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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 4, 2012
Ever the twain shall meet

Gene Siskel Film Center presents the 17th annual Asian American Showcase
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dave Boyle, Goh Nakamura

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 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, Hanna movie, Ben Sachs, Blue Collar movie, Paul Schrader, Auto Focus, Affliction movie, Cat People, American Gigolo, Richard Pryor, Music Box, Asian American Showcase, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Arthur movie, Russell Brand, Dudley Moore, Con Artist movie, Mark Kostabi, Soul Surfer, Bethany Hamilton, Super movie, Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Your Highness, James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Trainor, Francois Ozon, 8 Women, Alliance Francais, Randy Williams, Shadow of a Doubt, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 7, 2011
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The House of Suh

Iris Shim explores the motives and consequences of 19-year-old Andrew Suh's murder of his sister's fiancé Robert O'Dubaine in Bucktown in 1993, in her documentary "House of Suh," screening 4/9 and 4/13 in the Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, House of Suh, iris shim, robert o'dubaine, andrew suh, catherine suh, bucktown, murder, 1993, asian american showcase, gene siskel film center, Korean Martyrs' Catholic Church, pontiac correctional center, university of illinois-chicago, uic, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 7, 2011
Asian American Showcase, Week Two
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Asian American Showcase, Macho Like Me, Helie Lee, The House of Suh, Iris K. Shim, Saigon Electric, Stephane Gauger, One Kine Day, Chuck Mitsui, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 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, Ben Sachs, Insidious movie, Saw movie, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Source Code movie, Duncan Jones, Moon movie, Undertow movie, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Albert Williams, Surrogate Valentine, Asian American Showcase, Desert Flower, Waris Dirie, Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder, Trust movie, David Schwimmer, Winter in Wartime, Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Music Box, Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Beverly Arts Center, Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 31, 2011
Asian American Showcase
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chil Kong, The Mikado Project, Miao Wang, Beijing Taxi, Lesley Loksi Chang, Redress Remix, Silk Road Theatre Project, Goh Nakamura, Surrogate Valentine

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2010
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Byte This

Asian American Showcase presents the panel Byte This: Surviving the Digital Age, Tuesday 4/13 at 6 p.m. at Columbia College.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Asian American Showcase, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Byte This, Surviving the Digital Age, Giant Robot, Eric Nakamura, Goh Nakamura, Tadashi Nakamura, A Song for Ourselves, Yellow Brotherhood, Pilgrimage, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 7, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Wednesday 4/7

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Titus Andronicus, Macello, Bottom Lounge, Tokyo Nami Trio, Aoki, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cibo Matto, Spiaggia, Little Women, Velvet Lounge, Ken Vandermark, Hideout, Jane's, Sixteen Candles, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Doc Films, Cedars Mediterranean Kitchen, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Wintertime Tale, Gemini Bistro, Horizon Cafe, Greenhouse Theater, Strawdog Theatre, Hugen Hall

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 6, 2010
Tokyo Nami Trio at Asian American Showcase

The electroacoustic Tokyo Nami Trio plays live to bassist Tatsu Aoki's film "Puzzle" in the Chicagoans program in Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center Wednesday 4/7.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Tokyo Nami Trio, Tatsu Aoki, Nami Sagara Farahmand, Toru Hironaka, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Puzzle, Loo Zihan, Autopsy, Melissa Hung, The Story of Ama and Baba, Invisible Cities, Seconds, Vicky Yen, Good Morning, Driving in Bad Weather, Masahiro Sugano, Yarning for Love, Gregory Cooke, Let Old Ghosts Rest, Min Jeong Cha, Pages of Wings, Mako Fuwa, Stealing, Shirin Mozaffari

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 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, Hot Tub Time Machine, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Children of Invention, Treeless Mountain, Tze Chun, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Half Nelson, Sugar movie, City Island, Andy Garcia, Clash of the Titans, Head On, Last Song movie, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Mid-August Lunch, To Die for Tano, University of Chicago Doc Films, Richard Brooks, Blackboard Jungle, Music Box, Clue movie, Northbrook Public Library, Otto Preminger, Leon Uris, Exodus movie, Laurence Olivier, Henry V, Jean Eustache, Mother and the Whore, River of No Return, Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, John Hughes, Sixteen Candles, Fritz Lang, Woman in the Window, film festivals, Chicago movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 1, 2010
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Asian American Showcase

