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Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2016
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Not coming to the Disney Channel: Michel Gondry's Microbe & Gasoline

With Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry finds an emotional story equal to his imaginative talents.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep, Gael García Bernal, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, Be Kind Rewind, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, Noam Chomsky, Microbe & Gasoline, Disney Channel, Ange Dargent, Theophile Baquet, Audrey Tautou, Music Box Chicago, French cinema, movies, Video

Film, Movie Feature Jul 21, 2016
Ten new French features come to the Music Box

Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Films, Bang Gang A Modern Love Story, Eva Husson, The Brand New Testament, Jaco Van Dormael, The Eighth Day, Pili Groyne, Yolande Moreau, Benoît Poelvoorde, Michel Gondry, Catherine Deneuve, Disorder movie, Alice Winocour, Matthias Schoenaerts, The Danish Girl, Diane Kruger, Gesaffelstein, Down by Love, Pierre Godeau, Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Microbe and Gasoline, Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Be Kind Rewind, Audrey Tautou, Phantom Boy, Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, A Cat in Paris, Scene of the Crime, Nicolas Giraudi, Wadeck Stanczak, Victor Lanoux, Danielle Darrieux, Seasons movie, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, French cinema, film festivals

Film, Movie Feature Dec 26, 2014
Our favorite movies of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, best films of 2014, J.R. Jones, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Calvary, John Michael McDonagh, Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Two Days, One Night, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, Joe, David Gordon Green, The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, Cheap Thrills, Eugene Ionesco, Starred Up, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette, What Now? Remind Me, Breakfast With Curtis, Joaquin Pinto, Laura Colella, Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin, E.L. Katz, Year in Review 2014, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Rambleras, Daniela Speranza, Jacques Demy, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream, Duke Ellington, Jean-Paul Sartre

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2014
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What do Michel Gondry and 'Weird Al' Yankovic have in common?

Comparing the affectionate views of working life in Gondry's films and Yankovic's recent music video for "Handy"
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Music, Comedy, Michel Gondry, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Iggy Azalea, Be Kind Rewind, Mike King, Eddie Pepitone, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2014
Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo, now with 5,000 percent more corpses

Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's unfilmable novel is much darker in its original-release version than in the 94-minute cut that recently played in Chicago.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, Foreign, On Video, Film, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Boris Vian, surrealism, Romain Duris, Audrey Tatou, Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg

Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2014
How the influence of existentialist philosophy plays out in Richard Linklater's filmmaking

Further thoughts on that Fassbinder-style tracking shot in Boyhood
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, Slacker

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Binging on The Purge, 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, Ben Sachs, The Purge: Anarchy, James DeMonaco, Tal Rosenberg, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, And So It Goes, Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas, Cannibal movie, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, Offside Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold, Happy Christmas movie, Joe Swanberg, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham, Honeymoon Jan Hrebejk, Kawasaki's Rose, Gene Siskel Film Center, I Dreamt of You So Much That, Stefan Constantinescu, I Origins, Mike Cahill, Another Earth, Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, A Most Wanted Man, John le Carre, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Carpenter, Big Trouble in Little China, Music Box Chicago, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rob Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap, Millennium Park, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Kim Ki-duk Time, Chicago Cultural Center, Filmspotting, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 5/11: Brunch with mom, Chicago Critics Film Festival, and Mike Weis

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 11
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Mother's Day, brunch, Lula Cafe, M. Henry, Chicago Critics Film Festival, Music Box, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, That Guy, Dick Miller, Mike Weis, Constellation, Alejandro T. Acierto

Film, Movie Review Jan 29, 2014
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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 Dec 6, 2013
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Garbo, Divine, Bettie Page, and the rest of this week's domination screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Noam Chomsky, Chuck Jones, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Bettie Page Reveals All, Dredd, The Ghosts in Our Machine, I Am Divine, John Waters, Out of the Furnace, Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Siodmak, Christmas Holiday, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman, Return to Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 1, Admiral Theater Chicago, Film Strip, burlesque, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Dec 4, 2013
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Gondry doodles Chomsky's noodle

The animator and the linguist go head to head in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, Michel Gondry, Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures, Bolex, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, Isaac Newton, David Hume, William Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Thomas Hobbes, Pearl Harbor, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2013
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Treasure, treachery, pirates, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Film, Stolen Seas, Thymaya Payne, Facets Cinematheque., Drew Hunt, Concrete Parlay: An Evening With Fern Silva, Ben Sachs, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-San: The Making of a Prostitute, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Atomic States of America, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Jakob the Liar, Frank Beyer, John Dies at the End, Don Coscarelli, Bubba Ho-Tep, Lucky movie, Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, The Turning Point, East German cinema, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Cover Girl Rita Hayworth, Charles Vidor, Bela Lugosi, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai, Fallen Angels, University of Chicago Doc Films, William Friedkin, The French Connection, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Block Museum of Art, Mikhail Kalatozov, I Am Cuba, Louis Malle, Murmur of the Heart, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2011
Now playing: The Science of Sleep

A brief mention of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, playing tomorrow at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry, Pamela Robertson-Wojcik, Designs for Living, The Apartment Plot, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claudine, The Apartment, The Tenant

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Not coming to the Disney Channel: Michel Gondry's Microbe & Gasoline

With Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry finds an emotional story equal to his imaginative talents.

Ten new French features come to the Music Box

Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival

Our favorite movies of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs

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What do Michel Gondry and 'Weird Al' Yankovic have in common?

Comparing the affectionate views of working life in Gondry's films and Yankovic's recent music video for "Handy"

Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo, now with 5,000 percent more corpses

Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's unfilmable novel is much darker in its original-release version than in the 94-minute cut that recently played in Chicago.

How the influence of existentialist philosophy plays out in Richard Linklater's filmmaking

Further thoughts on that Fassbinder-style tracking shot in Boyhood

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Binging on The Purge, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader's Agenda Sun 5/11: Brunch with mom, Chicago Critics Film Festival, and Mike Weis

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 11

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Why can't grown-up animations catch a break on Oscar night?

The nominated short films screen this week at Landmark's Century Centre.

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Garbo, Divine, Bettie Page, and the rest of this week's domination screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Gondry doodles Chomsky's noodle

The animator and the linguist go head to head in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

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Treasure, treachery, pirates, and the rest of this week's movies

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

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Now playing: The Science of Sleep

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With Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry finds an emotional story equal to his imaginative talents.

Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs

Comparing the affectionate views of working life in Gondry's films and Yankovic's recent music video for "Handy"

Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's unfilmable novel is much darker in its original-release version than in the 94-minute cut that recently played in Chicago.

Further thoughts on that Fassbinder-style tracking shot in Boyhood

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 11

The nominated short films screen this week at Landmark's Century Centre.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The animator and the linguist go head to head in Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

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

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A brief mention of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, playing tomorrow at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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