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Film
,
Movie Feature
Sep 22, 2016
Reeling film festival looks back, and ahead
The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival opens at Music Box with
Hurricane Bianca
.
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Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
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Music Box
,
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,
Hurricane Bianca
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Justin Kelly
,
King Cobra
,
Brenda Webb
,
Roy Haylock
,
Ryan Matthieu Smith
,
Alan Cumming
,
Sandra Cho
,
RuPaul
,
IFC Films
,
IFC Midnight
,
Christian Slater
,
Garrett Clayton
,
James Franco
,
Keegan Allen
,
Molly Ringwald
,
Alicia Silverstone
,
The Landscape Within
,
Eric "Nui" Cabales
,
Andrea Capranico
,
Princess Nabingka
,
Lazy Eye
,
Lucas Near-Verbrugghe
,
Aaron Costa Ganis
,
Slash movie
,
Clay Liford
,
Michael Johnston
,
Hannah Marks
,
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
,
Deborah Esquenazi
,
Elizabeth Ramirez
,
Cassandra Rivera
,
Kristie Mayhugh
,
Anna Vasquez
,
Tomcat
,
Klaus Händl
,
Lukas Turtur
,
Philipp Hochmair
,
Upstairs Inferno
,
Robert L. Camina
,
UpStairs Lounge
,
gay cinema
,
LGBTQ+ cinema
,
film festivals
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 17, 2015
Video
Batkid Begins
(and ends), plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screeenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Batkid Begins
,
Ben Sachs
,
Minions
,
Despicable Me
,
The Ardor movie
,
Gael Garcia Bernal
,
Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey
,
Five Day Lover
,
Mr. Holmes
,
Tangerine
,
Bugs Bunny and Friends
,
Warner Brothers cartoons
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Dudley Digges
,
The Emperor Jones
,
Paul Robeson
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Cameron Crowe
,
Say Anything . . .
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Michael Powell
,
Tales of Hoffman
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Orson Welles
,
The Trial Orson Welles
,
Robert Zemeckis
,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
,
Northwestern University Norris Center
,
Steve Polta
,
Nightingale Cinema
,
Revere Park Chicago
,
Joe Garden
,
The Onion
,
The Wonderful World of Boning
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 26, 2015
Video
The rise and fall of a techno DJ, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable sceenings
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Eden Mia Hansen-Love
,
Domestic Life
,
Dope movie
,
Guidelines movie
,
Infinitely Polar Bear
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Krasno
,
A Little Chaos
,
Kate Winslet
,
Macaroni and Cheese
,
Manglehorn
,
Al Pacino
,
The Overnight
,
Mark Duplass
,
They Are We
,
Yasujiro Ozu
,
Early Summer
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Orson Welles
,
Othello
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
2001: A Space Odyssey
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Adam Shankman
,
Hairspray
,
Northwestern University Norris Center
,
Penelope Spheeris
,
Wayne's World
,
Suburbia
,
The Decline of Western Civilization
,
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
,
Shout! Factory
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 17, 2015
The
Reader
's guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend
The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Chicago Israeli Film Festival
,
Chicago Jewish Film Festival
,
Century 12/CineArts 6
,
Victory Gardens Theater
,
Illinois Holocaust Museum
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
David Chack
,
Friends From France
,
The Dove Flyer
,
Mr. Kaplan
,
Night Will Fall
,
Julie Cohen
,
The Sturgeon Queens
,
Russ and Daughters
,
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
,
Maggie Gyllenhaal
,
Morley Safer
,
Calvin Trillin
,
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
,
William Gazecki
,
Bing Crosby
,
Mae West
,
Bette Midler
,
Madonna
,
Bert Tucker
,
Paul McCartney
,
Beatles
,
Al Jolson
,
Eddie Cantor
,
Jack Benny
,
Fanny Brice
,
Nora's Will
,
Mariana Chenillo
,
Little White Lie
,
Lacey Schwartz
,
Compass Cabaret 55
,
Mark Siska
,
Second City
,
film festivals
,
Jewish culture
,
movies
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 12, 2015
Video
Will the real Brian Wilson please stand up, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Brian Wilson
,
Paul Dano
,
John Cusack
,
Love & Mercy
,
Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Age of Panic
,
Fair Play
,
The Farewell Party
,
Insidious: Chapter 3
,
Insidious: Chapter 2
,
Jauja
,
Viggo Mortensen
,
Jurassic World
,
Live From New York!