Featuring Children of Invention, Shopping for Fangs, and more
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Asian American Showcase, Foundation for Asian American Independent Media, Gene Siskel Film Center, Children of Invention, Tze Chun, The People I've Slept With, Karin Anna Cheung, Shopping for Fangs, Quentin Lee, Justin Lin, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 4, 2010
Second Moon

Masahiro Sugano's revised "neo-yakuza romantic farce" screens Thursday 3/4 at DePaul.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Second Moon, Masahiro Sugano, DePaul University, Richardson Library, Super Kamada, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Andre Ing, Jennifer Shin, Jim Finn, Asian American Showcase, Milan Kundera

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 10, 2009
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A.O. Scott on Holocaust movies

The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, New York Times, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, Paul Dano, Facets Cinematheque, Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt, Michelle Williams, A.O. Scott, Asian American Showcase, Michael Chabon, So Yong Kim, Treeless Mountain, KAM Isaiah Israel, holocaust movies, Claude MIller, A.O. Scott Chicago, A.O. Scott KAM Isaiah Israel, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata, Sarah Waters, Sarah Waters Affinity, Fast & Furious, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Observe and Report, Seth Rogen, Paris 36, Christophe Barratier, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2009
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Asian American Showcase: Chicago connections

A handful of locally connected filmmakers screen among the national selections in week 2 of Asian American Showcase.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Sundance, The First Breath of Tengan Rei, Asian American Showcase, Jennifer Phang, Half-Life, So Yong Kim, Treeless Mountain, In Between Days, School of the Art Institute, Ben Redgrave, Polish Bar, Wenhwa Ts'ao, Arithmetic Lessons, Ai Lene Chor, Tiffin, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 4, 2009
Annette O'Toole on Hollywood 360

Carl Amari hosts Annette O'Toole, JoBe Cerny, and yours truly on "Hollywood 360" premiering tonight on WIND 560 AM.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Goodman Theatre, The First Breath of Tengan Rei, Junko Kajino, Ric Arthur, Asian American Showcase, Hollywood 360, WIND-AM, Carl Amari, Annette O'Toole, Magnolia, JoBe Cerny, Pillsbury Dough Boy, Glancer Magazine, Falcon Picture Group, Twilight Zone, New Testament, Jim Caviezel

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 3, 2009
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Tracing Japanese American Chicago and more at Asian American Showcase

Tatsu Aoki screens his work-in-progress Origins of Now: Stories of the Chicago Nisei, Sunday in Asian American Showcase.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, World War Ii, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tatsu Aoki, Asian American Showcase, Japanese American, Origins of Now, Juno, David Choe, Miss Chinatown, Sopranos, Rasaka Theatre, comfort women, Japanese internment, Video

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Iris Shim explores the motives and consequences of 19-year-old Andrew Suh's murder of his sister's fiancé Robert O'Dubaine in Bucktown in 1993, in her documentary "House of Suh," screening 4/9 and 4/13 in the Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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The electroacoustic Tokyo Nami Trio plays live to bassist Tatsu Aoki's film "Puzzle" in the Chicagoans program in Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center Wednesday 4/7.

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Featuring Children of Invention, Shopping for Fangs, and more

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Masahiro Sugano's revised "neo-yakuza romantic farce" screens Thursday 3/4 at DePaul.

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The New York Times critic appears this weekend at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park. Also this week: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" opens at Music Box; So Yong Kim's "Treeless Mountain" closes the Asian American Showcase; and Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy" makes a curtain call at Facets.

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A handful of locally connected filmmakers screen among the national selections in week 2 of Asian American Showcase.

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Carl Amari hosts Annette O'Toole, JoBe Cerny, and yours truly on "Hollywood 360" premiering tonight on WIND 560 AM.

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Tatsu Aoki screens his work-in-progress Origins of Now: Stories of the Chicago Nisei, Sunday in Asian American Showcase.