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Film, Movie Review Mar 2, 2017
After 20 years the European Union Film Festival is still going strong

More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres at the festival’s 20th edition.
- Tags: Movie Review, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Country Doctor, François Cluzet, Tell No One, Marianne Denicourt, Thomas Lilti, Hippocrates Diary of a French Doctor, Irreplaceable movie, Dawn movie, Wojciech Staron, Laila Pakalnina, Young Pioneers, The Fixer movie, Tudor Istador, Adrian Sitaru, Adrian Silisteanu, Claudia Silisteanu, Ethel & Ernest, Raymond Briggs, Roger Mainwood, A German Youth, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Red Army Faction, Baader-Meinhof gang, Ulrike Meinhof, Godless movie, Ralitza Petrova, Irena Ivanova, Just Drop Dead!, Adél Kováts, Eszter Ónodi, Virág Alma Pájer, Zoltan Kamondi, Losers movie, Ivaylo Hristov, The Olive Tree, Anna Castillo, Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Icíar Bollaín, On the Other Side, Ksenija Marinkovic, Zrinko Ogresta, Mate Matišić, Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas, Boarding Gate, Kristen Stewart, The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, Ritesh Batra, The Lunchbox, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Nick Payne, Emily Mortimer, Shelley movie, Cosmina Stratan, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Peter Christoffersen, Ali Abbasi, Maren Louise Käehne, Slack Bay, Bruno Dumont, L’Humanité, Hadewijch, Fabrice Luchini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Didier Després, Cyril Rigaux, Luis Buñuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Juliette Binoche, Truman movie, Ricardo Darín, The Secret in Their Eyes, Javier Cámara, Cesc Gay, Tomàs Aragay, Two Lottery Tickets, Dorian Boguta, Dragos Bucur, Alexandru Papadopol, Paul Negoescu

Film, Movie Review Oct 21, 2016
With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Stephen Meek, Night Moves, Jon Raymond, Jonathan Raymond, Maile Meloy, Laura Dern, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, René Auberjonois, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, movies

Film, Fall Preview Sep 7, 2016
Ten best bets for fall movies

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.
- Tags: Fall Preview, Fall Preview 2016, Fall Arts 2016, best bets, best bets movies, best bets films, Snowden movie, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Queen of Katwe, Phiona Mutesi, Lupita Nyong'o, Mira Nair, Madina Nalwanga, The Birth of a Nation, Nat Turner, Nate Parker, Block Museum of Art, Fred Williamson, Bucktown movie, Three the Hard Way, Philip Roth, American Pastoral, Ewan McGregor, John Romano, Kelly Reichardt, Maile Meloy, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Steppenwolf Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Barry Jenkins, Moonlight movie, Paul Verhoeven, Isabelle Huppert, Elle movie, Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals, Seamus McGarvey, Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Linney, Michael Shannon, Bad Santa 2, Billy Bob Thornton

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2016
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Son of Saul opens at Music Box, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Laszlo Nemes, Son of Saul, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anesthesia movie, Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, Frozen Head State Park, Cemetery of Splendor, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The 5th Wave, Chloe Grace Moretz, The Finest Hours, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin, Ronit Bezalel, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, Carl Reiner, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Fred Zinnemann, Julia movie, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, On the Town, Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera, Steve James, Stevie movie, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
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Polish Film Festival in America, 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, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida movie, Ben Sachs, James Grey, The Immigrant movie, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Chrisopher Nolan Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey Interstellar, Camp X-Ray, Kristen Stewart, Twilight movie, Peyman Moaadi, A Separation, Low Down, John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Big Hero 6, Marvel Comics, Bird People, Laggies, Lynn Shelton, Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, 1000 Times Good Night, Juliette Binoche, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Watchers of the Sky, Chicago Eight (Seven) on Film, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Francois Truffaut, Jules and Jim, Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, E.A. Dupont, Picadilly movie, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Christine Carter, Busy Beaver Button Company, Chicago Film Archives, Mark Quigley, Jeff Martin, Alexander Stewart, Lilli Carre, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2011
Gerald Nicosia on the road

Gerald Nicosia returns home to Chicago to promote One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Gerald Nicosia, One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road, Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Lu Anne Henderson, Neal Cassidy, Kristen Stewart, Beat Generation

Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 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, Music Box, Carlos movie, Carlos the Jackal, Mesrine movie, Red Riding movie, Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, 1929 the Great Depression, Paths of Glory Anatomy of a Film, David Spodak, Stanley Kubrick, Welcome to the Rileys, James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, Kristen Stewart, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Airplane!, Airplane movie, Leslie Nielsen, Vic theater, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, nd Joseph H. Lewis, So Dark the Night, Luca Guadignino, I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, University of Chicago Doc Films, Joan Rivers A Piece of Work, Kings of Pastry, Gene Siskel Film Center, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2010
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Now Playing: Welcome to the Rileys

J.R. Jones reviews Welcome to the Rileys
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Welcome to the Rileys, James Gandolfini, New Orleans, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Jake Scott, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Ken Hixon, City by the Sea, Inventing the Abbotts, Pipers Alley, movies, Video

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After 20 years the European Union Film Festival is still going strong

More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres at the festival’s 20th edition.

With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.

Ten best bets for fall movies

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.

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Son of Saul opens at Music Box, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Polish Film Festival in America, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Gerald Nicosia on the road

Gerald Nicosia returns home to Chicago to promote One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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Now Playing: Welcome to the Rileys

J.R. Jones reviews Welcome to the Rileys

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More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres at the festival’s 20th edition.

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Gerald Nicosia returns home to Chicago to promote One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road

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

J.R. Jones reviews Welcome to the Rileys

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