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Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2014
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Ten more CIFF reviews, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Roger and Me, Michael Moore, The Best of Me, Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, The Book of Life, Expedition to the End of the World, Fury World War II, Brad Pitt, The Green Prince, Keep On Keepin' On, Clark Terry, Justin Kauflin, Rudderless, Billy Crudup, St. Vincent, Bill Murray, 20, 000 Days on Earth, Nick Cave, Whiplash, The Yank movie, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, Gremlins movie, John Carpenter Halloween, Music Box Chicago, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fatih Akin, Soul Kitchen, David Bowie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Massacre marathon, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, 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

Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2013
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NCFS hits the road, 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, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, High Treason, Patio Theater Chicago, Facets Cinematheque, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Soska sisters, American Mary, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ulrich Seidl, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Before Midnight, After Earth, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, As Above So Below, L.A. Rebellion, Now You See Me, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Fritz Lang, The Big Heat, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcee, Music Box, Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, Northbrook Public Library, Chris Marker, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Voyage to Italy, Gene Siskel Film Center, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2013
Portage Theater closed, shows relocated

The theater, recently named a city landmark, has been closed following the revocation of its liquor license.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Closing, Film, News, DNAinfo Chicago, Portage Theater Chicago, All I Desire, Portrait of Jason, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, movies

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2013
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, 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, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Portage Theater Chicago, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, About Sunny, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Fast & Furious 6, Jacquot Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Maisie New, Henry James, Zoolander, Ben Stiller, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, The Hangover Part III, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Douglas Sirk, All I Desire, Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts, Logan Center for the Arts, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Comfort Station, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Music Box Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Northbrook Public Library, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Logan Theater Chicago, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, 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, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, 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, Tal Rosenberg, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, Cold Water, James Joyce, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Aqui y Alla, Dark Waters, Andre de Toth, In the House, Francois Ozon, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, Stanley Donen, Charade, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Music Box Chicago, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Portage Theater Chicago, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2013
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Tina Fey, child soldiers, 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, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Caesar Must Die, Music Box Chicago, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Dorfman in Love, Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, War Witch, Irving Lerner, City of Fear, Portage Theater Chicago, Amy Heckerling Clueless, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Stranger, Ron Mann, Tales of the Rat Fink, Delilah's Chicago, Walter Hill, The Warriors movie, Patio Theater Chicago, Alliance Francais, Festival du Film Francophone, Chicago Filmmakers, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2013
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John Ford on tap, and the rest of this week's movie coverage

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Red Lion Lincoln Square, Joe Heinen, John Ford, European Union Film Festival, Anne Fontaine, Ulrich Siedl, Alain Resnais, The End of Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell, Ed Koch movie, The Silence movie, Upside Down movie, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Reincarnated movie, Reincarnated Snoop Dogg, Roger Vadim, Barbarella, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, University of Chicago Logan Center, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings, Portage Theater Chicago, Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Music Box, Wilmette Theater, Tim Kazurinsky, Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, Mitzi Gaynor, Leonard Maltin, South Pacific, Turner Classic Movies Road to Hollywood, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2013
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Pig Death Machine and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Pig Death Machine, Jon Moritsugu, Scumrock, A Body Without Organs, Steve Graves, Vigilante Vigilante, Max Good, European Union Film Festival, Barbara Christian Petzold, Christian Petzold Yella, Jerichow, The ABCs of Death, Emperor movie, Tommy Lee Jones, Douglas MacArthur, The Monk movie, Seymour Cassel, No Gael Garcia Bernal, Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, RO (Registered Sex Offender), and Yossi Eytan Fox, Yossi & Jagger, Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Hood, King Vidor The Crowd, University of Chicago Doc Films, Pearl Gluck Divan, Harold Washington Library Center, Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai 2046, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2013
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Kung fu, women behind bars, Werner Herzog, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Portage Theater Chicago, Chicago Cinema Society, Lau Kar-leung, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The Fiancee movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fallada The Last Chapter, Little Man What Now, Fourplay Kyle Henry, The Funny Things You Do, Future Weather, The Gatekeepers, A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog, Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution, Louis Malle, Atlantic City, University of Chicago Doc Films, Leos Carax, Boy Meets Girl, Howard Hawks, El Dorado, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, Robert Siodmak, The Killers, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Northbrook Public Library, Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs, Jacques Tati Playtime, Music Box, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2013
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My dad the war criminal, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hitler's Children, Chanoch Ze'evi, Lore Cate Shortland, Somersault, Beautiful Creatures, North Sea Texas, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The Housemaid, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Golden Raspberry, Coming Out movie, Her Third, Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks, Leos Carax, Bad Blood, Music Box Chicago, Sam Peckinpah, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Portage Theater Chicago, Chinatown Roman Polanski, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love, Jennifer Reeves, The Time We Killed, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Lifeforce, Lord Jim, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2013
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gene Siskel Film Center, Beware of Mr. Baker, Cream Ginger Baker, Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill, Sylvester Stallone, 56 Up, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers, Shohei Imamura, Pigs & Soldiers, Mama I'm Alive, Meet the Fokkens, Movie 43, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walker, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, 50/50, Waterwalk, Otto Preminger, Advise and Consent, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Music Box Chicago, Patio Theater Chicago, Robert Rossen Lilith, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Gerg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Louder Than a Bomb, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Little Queer Film Festival, Center on Halsted, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2012
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Bhopal bests Bilbo, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Public Enemies, Bhopali, Second Unitarian Church, Starlet movie, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Wayne White, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Citadel, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Laura Linney, The Matchmaker movie, Playing for Keeps, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sundance Institute Art House Project, Music Box Chicago, Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bob Clark, Porky's, Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, John Hughes, Home Alone, Logan Theater Chicago, Home Alone: Lost in New York, Cinema Borealis, Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, Beverly Arts Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Swing Time, Northbrook Public Library, J.B. Mabe, South Side Projections, Boundary Lines, Marshall Plan, Edward Burns, City Winery, Chicago movies, Video

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 Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, 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, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2012
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Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fritz Lang, You and Me movie, You and Me Fritz Lang, Paramount Pictures, Ben Sachs, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Your Sister's Sister, Lynn Shelton, Humpday movie, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Come Back Africa, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, The Bitter Buddha, Eddie Pepitone Here Ben Foster, Leaving Vaclav Havel, Lola Versus, Greta Gerwig, Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele, Rock of Ages, Safety Not Guaranteed, Mark Duplass, That's My Boy, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future, Music Box, John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, Logan Theater Chicago, Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Tortoro, Gene Siskel Film Center, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Landmark's Century Centre, James Bond, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, Octopussy, Wilmette Theater, Sing-a-Long Mary Poppins, Found Footage Film Festival, Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher, Chicago Cultural Center, Studs Terkel Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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