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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, 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, Tal Rosenberg, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, Cold Water, James Joyce, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Aqui y Alla, Dark Waters, Andre de Toth, In the House, Francois Ozon, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, Stanley Donen, Charade, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Music Box Chicago, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Portage Theater Chicago, movies, Video

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 6, 2013
Garage Rep's fourth rep

Steppenwolf Theatre's annual showcase fills in the genre blanks.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Garage Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre, Sara Sawicki, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Allie Long, Katherine Banks, Morgan Maher, Rachel Goldberg, Buzz22, She Kills Monsters, Qui Nguyen, comedy, Scott Weinstein, Christina Anderson, Blacktop Sky, Julian Parker, Danni Smith, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, Victory Garden Theater, Balliwick Chicago, Michael John LaChiusa, Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Lili-Anne Brown, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2012
A few words on a large format

In praise of black-and-white wide-screen
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Billy Wilder, Music Box Theatre, The Apartment, One Two Three, Kiss Me Stupid, black-and-white widescreen, farce, Francois Truffaut, Nicholas Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Shohei Imamura, Coen brothers

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2012
The films of Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine

An interview with Doc Films programmer Edo Choi about the current Mikio Naruse/Hideko Takamine series.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Doc Films, Flowing, Floating Clouds, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edo Choi, Sound of the Mountain, Japanese film, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 10, 2010
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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, Jack Rebney, Winnebago Industries, Ben Steinbauer, Winnebago Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ed M. Koziarski, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Cajun culture, Louisiana bayou, BP oil spill, Accomplices Frederic Mermoud, Daddy Longlegs, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Ondine, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, The A-Team, Iron Man 2, The Karate Kid, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Mort Sahl, Killers Ashton Kutchner, Killers Katherine Heigl, OSS 117 Lost in Rio, Music Box Films, Solitary Man, Michael Douglas, La Signora di Tutti, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Hotti Biscotti, First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells, Ray Harryhausen, Busby Berkeley, For Me and My Gal, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bank of America Cinema, David Lean, In Which We Serve, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Allan Arkush, Rock 'n' Roll High School, P.J. Soles, Ramones, Empty Bottle, Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Baghdad, Douglas Fairbanks, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Michael Winterbottom, Summer in Genoa, Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Landmark's Century Centre, Beyond the Years, Im Kwon-taek, Sopyonje, Princess Kaiulani, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett; The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Shooting Robert King, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Northbrook Public Library, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2010
It's Not That Good, but If I Use a Photo From It, Will You Please Read My Post?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre, Renaissance Place, Good the Bad the Weird, Iron Man 2, Babies movie, Ferlinghetti A City Light, Human Centipede, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron, Gene Siskel Film Center, Takedowns and Falls, Vincent A Life in Color, Joseph Losey, Galileo, Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Glenn Miller Story, Northbrook Public Library, Maurice Pialat, Loulou, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Vittorio de Sica, Umberto D, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Word Is Out, Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago movies, movies.

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bob Bowdon, Landmarks Century Centre, The Cartel, Bob Bowdon Cartel, Harry Brown, Michael Caine, Square movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, The Scientist, Scientist movie, Who Do You Love, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Chess Records, Cadillac Records, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale, Bank of America Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Drunken Angel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Music Box, The Hidden Fortress, Otto Preminger, Saint Joan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2009
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Killer flicks and pho

Rodan's Soupline Cinema Sundays serve up classics by Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Kore-eda and Sammo Hung.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Yasujiro Ozu, Rodan, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar Wai, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Wan Guchan, Princess Iron Fan, Nobody Know, Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog, Toshiro Mifune, Hua Shan, The Super Inframan, Good Morning, Ronny Yu, Brigitte Lin, The Bride with White Hair, Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Sammo Hung, Ang Hun Tranh, The Scent of Green Papaya, Odd Obsession, Video

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