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Film, Movie Feature Jun 2, 2016
What to see at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

More than 100 new films screen through Sunday at the Logan Theatre.
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, The Alchemist Cookbook, Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Joel Potrykus, Buzzard film, Booger Red, Texas Monthly, Mineola Seven, Berndt Mader, Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein, Clu Gallagher, Zack Norman, Leon Vitali, Jay Kirk, Tim Kirk, The Love Witch, Samantha Robinson, Anna Biller, Robert Frost, Luther Price: The Hermit, Pastor Paul, Jules David Bartkowski, The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers, Ben Rivers, Pere Portabella, Cuadecuc-Vampir, Oliver Laxe, Paul Bowles, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2015
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The Chicago Underground Film Festival highlights this week's new movie reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, James D. Cooper, Lambert & Stamp, The Who, Cousin Jules, Dominique Benicheti, The Film Critic, Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, I Am Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Iris Apfel, Lost in the White City, Metalhead, The People vs. Paul Crump, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, The French Connection, She's Lost Control, Soul Boys of the Western World, Spandau Ballet, Frederick Wiseman Ballet, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Orson Welles, The Immortal Story, Mario Bava Kidnapped, Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire, Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Bert Williams Rediscovered, Logan Center for the Arts, Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, Links Hall Chicago, Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath 1953-Present, Black Cinema House, film festivals, underground film, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2015
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Al Pacino in The Humbling, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Barry Levinson, Philip Roth, The Humbling, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon Prime, The Boy Next Door, Jennifer Lopez, Match movie, Patrick Stewart, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, R100, Big Man Japan, Spare Parts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, This May Be the Last Time, The Wedding Ringer, Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders, Pierrot le Fou, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Music Box Chicago, Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou, Jean Vigo, Zero for Conduct, Viridiana, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, Logan Theater Chicago, Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2014
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Your moment of Zen, 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, Jon Stewart, Rosewater, Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman, Chicago Italian Film Festival, Music Box, Coming to Terms, Jon Jost, Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller, Moneyball, Capote, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, Josef von Sternberg, The Devil Is a Woman, Akira Kurosawa, High and Low, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alain Berliner, My Life in Pink, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2014
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Everyone else is wrong, 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, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Ben Sachs, Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal, CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Hellaware, J'Accuse, Abel Gance, E-Team, Human Rights Watch, Harmontown, Community Dan Harmon, Horns Daniel Radcliffe, The X-Ray of Civilization, Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner, Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chicago Symphony Center, Cameron Carpenter, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box Chicago, Albert Brooks, s Modern Romance, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor, WIP Theater Chicago, Lee Kepraios, Mostra V: Brazilian Film Series, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, First Nations Film and Video Festival, Mitchell Museum, LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2014
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The inmates take over the asylum, 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, Stonehearst Asylum, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis, Anda Korsts, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Michael Keaton, The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric, Creative Writing, Dear White People, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Levitated Mass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jason Schwartzman, Music Box Chicago, Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, Empire of Passion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter Halloween, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, University of Chicago Doc Films, Avi Nesher Secrets, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm, South Side Projections, Robert Downey Sr., Putney Swope, Black Cinema House, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Wyatt Cenac, Lav Diaz, Norte the End of History, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2014
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Ten more CIFF reviews, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger and Me, Michael Moore, The Best of Me, Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, The Book of Life, Expedition to the End of the World, Fury World War II, Brad Pitt, The Green Prince, Keep On Keepin' On, Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Rudderless, Billy Crudup, St. Vincent, Bill Murray, 20, 000 Days on Earth, Nick Cave, Whiplash, The Yank movie, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, Gremlins movie, John Carpenter Halloween, Music Box Chicago, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen, David Bowie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Massacre marathon, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2014
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The Chicago International Film Festival, 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 Box of Horrors, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Oliver Stone, Natural Born Killers, Art and Craft movie, Mark Landis, Kill the Messenger, Jeremy Renner, No No: A Dockumentary, Dock Ellis, Pittsburgh Pirates, I Am Ali, Muhammad Ali, The Judge movie, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Pride movie, John Smith filmmaker, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima Boy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Music Box, Sandra Nettelbeck, Mostly Martha, Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon, University of Chicago Doc Films, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Errol Morris Tabloid, Roberto Rosselini, Voyage to Italy, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John McNaughton, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Borrowers, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Portage Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, The Hands of Orlac, Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney The Monster, film festivals, horror movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2014
