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Film, Movie Tuesday Oct 8, 2019
Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals

Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Todd Phillips, Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, Lon Chaney, Federico Fellini, Jacques Tati, Bill Murray, Howard Franklin, Errol Morris

Film, Movie Review Oct 26, 2017
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Old Dark House, James Whale, The Unknown movie, Tod Browning, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Kent Lambert, Sam Wagster, Chicago Film Society, The Seventh Victim, Val Lewton, RKO Pictures, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Universal Pictures, Dracula, Bela Lugosi, Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Lon Chaney, Freaks, MGM, Gods and Monsters, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, J.B. Priestley, Charles Laughton, Elspeth Dudgeon, D.W. Griffith, Sigmund Freud, David Skal, Elias Savada, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, Mark of the Vampire, The Devil-Doll, Show Boat, The Road Back, horror movies, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2015
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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Dominigue Strauss-Kahn, The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, Tommy Tedesco, Adult Beginners, Nick Kroll, Dior and I, Little Boy, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe, White Cop, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Gene Graham, The Godfather of Disco, Black Cinema House, David O. Selznick, Gone With the Wind, Lon Chaney, Laugh Clown Laugh, Patio Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, Ivan Dixon, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Gallery 400, Circles and Ciphers, Jean Renior, The Woman on the Beach, Robert Ryan, Nightingale Cinema, Facets Cinematheque, Oracle Theatre, Cinemetrics Across Borders, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Creative Music Summit, Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kirby Dick, The Hunting Ground, Kartemquin Members' Work for Hire, Kartemquin Films, 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

Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
Street artists peek out from the shadows

Creators of some of the city's most ubiquitous sidewalk images tell their stories.
- Tags: Feature, artists, street artists, street art, Bored, satire, Monopoly, Twitter, camouflage, Don't Fret, Lacuna Lofts, New York City, sponsorships, Malort, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PBR, Fulton Market, neighborhoods, San Francisco, Miami, Left Handed Wave, prints, stickers, painting, LHW, FugScreen Studios, University of Kentucky, Wicker Park, Lexington, Kentucky, Facebook, gallery owners, Ukrainian Village, Penny Pinch, Cubs hats, Ziggy, found supplies, Saro, Uncle Fun, Lon Chaney, ChiClops, Chicago flag, Stef Skills, Maine, Stephanie Garland, flyers, Stef G, Logan Square, Three Hearts Club, Hash Crew, Bloomingdale Trail, murals, CPD, Chicago Park District, muralists, arts educators, Krista Franklin, Miguel Aguilar, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago

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

Film, Movie Review May 30, 2013
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American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Tod Browning, James Whale, Val Lewton, George Romero, John Carpenter, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, The Hurt Locker, American Mary, Katharine Isabelle, Ave Maria, Mary Mason, David Lovgren, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, Lon Chaney, Betty Boop, Max Fleischer, Paula Lindgren, The Unknown, Billy Barker, Frankenstein, The Island of Lost Souls, Eyes Without a Face, Clay St. Thomas, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Sat 12/8: Christmas bar crawl, Oliver Twist, and Young Jeezy

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 8, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, Twelve Bars of Xmas, Cubby Bear, Wrigleyville, Second Saturdays Silent Film, Music Box Theatre, Frank Lloyd, Oliver Twist, Lon Chaney, Jackie Coogan, Congress Theater, Logan Square, Young Jeezy, Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2010
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Silver Scream

Halloween movie picks for October 29-30.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Reader's Guide to Halloween, Aelita; Queen of Mars, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Jay Warren, Facets Cinematheque, Nekromantic, Facets Fright School, Aelita: Queen of Mars, James Whale, Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, Wilmette theater, George A. Romero Martin, Doc Films, Bank of America Cinema, Peter Lorre, Mad Love, The Face Behind the Mask, Facets Cinematheque, Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, Cursed Bird Ensemble, John Barrymore, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Lon Chaney, Phantom of the Opera, Saint James Cathedral Chicago, Mark Herman, Halloween movies, Chicago movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2008
RIP FJA

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Peter Lorre, Ray Harryhausen, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Forrest J. Ackerman, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Frankenstein, Dracula, King Kong, Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Willis J. O'Brien, Tod Browning, James Whale, Castle of Frankenstein, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury

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Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals

Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas

Recommended Video
Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

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Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Street artists peek out from the shadows

Creators of some of the city's most ubiquitous sidewalk images tell their stories.

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.

Recommended
American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.

Reader's Agenda, Sat 12/8: Christmas bar crawl, Oliver Twist, and Young Jeezy

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 8, 2012

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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Silver Scream

Halloween movie picks for October 29-30.

RIP FJA

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.

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Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Creators of some of the city's most ubiquitous sidewalk images tell their stories.

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

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 8, 2012

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Halloween movie picks for October 29-30.

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.

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