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Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 13, 2017
Writers Resist, Grilled Cheese Meltdown, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Filmspotting
, Handmade Market, and more happenings from January 13-15.
By Abbey Schubert
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
,
Ladies' Night
,
Graham Cracker Comics
,
Filmspotting
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Zoology
,
Vintage Quest
,
Rory Scovel
,
Stand Up Comedy Club
,
History is Boring
,
the Mission
,
Handmade Market
,
Empty Bottle
,
You're, Being Ridiculous
,
Steppenwolf Theatre
,
Grilled Cheese Meltdown
,
Thalia Hall
,
Writers Resist
,
Clint Smith
,
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 24, 2015
Video
Welcome to New York
, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Ben Sachs
,
Abel Ferrara
,
Bad Lieutenant
,
King of New York
,
Dominigue Strauss-Kahn
,
The Wrecking Crew
,
Denny Tedesco
,
Tommy Tedesco
,
Adult Beginners
,
Nick Kroll
,
Dior and I
,
Little Boy
,
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
,
The Water Diviner
,
Russell Crowe
,
White Cop
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Frank Tashlin
,
The Girl Can't Help It
,
Gene Graham
,
The Godfather of Disco
,
Black Cinema House
,
David O. Selznick
,
Gone With the Wind
,
Lon Chaney
,
Laugh Clown Laugh
,
Patio Theater Chicago
,
Jay Warren
,
Ivan Dixon
,
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
,
Gallery 400
,
Circles and Ciphers
,
Jean Renior
,
The Woman on the Beach
,
Robert Ryan
,
Nightingale Cinema
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Oracle Theatre
,
Cinemetrics Across Borders
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Creative Music Summit
,
Oscar Micheaux
,
Body and Soul
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Kirby Dick
,
The Hunting Ground
,
Kartemquin Members' Work for Hire
,
Kartemquin Films
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 6, 2015
Video
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
Feb 27, 2015
Video
Taste the blood of Jemaine Clement, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
What We Do in the Shadows
,
Jemaine Clement
,
Flight of the Conchords
,
Taika Waititi
,
Boy movie
,
Eagle vs Shark
,
Shaun of the Dead
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Ben Sachs
,
Wild Tales
,
Actress movie
,
Ballet 422
,
New York City Ballet
,
Bluebird movie
,
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
,
Amy Morton
,
Focus Will Smith
,
Focus movie
,
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
,
The Lazarus Effect
,
Poison Pen
,
Chicago Irish Film Festival
,
Tales movie
,
What's the Time in Your World?
,
Leila Hatami
,
A Separation
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Every Man for Himself
,
Hail Mary
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Werner Herzog
,
Grizzly Man
,
Marx Brothers
,
Horse Feathers
,
Annoyance Film Night
,
Annoyance Theatre
,
An Evening With Ernie Gehr
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 14, 2014
Video
Good old Bill, good old Bob, 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
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Burroughs: The Movie
,
Howard Brookner
,
William S. Burroughs
,
Naked Lunch
,
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
,
Yony Leyser
,
Robert Altman
,
Ron Mann
,
Grass movie
,
Twist movie
,
Tales of the Rat Fink
,
Comic Book Confidential
,
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
,
Bad Turn Worse
,
Beyond the Lights
,
Diplomacy Volker Schlondorff
,
Dumb and Dumber To
,
Jim Carrey
,
Jeff Daniels
,
The Invisible Front
,
Our Daily Poison
,
The Overnighters
,
Pulp: A Film About Life Death & Supermarkets
,
Rosewater Jon Stewart
,
Maziar Bahari
,
The Theory of Everything
,
Stephen Hawking
,
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
The Big Lebowski
,
Delmer Daves
,
Dark Passage
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Dudley Andrew
,
Josef von Sternberg Dishonored
,
Joe Dante Matinee
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
The Scarlet Empress
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Victor Sjostrom
,
The Wind movie
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
Chicago Food Film Festival
,
Kendall College
,
Reel Recovery Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Kinosonik
,
Black Cinema House
,
Chicago Film Archives
,
Experimental Sound Studio
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 7, 2014
Video
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
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 24, 2014
Video
The inmates take over the asylum, 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
,
Ben Sachs
,
Stonehearst Asylum
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Michael Caine
,
Edgar Allan Poe
,
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
,
Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis
,
Anda Korsts
,
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
,
Michael Keaton
,
The Blue Room
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Creative Writing
,
Dear White People
,
John Wick
,
Keanu Reeves
,
Levitated Mass
,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
,
Listen Up Philip
,
Alex Ross Perry
,
The Color Wheel
,
Jason Schwartzman
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Nagisa Oshima
,
Death by Hanging
,
Empire of Passion
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Sam Raimi
,
The Evil Dead
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
John Carpenter Halloween
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Pather Panchali
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Avi Nesher Secrets
,
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Errol Morris
,
Standard Operating Procedure
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Throne of Blood
,
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm
,
South Side Projections
,
Robert Downey Sr.
