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Film, Movie Feature Mar 10, 2020
Chicago Movie Journal: Two Walshes, two Invisibles

Four films exploring humanity, made for the big screen.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Raoul Walsh, The Big Trail, The Bowery, The Man I Love, the Strawberry Blonde, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Ida Lupino, Invisible Life, Facets, Amazon, Karim Aïnouz, Heroes for Sale, Blind Chance, The Edge of Heaven, The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Upgrade

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2018
James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck's Star of the Week

James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Dance, Film, On Video, Small Screen, gangster, James Cagney, FilmStruck, The Public Enemy, White Heat, Footlight Parade, Warner Brothers, musical, Busby Berkeley, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Don Druker, The Fighting 69th, World War I, Joyce Kilmer, Francis P. Duffy, "Wild Bill" Donovan, William Keighley, Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Dennis Morgan, J.R. Jones, The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Jack Carson, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, George M. Cohan, Broadway, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, James Wong Howe, Dave Kehr, Mister Roberts, John Ford, Joshua Logan, Leyland Hayward, Mervyn LeRoy, Oscar, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2017
This year's edition of Noir City: Chicago expands its focus

The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, Noir City: Chicago, Music Box Theatre, film noir, Quiet Please: Murder, The Brink's Job, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, Odd Man Out, Carol Reed, The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, Sterling Hayden, New Hollywood, Richard Pryor, Drive a Crooked Road, Mickey Rooney, Richard Quine, Blake Edwards, William Friedkin, Walter Matthau, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Don Siegel, L.A. Confidential, The Aura

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of James Cagney

The best performances by actor James Cagney
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, James Cagney, One Two Three, The Crowd Roars, Angels with Dirty Faces, Blood on the Sun, White Heat, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Michael Curtiz, Frank Lloyd, Raoul Walsh, Blonde Crazy

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 7, 2013
When the movie gods intervene

What if a higher power caused Doc Films to cancel tonight's screening?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Broken, Piety, Booze, Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, Doc Films, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Me and My Gal, Raoul Walsh, film projection, Shintoism, Woodlawn Tap (Jimmy's)

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, Philip Kaufman, Dave Kehr, Fearless Frank, sci-fi, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dead End Drive-In, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Aldrich, unk food, punk rock, B-movies, Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Cannes Film Festival, 9/11, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Ronald Reagan, Criterion Collection, Luis Bunuel, Scanners, David Cronenberg, The Fly, Roger Corman, It Conquered the Earth, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man From Planet X, Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2013
Raoul Walsh's Wild Girl blazes into Evanston on Friday

Previewing the 1932 comic western playing Friday at Northwestern University's Block Cinema
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Wild Girl, Raoul Walsh, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Marilyn Ann Moss, Fox Films, The Big Trail, Sailor's Luck, The Bowery, pre-Code Hollywood, Block Cinema, Northwestern University

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2012
Another side of Fritz Lang: The Blue Gardenia (1953)

Revisiting Fritz Lang's 1953 women's picture
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, On Video, Film, Fritz Lang, The Blue Gardenia, Anne Baxter, Ann Sothern, women's pictures, Raoul Walsh, Raymond Burr

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vikram Jayanti, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, Wall of Sound singles Spector, Lana Clarkson, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Film Ist. A Girl & a Gun, Gustav Deutsch, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Doc Films, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Voxare String Quartet, High Concept Laboratories, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bank of America Cinema, Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roman Polanki Repulsion, Alliance Francais, Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Carancho, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes, Fair Game, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, Hereafter, Clint Eastwood; Housemaid Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, The Minutemen, Trust Clive Owen, Trust Catherine Keener, Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer, Jack Rebney, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight, Last Train Home, My Soul to Take, Wes Craven, Nowhere Boy, John Lennon, RED, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Sailor's Luck, Raoul Walsh, Skirt Day, Isabelle Adjani, Tehran Tehran, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Guignol, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Portage theater, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Block Museum of Art, White Heat, James Cagney, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Ed Koziarski, Illinois[e]makers, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Zach Galifianakis, Aasiv Mandvi, Jim Gaffigan, I Spit on Your Grave, Internal Systems Coleen Fitzgibbon, Life As We Know It, Katherine Heigl, War Don Don, Sierra Leone, The White Meadows, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Music Box Massacre, Delmer Daves Dark Passage, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawk, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Raoul Walsh, High Sierra, Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, Northwestern University Block Films, Stanley Kubrick Lolita, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Anthony Mann, Reign of Terror, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jack Rebney, Winnebago Industries, Ben Steinbauer, Winnebago Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ed M. Koziarski, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Cajun culture, Louisiana bayou, BP oil spill, Accomplices Frederic Mermoud, Daddy Longlegs, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Ondine, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, The A-Team, Iron Man 2, The Karate Kid, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Mort Sahl, Killers Ashton Kutchner, Killers Katherine Heigl, OSS 117 Lost in Rio, Music Box Films, Solitary Man, Michael Douglas, La Signora di Tutti, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Hotti Biscotti, First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells, Ray Harryhausen, Busby Berkeley, For Me and My Gal, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bank of America Cinema, David Lean, In Which We Serve, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Allan Arkush, Rock 'n' Roll High School, P.J. Soles, Ramones, Empty Bottle, Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Baghdad, Douglas Fairbanks, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2008
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Harold Lloyd opens this year's Silent Summer Film Festival

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, Dennis Scott, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Silent Summer Film Festival, silent films, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields, Douglas Fairbanks, Video

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Four films exploring humanity, made for the big screen.

James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.

The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.

The best performances by actor James Cagney

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What if a higher power caused Doc Films to cancel tonight's screening?

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

Previewing the 1932 comic western playing Friday at Northwestern University's Block Cinema

Revisiting Fritz Lang's 1953 women's picture

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

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

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

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

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.

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