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Movies, Movie Review, May 21, 2013
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Portrait of Jason delves inside a hustler's world

Shirley Clarke's classic documentary screens in a new restoration.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Portage, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, The Connection, Jason Holliday, Chelsea Hotel, Trenton, New Jersey, Nob Hill, San Francisco, Aquatic Park, Hans Richter, Park Avenue, College of New York, Elaine Dundy, Hans Richter, John Cassavetes, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Lionel Rogosin, The Connection, Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World, Funny Girl, DeeDee Halleck, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, May 16, 2013
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Talkin' 'bout The Unspeakable Act

In Dan Sallitt's indie drama, a brother and sister wrestle with incestuous feelings.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Review, The Unspeakable Act, incest, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dan Sallitt, Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Eric Rohmer, Flowers in the Attic, Chinatown, Mubi.com, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, May 16, 2013
Stories We Tell and stories we don't

Sarah Polley's documentary peels away the layers of a family secret.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Joanna Polley, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter, Away From Her, Diane Polley, Diane Elizabeth, Toronto, Rashomon, Michael Polley

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Movies, Movie Review, May 9, 2013
The Not-So-Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Jazz Age, Jay-Z, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Entourage, Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, Robert Ryan, Robert Montgomery, Long Island Sound, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire

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Movies, Movie Review, May 8, 2013
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Olivier Assayas takes another crack at his radical adolescence

The director's Something in the Air circles back to the 70s.
- by Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Movie Review, James Joyce, Dubliners, Stephen Dedalus, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Something in the Air, Music Box, Olivier Assayas, Cold Water, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Film Comment, Carlos, World War II, May 1968, Beaux Arts, Pierre Ryckmans, The Chairman's New Clothes, Mao, Soft Machine, Why Are We Sleeping, Dr. Strangely Strange, Strings in the Earth and Air, Amazing Blondel, Celestial Light, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, May 2, 2013
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Persistence of Vision recalls an animation legend's doomed dream

Kevin Schreck tells the story of Canadian animator Richard Williams.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Don Hertzfeldt, Walt Disney, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Screen Cartoonists Guild, Persistence of Vision, Kevin Schreck, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Oscars, Warner Bros, Arabian Knight, The Princess and the Cobbler, Aladdin

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Movies, Movie Review, May 1, 2013
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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Jacques Rivette, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Miami, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers, Tony Shalhoub, GoodFellas, Horatio Alger, Ken Jeong

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 25, 2013
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Hard times and hard liquor in The Angels’ Share

In the new Ken Loach comedy, two-bit thieves target a coveted barrel of scotch.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Ken Loach, The Angels' Share, British cinema, Looking for Eric, Looking for Eric, Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 24, 2013
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A new life for Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese remember a British masterpiece.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Pearl Harbor, London, Michael Powell, National Film Theatre, Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Criterion Collection, David Low, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Dave Kehr, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roland Culver, Anton Walbrook, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 17, 2013
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Big Star shines again in Nothing Can Hurt Me

A new documentary remembers the Memphis rockers who never caught a break.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, David Bell, Sara Stewart, Chris Bell, Big Star, Alex Chilton, #1 Record, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Jody Stephens, Drew DeNicola, Ardent Studios, Stax Records, John Fry, Andy Hummel, Steve Rhea, Carole Manning, Geoff Emerick, Chris Stamey, Jim Dickinson, Richard Rosebrough, William Eggleston

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 17, 2013
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Mass murderers embrace movie magic in The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian slaughter of 1965-'66
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Anwar Congo, President Sukarno, Communist Party of Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Hollywood, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, John Wayne, The Godfather, Born Free, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 3, 2013
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That old Tabu

Miguel Gomes's Portuguese drama embraces the early sound cinema of F.W. Murnau.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Miguel Gomes, Tabu, Chicago Cinema Society, Patio Theater, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Bora Bora, Robert Flaherty, Tahiti, Mozambique, Lisbon, Pilar, Christmas, Rui Poças, Robinson Crusoe, Carnation Revolution, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Secrets of The Shining

The documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, The Killing, Room 237, Rodney Ascher, Music Box, Holocaust, Apollo 11, EMI Elstree Studios, Alexander Walker, Danny Lloyd, Stanley Hotel, Estes Park Colorado, Colorado State Archives, Stanley Kubrick, Director, Diane Johnson, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Geoffrey Cocks, The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, & the Holocaust, Walt Disney, Three Little Pigs, Timberline Lodge, Oregon, Lolita, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Bill Blakemore, Julie Kearns

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Movies, Movie Review, Mar 27, 2013
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Return of the L.A. Rebellion

A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Black cinema, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, the National Film Registry, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Shaft, Spike Lee, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elyseo J. Taylor, Ben Caldwell, Larry Clark, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Haile Gerima, Barbara McCullough, Billy Woodberry, Black Art Black Artists, Van Slater, Compton City College, Medea, I & I: An African Allegory, Amiri Baraka, Part of the Doctrine, Duke Ellington, Odetta, B.B. King, USC, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts, Film Comment, As Above So Below, Bush Mama, O. Funmilayo Makarah, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Daughters of the Dust, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Mar 21, 2013
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Caesar Must Die takes Shakespeare to the slammer

Roman prisoners stage Shakespearean tragedy in Caesar Must Die.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Caesar Must Die, Music Box, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italian neorealist cinema, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Paisan, Cesare Zavattini, L'Italia non e un Paese Povero, San Miniato, July 1944, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Lizzani, Talking About Cinema, Night of the Shooting Stars, Pirandello, Goethe, Tolstoy, The Subversives, St. Michael Had a Rooster, Rome Open City, Germany Year Zero, Cannes film festival, Palme d'Or, Padre Padrone, Fabio Cavalli, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Feb 14, 2013
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Who did you gas in the war, daddy?

Lore and Hitler's Children look at the heirs of Nazi war criminals.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Chanoch Ze'evi, Hitler's Children, Bettina Goering, Hermann Goering, Gestapo, Adolf Hitler, Rainer Hoess, Rudolf Hoess, Katrin Himmler, Monika Goeth, Amon Goeth, Plaszow, Poland, Niklas Frank, Hans Frank, Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List, Lore, Saskia Rosendahl, Ursina Lardi, Kai-Peter Malina, holocaust, Cate Shortland, Facets Cinematheque, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Feb 6, 2013
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Meet the skull and crossbones

Stolen Seas dives deep into the economic waters of modern Somali pirates.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Maersk Alabama, Somali pirates, Pirates of the Caribbean, U.S. Navy Seals, Richard Phillips, Stolen Seas, University of Chicago, Thymaya Payne, Facets Cinematheque, CEC Future, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Yemen, Daniel Howden, Independent, Ishmael Ali, Clipper Group, Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Philippines, Copenhagen, Per Gullestrup, Bahamas, Georgia, Lithuania, Canada, France, Great Britain, Japan, Stephen Haskins, Eugene Kontorovich, Richard Dowden, Cold War, Juergen Kantner, Sabine Merz, Matthew Rafferty, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Jan 30, 2013
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Location is everything in the Brazilian drama Neighboring Sounds

Kleber Mendonca Filho's first feature takes us somewhere real.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Neighboring Sounds, Brazil, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Robert Altman, Recife, Pernambuco, condominium towers, Aaron Cutler, Cinema Scope, architecture, Maeve Jinkings, Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, surveillance cameras, privacy, Irandhir Santos, Nivaldo Nascimento, W.J. Solha, Gustavo Jahn, Irma Brown, Taxi Driver, New York, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Jan 16, 2013
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Western swing

Phil Karlson's politically minded films pushed the genre leftward.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Review, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Tab Hunter, Van Heflin, James Darren, Phil Nugent, John Ford, Wagon Master, Fort Apache, The Searchers, They Rode West, Robert Francis, The Phenix City Story, Daniel Mainwaring, Joseph Losey, The Lawless, Crane Wilbur, Hell to Eternity, revisionist Western, Pearl Harbor, Japanese American imprisonment, The Brothers Rico, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review, Dec 28, 2012
Black and white and read all over

As a radical account of American slavery, Django Unchained pales in comparison to Uncle Tom's Cabin
- by Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Movie Review, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, World War II, antebellum, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, True Romance, Tony Scott, Jackie Brown

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