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Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2017
Doug Benson at Thalia Hall, Wizard World Comic Con, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Celia C. Perez at Women & Children First, Ayahuasca Baby at iO, Jorja Smith at Schubas, and more happenings August 21-24
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Wizard World Comic Con, Set Free, Celia C. Perez, Doug Loves Movies Podcast, Ayahuasca Baby, Jorja Smith, Doodles, You Listen to White People Music?, Annoyance Theatre, Schubas, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, iO Theater, Wome & Children First, Thalia Hall, Society for Arts

Film, Movie Feature Mar 29, 2017
Recommended
The Doc10 film festival offers an alternative to alternative facts

Ten new documentaries make their Chicago premieres at this year’s edition.
- Tags: Movie Feature, Doc 10, Society for Arts, Chicago International Doc Film Festival, Bus 174, The Murder of Emmitt Till, The Same River Twice, OT: Our Town, Chicago Media Project, Casting JonBenet, Kitty Green, The Cinema Travelers, Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya, A Useful Life, Death in the Terminal, Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry, Obit movie, New York Times, Vanessa Gould, William McDonald, Bruce Weber, Rat Film, Theo Anthony, Sweet Dillard, James Virga, Christopher Dorsey, Dillard Center School for the Arts, Trophy movie, Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau, Whose Streets?, Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis, Ferguson Missouri, Michael Brown Jr., documentaries, film festivals, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Nov 2, 2016
Andrzej Wajda’s final film screens at the Polish Film Festival in America

This year’s festival pays tribute to the late, great director.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Afterimage, Andrzej Wajda, The Battle With Satan, HBO Europe, exorcism, Konrad Szolajski, Jarocin Rock for Freedom, Marek Gajczak, Leszek Gnoinski, Klezmer, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida movie, Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness, Piotr Chrzan, Sylwester Kazmierczak, Polish cinema

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2015
Video
David Cronenberg invades Hollywood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, David Cronenberg, Maps to the Stars, Drew Hunt, Joel Potrykus, Buzzard, Music Box Chicago, Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh, The Duke of Burgundy, Berberian Sound Studio, Life of Riley, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, European Union Film Festival, Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, John Lennon, How I Won the War, Merchants of Doubt, Run All Night, Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, La Sapienza, '71 movie, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Stations of the Cross, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chistopher Nolan, Interstellar, Dziga Vertov, The Man With a Movie Camera, Tomm Moore, The Secret of Kells, Facets Cinematheque, Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven, Dennis Scott, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Andrea Gronvall, Columbia College Chicago, Julian Grant, Disney Frozen, Cinema Slapdown, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Maidan movie, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Get Real: Docs at the Box, The Touch of an Angel, Society for Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2015
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The European Union Film Festival invades Chicago, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chappie, Neil Blomkamp, District 9, Encounters: Experimental Film and Video From Croatia, The Hand That Feeds, Music Box Chicago, Kung-Fu Elliot, The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg, Road Hard, Adam Carolla, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Unfinished Business, Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Feig, Bridesmaids, University of Chicago Doc Films, Amy Heckerling, Clueless movie, Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Bangkok Orchestra, Somtow Sucharitkul, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Rithy Pahn, The Missing Picture, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andrzej Zulawski, Possession movie, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Society for Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
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Polish Film Festival in America, 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, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida movie, Ben Sachs, James Grey, The Immigrant movie, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Chrisopher Nolan Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey Interstellar, Camp X-Ray, Kristen Stewart, Twilight movie, Peyman Moaadi, A Separation, Low Down, John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Big Hero 6, Marvel Comics, Bird People, Laggies, Lynn Shelton, Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, 1000 Times Good Night, Juliette Binoche, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Watchers of the Sky, Chicago Eight (Seven) on Film, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion, Gene Siskel Film Center, Francois Truffaut, Jules and Jim, Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, E.A. Dupont, Picadilly movie, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Christine Carter, Busy Beaver Button Company, Chicago Film Archives, Mark Quigley, Jeff Martin, Alexander Stewart, Lilli Carre, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 6, 2014
Our guide to the Polish Film Festival in America

Reviews of films screening at the fest's 26h edition.
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Gods, Ida, The Immigrant, Jack Strong, Mighty Angel, Stones for the Rampart, Ticket to the Moon

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 30, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Fest 2014

More than 70 music movies screen Thursday through Sunday at Logan Theater and Society for Arts
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Kevin Warwick, Tal Rosenberg, Leor Galil, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Fest, Logan, Society for Arts, Bayou Maharajah, Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, Boyce & Hart: The Guys Who Wrote 'Em, The Case of the Three Sided Dream, Death Metal Angola, Every Everything: The Life, Music, & Times of Grant Hart, Honeydripper, Imagine the Sound, Jingle Bell Rocks!, Led Zeppelin Played Here, Metalhead, Musical Generations, 9 Muses of Star Empire, Palestine Stereo, Pleased to Meet Me, 20,000 Days on Earth, Twist

Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2014
Video
The European Union 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, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Festival, Ben Sachs, Liam Neeson, Non-Stop, Adult World, John Cusack, Emma Roberts, Close Quarters, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, The Lunchbox, Son of God, History Channel The Bible, 300: Rise of an Empire, Werner Herzog, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, University of Chicago Doc Films, Brian De Palma, Femme Fatale, George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd, Robert Rossen, Body and Soul, New York Times, J. Hoberman, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Music Box, Society for Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, Peace on Earth Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 6, 2013
Our guide to the 25th Polish Film Festival in America

The festival opens this weekend with Andrzej Wajda's Walesa, Man of Hope
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Society for Arts, the Polish Film Festival in America, Poland, Floating Skyscrapers, The Last Floor, Lasting, The Vulture

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, 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, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jun 23, 2011
Culture Vultures: Celebrating Chicago

From parks to books to TV, our Vultures love this town
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Iris Goldstein, Erin Gallagher, Patrycja Wierzba, Todd Frugia, Michael Renaud, Millennium Park, ARC Gallery, Society for Arts, ROOMS Gallery, The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, The Winner, Wieslaw Saniewski, The Chicago Code, Pitchfork, Show 'n Tell Show, Cartooning, Philosophy and Practice, Ivan Brunetti

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 14, 2011
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Douglas Freel, Fix: The Ministry Movie, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Trent Reznor, Jello Biafra, Jim DeRogatis, Greg Kot, Lemmy, Paul Barker, Freaks in Love, Alice Donut, The Ballad of Mott the Hoople, The Extraordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen, Mike Watt, Mike Watt + the Missingmen, All Natural, Chicago Punk Night, Tutu & the Pirates, Joe Losurdo, Chicago Cultural Center, Double Door, Heaven Gallery, Hideout, Music Box, Nightingale, Schubas, Society for Arts, Subterranean, Wicker Park Art Center

Film, Movie Sidebar Nov 11, 2010
Polish Film Festival in America: Viva Chopin!

Presented by the Society for Arts, the Polish Film Festival in America continues Friday, November 12, through Thursday, November 21
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Beverly Arts Center, Copernicus Center, Society for Arts

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