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Film, Movie Review Sep 29, 2016
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In Snowden, a private life obscures a public scandal

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Snowden movie, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Citizenfour, National Security Agency, Oliver Stone, bulk-data collection, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lindsay Mills, Shailene Woodley, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK Oliver Stone, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Guardian, Ewen MacAskill, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Kieran Fitzgerald, STELLAR WIND, Michael Hayden, PRISM, Google, Facebook, Apple computers, Ben Schnetzer, Offensive Cyber Effects Operations, Barack Obama, Ghost in the Shell, government surveillance, Video

Film, Fall Preview Sep 7, 2016
Ten best bets for fall movies

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.
- Tags: Fall Preview, Fall Preview 2016, Fall Arts 2016, best bets, best bets movies, best bets films, Snowden movie, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Queen of Katwe, Phiona Mutesi, Lupita Nyong'o, Mira Nair, Madina Nalwanga, The Birth of a Nation, Nat Turner, Nate Parker, Block Museum of Art, Fred Williamson, Bucktown movie, Three the Hard Way, Philip Roth, American Pastoral, Ewan McGregor, John Romano, Kelly Reichardt, Maile Meloy, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Steppenwolf Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Barry Jenkins, Moonlight movie, Paul Verhoeven, Isabelle Huppert, Elle movie, Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals, Seamus McGarvey, Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Linney, Michael Shannon, Bad Santa 2, Billy Bob Thornton

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 9, 2014
The Reader reviews the Chicago International Film Festival's 15 revival screenings

Oliver Stone presents Natural Born Killers and Michael Moore presents Roger and Me during CIFF's 50th year
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander, Oliver Stone, Rodger and Me, Michael Moore, Isabelle Huppert, Breaking the Waves, Comedy of Power, Fanny and Alexander, The Idolmaker, Jamaica Inn, Mountains of the Moon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 101 Reykjavik, The Piano Teacher, Roger & Me, A Star Is Born, White Material, White Nights

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Oct 8, 2014
Timeline Theatre's based-on-fact play makes a contradictory case

Did Danny Casolaro die for you? It's doubtful.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Danny Casolaro Died for You, Timeline Theatre, Dominic Orlando, Nick Bowling, George H. W. Bush, Danny Casolaro, Bill Hamilton, Watergate, Oliver Stone, JFK, Mike Riconosciuto, Mark Richard, Bobby Fischer, Jimmy Carter, Robert Nichols, Philip Earl Johnson, Kyle Hatley, Jack Anderson, Time Magazine, Edward Snowden

Film, Movie Review Mar 28, 2014
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Armed to the teeth and led by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Renegade DEA agents begin mysteriously dying off in David Ayer's brutal actioner Sabotage.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Sabotage, David Ayer, Champaign, LA's South Central, Training Day, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Dark Blue, Rodney King, Harsh Times, PTSD, End of Watch, Skip Woods, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Training Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oliver Stone, Savages, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, 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, Wild Chicago, WTTW, Ben Hollis, John Davies, Patio Theater Chicago, Comfort Station Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Vanishing Neighborhoods, The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney, Lance Armstrong, The Book Thief, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, R.E.M., Benjamin Smoke, No Time for Love, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Northern Lights, Cannes film festival, Voices of the Gods, Al Santana, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Gene Siskel Film Center, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, University of Chicago Doc Films, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Gus Van Sant, To Die For, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Bagdad, Pickwick Theater Park Ridge, Jay Warren, Jaromil Jires, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Music Box Chicago, Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler, TheGirl With the Dragon Tattoo, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, Showtime, The Untold History of the United States, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2013
Dream School asks: Is our children learning?

