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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The trouble with never having seen Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry

Top Five Alfred Hitchcock films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Sabotage, Lifeboat, Marnie, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Sight and Sound Magazine, North by Northwest, The Birds, Psycho, The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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A neglected Chicago filmmaker gets his due, and the rest of this week's screenings

Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Andrew Sarris, Jean Rouch, Moi un Noir, The Lion Hunters, Doc Films, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Raising Arizona, Coen brothers, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, The Trouble With Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, Zazie in the Metro, Louis Malle, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, Chicago Cultural Center, West of Memphis, Amy Berg, West Memphis Three, Bel Borba Aqui, In Bed With Ulysses, A Haunted House, Marlon Wayans, Sexy Baby, La Rafle, Luv, Common, Video

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Dave Cerda, the performer

"I loved camp before I knew it was camp."
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, People Issue, People Issue 2012, Dave Cerda, The Performer, Hell In a Handbag Productions, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, Poseidon!, Scarrie, Hammond, IN, John Waters, Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Parkway Theatre, Kelly Anchors, Sweetback Productions, The Birds, Tippi Hendren, Alfred Hitchcock

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 2, 2012
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Kangaroo huntin', mate! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Kenneth Cook, Drew Hunt, A Late Quartet, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jerry & Me, Merhnaz Zaeed-Vafa, Jerry Lewis, Le Grand Amour, Pierre Etraix, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Flight, Denzel Washington, The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, Day Night Day Night, The Other Son, Shun Li and the Poet, The Zen of Bennett, Polish Film Festival in America, My Father's Bike, Michal Urbaniak, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Fred Camper, Jean Pierre-Melville, Bob le Flambeur, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Gang's All Here, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Logan theater Chicago, Bicycle Film Festival, Chicago Comedy Film Festival First Nations Film and Video Festival Mostra III, Chicago film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul W.S. Anderson, Mortal Kombat, Death Race, Resident Evil: Retribution, How to Survive a Plague, David France, ACT UP, The Master movie, Paul Thomas Anderson, United Film Festival Chicago, Music Box, Chicago Farmer, Fast Talk, Sadermania: From Fanship to Friendship, Michael Pena, Jake Gyllenhaal, Detropia, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Jesus Camp, End of Watch, David Ayer, Training Day, Hello I Must Be Going, Melanie Lynskey, Liberal Arts, Majority movie, Brenna Murphy, Robert Nelson, 10 Years, Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long Trouble With the Curve, Clint Eastwood, James Stewart, Vertigo, Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1933, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, Landmark's Century Centre, Sight & Sound, Vertigo, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2012
What's new again: Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz

Revisiting an overlooked 1969 spy film by the Master of Suspense in light of The Bourne Legacy
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Topaz, The Bourne Legacy, Alfred Hitchcock, Tony Gilroy, Luis Bunuel, The Phantom of Liberty, Jeremy Renner, Playtime, Jacques Tati, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Michel Piccoli, Frederick Stafford, Sarah Kane, Rachel Weisz

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 31, 2012
What's new again: Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins

Revisiting Claude Chabrol's second film in light of Alex Ross Perry's The Color Wheel
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Claude Chabrol, Les Cousins, Le Beau Serge, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer, Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Criterion Collection, Terrence Rafferty, Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sarah Polley, Away From Her, Take This Waltz, Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, The Apartment, Billy Wilder, The General, Buster Keaton, Shaw Brothers, Chang Cheh, The Water Margin, Manhunter, Michael Mann, The Ocean Waves, Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Turn Me On Dammit, Savages, Oliver Stone, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Duplass brothers, Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2012
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Slow good

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Police Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Aurora movie, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Patrick Wang, In the Family, Music Box, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Fake It So Real, The Lady movie, Luc Besson, Aung San Suu Kyi, Renaissance Place, The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks, Marley movie, Bob Marley, Think Like a Man, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Romany Falco, Terry Gilliam, Brazil movie, Doc Films, Michael Haneke, Cache movie, Daniel Eisenberg, Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, Block Museum of Art, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bob Rafelson, Head movie, Head Monkees, Joel Wicklund, Bong Joon-ho, The Host movie, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nightingale, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Les Blank, Elise Auerbach, Amnesty International, Facets Cinematheque, Iranian Taboo, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2012
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Tippi Hedren, the lion queen

