Rome, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Alliance Francais, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Music Box, King Vidor, The Fountainhead, Northwestern University Block Films, Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Peeping Tom, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr, Wilmette theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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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.

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.

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Iranian westerns, French madwomen, Laotian rocketeers, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15

Oscar-nominated animated shorts: Veteran Pixar animator John Kahrs's 2-D Paperman

A review of the 2012 Disney short

This winter at Doc Films: Mitchum, Wong, Coens, and more

Previewing the University of Chicago film society's winter calendar

Loss in The Crowd

Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic

Video
A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week

Video
This Week's Movie Action

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

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To quote Dave Kehr, give this 1951 melodrama an ounce of respect, and you'll discover a remarkable aesthetic object.

The longtime Chicago musician shares his knowledge of silent movie history and recalls some notable screenings he's accompanied.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15

A review of the 2012 Disney short

Previewing the University of Chicago film society's winter calendar

Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic

A roundup of local screenings happening this week

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

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