Jamie Oliver and 50 Cent’s star-studded school for at-risk kids skips the basics.
- By Danette Chavez
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, Jamie Oliver, 50 Cent, Sundance Channel, Dream School, Dangerous Minds, Jesse Jackson, Soledad O'Brien, Oliver Stone, David Arquette, Peter Kuznick, Jeff Corwin

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
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A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, Soderbergh, Che, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Devotional Cinema, Nathaniel Dorsky, Elena movie, Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return movie, How to Grow a Band, Chris Thile, The Jesus Trip, Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme, Pom Poko, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Savages movie, Oliver Stone, Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley, Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid, G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, K-Town Film Festival, Better Boys' Foundation, American Revolution 2, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sarah Polley, Away From Her, Take This Waltz, Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, The Apartment, Billy Wilder, The General, Buster Keaton, Shaw Brothers, Chang Cheh, The Water Margin, Manhunter, Michael Mann, The Ocean Waves, Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Turn Me On Dammit, Savages, Oliver Stone, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Duplass brothers, Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable releases in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Carey Mulligan, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Romanek, One Hour Photo, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri-Georges Clouzot Inferno, Clouzot The Raven, The Wages of Fear, Diabolique, La Verite, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noe Irreversible, Chicago Architecture in Motion, Chicago Filmmakers, Buried Ryan Reynolds, Catfish movie, Centurion Neil Marshall, Neil Marshall The Descent, Colin movie, Devil M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, I'm Still Here, Cliff Doerksen, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Egon Schiele, Keith Dukavicius, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Fearmakers, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Golub, Kartemquin Films, Leon Golub, Block Museum Northwestern, Killer's Kiss, Stanley Kubrick, Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, Louisa May Alcott, Whirlpool, Otto Preminger, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2009
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Satan's little helpers

A New Yorker profile lays bare the crass mechanics of movie marketing.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, New Yorker, Marketing, Movies, Deliver Us From Evil, Sicko, Saturday Night Live, Oliver Stone, W., Bill Hicks, Advertising and Marketing, Tad Friend, Tim Palen, Lionsgate, Saw franchise, Saw horror, religulous, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Renee Zellweger, Chilled in Miami, New in Town, David Schneiderman, Seismic Productions, Mary Tyler Moore, film industry, coming attractions, movie trailers, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2008
W.--the outtakes

Scenes Oliver Stone wouldn't let you see, thank God.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, George W. Bush, Oliver Stone, W., Billy Bob Thornton

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2008
Et tu, Oliver?

How a misunderestimated president morphed into Oliver Stone's W.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, George W. Bush, Candide, Oliver Stone, W., Lisbon earthquake, Oakland, California, Fellini Satyricon

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In Snowden, a private life obscures a public scandal

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.

Ten best bets for fall movies

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.

The Reader reviews the Chicago International Film Festival's 15 revival screenings

Oliver Stone presents Natural Born Killers and Michael Moore presents Roger and Me during CIFF's 50th year

Timeline Theatre's based-on-fact play makes a contradictory case

Did Danny Casolaro die for you? It's doubtful.

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Armed to the teeth and led by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Renegade DEA agents begin mysteriously dying off in David Ayer's brutal actioner Sabotage.

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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Dream School asks: Is our children learning?

Jamie Oliver and 50 Cent’s star-studded school for at-risk kids skips the basics.

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A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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Satan's little helpers

A New Yorker profile lays bare the crass mechanics of movie marketing.

W.--the outtakes

Scenes Oliver Stone wouldn't let you see, thank God.

Et tu, Oliver?

How a misunderestimated president morphed into Oliver Stone's W.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.

Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.

Oliver Stone presents Natural Born Killers and Michael Moore presents Roger and Me during CIFF's 50th year

Did Danny Casolaro die for you? It's doubtful.

Renegade DEA agents begin mysteriously dying off in David Ayer's brutal actioner Sabotage.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Jamie Oliver and 50 Cent’s star-studded school for at-risk kids skips the basics.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A preview of this week's notable screenings

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

A New Yorker profile lays bare the crass mechanics of movie marketing.

Scenes Oliver Stone wouldn't let you see, thank God.

How a misunderestimated president morphed into Oliver Stone's W.

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