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Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 17, 2017
The Chicago moviegoer’s guide to bucking summer blockbusters

Skip the popcorn movies in favor of a season full of dynamic screenings.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Summer Guide, Black House Cinema, Portrait of Jason, Shinemen, Petty Biennial Film PRogram, Raising Bertie, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Working Girls, Car Wash, The Match King, Melvin & Howard, The Old Fashioned Way, Chicago International Film Festival, The Taste of a Country, Barbecue, Good Business, Gene Siskel Film Center, Le Silence de la Mer, Un Flic, Bob le Falmbeur, Le Samourai, Army of Shadows, Two Men in Manhattan, Leon Morin, Priest, Music Box, Office Space, Waiting for Guffman, New York Dog Film Festival, Best in Show, Idiocracy, Facets Cinamatheque, Silent Film Society of Chicago, The Lost World, Terror in the Aisles, Friday the 13th, DuSable Museum of African American History, Suzanne, Suzanne

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2015
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Girlz in da hood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Girlhood, Gene Siskel Film Center, Celine Sciamma, Tomboy movie, Fish & Cat, Festival of Films From Iran, Jupiter Ascending, Wachowskis, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas, The Loft, Project Almanac, Red Army, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Pickwick Park Ridge, Federico Fellini, 8-1/2, David Fincher, Fight Club, Music Box, Harun Farocki, How to Live in the Federal Republic of Germany, Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 3/18: Story Week Festival of Writers, Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, and Portrait of Jason

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 18
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Story Week Festival of Writers, Barry Gifford, Cristina Garcia, Film Row Cinema, Harold Washington Library, Paul Durica, Streeterville, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2014
Video
The Face of Love, the face of Wes Anderson, 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, Wes Anderson, Khmer Rouge, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rithy Prahn, The Missing Picture, Music Box Chicago, Ben Sachs, The Face of Love, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Expedition to the End of the World, The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies, Joe Sarno, The Stuart Hall Project, John Akomfrah, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, Corneliu Porumboiu, Police Adjective, Need for Speed, Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad, Particle Fever, Large Hadron Collider, Rock My Religion, Visitors Godfrey Reggio, Visitors Philip Glass, Facets Cinematheque, Independent of Reality: The Films of Jan Nemec, Sebastian Silva The Maid, University of Chicago Doc Films, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Naked Spaces Living Is Round, Black Cinema House, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Gene Siskel Film Center, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, George Kuchar, Unstrap Me!, Nightingale Cinema, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Charlemagne Palestine Videoworks, CLAW: The Movie, Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2013
The best of times and worst of times for Chicago moviegoing

The Portage and Patio theaters may be closing, but screenings go on for the Northwest Chicago Film Society.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Closing, Neighborhoods, Moviegoing, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Music Box Theatre, Kouvalis family, John Arena, Eddie Carranza, All I Desire, Douglas Sirk, Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, Safety Last, moviegoing, repertory cinema, Chicago Cinema Society, Terror in the Aisles, Silent Film Society of Chicago

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
Audio Video
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

Film, Movie Review May 21, 2013
Recommended Video
Portrait of Jason delves inside a hustler's world

Shirley Clarke's classic documentary screens in a new restoration.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Portage, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, The Connection, Jason Holliday, Chelsea Hotel, Trenton, New Jersey, Nob Hill, San Francisco, Aquatic Park, Hans Richter, Park Avenue, College of New York, Elaine Dundy, Hans Richter, John Cassavetes, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Lionel Rogosin, The Connection, Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World, Funny Girl, DeeDee Halleck, Recommended, Video

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The Chicago moviegoer’s guide to bucking summer blockbusters

Skip the popcorn movies in favor of a season full of dynamic screenings.

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Girlz in da hood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader's Agenda Tue 3/18: Story Week Festival of Writers, Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, and Portrait of Jason

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 18

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The Face of Love, the face of Wes Anderson, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013

The best of times and worst of times for Chicago moviegoing

The Portage and Patio theaters may be closing, but screenings go on for the Northwest Chicago Film Society.

Portage Theater closed, shows relocated

The theater, recently named a city landmark, has been closed following the revocation of its liquor license.

Audio Video
Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended Video
Portrait of Jason delves inside a hustler's world

Shirley Clarke's classic documentary screens in a new restoration.

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Skip the popcorn movies in favor of a season full of dynamic screenings.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 18

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013

The Portage and Patio theaters may be closing, but screenings go on for the Northwest Chicago Film Society.

The theater, recently named a city landmark, has been closed following the revocation of its liquor license.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Shirley Clarke's classic documentary screens in a new restoration.

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