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Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2018
Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck's Star of the Week

FilmStruck's "star of the week" Lana Turner shines in these five films.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Crime, Film, History, On Video, Small Screen, Lana Turner, melodrama, Hollywood, film noir, FilmStruck, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sigmund Freud, MGM, Robert Louis Stevenson, Spencer Tracy, Victor Fleming, Ingrid Bergman, Donald Crisp, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Dave Kehr, The Postman Always Rings Twice, John Garfield, James M. Cain, Tay Garnett, Green Dolphin Street, Donna Reed, Academy Award, Victor Saville, Samson Raphelson, Elizabeth Goudge, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, The Three Musketeers, Gene Kelly, d'Artagnan, Lady DeWinter, George Sidney, Gig Young, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, Kirk Douglas, Val Lewton, Dick Powell, Charles Schnee, Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll

Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2018
Jean-Pierre Melville's brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Jean-Pierre Melville, FilmStruck, film noir, French New Wave, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, . The Silence of the Sea, Vercors, Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain, Robert Bresson, Orson Welles, Dave Kehr, Bob le Flambeur, Pigalle, The Asphalt Jungle, Two Men in Manhattan, Pierre Grasset, Nicolas Hayer, J.R. Jones, Le Samourai, Alain Delon, John Woo, Le Deuxieme Souffle, Henri Decae, The Book of Bushido, Joan McLeod, The Ronin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Le Cercle Rouge, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, André Bourvil, François Périer, Bill Stamets

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
Undercover cops infiltrate FilmStruck this week

FilmStruck showcases undercover cop films this week, with movies by Anthony Mann and Quentin Tarantino.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, FilmStruck, crime films, thrillers, undercover cops, Anthony Mann, T-Men, Louis de Rochemont, Treasury Department, Dennis O'Keefe, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, John Alton, Dave Kehr, Border Incident, The Narrow Margin, film noir, Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Richard Fleischer, Earl Fenton, George E. Diskant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, The Killing, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, CinemaScope, Infernal Affairs, Hong Kong, Christopher Doyle, Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love, Andy Lau, Days of Being Wild, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Wai-Keung Lau, Alan Mak, J.R. Jones

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2018
The future is now in Duncan Jones's Mute

A new sci-fi mystery from the director of Source Code is now streaming on Netflix.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Small Screen, Duncan Jones, Mute, Netflix, Paul Rudd, Alexander Skarsgard, Justin Theroux, Blade Runner, film noir

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2017
This year's edition of Noir City: Chicago expands its focus

The annual series celebrates the art of the heist.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, Noir City: Chicago, Music Box Theatre, film noir, Quiet Please: Murder, The Brink's Job, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, High Sierra, Raoul Walsh, Odd Man Out, Carol Reed, The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, Sterling Hayden, New Hollywood, Richard Pryor, Drive a Crooked Road, Mickey Rooney, Richard Quine, Blake Edwards, William Friedkin, Walter Matthau, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Don Siegel, L.A. Confidential, The Aura

Film, Movie Review Aug 24, 2017
How Dragnet became a PR coup for law enforcement

The story of the long-running cop show, Jack Webb, and the LAPD
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Noir City: Chicago, Film Noir Foundation, Dragnet, Jack Webb, Sergeant Joe Friday, William H. Parker, Pat Novak for Hire, He Walked by Night, Eagle-Lion Films, Marty Wynn, L.A. Confidential, NBC, Deadwood South Dakota, Joe Domanick, Daryl Gates, film noir, law enforcement

Film, Movie Feature Aug 21, 2015
Film noir from the United Kingdom creeps into town

Cast a Dark Shadow and Corridor of Mirrors, which screen at Gene Siskel Film Center this week, tap into human lust and greed.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, Cast a Dark Shadow, Corridor of Mirrors, Casting Dark Shadows: Film Noir Revisited. British noir, Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Kay Walsh, Terence Young, Edana Romney, Madame Tussauds, Eric Portman, Christopher Lee, film noir

Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of film noir

The best of film noir
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Noir City, Music Box, film noir, They Live by Night, Sweet Smell of Success, the Big Heat, Fritz Lang, Behind Locked Doors, Budd Boetticher, The Big Night, Joseph Losey, 99 River Street, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Phil Karlson

Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2014
The soon-to-reopen Portage Theater announces film events for summer

Starting in mid-June the historic Portage Park theater is back in business.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Neighborhoods, Film, Portage Theater, Eddie Carranza, Jay Warren, silent film, The Iron Mask, Allan Dwan, Beat the Devil, Scarlett Street, film noir, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2014
Black Cinema House to present Jules Dassin's rarely revived Uptight this Sunday