,
Putney Swope
,
Black Cinema House
,
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
,
Wyatt Cenac
,
Lav Diaz
,
Norte the End of History
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 14, 2014
Video
The Face of Love
, the face of Wes Anderson, 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
,
Wes Anderson
,
Khmer Rouge
,
The Grand Budapest Hotel
,
Rithy Prahn
,
The Missing Picture
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Ben Sachs
,
The Face of Love
,
Annette Bening
,
Ed Harris
,
European Union Film Festival
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Expedition to the End of the World
,
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
,
Joe Sarno
,
The Stuart Hall Project
,
John Akomfrah
,
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
,
Corneliu Porumboiu
,
Police Adjective
,
Need for Speed
,
Aaron Paul
,
Breaking Bad
,
Particle Fever
,
Large Hadron Collider
,
Rock My Religion
,
Visitors Godfrey Reggio
,
Visitors Philip Glass
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Independent of Reality: The Films of Jan Nemec
,
Sebastian Silva The Maid
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Trinh T. Minh-ha
,
Naked Spaces Living Is Round
,
Black Cinema House
,
Shirley Clarke
,
Portrait of Jason
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Quentin Tarantino
,
Reservoir Dogs
,
George Kuchar
,
Unstrap Me!
,
Nightingale Cinema
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Charlemagne Palestine Videoworks
,
CLAW: The Movie
,
Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 14, 2014
Video
Iranian westerns, French madwomen, Laotian rocketeers, 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
,
Bruno Dumont
,
Camille Claudel 1915
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Auguste Rodin
,
The Rocket
,
Tim's Vermeer
,
Johannes Vermeer
,
The Music Lesson
,
Detroit Unleaded
,
In No Great Hurry
,
Saul Leiter
,
My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns
,
Parviz
,
Robocop
,
Paul Verhoeven
,
Vampire Academy
,
Richelle Mead
,
Winter's Tale
,
Colin Farrell
,
Russell Crowe
,
Jessica Brown Findlay
,
Downton Abbey
,
Spike Jonze Adaptation
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Michael Curtiz
,
Casablanca
,
Music Box
,
Michael Roemer
,
Nothing But a Man
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
King Vidor
,
Our Daily Bread
,
Block Museum of Art
,
Rob Reiner
,
The Princess Bride
,
Carol Reed
,
The Third Man
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Alfonso Cuaron
,
Y Tu Mama Tambien
,
Doc Films
,
Jacques Demy
,
The Young Girls of Rochefort
,
Games on Stage
,
Eddo Stern
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Hump! Film Festival
,
Dan Savage
,
Pictures and Sounds
,
WHPK
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 14, 2013
Reader
's Agenda Thu 11/14: Rob Delaney, "Christmas Around the World," and
Traviata
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Thursday, November 14
By Drew Hunt
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
Music Box
,
Rob Delaney
,
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
,
Kevin Warwick
,
Christmas
,
Christmas Around the World
,
Museum of Science and Industry
,
Jena Cutie
,
Artemis Danza
,
Verdi
,
Traviata
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 8, 2013
Video
LGBT, PFFA, and the rest of TWS*
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Polish Film Festival in America
,
Andrzej Wajda
,
Walesa Man of Hope
,
Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival
,
Drew Hunt
,
Alain Guiraudie
,
Stranger By the Lake
,
Dallas Buyers Club
,
Matthew McConaughey
,
Jared Leto
,
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
,
Nightingale Chicago
,
The Motel Life
,
Willy Vlautin
,
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
,
Bill Siegel
,
The Weather Underground
,
How I Live Now
,
Marvel Comics
,
Thor: The Dark World
,
Claire Denis
,
Beau Travail
,
Nenette and Boni
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
David Fincher
,
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Marx Brothers
,
Duck Soup
,
Music Box
,
Hou Hsiao-hsien
,
Good Men
,
Good Women
,
Elaine May
,
Mikey and Nicky
,
Haile Gerima
,
Sankofa
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Ben Stiller
,
Zoolander
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Mostra IV: Brazilian Film Series in Chicago
,
Natural Life documentary
,
Tirtza Even
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 6, 2013
Reader
's Agenda Tue 8/6:
Word Becomes Flesh
, Rooms Trio, and "Chicago's Bauhaus History"
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Tuesday, August 6
By Drew Hunt
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
,
Word Becomes Flesh
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Rooms Trio
,
Constellation
,
Chicago's Bauhaus History
,
New Bauhaus
,
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 19, 2013
Video
Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs the rest of this week's screenings?
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Ben Sachs
,
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
,
Sebastian Silva
,
The Maid movie
,
Michael Cera
,
Rufus Norris
,
Broken movie
,
Broken Tim Roth
,
Broken Cillian Murphy
,
To Kill a Mockingbird
,
Ryan Coogler
,
Fruitvale Station
,
Chad Hartigan
,
This Is Martin Bonner
,
The Conjuring movie
,
Lili Taylor
,
Ron Livingston
,
Patrick Wilson
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Death Rides a Horse
,
Lee Van Cleef
,
Grown Ups 2
,
Adam Sandler
,
Oconomowoc
,
Terms and Conditions May Apply
,
Francis Ford Coppola
,
The Godfather: Part II
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Spencer Williams
,
Juke Joint
,
Black Cinema House
,
Don Siegel
,
The Lineup
,
Patio Theater Chicago
,
Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
Nicholas Ray
,
The Lusty Men
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Luis Bunuel
,
Mexican Bus Ride
,
Silent Summer Film Festival
,
Portage Theater
,
Des Plaines Theater
,
The Sheik
,
Rudolph Valentino
,
Jay Warren
,
South Side Projections
,
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Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week's screenings
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House of Games
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Things Change
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Redbelt
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
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Becoming Traviata
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Aix-en-Provence Festival
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Born in Chicago
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Chicano Love Is Forever
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The East movie
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In the Shadow
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The Internship movie
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Vince Vaughn
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Owen Wilson
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Google
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The Kings of Summer
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The Tragedy of Man
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Violet & Daisy
