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Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2018
Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, History, LGBTQ+, On Video, Television, Derek Jarman, FilmStruck, Pride Month, Caravaggio, Jean-Luc Godard, Passion, homoerotic, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Pat Graham, The Last of England, Margaret Thatcher, Spencer Leigh, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe, Ronald Reagan, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Jerome Flynn, Elektra Quartet, Annie Lennox, Eurythmics, Cole Porter, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Cornell, Karl Johnson, Blue, AIDS, Simon Fisher Turner

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2016
Video
Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Deadpool, Marvel Comics, The Camera Obscura, Alejandro Riera, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway, Sergei Eisenstein, Race movie, Jesse Owens, Risen movie, Rolling Papers, Denver Post, Time to Love, Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, A Separation, Touched With Fire, Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Erich von Stroheim, Greed movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, Mel Brooks, High Anxiety, Kutlug Ataman, Lola + Bilidikid, Roman Polanski, Repulsion, Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, Charles Walters, Summer Stock, Saul Levine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Vertigo, Ghostbusters, The Master, The Wild Bunch, Inherent Vice, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2014
A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, Martin Scorsese, I Call First, Roger Ebert, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Dusan Makavejev, Gold Hugo, Michael Kutza, Leo Burnett, Andrzej Wajda, Krysztof Zanussi, Mel Brooks, Ann Miller, Edith Head, Richard B. Ogilvie, Nagisa Oshima, Satyajit Ray, Frantisek Vlacil, Mike Leigh, Milos Forman, Werner Herzog, Maurice Pialat, King Hu, The Valiant Ones, Lindsay Anderson, Orson Welles, Filming "Othello", Billy Wilder, Jules Dassin, John Carpenter, Ingmar Bergman, William Friedkin, Gloria Swanson, Neil Simon, John Houseman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Menahem Golan, Francois Truffaut, Fanny Ardant, Rod Stewart, Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon, Mia Hansen-Love, Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe, Frederick Wiseman, Jafar Panahi, James Gray, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Abdellatif Kechiche, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-Edu, Van Halen, Luchino Visconti, Michael Haneke, Saul Bass, Elizabeth C. Morris, Jim Healy, Spike Lee, Coretta Scott King, FIRPRESCI, Robert Altman, Bill Kurtis, Robert Benton, Nicolas Cage, Robert Downey Jr., Manoel de Oliveira, Cristi Puiu, Huey Lewis and the News, Douglas Trumbull, Peter Greenaway, Ken Russell, John Akomfrah, Jean Rouch, Raul Ruiz, Andre Techine, Bela Tarr, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jean-Luc Godard, Leon Golub, Kartemquin Films, Arch Oboler, Abbas Kiarostami

Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2013
Northbrook Public Library revisits Francis Ford Coppola's 80s work

Noting three upcoming revival screenings at the suburban library
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Cheese, Film, Francis Ford Coppola, Northbrook Public Library, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Rumble Fish, One From the Heart, Cinema du Look, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Diva, Luc Besson, Subway, Streets of Fire, Nicolas Roeg, Eureka, Insignificance, Peter Greenaway, Alain Resnais, Julien Temple, Walter Hill, Melo, Drowning by Numbers, postmodernism

Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2009
The year's best movie (so far)

Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours lights up the European Union Film Festival. Also this week: Frederick Wiseman's epic documentary State Legislature, the latest from Chop Shop director Rahmin Bahrani, and a Russian remake of Twelve Angry Men.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Gene Siskel Film Center, European films, Olivier Assayas, Frederick Wiseman, European Union Film Festival, Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching, Summer Hours, Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche, Jeremie Renier, Musee d'Orsay, Irma Vep, Demonlover, Boarding Gate, Goodbye Solo, Rahmin Bahrani, 12, Nikita Mikhalkov, Frederick Wiseman State Legislature

Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2009
This week's movie action

New films by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Francois Ozon (Under the Sand), Christian Petzold (Yella), Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book), and Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar).
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, Silent Light, the Fall, Facets Cinematheque, John Malkovich, The Great Buck Howard, Silent Light Reygadas, Silent Light Carlos Reygadas, Japon, Battle in Heaven, Sunshine Cleaning, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Duplicity, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Knowing Nicolas Cage, Knowing, Knowing movie, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, I Love You, Man, European Union Film Festival, Serbis, Angel Francois Ozon, Angel, Francois Ozon, Kristian Levring, Fear Me Not, Christian Petzold, Jerichow, Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching, Max Farberbock, A Woman in Berlin, Tarsem, The Fall Tarsem, The Fall movie

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 28, 1988
A Zed and Two Noughts
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Peter Greenaway, Zoo, Europe, Loss

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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.

Northbrook Public Library revisits Francis Ford Coppola's 80s work

Noting three upcoming revival screenings at the suburban library

The year's best movie (so far)

Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours lights up the European Union Film Festival. Also this week: Frederick Wiseman's epic documentary State Legislature, the latest from Chop Shop director Rahmin Bahrani, and a Russian remake of Twelve Angry Men.

This week's movie action

New films by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Francois Ozon (Under the Sand), Christian Petzold (Yella), Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book), and Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar).

A Zed and Two Noughts

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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award

We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.

Northbrook Public Library revisits Francis Ford Coppola's 80s work

Noting three upcoming revival screenings at the suburban library

The year's best movie (so far)

Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours lights up the European Union Film Festival. Also this week: Frederick Wiseman's epic documentary State Legislature, the latest from Chop Shop director Rahmin Bahrani, and a Russian remake of Twelve Angry Men.

This week's movie action

New films by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Francois Ozon (Under the Sand), Christian Petzold (Yella), Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book), and Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar).

A Zed and Two Noughts

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