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Film, Movie Review Oct 29, 2015
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How Experimenter and The Stanford Prison Experiment explore the psychology of control

Two fact-based dramas revisit controversial research projects of the 1960s and '70s.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Experimenter, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Michael Almereyda, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Yale University, Stanley Milgram, Stanford University, Peter Sarsgaard, Kellan Lutz, Anthony Edwards, John Leguizamo, Anton Yelchin, Taryn Manning, Danny A. Abeckaser, Donnie Keshawarz, Tom Farrell, Billy Crudup, Philip Zimbardo, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Archer, Olivia Thirlby, Compliance, The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2015
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Mama-rama, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Xavier Dolan, Tom at the Farm, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, I Killed My Mother, Mommy movie, Tokyo Tribe, Sion Sono, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Phoebe Gloeckner, Fantastic Four, The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie, Snatch movie, Sherlock Holmes, Phoenix movie, Christian Petzold, Jerichow, Prince movie, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, Tomm Moore, Bill Plympton, Nina Paley, Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango, White Water, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2015
Joshua Oppenheimer discusses The Look of Silence and finding movie magic in real-life horror

An interview with the internationally acclaimed documentarian, whose latest film about the Indonesian genocide opens in Chicago tomorrow.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing, Indonesian genocide, Adi Rukun

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2015
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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 Jan 16, 2014
Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers' comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Betsy Steinberg, Chicago Film Office, Alison Cuddy, WBEZ, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Steve Prokopy, Ain't It Cool News, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, RogerEbert.com, Joel Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks, Walt Disney Pictures, P.L. Travers, The Act of Killing, Dirty Wars, The Square, The Missing Picture, The Square movie, The Sqaure documentary, American Hustle, August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club, Frozen, Gravity, The Great Beauty, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, 2014 Academy Awards, 2014 Oscars, movies

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Magic Magic, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, year in review, 2013 movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Immigrant, James Gray, Frank Borzage, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, The World's End, Bastards, Claire Denis, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2013
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Ulzana's Raid, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Emperor of the North, The Longest Yard, The Spectacular Now, The Act of Killing, Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Apache, Vera Cruz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Precious, The Paperboy, The Canyons, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser, Expose Me Lovely, Raymond Chandler, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Gene Siskel Film Center, Highland Park, In a World..., lake Bell, Kick-Ass 2, comic book adaptation, Steve Jobs, Jobs, biopic, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, Sabata, spaghetti western, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home Again, Jamaica, The Retrieval, revival screenings, Faust, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill, Doc Films, Diamond Jim, Preston Sturges, Patio Theater, David Fincher, Zodiac, Panic Room, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Aug 14, 2013
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The Act of Killing's theater of war

Joshua Oppenheimer's unforgettable documentary shows Indonesian executioners re-creating their killings.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Indonesia, President Sukarno, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Hollywood, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Apr 17, 2013
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Mass murderers embrace movie magic in The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian slaughter of 1965-'66
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Anwar Congo, President Sukarno, Communist Party of Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Hollywood, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, John Wayne, The Godfather, Born Free, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2013
Audio
Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens tonight

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dawn Porter, Gideon's Army, Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, Brett Willis, The Last White Knight, Paul Saltzman, Delay De La Beckwith, Byron DE La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cyn, Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim, Rafea: Solar Mama, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Nagieb Khaja, film festivals, movies, Audio

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How Experimenter and The Stanford Prison Experiment explore the psychology of control

Two fact-based dramas revisit controversial research projects of the 1960s and '70s.

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Mama-rama, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses The Look of Silence and finding movie magic in real-life horror

An interview with the internationally acclaimed documentarian, whose latest film about the Indonesian genocide opens in Chicago tomorrow.

Video
David Cronenberg invades Hollywood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers' comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.

My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

Video
Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

Recommended
The Act of Killing's theater of war

Joshua Oppenheimer's unforgettable documentary shows Indonesian executioners re-creating their killings.

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Mass murderers embrace movie magic in The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian slaughter of 1965-'66

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens tonight

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center

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Two fact-based dramas revisit controversial research projects of the 1960s and '70s.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

An interview with the internationally acclaimed documentarian, whose latest film about the Indonesian genocide opens in Chicago tomorrow.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers' comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

Joshua Oppenheimer's unforgettable documentary shows Indonesian executioners re-creating their killings.

Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian slaughter of 1965-'66

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center

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