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Film, Movie Feature May 7, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Political humor

Like Long Shot, these five films mine American politics for laughs.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Long Shot, Duck Soup, Marx Brothers, The Great McGinty, The Candidate, Robert Redford, Bulworth, In the Loop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Queen of Earth, Ben Sachs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Alex Gibney, Danny Boyle, Michael Fassbender, I Touched All Your Stuff, Meru, Rosenwald, Stray Dog, Debra Granik, 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington (RSO (Registered Sex Offender), A Walk in the Woods, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, John Waters, Female Trouble, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Fred Camper, John Boorman, Zardoz, Sherlock Holmes, William Gilette, Essanay Studio, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
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Guerrillas, gamma people, 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, Escape From Tomorrow, Disneyland, Disney World, Ben Sachs, Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine, School of the Art Institute, All Is Lost, Robert Redford, Bad Grandpa, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Carrie movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sissy Spacek, The Counselor, Ridley Scott, Cormac McCarthy, The Gamma People, Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Hou Hsiao-hsien, City of Sadness, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Reeves, The Conqueror Worm, Gene Siskel Film Center, Far From Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter Halloween, Logan Theater Chicago, River East 21, Landmark's Century Centre, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, John Cassavetes, Minnie and Moskowitz, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Music Box Chicago, Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark, George Pal, War of the Worlds, Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man, Englewood International Film Festival, Chatham 14, Chicago International Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Chris & Heather's Halloween Hootenanny, Fitzgerald's, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 3, 2013
Don't believe that historical marker! The republic wasn't saved at the Deep Throat garage.

Watergate skeptics debunk the historical marker at the garage where Deep Throat, Woodward met.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Watergate, Deep Throat, Leak, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Mark Felt, Max Holland, Jesse Owens, Hal Holbrook, Robert Redford, W. Joseph Campbell, Media Myth Alert

Film, Movie Review May 9, 2013
The Not-So-Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Jazz Age, Jay-Z, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Entourage, Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, Robert Ryan, Robert Montgomery, Long Island Sound, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire

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 Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, William Castle Undertow, Robert Ryan, Max Ophuls Caught, Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground, Howard Hughes, RKO Radio Pictures, Enterprise Pictures, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris, Chris Rock, Adam Goldberg, ParaNorman, Laika Studio, Coraline, Beyond the Myth, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago), Free Men movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Noir City: Chicago 4, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Redford, Quiz Show, Transistor, Hideout Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2011
Ads From the Past: April 2, 1976
- By Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Ads From the Past, Chicago Reader @ Forty, Chicago Reader at Forty, 1970s, All the President's Men, Bob Woodward, Walter Jacobson, Studs Terkel, James Hoge, George Bliss, Edward Pound, Esquire Theater, Illinois Public Action Council, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman

Blogs, Bleader Jul 30, 2008
Charles Van Doren's final answer

Charles Van Doren revisits the quiz-show scandals and the making of Robert Redford's Quiz Show.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, New Yorker, Movies, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Charles Van Doren, Twenty One, Quiz Show, Robert Redford, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert F. Kennedy, quiz show scandals

Film, Movie Review Dec 6, 2001
What Have We Learned?
- By Bill Stamets
- Tags: Movie Review, Tony Scott, John Moore, Owen Wilson, Brad Pitt, Robert Redford

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Movie Tuesday: Political humor

Like Long Shot, these five films mine American politics for laughs.

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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Guerrillas, gamma people, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Don't believe that historical marker! The republic wasn't saved at the Deep Throat garage.

Watergate skeptics debunk the historical marker at the garage where Deep Throat, Woodward met.

The Not-So-Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.

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

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Ads From the Past: April 2, 1976

Charles Van Doren's final answer

Charles Van Doren revisits the quiz-show scandals and the making of Robert Redford's Quiz Show.

What Have We Learned?

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Like Long Shot, these five films mine American politics for laughs.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Watergate skeptics debunk the historical marker at the garage where Deep Throat, Woodward met.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Charles Van Doren revisits the quiz-show scandals and the making of Robert Redford's Quiz Show.

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