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Saoirse Ronan
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Alexis Bledel
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James Gandolfini
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Billy Wilder
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Ace in the Hole
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Patio Theater Chicago
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The Gleaners and I
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The Godfather
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Larry Clark
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Passing Through
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May 17, 2013
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Stories We Tell
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Sarah Polley
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Away With Her
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Take This Waltz
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Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis
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Almost in Love
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The Iceman Michael Shannon
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Richard Kuklinski
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Peeples Tyler Perry
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Pieta Kim Ki-duk
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The Island Kim Ki-duk
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Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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When I Walk
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Jason DaSilva
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White Frog
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Julie Dash
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Daughters of the Dust
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University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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Joseph H. Lewis
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Gun Crazy
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Chris Marker
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The Last Bolshevik
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Niko von Glasow
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Nobody's Perfect
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Bodies of Work Festival
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Alfred Hitchcock Rope
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Northbrook Public Library
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Rosemary's Baby
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Joss Whedon Serenity
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Landmark's Century Centre
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The Trial
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Apr 12, 2013
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Aimee Levitt
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Eric Fleischauer
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Jason Lazarus
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Chicago Latino Film Festival
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42 movie
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42 Jackie Robinson
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The Company You Keep
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Robert Redford
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Disconnect movie
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Jason Bateman
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Hope Davis
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The Last White Knight
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Delay De La Beckwith
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Upstream Color
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Mark Strong
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God
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The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima
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Bert Stern
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Jazz on a Summer's Day
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Bert Stern Original Mad Man
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Leave Her to Heaven
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Repo Man
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All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers
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University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013
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Columbia College Hokin Hall
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Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film
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Loyola University Sullivan Center
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First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program
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Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
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Feb 20, 2013
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Feminism Flatlined: The New Girl Series
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Wonder Women: the Untold Story of American Superheroines
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Gloria Steinem
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Kathleen Hanna
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Bikini Kill
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Le Tigre
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Andrew Todryk
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Vacation Dad
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Burlington
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Leor Galil
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Bones
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Hunter Husar
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From Jail to Yale: Serving Time on Stage
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Feb 15, 2013
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Beautiful Creatures
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North Sea Texas
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The Taste of Money
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Im Sang-soo
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The Housemaid
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
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Golden Raspberry
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Coming Out movie
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Her Third
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Safe Haven
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Nicholas Sparks
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Leos Carax
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Bad Blood
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Music Box Chicago
