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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
Pathos in a shit storm

The most moving post from Moving Week, NSFW unless you can cry there
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: It's Complicated, Moving Week, Recycling Week, Moving Week, Ben Sachs, autism, laxatives, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 27, 2012
What's new again: E.A. Dupont's Variety

Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Variety, E.A. Dupont, German expressionism, Emil Jannings, Warwick Ward, Lya De Putti, James Whale, Piccadilly, silent cinema, Karl Freund, The Kiss Before the Mirror, Waterloo Bridge, Facets Film School, Facets Multimedia, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2012
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A four-star movie, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Tonight You're Mine, Maurice Pialat, We Won't Grow Old Together, Susan Morgan Cooper, Mulberry Child, Arbitrage movie, Richard Gere, The Cold Light of Day, Mabrouk El Mechri, JCVD, Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Family Portrait in Black and White, Honey movie, Magnificat: Films by Pat O'Neill, Mulberry Child, Polluting Paradise, Faith Akin, Head On, The Edge of Heaven, Side by Side, The Words, Bradley Cooper, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, Shirley Clarke, The Connection movie, Eran Riklis, The Human Resources Manager, Film Movement, Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly, Fred Camper, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, David Byrne, Bettina Richards, Home Movies and the Avant-Garde, Cinema Borealis, Errol Magidson, The Making of a Documentary: Chicago's Only Castle, Terror in the Aisles 12, The Stuff movie, Larry Cohen, Frankenhooker, Patty Mullen, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 5, 2012
Preparing for a Whale of a class

Announcing my six-week class on the versatile James Whale, director of Frankenstein, Show Boat, and much more
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, LGBT, Film, James Whale, Facets Multimedia, Beyond Frankenstein, One More River, Show Boat, Ben Sachs, The Kiss Before the Mirror, The Old Dark House, Waterloo Bridge, Universal Pictures, The Great Garrick, Remember Last Night?, Karl Freund, Facets Film School, 1930s cinema

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
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A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, Soderbergh, Che, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Devotional Cinema, Nathaniel Dorsky, Elena movie, Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return movie, How to Grow a Band, Chris Thile, The Jesus Trip, Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme, Pom Poko, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Savages movie, Oliver Stone, Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley, Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid, G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, K-Town Film Festival, Better Boys' Foundation, American Revolution 2, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 25, 2012
Hitting the books with writer-director Alex Ross Perry

An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, Film, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire, Sabbath's Theater, Zuckerman Bound, literary adaptation, independent filmmaking, Sean Price Williams, Kim's Video, Ben Sachs, Facets Multimedia, When She Was Good, Jerry Lewis, Jewish humor, Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, The Plot Against Harry

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 22, 2012
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Onion City experimental festival, now in progress

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Columbia College Ludington Building, Ben Sachs, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Bel Ami, Twilight movie, Robert Pattison, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas, The Cat Returns, Studio Ghibli, Dark Horse Todd Solondz, Happiness Todd Solondz, Kill Daddy Goodnight, Natural Selection movie, Payback Jennifer Baichwal, Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Ethan Hawke, Julien Temple, Earth Girls Are Easy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Pritzker Military Library, Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz, Landmark's Century Centre, John Ford, The Searchers, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2012
Another side of Fritz Lang: Western Union (1941)

Revisiting the great German director's second American western
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Fritz Lang, Western Union, You and Me, Ben Sachs, Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Thomas Pynchon, telegraphs, Morse code

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 15, 2012
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Fritz Lang, song-and-dance man—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fritz Lang, You and Me movie, You and Me Fritz Lang, Paramount Pictures, Ben Sachs, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Your Sister's Sister, Lynn Shelton, Humpday movie, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Come Back Africa, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, The Bitter Buddha, Eddie Pepitone Here Ben Foster, Leaving Vaclav Havel, Lola Versus, Greta Gerwig, Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele, Rock of Ages, Safety Not Guaranteed, Mark Duplass, That's My Boy, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future, Music Box, John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, Logan Theater Chicago, Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Tortoro, Gene Siskel Film Center, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Landmark's Century Centre, James Bond, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, Octopussy, Wilmette Theater, Sing-a-Long Mary Poppins, Found Footage Film Festival, Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher, Chicago Cultural Center, Studs Terkel Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 25, 2012
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Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Elia Kazan, Wild River, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Battleship movie, Ben Sachs, Hick movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hysteria movie, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Man Who Will Come, Marzabotto, Men in Black 3, Polisse movie, Wallander: The Revenge, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Jackson, Dead Alive, Music Box, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Lee Chang-dong, Poetry movie, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Block Museum of Art, River East 21, Crown Village 18, Pixar, Ratatouille movie, Up movie, WALL-E, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2012
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Screening this week: Richard Linklater's Bernie, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bernie Richard Linklater, Bernie Jack Black, Bernie movie, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Paul Simon, Under African Skies, Battleship movie, Liam Neeson, Mansome, Morgan Spurlock, The Moth Diaries, The Outfit movie, Robert Duvall, Robert Ryan, Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, The Samaritan movie, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick, Jennifer Lopez, Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, Caramel Nadine Labaki, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, Block Museum of Art, Jean Renoir, The Golden Coach, University of Chicago Doc Films, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Landmark's Century Centre, Vincente Minelli, Lust for Life, Bong Joon-ho Mother, Jean Eustache, The Mother and the Whore, Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Express, Sonic Celluloid, film festivals, 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, Mar 5, 2012
Starting today on the Bleader: Obsolescence Week

This week's "Variations on a Theme"
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Obsolescence Week, obsolescence, Obsolescence Week, Ben Sachs, videocassette, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2012
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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, House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello, Gene Siskel Film Center, Walter Benjamin, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012, Addiction Incorporated, Big Miracle, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Chronicle movie, Leap Year, Roscoe Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Mr. Rogers & Me, The Owls movie, Cheryl Dunye, Splinters, Papua New Guinea, W.E. movie, Madonna, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket movie, Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Northbrook Public Library, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Daniel Eisenberg, John Cassavetes, Love Streams, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
Don't walk away, Resnais

An overview of the class I'll be teaching on French director Alain Resnais
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Alain Resnais, Facets Multimedia, Ben Sachs, Melo, La guerre est finie, Providence, Love Unto Death, Wild Grass, I Want to Go Home, Jules Feiffer

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The most moving post from Moving Week, NSFW unless you can cry there

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Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses

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Announcing my six-week class on the versatile James Whale, director of Frankenstein, Show Boat, and much more

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An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel

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Revisiting the great German director's second American western

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This week's "Variations on a Theme"

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