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Jimi Hendrix, Chris Marker, Charlton Heston, 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, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi All Is By My Side, Chris Marker Level Five, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Chicago, Blonde Crazy, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Julius Caesar, Northwestern University, Charlton Heston, Rocks in My Pockets, Signe Baumane, Norte the End of History, Lav Diaz, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Viola Davis, Isabelle Huppert, Bill Hader, The Equalizer, Edward Woodward, Denzel Washington, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Simon Pegg, Take Me to the River, Otis Clay, Mavis Staples, North Mississippi Allstars, A Terrible Beauty, 1916 Easter Rebellion, Tracks movie, Mia Wasikowska, Robyn Davidson, Eric Rohmer, Autumn Tale, Transistor Chicago, Josef von Sternberg Dishonored, Music Box Chicago, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Logan Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, A Girl in Every Port, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes, Chicago Cultural Center, W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2014
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Romania mania, revealing Reeling, and the rest of this week's careening screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Music Box Chicago, Boy Meets Girl movie, Chicago Romanian Cultural Marathon, Facets Cinematheque, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Jess Weixler, See You Next Tuesday, Through a Lens Darkly, Thy Womb, God Help the Girl, Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch, The Guest movie, In Search of Chopin, Phil Grabsky, The Notebook movie, This Is Where I Leave You, Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Liam Neeson, The Zero Theorem, Brazil Terry Gilliam, Tusk Kevin Smith, The Human Centipede, David Fincher, Fight Club, Logan Theater Chicago, Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Transistor Chicago, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco Marlene Dietrich, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Show us your Ibsen, 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, J.R. Jones, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, A Master Builder, Wallace Shawn, Henrik Ibsen, Andre Gregory, Philadelphia movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Lisa Joyce, DePaul University, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, One Day Pina Asked, Pina Bausch, Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Calvary movie, Calvary Brendan Gleeson, Unsound Darius Britt, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alive Inside, The 4th Meeting, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Helen Mirren, Into the Storm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Violette Emmanuelle Devos, Violette Leduc, What If, Zoe Kazan, Daniel Radcliffe, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Millennium Park, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Tivoli Downers Grove, After Hours Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail, John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, Logan Theater Chicago, Rouben Mamoulian, Silk Stockings, Music Box, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Scott, Hoot Gibson, King of the Rodeo, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Hideout Chicago, Jessica Hopper, Chicago Film Archives, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2014
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The BOC stops here, 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, Drew Hunt, Music Box Chicago, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ivory Tower, Heli movie, Jackpot movie, Jo Nesbo; Korengal movie, Sebastian Junger, Restrepo, Miss Lovely, On Approval, Third Person movie, Paul Haggis, Crash movie, In the Valley of Elah, Charles Vidor, Cover Girl, Guy Hamilton, Goldfinger, Logan Theater Chicago, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Northwestern University Norris Center for the Arts, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Gregory La Cava, My Man Godfrey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, 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, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Cast Against 8, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal movie, Citizen Koch, Carl Deal, Tia Lessen, Trouble the Water, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Seduction, Seducing Dr. Lewis, Night Train, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myer, 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Music Box, Gene Saks, The Odd Couple, Logan Theater Chicago, Rare Baseball Films, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 16mm Animation Showcase, George Griffin, Kathy Laughlin, Sally Cruikshank, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2014
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God, Godzilla, 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, Music Box, Ben Sachs, Godzilla, The Cold Lands, The Immigrant, James Gray, Pharaoh, Gene Siskel Film Center, Martin Scorsese, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Blended, Eroica, Fed Up, Laurie David, An Inconvenient Truth, Katie Couric, God's Pocket, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pete Dexter, Ilo Ilo, Camera d’Or, Cannes film festival, Jellyfish Eyes, Takashi Murakami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Logan Theater Chicago, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, University of Chicago Doc Films, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Godzilla 1954, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Ernst Lubitsch, The Shop Around the Corner, Andrew Stanton, WALL-E, Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Chicago Filmmakers, Tatsu Aoki, Logan Center for the Arts, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2014
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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 Apr 25, 2014
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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, 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, Darren Aronofsky, Noah movie, Ben Sachs, Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan, Child's Pose, Cinema Palestine, Mars at Sunrise, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, For a Woman, Diane Kurys, No God No Master, David Strathairn, On My Way, Catherine Deneuve, Transcendence movie, Johnny Depp, Watermark movie, Jennifer Baichwall, Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Melo, Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow, Orson Welles, Othello, Gene Siskel Film Center, 10 Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Logan Theater Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre, Logan Center for the Arts, First Steps: The Early Works of Ruth Page and Sybil Shearer, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Found Footage Festival, Music Box Chicago, Poets of Protest, Facets Cinematheque, Manal Al Sheikh, Mazen Maarouf, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2014