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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Wong Kar-wai
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In the Mood for Love
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Jennifer Reeves
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The Time We Killed
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Lifeforce
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Lord Jim
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Vertigo
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Feb 1, 2013
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week's movies
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Beware of Mr. Baker
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Bullet to the Head
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Walter Hill
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Sylvester Stallone
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56 Up
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
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Jeremy Renner
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The Hurt Locker
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In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers
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Shohei Imamura
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Pigs & Soldiers
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Mama I'm Alive
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Meet the Fokkens
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Movie 43
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Stand Up Guys
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Christopher Walker
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Alan Arkin
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Jonathan Levine
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The Wackness
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50/50
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Advise and Consent
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Ashes of Time
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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The Battle of Algiers
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Harold Ramis
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Groundhog Day
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Robert Rossen Lilith
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Northwest Chicago Film Society
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Gerg Jacobs
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Jon Siskel
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Louder Than a Bomb
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University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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University of Chicago Film Studies Center
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Charles Laughton
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The Night of the Hunter
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F.W. Murnau Sunrise
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Little Queer Film Festival
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Center on Halsted
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Jan 25, 2013
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Spouses at odds, a ghostly guardian, a trip to the hospital, and the rest of this week's movies
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Frank V. Ross
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Audrey the Trainwreck
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Mama Guillermo del Toro
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Andres Muschietti
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Hellboy
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Pan's Labyrinth
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Ben Sachs
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The Waiting Room docuentary
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Peter Nicks
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Broken City
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Allen Hughes
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Menace II Society
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Mark Wahlberg
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Russell Crowe
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The End of Time
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Peter Mettler
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The Flying Ace
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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
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The Last Stand
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Johnny Knoxville
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I Saw the Devil
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A Tale of Two Sisters
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Little by Little
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Jean Rouch
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Chronicle of a Summer
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Quartet Dustin Hoffman
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Tom Courtenay
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Maggie Smith
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Billy Connolly
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John Huston
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Beat the Devil
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Northbrook Public Library
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Casablanca
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The Color of Pomegranates
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Louis Malle
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The Fire Within
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Jaguar Jean Rouch
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Frank Borzage
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Little Man
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What Now?
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Alec Guinness
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The Man in the White Suit
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Music Box
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South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
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Logan Theater Chicago
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Civic Cinema
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The United States of ALEC
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American legislative Exchange Council
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Columbia College Film Row Cinema
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Sundance Film Festival
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Touchy Feely
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Lynn Shelton
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Your Sister's Sister
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