,
Saturday Night Live
,
Madame Bovary
,
Mia Wasikowska
,
Gustave Flaubert
,
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
,
The Rendez-vous of Deja Vu
,
Results movie
,
Andrew Bujalski
,
Mutual Appreciation
,
Computer Chess
,
Testament of Youth
,
Vera Brittain
,
Ridley Scott
,
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
David Lynch
,
Blue Velvet
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Orson Welles
,
The Magnificent Ambersons
,
Saint John Cantius Church
,
Those Were the Days Radio Players
,
The Green Hornet
,
Jay Warren
,
Stan Laurel
,
Oliver Hardy
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Sharon Zurek
,
Midsommarest Mash-up Madness
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Film
,
Movie Review
Jun 24, 2014
Video
Two new documentaries ponder the market value of knowledge
Ivory Tower
and
The Internet's Own Boy
open this week.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
,
Brian Knappenberger
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Ivory Tower
,
Reddit
,
Conde Nast Publications
,
MIT
,
JSTOR
,
Stephen Heymann
,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
,
Harvard
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
higher education
,
student loans
,
Aaron Swartz
,
Highland Park
,
ArsDigita
,
Cambridge
,
PACER Recycling Project
,
Ronald Reagan
,
Pell Grant
,
Thom Mayne
,
Jamshed Bharucha
,
Stanford University
,
Ann Larson
,
YouTube
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 9, 2014
Video
Belle
s, dumbbells, 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
,
Misan Sagay
,
Belle movie
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Showplace ICON
,
Dido Elizabeth Belle
,
Ben Sachs
,
Bright Days Ahead
,
Fanny Ardant
,
Afternoon of a Faun
,
Tanaquil Le Clercq
,
Beneath the Harvest Sky
,
Films by Shellie Fleming
,
School of the Art Institute
,
Honey movie
,
Davis Theater Chicago
,
The Kill Team
,
Neighbors Seth Rogen
,
Rose Byrne
,
Andrzej Wajda
,
Ashes and Diamonds
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Ishiro Honda
,
Godzilla
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Sergei Eisenstein
,
Potemkin
,
Dennis Scott
,
Alain Resnais
,
Same Old Song
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Chan-wook Park
,
Stoker
,
Chicago Film Critics Association
,
David Wain
,
Wet Hot American Summer
,
Role Models
,
They Came Together
,
Paul Rudd
,
Amy Poehler
,
Bob Goldthwait
,
Shakes the Clown
,
God Bless America
,
Willow Creek
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 8, 2014
Reader
's Agenda Thu 5/8: Indie Boots Film Festival,
Lesbianography
, and Off!
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Thursday, May 8
By Lisa Schulz
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
Indie Boots Film Festival
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny
,
A Little Bit Country
,
Death Work
,
Gender and Women's Studies
,
Juana Maria Rodriguez
,
LaMonda Horton-Stallings
,
Lesbianography: Lesbians and Sex
,
Chicago History Museum
,
Bottom Lounge
,
Off!
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 1, 2014
Video
CIMMFest ascendant, 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
,
Music
,
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Tommy Boyce
,
Bobby Hart
,
Candy Store Prophets
,
Boyce & Hart: The Guys Who Wrote 'Em
,
Monkees
,
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
,
Angel Ernst Lubitsch
,
Marlene Dietrich
,
Melvyn Douglas
,
Bachelor Weekend
,
Blue Ruin
,
Brick Mansions
,
Luc Besson
,
District B13
,
Paul Walker
,
Dancing in Jaffa
,
Fading Gigolo
,
John Turturro
,
Woody Allen
,
Locke Tom Hardy
,
Love Meetings
,
Pier Paolo Pasolini
,
Now: In the Wings on a World Stage
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Richard III
,
The Other Woman
,
Finding Nemo
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Robert Altman
,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Wojciech Has
,
The Saragossa Manuscript
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Strangers on a Train
,
Music Box
,
Frank Perry
,
The Swimmer
,
Indie Boots Film Festival
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Kartemquin Films
,
School of the Art Institute
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 17, 2014
Reader
's Agenda Mon 2/17: The Dinner Party, Oscar-nominated shorts, and
Saint Joan
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Monday, February 17
By Taylor Tolbert
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
Dinner Party
,
City Winery
,
Lookingglass Theatre
,
Andy White
,
Susan Messing
,
Jordan Mozer
,
Travelle
,
Tim Graham
,
ShawChicago
,
Saint Joan
,
Oscars
,
Landmark's Century Centre
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 31, 2014
Video
Oscar shorts out the wazoo, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Academy Awards
,
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated
,
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Cation
,
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentary
,
Music Box
,
Hirokazu Kore-edu
,
Like Father Like Son
,
Ben Sachs
,
Chicago International Film Festival
,
Fire in the Blood
,
I Am Breathing
,
I Frankenstein
,
Aaron Eckhart
,
Jobriath A.D.
