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Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2015
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Bondage and Hamburger, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, In the Basement, Ulrich Seidl, Neil Hamburger, Entertainment movie, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, The Great Man, The Hallow, The Night Before, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, A Poem Is a Naked Person, Leon Russell, Les Blank, Secret in Their Eyes, A Voice Among the Silent, Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Michael Mann, Collateral, Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers, Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter, Karen Thorsen, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Mark Blottner, Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, The Road Is All, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Jules Dassin, Rififi, Leo McCarey, Ruggles of Red Gap, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2014
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Les Blank was the filmmaker who liked people who liked to eat and drink

A new box set from Criterion collects more than a dozen films, many about food, by ethnographic filmmaker Les Blank.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Les Blank, Mardi Gras, Werner Herzog, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin' Hopkins, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fred Camper, Bill Stamets, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, L'Argent, Robert Bresson, Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Burden of Dreams, Les Blank, Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Bunuel, History is Made at Night, Frank Borzage, Mary Poppins, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger, Dana Andrews, Small Soldiers, Joe Dante, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gulliver's Travels

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2013
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, 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, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Portage Theater Chicago, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, About Sunny, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Fast & Furious 6, Jacquot Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Maisie New, Henry James, Zoolander, Ben Stiller, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, The Hangover Part III, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Douglas Sirk, All I Desire, Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts, Logan Center for the Arts, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Comfort Station, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Music Box Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Northbrook Public Library, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Logan Theater Chicago, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Music, In Rotation May 3, 2013
In Rotation: Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey on Nardwuar the Human Serviette

Plus: Julie Shapiro of Third Coast on the Austin Music Map, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on the CHIRP Record Fair, and more
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: In Rotation, Chicago Reader, Kevin Warwick, CHIRP, Chicago Independent Radio Project, CHIRP Record Fair, record fairs, Permanent Records, Lance Barresi, records, record shopping, My Disco, bands, Beat Kitchen, Young Widows, baseball, Eight Men Out, Kenny Chesney, Julie Shapiro, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Phil Smith, In the Dark Radio, Free Kitten, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Elle, Austin Music Map, austinmusicmap.com, Jim Dempsey, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Les Blank, Teranga Beat, Narduar, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Riff Raff, Odd Future, Kendrick Lamar, Florence & the Machine

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2012
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Police Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Aurora movie, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Patrick Wang, In the Family, Music Box, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Fake It So Real, The Lady movie, Luc Besson, Aung San Suu Kyi, Renaissance Place, The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks, Marley movie, Bob Marley, Think Like a Man, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Romany Falco, Terry Gilliam, Brazil movie, Doc Films, Michael Haneke, Cache movie, Daniel Eisenberg, Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, Block Museum of Art, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bob Rafelson, Head movie, Head Monkees, Joel Wicklund, Bong Joon-ho, The Host movie, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nightingale, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Les Blank, Elise Auerbach, Amnesty International, Facets Cinematheque, Iranian Taboo, film festivals, movies, Video

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Bondage and Hamburger, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

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Les Blank was the filmmaker who liked people who liked to eat and drink

A new box set from Criterion collects more than a dozen films, many about food, by ethnographic filmmaker Les Blank.

L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In Rotation: Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey on Nardwuar the Human Serviette

Plus: Julie Shapiro of Third Coast on the Austin Music Map, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on the CHIRP Record Fair, and more

A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A new box set from Criterion collects more than a dozen films, many about food, by ethnographic filmmaker Les Blank.

L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Audio Video Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In Rotation: Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey on Nardwuar the Human Serviette

Plus: Julie Shapiro of Third Coast on the Austin Music Map, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on the CHIRP Record Fair, and more

A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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