Tippi Hedren appears at Music Box for a special screening of Hitchcock's The Birds
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Politics, Music Box, The Road to Hollywood, Turner Classic Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Mankiewicz, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Something Wild, Grace Kelly, Rear Window, Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest, Donald Spoto, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Shambala Preserve, The Elephant in the Living Room, Tim Harrison, Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act, film festivals, classic films, wild animals, animal abuse, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2012
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How the sausage is made (ugh)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Do This, Film, Ben Sachs, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenn, The Kid With a Bike, Juvenile Court, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse movie, European Union Film Festival, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, The Life of Jesus, Twentynine Palms, The Fairy movie, Bruno Romy, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Rumba movie, Delicacy movie, Audrey Tautou, The Hunger Games, Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, Chicago Cultural Center, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Jacques Perrin, Winged Migration, Alliance Francais, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, Evanston Public Library, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds movie, Turner Classic Movies, Tippi Hedren, Ben Mankiewicz, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, The Room Wiseau, Facets Cinematheque, Vaclav Havel, Citizen Havel, Jerome McDonnell, Northwestern University, Benjamin Frommer, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2012
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Raju

The year's contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark's Century Centre.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, 2012 Academy Awards, Landmark's Century Centre, Germany, Max Zähle, Raju movie, Julia Richter, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Kolkata, India, Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2011
Coming soon: "Hitchcock for the Holidays"

A preview of the Music Box Theatre's "Hitchcock for the Holidays" film series.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Music Box Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Hitchcock: The First Forty-four Films, Robin Wood, Hitchcock's Films Revisisted, Lacan, criticism, Hitchcock for the Holidays, Vertigo, To Catch a Thief, Marnie, The Birds, Tippi Hedren, gay subtext, Farley Granger, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Rebecca, Dave Kehr

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2011
This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, Shame movie, Shame Steve McQueen, hunger movie, Hunger Steve McQueen, Letters From the Big Man, Christopher Munch, The Hours and Times, The Sleepy Time Gal, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Bela Tarr, The Turin Horse, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments, Darryl Roberts, Answers to Nothing, Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within, Jose Padilha, Bus 174, Liliom movie, Liliom Fritz Lang, Passione movie, Passione John Turturro, Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, Tyrannosaur movie, Tyrannosaur Paddy Considine, Zielinski movie, John M. Zielinski, Edward L. Cahn, Afraid to Talk, Portage theater, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Facets Cinematheque, Sara Paretsky, James W. Anderson, Brian De Palma, Carrie movie, Carrie Sissy Spacek, Camp Midnight, Piper Laurie, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 23, 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, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, James Fotopoulos, Thom Andersen, Lewis Klahr, Stephanie Barber, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz, Buck movie, Buck Brannaman, In Memoriam, Stephen Cone, The Last Mountain, Rejoice and Shout, Shadows of a Hot Summer, Frantisek Vlacil, TrollHunter, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Airplane!, Airplane movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Portage Theater, Billy Wilder, The Seven-Year Itch, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago Cultural Center, Making the Boys, Crayton Robey, The Boys in the Band, experimental films, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 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, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, Alexandre O. Phillipe, The People vs. George Lucas, The Hangover Part II, The Hypnagogic Empiric, George Monteleone, Sirius Frantisek Vlacil, 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie, This Is My Land . . . Hebron, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Charlie Chaplink City Lights, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alfred Hitchcock, Family Plot, University of Chicago Doc Films, Manoel de Oliveira, I'm Going Home, Tim Burton, Mars Attacks, Modern Times, David Gordon Green, Undertow, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 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, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Architecture and Design Film Festival, Ben Sachs, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne and Robin Day, The Beaver movie, Mel Gibson, I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, Jumping the Broom, Paula Patton, Loretta Devine, Angela Bassett, The Princess of Montpensier, Bertrand Tavernier, Queen to Play, Sandrine Bonnaire, Something Borrowed, Ginnifer Goodwin, Summer of Goliath, There Be Dragons, Opus Dei, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Trainor, Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Music Box, Ella Cinders, Jay Warren, Portage Theater, Frank Perry, Mommie Dearest, Dick O'Day, Psycho movie, Manuel Munoz, Wilmette Theatre, Wattstax, Staple Singers, Albert King, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Bar-Kays, Richard Pryor, film festivals, movies, Video

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