,
Labor Day
,
Jason Reitman
,
Up in the Air
,
Josh Brolin
,
Kate Winslet
,
Wong Kar-wai
,
As Tears Go By
,
Days of Being Wild
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Terry Gilliam Brazil
,
Michelangelo Antonioni
,
L'Avventura
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
David Lean
,
Lawrence of Arabia
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Paul Strand
,
Leo Hurwitz
,
Native Land
,
Block Museum of Art
,
John Cassavetes Shadows
,
George Cukor
,
Sylvia Scarlett
,
Jia Zhang-ke
,
A Touch of Sin
,
Crispin Glover
,
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine
,
White Light Cinema
,
Harun Farocki
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Has the Film Already Started?
,
movies
,
Video
Film
,
Movie Review
Jan 29, 2014
Recommended
Why can't grown-up animations catch a break on Oscar night?
The nominated short films screen this week at Landmark's Century Centre.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated
,
Academy Awards
,
Music Box
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
DreamWorks Animation
,
The Croods
,
Universal
,
Despicable Me 2
,
Disney
,
Frozen
,
Michel Gondry
,
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy
,
Terence Nance
,
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
,
Don Hertzfeldt
,
Bill Plympton
,
Simon Pegg
,
Timothy Spall
,
Sally Hawkins
,
Get a Horse!
,
Mickey Mouse
,
Room on the Broom
,
Shuhei Morita's Possessions
,
Daniel Sousa
,
Feral
,
Rhode Island School of Design
,
Mr. Hublot
,
Laurent Witz
,
Stephane Halleux
,
The Secret of Kells
,
Persepolis
,
Howl's Moving Castle
,
Up
,
Ratatouille
,
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
,
The Lost Thing
,
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
,
Recommended
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 25, 2013
Video
Guerrillas, gamma people, 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
,
Escape From Tomorrow
,
Disneyland
,
Disney World
,
Ben Sachs
,
Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine
,
School of the Art Institute
,
All Is Lost
,
Robert Redford
,
Bad Grandpa
,
Jackass
,
Johnny Knoxville
,
Jeff Tremaine
,
Carrie movie
,
Chloe Grace Moretz
,
Sissy Spacek
,
The Counselor
,
Ridley Scott
,
Cormac McCarthy
,
The Gamma People
,
Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space
,
Hou Hsiao-hsien
,
City of Sadness
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Michael Reeves
,
The Conqueror Worm
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Far From Vietnam
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Alain Resnais
,
Agnes Varda
,
Chris Marker
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
John Carpenter Halloween
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
River East 21
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
D.W. Griffith Intolerance
,
John Cassavetes
,
Minnie and Moskowitz
,
Roman Polanski
,
Rosemary's Baby
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Alexander Sokurov
,
Russian Ark
,
George Pal
,
War of the Worlds
,
Robin Hardy
,
The Wicker Man
,
Englewood International Film Festival
,
Chatham 14
,
Chicago International Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Chris & Heather's Halloween Hootenanny
,
Fitzgerald's
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 5, 2013
Video
Almodovar takes flight, 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
,
Ben Sachs
,
Pedro Almodovar
,
I'm So Excited
,
Drew Hunt
,
Julian Roman Polsler
,
The Wall movie
,
A Hijacking movie
,
Despicable Me 2
,
The Hellbenders
,
Sergio Corbucci
,
Django
,
Navajo Joe
,
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
,
The Lone Ranger
,
Armie Hammer
,
Johnny Depp
,
Midnight's Children
,
Salman Rushdie
,
The Way Way Back
,
Steve Carell
,
Toni Colette
,
Allison Janney
,
Sam Rockwell
,
Otto Preminger
,
Bonjour Tristesse
,
Patio Theater Chicago
,
Northwestern Chicago Film Society
,
Hayao Miyazaki
,
Kiki's Delivery Service
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
David Lean
,
Lawrence of Arabia
,
Luchino Visconti
,
The Leopard Visconti
,
Kenji Mizoguchi
,
The Life of Oharu
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 28, 2013
Video
Death be proud, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Summer Music Film Festival
,
Music Box Chicago
,
A Band Called Death
,
Greg Kot
,
Jim DeRogatis
,
Levon Helm
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Ain't in It for My Health
,
Byzantium Neil Jordan
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The Crying Game
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Interview With the Vampire
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Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
,
My Dinner With Andre
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As Cool as I Am
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Claire Danes
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Games Curtis Harrington
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Night Tide
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James Caan
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Katherine Ross
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Simone Signoret
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The Heat movie
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Sandra Bullock
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Melissa McCarthy
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Men in Hope
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100 Bloody Acres
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Unfinished Song
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Terence Stamp
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White House Down
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Roland Emmerich
,
The Day After Tomorrow
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Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
The Big Lebowski
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Quentin Tarantino
,
Pulp Fiction
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Billy Wilder
,
Some Like It Hot
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
The Cotton Club
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
My Dinner With Andre
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Philip Kaufman
,
The Right Stuff
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Paul Verhoeven
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Total Recall
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David Wain
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Wet Hot American Summer
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Landmark's Century Centre
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Michael Curtiz
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Jane Addams Hull House
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Vivian Maier
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Black Cinema House
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Radical Speculation
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Jun 18, 2013
Jeremy Scahill on
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The journalist takes questions about his muckraking documentary.
