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Film, Movie Review Jun 17, 2015
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Money changes everything in Andrew Bujalski's Results

But a bigger budget doesn't diminish the director's talent.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Andrew Bujalski, Results, Buster Keaton, The Navigator, If I Had a Million, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Born Yesterday, Welcome to Me, Kristen Wiig, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess, Kevin Corrigan, Cobie Smulders, Guy Pearce, Giovanni Ribisi, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Delivery Man, Starbuck, Vince Vaughn, Lenny Cooke, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Third Ward TX, Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky, Jane Adams, Claire Denis, Bastards, Kasi Lemmons, Black Nativity, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Langston Hughes, Disney Frozen, Hans Christian Andersen, Homefront movie, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, The Burbs, University of Chicago Doc Films, Olivier Assayas Carlos, Jean-Luc Godard Contempt, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Claire Denis, The Intruder, W.C. Fields, Million Dollar Legs, Joel McCrea, Girls About Town, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Patio Theater Chicago, The Sound of Music, Music Box Chicago, Block Museum of Art, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Logan Center for the Arts, From 2337 West Monroe Street, Fred Hampton, Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist, The Room movie, Cinema Minima, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deck the Holodeck, Cole's Bar, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2013
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Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drug War, Johnnie To, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alfred Hitchcock, Music Box Theatre, Hitchcock 9, silent films, popular art, 2 Guns, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, South Side Projections, Logan Center for the Arts, Revolution on Film, ONO, Trick Bag, Kartemquin Films, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Kuttner, Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Europa Report, Sebastian Cordero, sci-fi, Lovelace, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, biopic, Kid-Thing, Facets Multimedia, The Spectacular Now, Landmark Century Center, We're the Millers, The Year I Broke My Voice, Chicago Filmmakers, Doc Films, Our Daily Bread, Babe, King Vidor, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, The Game, Fight Club, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2012
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust, Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close, Amador movie, Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Chicago Filmmakers, The Grey movie, Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, Semper Fi, Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, Tomboy movie, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, The World of Z, Zbigniew Fiks, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Gene Siskel Film Center, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Block Museum of Art, Mikio Naruse, Flowing Mikio Naruse, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, W.C. Fields, So's Your Old Man, Gregory La Cava, Stage Door, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charley Chase, His Wooden Wedding, Leo McCarey, Jay Warren, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2011
Coming soon: Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, repertory programming, Portage Theater, Too Late Blues, John Cassavetes, Reds, Warren Beatty, Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema, WPA Federal Theater, One-Third of a Nation, Edward Dmytryk, Give Us This Day, Christ in Concrete, House Un-American Activities, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, Gregory LaCava, So's Your Old Man, W.C. Fields, Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cecil B. DeMiille, Ten Commandments, Angel (1937), Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Margaret, Brasher Doubloon, John Brahm, Otto Preminger, Centennial Summer, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, exile, Cine-File, Michael Castelle

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Bowser, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation, The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, Certifiably Jonathan, Jonathan Winters, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb, Andrea Geyer, Adolf Eichmann, The Critics, Adam Langer, I Am Number Four, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Into Eternity, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Just Go With It, Adam Sandler, Oscar-Nominated Films 2011: Live Action, Landmark's Century Centre, Zenith, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Aparajito, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Block Museum of Art, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, Raoul Peck, Lumumba, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Northbrook Public Library, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Bessie Coleman Library, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, en Sachs, The Housemaid, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Andrea Gronvall, Louder Than a Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Breath Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring Kim Ki-duk, Lemmy 49% Motherf**cker 51% Son of a Bitch, Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead, The Regretters, The Devilles, Chicago Filmmakers, The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe Rotunno, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Goodfellas, Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Music Box, W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Northbrook Public Library;, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2009
"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Joe Dante, Joe Dante Hole, Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Innerspace, Joe Dante Matinee, Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Norman Z. McLeod, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Danny Kaye, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bob Hope, Road to Rio, The Paleface, David Lynch, Martin Short, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Trailers From Hell, Roger Corman, Jahn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, filmmakers, fi;m festivals, movies

Film, Movie Review Aug 19, 2009
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Everything’s Funnier With Weltanschauung

An identifiable worldview is what elevates the Swedish black comedy You, the Living over a Hollywood gag-a-thon like The Goods.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks, You, the Living, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Toronto film festival, Roy Andersson, New York Times, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Charles Schulz, Popeye, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2009
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Quiet time

The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Josef von Sternberg, Harold Lloyd, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Silent Summer Film Festival, silent films, W.C. Fields, Douglas Fairbanks, Frank Borzage, Anna May Wong, Running Wild, Gregory La Cava, The Thief of Bagdad, The Thief of Baghdad, Janey Gaynor, Seventh Heaven, Girl Shy, Underworld Sternberg, Underworld von Sternberg, Piccadilly Anna May Wong, silent movies, Portage, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2008
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Harold Lloyd opens this year's Silent Summer Film Festival

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, Dennis Scott, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Silent Summer Film Festival, silent films, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields, Douglas Fairbanks, Video

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Money changes everything in Andrew Bujalski's Results

But a bigger budget doesn't diminish the director's talent.

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Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

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Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15

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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Coming soon: Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields

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Everything’s Funnier With Weltanschauung

An identifiable worldview is what elevates the Swedish black comedy You, the Living over a Hollywood gag-a-thon like The Goods.

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The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.

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But a bigger budget doesn't diminish the director's talent.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

An identifiable worldview is what elevates the Swedish black comedy You, the Living over a Hollywood gag-a-thon like The Goods.

The Silent Summer Film Festival releases its 2009 schedule.

The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd's Speedy.

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