Noting a revival of the 1968 drama, which depicts the civil rights movement in a period of crisis.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Politics, Black Cinema House, Lee Bey, Uptight, Jules Dassin, Booker T. Jones, film noir, Ruby Dee, blacklist

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2013
Fritz Lang's Woman in the Window: A movie about moviegoing

How the 1944 noir becomes a different movie if you approach it as taking place in Edward G. Robinson's head.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: This Will Kill You, Moviegoing, Film, Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, film noir, dreams, moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2013
Discovering the wide world of Richard Fleischer

An upcoming revival of The Vikings should inspire curiosity about this versatile American filmmaker.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, History, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, CinemaScope, Technicolor, widescreen cinematography, Mandingo, Violent Saturday, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Boston Strangler, J.R. Jones, The Narrow Margin, The Clay Pigeon, film noir, Conan the Destroyer, Red Sonja, Million Dollar Mystery, Dave Kehr, Nicholas Ray, Frank Tashlin, Patio Theater

Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2013
This weekend's must-see revival: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie on 35-millimeter

John Cassavetes's personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Patio Theater, Chicago Cinema Society, Ray Carney, Gloria, The Godfather Part II, Sans Soleil, Fantastic Planet, Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, crime film, revival screenings, repertory screenings, Frank Capra, Aurora, Cristi Puiu, Philip Lopate, Criterion Collection, film noir, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2013
James Ransone in Broken City: Barely onscreen and barely restrained

Notes on the hard-working character actor, who appears in the Mark Wahlberg detective movie Broken City
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Whoa, Film, James Ransone, Broken City, Starlet, Sinister, character actors, Allen Hughes, Mark Wahlberg, Dan Duryea, Robert Siodmak, film noir

Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2013
Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies

A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Strange Days, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Any Day Now, Music Box Theatre, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Spaghetti Western, Tal Rosenberg, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stranger Than Fiction, Pice Check, The Rabbi's Cat, Sister, Home, Ursula Meier, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Doc Films, Wong Kar-Wai, As Tears Go By, The Walls of Jericho, film noir, John Stahl, Portage Theater, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, William Castle Undertow, Robert Ryan, Max Ophuls Caught, Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground, Howard Hughes, RKO Radio Pictures, Enterprise Pictures, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris, Chris Rock, Adam Goldberg, ParaNorman, Laika Studio, Coraline, Beyond the Myth, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago), Free Men movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Noir City: Chicago 4, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Redford, Quiz Show, Transistor, Hideout Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2011
Poles Apart

Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Facets Film School, Polish Cinema in Exile, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Anna Karina, film noir, night classes, continuing education, screenings, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday, 1/30

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Gates of Slumber, Thai Village, Magda Mayas, Heaven Gallery, Birchwood Kitchen, The Third Man, The Odd Man Out, film noir, Music Box, El Tapatio, The Chaser, Sprout, Talk Derby To Me, Windy City Rollers, Wishbone, The Train, 16th Street Theater, Czech Plaza, Busch Fest, Mary's Attic at Hamburger Mary's, Hopleaf

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2010
British Film Noir at Music Box

Two film noir classics by British director Carol Reed screen all week at Music Box.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, film noir, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Harry Lime, Odd Man Out, James Mason, Nicholas Wapshott, Abbey Theatre, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fay Compton, William Fay, F.J. McCormick, Kathleen Ryan, The Fallen Idol, Cannes film festival, Our Man in Havana, Alec Guinness, Graham Greene, Oliver!, Robert Krasker

Film, Movie Sidebar Jul 30, 2009
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Noir City: Chicago

The weeklong film noir festival runs through August 6 at the Music Box.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, Noir City, Harry Belafonte, Double Indemnity, The Prowler, Odds Against Tomorrow, Film Noir, Hemingway, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2008
Doc Films' rockin' new year

Doc Films is back in action after the holiday break.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, University Of Chicago, Dave Kehr, Film Noir, Doc Films, Samuel Fuller, Jacques Demy, Ernst Lubitsch, Jacques Tati, college film societies, Tom Gunning, Pedro Almodovar, sexploitation, Mike Mashon, Japanese cinema

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2007
A brief dispatch from Rotterdam

A few films seen at the Rotterdam film festival
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Rotterdam film festival, Walter Murch, Lou Ye, Summer Palace, ignorance of other cultures, Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag, Film Noir

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