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Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, 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, Cheap Thrills, Dom Hemingway, Jude Law, Hide Your Smiling Faces, Joe Nicolas Cage, Joe David Gordon Green, Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Cuban Fury, Nick Frost, Shaun of the Dead, Documented Jose Antonio Vargas, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Draft Day, Kevin Costner, The French Minister, Bertrand Tavernier, 'Round Midnight, Life and Nothing But, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hawks and Sparrows, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Robert Altman Nashville, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Larry Clark, Passing Through, Joyce Wieland, Reason Over Passion, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Music Box, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Juan Jose Campanella, The Secret in Their Eyes, Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Logan Theater Chicago, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Patio Theater Chicago, Legend Tom Cruise, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Escape From New York, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 4, 2014
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CUFF, CLFF, 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, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel Comics, Ernest & Celestine, Finding Vivian Maier, Noah movie, Noah Russell Crowe, Nymphomaniac: Volume II, Lars von Trier, Sabotage Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Altman, Brewster McCloud, University of Chicago Doc Films, Macario Roberto Galvadon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mamma Roma, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2013
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LGBT, PFFA, and the rest of TWS*

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Polish Film Festival in America, Andrzej Wajda, Walesa Man of Hope, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Drew Hunt, Alain Guiraudie, Stranger By the Lake, Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Nightingale Chicago, The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Bill Siegel, The Weather Underground, How I Live Now, Marvel Comics, Thor: The Dark World, Claire Denis, Beau Travail, Nenette and Boni, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, Music Box, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Good Men, Good Women, Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, Haile Gerima, Sankofa, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Ben Stiller, Zoolander, Logan Theater Chicago, Mostra IV: Brazilian Film Series in Chicago, Natural Life documentary, Tirtza Even, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
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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 Oct 11, 2013
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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, James Gray, Two Lovers, We Own the Night, Chicago Theater, Joaquin Phoenix, The Immigrant, Dario Argento, John McNaughton, Tsai Ming-liang, The Massacre, Patio Theater Chicago, A.C.O.D., Adam Scott, Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks, Ghost Anthology: A History of Argentine Experimental Film, The Summit, We Are What We Are, When Comedy Went to School, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean Renoir, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Buster Keaton, The General, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Music Box Chicago, Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Darren Aronofsky Pi, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Malman, John Ford: Poet in the Desert, John Ford Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2013
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Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, Michael Winterbottom The Look of Love, Steve Coogan Paul Raymond Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Music Box, Crimes Against Humanity, Dealin' With Idiots, Jeff Garlin, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Matthew Goode, Deliver Us From Evil, Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, 20 Feet From Stardom, V/H/S/2, The Vikings, Kirk Douglas, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Grave of the Fireflies, Satyajit Ray, Charulata, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther, Northwestern University Norris Center, Hayao Miyazuki, Princess Mononoke, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Logan Theater Chicago, Tod Browning, The Unholy Three, Dennis Scott, In the Shadow of His Airness, Michael Jordan, South Side Community Arts Center, Stanley M. Freehling: Chicago's Man of the Arts, Facets Cinematheque, movies, Audio, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2013
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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
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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, Ain't in It for My Health, Byzantium Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, Interview With the Vampire, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, My Dinner With Andre, As Cool as I Am, Claire Danes, Games Curtis Harrington, Night Tide, James Caan, Katherine Ross, Simone Signoret, The Heat movie, Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Men in Hope, 100 Bloody Acres, Unfinished Song, Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stamp, White House Down, Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, 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, Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Landmark's Century Centre, Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Jane Addams Hull House, Vivian Maier, Black Cinema House, Radical Speculation, Chicago Filmmakers, Tied House Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, 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, Ricky Jay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, David Mamet, House of Games, Things Change, Redbelt, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Becoming Traviata, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Born in Chicago, Chicano Love Is Forever, The East movie, In the Shadow, The Internship movie, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Google, The Kings of Summer, The Tragedy of Man, Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Patio Theater Chicago, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Logan Theater Chicago, Larry Clark, Passing Through, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, James Cameron, The Terminator, Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Music Box, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Music Box Chicago, movies, Video

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