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Film, Movie Review Jan 26, 2018
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Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It lampoons the binary choice presented to 70s antiwar protesters

Logan Center screens the experimental classic as part of a retrospective on underground distributor Canyon Cinema.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Tom Palazzolo, Love It Leave It, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Canyon Cinema, Bruce Baillie, Canyon Cinema 50 Decodings, Jodie Mack, Point de Gaze, Naomi Uman Removed, JoAnn Elam, Lie Back and Enjoy It, Naked City Festival, Roseland Indiana, Walter Winchell, Hard Hat Riot 1970, Merle Haggard, Okie From Muskogee, experimental films, antiwar protest, left-wing satire, movies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2016
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Embrace of the Serpent slithers into town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Ciro Guerra, Embrace of the Serpent, Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Trapped, Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, European Union Film Festival, The Fencer, Free Entry, Lolo, Julie Deply, Before Sunrise, Love Island, Viva movie, Wondrous Boccaccio, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, The Decameron, Martin Scorsese Hugo, Isao Takahata, Only Yesterday, Tom Palazzolo, Harold Lloyd, Speedy, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, David Cronenberg, Videodrome, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Spotlight, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2015
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Andrew Bujaski gets Results, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Results Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess, Inside Out, Pixar, The Face of an Angel, Amanda Knox, Michael Winterbottom, The Trip, The Look of Love, Everyday movie, From Mayerling to Sarajevo, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de . . ., Grand Central, Heaven Knows What, To See the Sea, The Wolfpack, The Yes Men Are Revolting, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Music Box Chicago, Field Museum Chicago, Josh Engel, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Chicago Curiosities, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Andy Resek, Tom Palazzolo, Heather McAdams, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Century 12/CineArts 6, The Thieves movie, Chicago Cultural Center, What Happened Miss Simone?, Nina Simone, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2015
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Rahm Emanuel hates Illinois Nazis!

A shirtless Rahm Emanuel attended an anti-Nazi demonstration in Chicago back in 1978.
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: Politics, News, Rahm Emanuel, Nazi, Jesus Chuy Garcia, Marquette Park, Tom Palazzolo, Frank Collin, Mark Rance, Ezekiel Emanuel, Brothers Emanuel, Tim Curry, Rocky Horror, Video

Film, Movie Review May 14, 2014
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The where and why of the Hairy Who

A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Leslie Buchbinder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Chicago imagists, Peter Doig, John Corbett, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Hyde Park Art Center, Nonplussed Some, the False Image, Marriage Chicago Style, Chicago school, Hairy Who, Karl Wirsum, Maxweel Street Market, Jim Nutt, Andy Warhol, Madison Avenue, Philip Hanson, Ray Yoshida, School of the Art Institute, Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Tom Palazzolo, Chris Ware, City That Works, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Walter Hopp, Phyllis Kind, Chicago arts collectives, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sat 3/29: Nelson Algren, Rare Soul Weekender, and Malachi Ritscher

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, March 29
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Nelson Algren, Nelson Algren Committee, Bloomingdale Arts Building, Nate Herman, Mary Wisniewski, Dennis Mueller, Mark Blottner, Tom Palazzolo, Rare Soul Weekender, Empty Bottle, Globe Pub, Archiving & Amplifying Chicago's Experimental Creativity, Malachi Ritscher, Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio, Peter Margasak

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 1/23: Con Air, the Chicago Picasso, and Chicago Psych Fest V
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Nic Cage, Con Air, Lisa Alspector, Co-Prosperity Sphere, South Side Projections, The Chicago Picasso, Tom Palazzolo, The Bride Stripped Bare, Chicago Psych Fest V, Hideout, Verma, Mako Sica, Energy Gown

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2014
Co-Prosperity Sphere to host a multimedia event about the Chicago Picasso

Noting the event "Picasso and the Mayor: The Chicago Picasso on 16-millimeter"
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Visual Art, History, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago Picasso, Tom Palazzolo, Mike Royko, Annie Morse, Picasso and the Mayor, Daley Plaza

Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
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Showdown in Cairo, 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, Jehane Noujaim, The Square, Egyptian Revolution, Tahrir Square, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Best Offer, Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso, Geoffrey Rush, Big Bad Wolves, The Legend of Hercules, Cutthroat Island, Renny Harlin, Mortified Nation, Old Goats, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, University of Chicago Doc Films, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, George Stevens, Gunga Din, Pickwick Park Ridge, George Cukor, Little Women, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Northbrook Public Library, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Picasso and the Mayor, Tom Palazzolo, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2014
City to See—and more movies to see—at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Noting three upcoming film programs in January: a shorts collection from Chicago Film Archives, a retrospective of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, and a multimedia performance piece co-coordinated by the Nightingale Cinema
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Visual Art, History, Museum of Contemporary Art, Best of Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Nightingale Cinema, Stress/De-Stress, City to See, Pablo Larraín, No, Tony Manero, Post Mortem, Tom Palazzolo

