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Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2013
The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Revival screenings, Music Box Theatre, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale Cinema, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic, An Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, Doc Films, L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted, White Light Cinema, Nanni Moretti, The Mass Is Over, Chicago International Film Festival, We Have a Pope, Max et les Ferailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mestizo, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Mario Handler, Venezuela, Guillermo Meneses, Moi un Noir, Jean Rouch, ethnography, Ivory Coast, No Fear No Die, Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, Film Studies Center, South Side Projections

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2013
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Ulzana's Raid, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Emperor of the North, The Longest Yard, The Spectacular Now, The Act of Killing, Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Apache, Vera Cruz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Precious, The Paperboy, The Canyons, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser, Expose Me Lovely, Raymond Chandler, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Gene Siskel Film Center, Highland Park, In a World..., lake Bell, Kick-Ass 2, comic book adaptation, Steve Jobs, Jobs, biopic, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, Sabata, spaghetti western, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home Again, Jamaica, The Retrieval, revival screenings, Faust, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill, Doc Films, Diamond Jim, Preston Sturges, Patio Theater, David Fincher, Zodiac, Panic Room, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat, Video

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 11, 2013
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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Summer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Amour, Michael Haneke, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland, The Iran Job, Last Call at the Oasis, Somewhere Between, Desire (1936), Frank Borzage, Ernst Lubitsch, Last Days of Pompeii, Silent Film Series, Music Box Theatre, revival screenings, Passage to Marseilles, Michael Curtiz, Northbrook Public Library, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP restoration, John Carpenter, The Thing, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
Coming soon to the Reader movie listings . . .

Reporting the opening of two new movie theaters in Chicago
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, ArcLight Cinemas, Cinema Dome, California, Harper Theater, New City, North/Clybourn, revival screenings, New 400, Hyde Park, Rogers Park, Old Town, Pipers Alley, the Village Theater

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2012
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Best revival screening of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse Wiseman, La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet, Juvenile Court Wiseman, Chicago Filmmakers, documentaries, movie revivals, Yilmaz Guney, The Friend, Doc Films, revival screenings, Turkish cinema, third world cinema, Arkadas, Wake in Fright, Ted Kotcheff, Australian cinema, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Variations on a Theme, Video

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The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013

The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

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.

Video
The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17

Coming soon to the Reader movie listings . . .

Reporting the opening of two new movie theaters in Chicago

A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings

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Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening

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The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

John Cassavetes's personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17

Reporting the opening of two new movie theaters in Chicago

The year in revival screenings

Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening

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