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Abdulelah Haider Shaye
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Barack Obama
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Joint Special Operations Command
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Nasser al-Awlaki
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May 17, 2013
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The Unspeakable Act
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Dan Sallitt
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Stories We Tell
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Sarah Polley
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Away With Her
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Take This Waltz
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Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis
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Leviathan movie
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Almost in Love
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The Iceman Michael Shannon
,
Richard Kuklinski
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Peeples Tyler Perry
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Pieta Kim Ki-duk
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The Island Kim Ki-duk
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Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
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Sharqiya movie
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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When I Walk
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Jason DaSilva
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White Frog
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Julie Dash
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Daughters of the Dust
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University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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Joseph H. Lewis
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Gun Crazy
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Chris Marker
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The Last Bolshevik
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Niko von Glasow
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Nobody's Perfect
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Bodies of Work Festival
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Alfred Hitchcock Rope
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Northbrook Public Library
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Roman Polanski
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Rosemary's Baby
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Joss Whedon Serenity
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Landmark's Century Centre
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Orson Welles
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The Trial
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Music Box Chicago
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John Boorman
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Zardoz
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May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week's screenings
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Tal Rosenberg
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Olivier Assayas
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Something in the Air
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Cold Water
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James Joyce
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Stephen Hero
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Great Gatsby
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Baz Luhrmann
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Haile Gerima
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Bush Mama
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Logan Center for the Arts
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Aqui y Alla
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Dark Waters
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Andre de Toth
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In the House
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Francois Ozon
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Under the Sand
,
8 Women
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Potiche
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Love Is All You Need
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Susanne Bier
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Anders Thomas Jensen
,
Open Hearts
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Brothers
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After the Wedding
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In a Better World
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Stanley Donen
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Charade
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Orson Welles
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Chimes at Midnight
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Music Box Chicago
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Billy Wilder
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Double Indemnity
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Akira Kurosawa
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Ikiru
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Richard Linklater
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The School of Rock
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Paul Verhoeven
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Showgirls
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Landmark's Century Centre
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The Trouble With Harry
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Northbrook Public Library
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Jacques Demy
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
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Apr 5, 2013
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Stanley Kubrick
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The Shining
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Tabu
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F.W. Murnau
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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
,
Evil Dead
,
Sam Raimi
,
The Host movie
,
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
,
Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience
,
The Place Beyond the Pines
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Derek Cianfrance
,
Blue Valentine
,
Adam McKay
,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
,
Landmark's Century Centre
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Arthur Penn
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Bonnie and Clyde
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Werner Herzog
,
Only Dwarfs Started Small
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Stephen Frears
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High Fidelity
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Logan Theater Chicago
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Chris Marker
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La Jetee
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Mar 29, 2013
Video
Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings
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From Up on Poppy Hill
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Studio Ghibli
,
Gimme the Loot
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Warrendale
,
Olympus Has Fallen
,
The Sapphires
,
Starbuck movie
,
Jacques Audiard
,
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
,
Alliance Francais
,
Sergio Leone
,
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
,
Landmark's Century Centre
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Alfred Hitchcock Psycho
,
Sascha Gervais
,
Music Box Chicago
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The Sound of Music
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
,
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,
Movie Critic's Choice
Mar 13, 2013
Recommended
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Faith is the divide in Cristian Mungiu's
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The latest from the Romanian New Wave examines the patriarchy of a Russian orthodox convent
By J.R. Jones
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Russian Orthodox
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Nov 30, 2012
Video
Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies
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Wagner & Me
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Stephen Fry
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Gosford Park
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Richard Wagner
,
Adolf Hitler
,
Killing Them Softly
,
Brad Pitt
,
Andrew Dominik
,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
,
Wuthering Heights
,
Emily Bronte
,
Andrea Arnold
,
Red Road
,
Fish Tank
,
Fat Kid Rules the World
,
Jacob Wysocki
,
Terri movie
,
A Liar's Autobiograpy
,
Graham Chapman
,
Monty Python's Flying Circus
,
Shirley Clarke
,
The Connection
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Wong Kar-wai
,
Happy Together
,
In the Mood for Love
,
Stephen Chow
,
Kung Fu Hustle
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Made in U.S.A.