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2013
Co-Prosperity Sphere celebrates Chicago filmmaker and visual artist Tom Palazzolo

A retrospective dedicated to the longtime Chicago artist begins today
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Neighborhoods, Film, Tom Palazzolo, Co-Prosperity Sphere, surrealism, dadaism, outsider art, documentary film, Dave Hoekstra, Bridgeport, At Maxwell Street, I Married a Munchkin, Labor Day East Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2012
Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Sundown in K-Town, documentary films, Kartemquin Films, Better Boys Foundation, Facets Multimedia, Gordon Quinn, Tom Palazzolo, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, American Revolution 2, And This Is Free, Young Lords, Black Panthers

Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2010
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I'll Spare You the Paul Simon Reference

Shorts from a host of local filmmakers commissioned by Chicago FIlmmakers and Kodak screen Friday in Super-8 Rides Again!
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Chicago Filmmakers, Kodak, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Super 8, 8mm, rides again, Amal Abusumayah, Usama Alshaibi, American, Arab, hijab, Muslim, Jake Barningham, Jeremy Bessoff, Kyle Canterbury, Tom Comerford, Carolyn Faber, Lori Felker, Scott Foley, James Fotopoulos, Jason Halprin, Karen Johannesen, Alex Lake, JB Mabe, Jesse McLean, Luis Sanchez Ramirez, Kate Raney, Tom Palazzolo, Ines Sommer, Bill Stamets, Chi Jang Yin, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fred Camper, Jacques Tati, Gene Siskel Film Center, Mon Oncle, Traffic Jacques Tati, Gone Rogue: An Iconoclastic Look at Church and State, Tom Palazzolo, Life As Lincoln, Ed M. Koziarski, Orgasm Inc., Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, Saint John of Las Vegas, Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Peter Dinklage, Sarah Silverman, Still Bill, Bill Withers, Valentine's Day Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, The Wolfman, Benicio Del Toro, John Ford, The Searchers, Doc Films, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, Hellzapoppin', Ivan Brunetti, John Badham, Saturday Night Fever, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Music Box, Casablanca, Bank of America Cinema, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Lars von Trier, Antichrist, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2007
Streaming Tom Palazzolo

Shorts by Tom Palazzolo, longtime Chicago filmmaker, artist, and educator, are available online.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Tom Palazzolo, MediaBurn

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Tom Palazzolo’s Love It/Leave It lampoons the binary choice presented to 70s antiwar protesters

Logan Center screens the experimental classic as part of a retrospective on underground distributor Canyon Cinema.

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Embrace of the Serpent slithers into town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Andrew Bujaski gets Results, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

Video
Rahm Emanuel hates Illinois Nazis!

A shirtless Rahm Emanuel attended an anti-Nazi demonstration in Chicago back in 1978.

Recommended
The where and why of the Hairy Who

A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.

Reader's Agenda Sat 3/29: Nelson Algren, Rare Soul Weekender, and Malachi Ritscher

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, March 29

Reader's Agenda Thu 1/23: Con Air, the Chicago Picasso, and Chicago Psych Fest V

Co-Prosperity Sphere to host a multimedia event about the Chicago Picasso

Noting the event "Picasso and the Mayor: The Chicago Picasso on 16-millimeter"

Video
Showdown in Cairo, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

City to See—and more movies to see—at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Noting three upcoming film programs in January: a shorts collection from Chicago Film Archives, a retrospective of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, and a multimedia performance piece co-coordinated by the Nightingale Cinema

Co-Prosperity Sphere celebrates Chicago filmmaker and visual artist Tom Palazzolo

A retrospective dedicated to the longtime Chicago artist begins today

Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale

Video
I'll Spare You the Paul Simon Reference

Shorts from a host of local filmmakers commissioned by Chicago FIlmmakers and Kodak screen Friday in Super-8 Rides Again!

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New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

Streaming Tom Palazzolo

Shorts by Tom Palazzolo, longtime Chicago filmmaker, artist, and educator, are available online.

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Logan Center screens the experimental classic as part of a retrospective on underground distributor Canyon Cinema.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A shirtless Rahm Emanuel attended an anti-Nazi demonstration in Chicago back in 1978.

A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, March 29

Noting the event "Picasso and the Mayor: The Chicago Picasso on 16-millimeter"

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Noting three upcoming film programs in January: a shorts collection from Chicago Film Archives, a retrospective of Chilean director Pablo Larraín, and a multimedia performance piece co-coordinated by the Nightingale Cinema

A retrospective dedicated to the longtime Chicago artist begins today

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale

Shorts from a host of local filmmakers commissioned by Chicago FIlmmakers and Kodak screen Friday in Super-8 Rides Again!

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

Shorts by Tom Palazzolo, longtime Chicago filmmaker, artist, and educator, are available online.

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