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Film, Movie Review Oct 21, 2016
With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Stephen Meek, Night Moves, Jon Raymond, Jonathan Raymond, Maile Meloy, Laura Dern, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, René Auberjonois, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, movies

Film, Movie Review Apr 2, 2015
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Dogs bite man in the Hungarian drama White God

Kornél Mundruczó directs a film about dogs that has a lot to say about human beings.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Kornél Mundruczó, White God, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
Best Films of 2014, number five: Night Moves

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Kelly Reichardt, Night Moves, Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Fanning, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, James Le Gros, Jonathan Raymond, Meek’s Cutoff, best movies of 2014

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Chicago African Diaspora 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, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Cast Against 8, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal movie, Citizen Koch, Carl Deal, Tia Lessen, Trouble the Water, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Seduction, Seducing Dr. Lewis, Night Train, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myer, 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Music Box, Gene Saks, The Odd Couple, Logan Theater Chicago, Rare Baseball Films, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 16mm Animation Showcase, George Griffin, Kathy Laughlin, Sally Cruikshank, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2014
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Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, 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, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leslie Buchbinder, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Ben Sachs, Jon Favreau Chef, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, For No Good Reason, Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Godzilla, Music Box Chicago, Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm, Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, James Franco, Sepideh, Young & Beautiful, Francois Ozon, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, Nintochka, Asghar Farhadi The Past, Ratatouille movie, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Killing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 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, Brighton Rock, Boulting brothers, Roy Boulting, John Boulting, Graham Greene, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Preacher movie, Daniel Kraus, Sheriff movie, Musician movie, Professor movie, The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, John Corbett, Peter Margasak, Disco and Atomic War, Dallas TV show, Soviet Union, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth, Earthwork movie, Stan Herd, Farmageddon, Kiss and Tell, Monga movie, The Mysterious Lady, Greta Garbo, Silent Summer Film Festival, Ode movie, Ode to Billy Joe, Kelly Reichradt, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, One Day movie, Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd, Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D, Robert Rodriguez, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 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, Universal Pictures, Bridesmaids, Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, Albert Brooks, The Double Hour, Meeks' Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Coming Back for More, Sly Stone, The Devil's Trap, Frantisek Vlacil, Everything Must Go, Raymond Carver, Will Ferrell, Forks Over Knives, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Make Believe, World Magic Seminar, Mia and the Migoo, Twelve Thirty movie, Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored, Portage theater, Clara Bow, It movie, It Clara Bow, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid movie, The Kid Chaplin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wim Wenders, King of the Road, Block Museum of Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie movie, Marnie Hitchcock, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, Peter Pan movie, Wilmette theater, Bela Tarr, Satantango, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2010
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Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ed M. Koziarski, Lake County Film Festival, Junko Kajino, First Breath of Tengan Rei, College of Lake County, Andrea Gronvall, Elmhurst College, Poverty on the Silver Screen, Schaible Science Center, John Ford, Grapes of Wrath, Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire, Chicago Reader, film festivals, film series, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2010
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Facets Film School

The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Saturday Night Fever, All That Jazz, Popeye, One From the Heart, Pennies From Heaven, Absolute Beginners, Twentieth Century, Hands Across the Table, The Princess Comes Across, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, To Be or Not to Be, Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder, neorealism, musical, Facets, Film School, Patrick Friel, Stephen Reginald, James Francis Flynn, Kate Balsley, Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Front Page, Buddy Buddy, The Bicycle Thief, Pather Panchali, Killer of Sheep, Taste of Cherry, Ratcatcher, Wendy and Lucy, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2009
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A.O. Scott on Holocaust movies

The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, New York Times, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, Paul Dano, Facets Cinematheque, Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt, Michelle Williams, A.O. Scott, Asian American Showcase, Michael Chabon, So Yong Kim, Treeless Mountain, KAM Isaiah Israel, holocaust movies, Claude MIller, A.O. Scott Chicago, A.O. Scott KAM Isaiah Israel, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata, Sarah Waters, Sarah Waters Affinity, Fast & Furious, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Observe and Report, Seth Rogen, Paris 36, Christophe Barratier, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2008
Now that's more like it

Film Comment has spoken.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Critics, Film Comment, Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt, Motion Picture Association of America

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2008
A girl and her dog

At the Toronto film festival, Kelly Reichardt presents her heart-rending indie drama Wendy and Lucy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Poverty, Movies, Film Festivals, Brokeback Mountain, Toronto International Film Festival, Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt, Michelle Williams, Old Joy

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With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.

Recommended
Dogs bite man in the Hungarian drama White God

Kornél Mundruczó directs a film about dogs that has a lot to say about human beings.

Best Films of 2014, number five: Night Moves

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.

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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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This Week's Movie Action

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

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This Week's Movie Action

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

Video
Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

Video
Facets Film School

The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.

Video
A.O. Scott on Holocaust movies

The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.

Now that's more like it

Film Comment has spoken.

A girl and her dog

At the Toronto film festival, Kelly Reichardt presents her heart-rending indie drama Wendy and Lucy.

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Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.

Kornél Mundruczó directs a film about dogs that has a lot to say about human beings.

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.

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.

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

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.

The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.

Film Comment has spoken.

At the Toronto film festival, Kelly Reichardt presents her heart-rending indie drama Wendy and Lucy.

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