,
Wim Wenders
,
Pina Bausch
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Joe Dante
,
Small Soldiers
,
Richard Fleischer
,
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
,
Terror in the Aisles 13
,
Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm
,
Dario Argento
,
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
,
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Oct 25, 2012
Video
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Chicken Run
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Wallace and Gromit
,
Laika Inc.
,
Coraline
,
ParaNorman
,
Cloud Atlas
,
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
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Chicago Cultural Center
,
DePaul University
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Keep the Lights On
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Ira Sachs
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Forty Shades of Blue
,
My Home movie
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Reluctant Bachelor movie
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No Men Allowed
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The Sessions movie
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John Hawke
,
Helen Hunt
,
The Seventh Companion
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Aleksei Guerman
,
Vincent Grenier: Tabula Rasa
,
The Whisperer in Darkness
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H.P. Lovecraft
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William Friedkin
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The Exorcist
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Logan Theater Chicago
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John Carpenter
,
Halloween movie
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Century 12 and CineArts 6
,
Lake
,
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Rupert Julian
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Phantom of the Opera
,
Beverly Arts Center
,
Isa Takahata
,
Pom Poko
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Nicholas Ray
,
Rebel Without a Cause
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Fred Camper
,
Roman Polanski
,
Rosemary's Baby
,
Henri-Georges Clouzot
,
The Wages of Fear
,
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
,
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Northbrook Court
,
Englewood Film Festival
,
I Ain't Scared of You—A Tribute to Bernie Mac
,
Georges Melies Cine-Concert
,
Lawrence Leherissey-Melies
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Jirokichi the Rat
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Kataoka Ichiro
,
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Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings
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,
Howard Hawks
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Paul W.S. Anderson
,
Mortal Kombat
,
Death Race
,
Resident Evil: Retribution
,
How to Survive a Plague
,
David France
,
ACT UP
,
The Master movie
,
Paul Thomas Anderson
,
United Film Festival Chicago
,
Music Box
,
Chicago Farmer
,
Fast Talk
,
Sadermania: From Fanship to Friendship
,
Michael Pena
,
Jake Gyllenhaal
,
Detropia
,
Heidi Ewing
,
Rachel Grady
,
Jesus Camp
,
End of Watch
,
David Ayer
,
Training Day
,
Hello I Must Be Going
,
Melanie Lynskey
,
Liberal Arts
,
Majority movie
,
Brenna Murphy
,
Robert Nelson
,
10 Years
,
Channing Tatum
,
Rosario Dawson
,
Justin Long Trouble With the Curve
,
Clint Eastwood
,
James Stewart
,
Vertigo
,
Mervyn LeRoy
,
Busby Berkeley
,
Gold Diggers of 1933
,
Tomas Alfredson
,
Let the Right One In
,
Landmark's Century Centre
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Sight & Sound
,
Vertigo
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
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Fred Camper
,
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Aug 30, 2012
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Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings
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By J.R. Jones
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Studs' Place
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Studs Terkel
,
Museum of Broadcast Communications
,
Sebastian Bane
,
Patrick Wang
,
In the Family movie
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Compliance movie
,
Craig Zobel
,
Great World of Sound
,
Sleepwalk With Me
,
Mike Birbiglia
,
Seth Barrish
,
Ira Glass
,
Music Box
,
Christiaan Zwanniken
,
Convento movie
,
The Apparition movie
,
Warner Bros
,
For a Good Time
,
Call movie
,
Lawless movie
,
John Hillcoat
,
The Proposition
,
The Road
,
Little White Lies
,
Guillaume Canet
,
Tell No One
,
Oslo August 31
,
Joachim Trier
,
Reprise movie
,
Red Hook Summer
,
Spike Lee
,
Gibson Gowland
,
Eric von Stroheim
,
Greed
,
Airplane!
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Howard Hawks Scarface
,
Simon Pegg
,
Edgar Wright
,
Shaun of the Dead
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Orson Welles
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Touch of Evil
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