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Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2015
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, 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, Hyena movie, Chicago Film Critics Festival, Music Box Chicago, Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios, Blind Frederick Wiseman, Alabama School for the Blind, In Country, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Material World Kaycee Conaway Molly Hewitt, Scraps in Black and White, Library of Congress, Tangerines movie, Michael Haneke, Cache, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Frank Tashlin, Hollywood or Bust, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Peter Weir, The Last Wave, My Neighbor Totoro, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppet Master, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge, Colleen Moore, Why Be Good?, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jay Warren, CFA Crashers, Levon Pettis, Black Cinema House, Cinemetrics Across Borders, Logan Center for the Arts, Ulysses Jenkins, Black Cinema House, Using Classroom Films to Teach About Race, South Side Community Art Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Feb 19, 2014
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The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, World War II, Japanese army, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Whisper of the Heart, From Up on Poppy Hill, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Castle in the Sky, Tokyo, Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Luchino Visconti, The Damned, Death in Venice, Studio Ghibli, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2013
Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Chicago Filmmakers, South Side Projections, Cat Film Festival, Stan Brakhage, Joyce Wieland, Jacques Rivette, Studio Ghibli, The Cat Returns, The Story of Marie and Julien, Stanley Kubrick, Agnes Varda, Val Lewton, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, experimental cinema, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, cats

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2012
Video
Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2012
Does Brave have enough room for kids?

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Pixar Studios, Todd Solondz, Dark Horse, Filmmaker Magazine, Brave, Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille, Hayao Miyazaki, children's movies, animation, My Neighbor Totoro, City North 14

Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2012
This week in tactile cinema: Miyazaki, Gitlin, Rivers

Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year's Onion City Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Onion City Film Festival, Sack Barrow, Ben Rivers, Chicago Filmmakers, Dust Studies, Michael Gitlin, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, early childhood, 16-millimeter photography, HD video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2012
Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, One People, Pim de la Parra, Facets Multimedia, African Diaspora Film Festival, Suriname, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, My Neighbor Totoro

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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.

Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday

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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Does Brave have enough room for kids?

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz

This week in tactile cinema: Miyazaki, Gitlin, Rivers

Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year's Onion City Film Festival

Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

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Video The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended Video The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.

Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday

Video Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Does Brave have enough room for kids?

Thinking about the Pixar release in light of some advice from Todd Solondz

This week in tactile cinema: Miyazaki, Gitlin, Rivers

Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year's Onion City Film Festival

Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight

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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

Recommended Video
The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies