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Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2018
Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema

Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Music, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Small Screen, Urgh! A Music War, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society, punk, post-punk, new wave, XTC, Devo, Gang of Four, Oingo Boingo, Magazine, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Cramps, Fleshtones, Go-Go's, Dead Kennedys, Police, The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, skinhead, Penelope Spheeris, Slash Records, Robert Biggs, X, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, the Germs, Fear, J.R. Jones, Wild Style, Charlie Ahearn, graffiti art, hip-hop, Lee Quinones, Bronx, Busy Bee, Rock Steady Crew, Fab Five Freddy, Ted Shen, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Dave Kehr, Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Melvin and Howard, Dave Kehr, Downtown '81, Glenn O'Brien, Edo Bertoglio, Jean-Michel Basquiat, DNA, the Plastics, Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
Eraserhead, Repo Man, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Hail the Conquering Hero, Naked, Pickpocket, Dracula, Eraserhead, The Last Temptation of Christ, Repo Man

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 6/24: Divina Futura, Repo Man, and the Smartypants Spelling Bee

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 24
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Marco Nereo Rotelli, Field Museum, Divina Futura, Gene Siskel Film Center, Repo Man, Smartypants Spelling Bee, Mayne Stage

Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2013
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The BOC stops here, 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, Best of Chicago, Best New Underground Venue, Best Free VHS Collection, Best Avant-Garde/Experimental Film Series, Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet, Terence Nance, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, This Is the End, Augustine movie, The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola, Far Out Isn't Far Enough, Tomi Ungerer, Heat Lightning, Warner Bros., Perfect Days Czech, Signal Czech, Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Carpenter, They Live, Folktales and Folk Music, I Ain't Lying: Folktales From Mississippi, Gravel Springs Fife and Drum, Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer, Black Cinema House, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2013
This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Politics, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Art Theater Guild, ATG, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, A Man Vanishes, The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Funeral Parade of Roses, Matsumoto Toshio, Ecstasy of the Angels, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoshihige Yoshida, Coup d'Etat, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Agnes Varda, La Pointe Courte, Alain Resnais, Repo Man, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Japanese cinema, experimental film, pink films, underground cinema, Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang

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 Feb 18, 2013
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A TV Party in a bottle: Revolution Brewing's rye IPA

Revolution has finally bottled TV Party, a fruity rye IPA that's part of its series of beers paying homage to the Repo Man soundtrack.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Revolution Brewing, TV Party, rye IPA, Black Flag, Repo Man, Smitten, Sierra Nevada, Bell's Brewery, Ruthless Rye, Iggy Pop, Institutionalized, Suicidal Tendencies, Coup D'Etat, Circle Jerks, Rye da Tiger, Three Floyds, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2011
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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, Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau, Of Gods and Men, Scheherazade Tell Me a Story, Battle: Los Angeles, Cold Weather, Aaron Katz, HappyThankYouMorePlease, Happy Thank You More Please, Red Riding Hood, European Union Film Festival, Change Nothing, Pedro Costa; Illegal movie, Kawasaki's Rose, The Red Chapel, Two in the Wave, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Dennis Scott, Sam Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Doc Films, Todd Haynes Safe, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2007
Welcome to LA

Richard Kelly's pop-satirical Southland Tales takes on, well, just about everything.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Christopher Lambert, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales, Dwayne Johnson, Kiss Me Deadly, Blade Runner, Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Miracle Mile, Save the Green Planet, Walker, Falling Down, Ubu Roi, Charivari

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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema

Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.

Eraserhead, Repo Man, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Reader's Agenda Mon 6/24: Divina Futura, Repo Man, and the Smartypants Spelling Bee

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 24

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The BOC stops here, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild

Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

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A TV Party in a bottle: Revolution Brewing's rye IPA

Revolution has finally bottled TV Party, a fruity rye IPA that's part of its series of beers paying homage to the Repo Man soundtrack.

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

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Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 24

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

Revolution has finally bottled TV Party, a fruity rye IPA that's part of its series of beers paying homage to the Repo Man soundtrack.

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

Richard Kelly's pop-satirical Southland Tales takes on, well, just about everything.

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