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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2012
Yes, do let them (or, Wilder at heart)

Considering the similarities between Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen (whose Let the Bullets Fly just opened in Chicago) and the great Billy Wilder
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Comedy, Jiang Wen, Billy Wilder, Let the Bullets Fly, Devils at the Doorstep, Judd Apatow, Some Like It Hot, Avanti!, Funny People, 21 Jump Street

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 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, Hamlet and His Problems, Coriolanus, David Haglund, Ralph Fiennes, My Childhood, My Ain Folk, Bill Douglas, The Innkeepers, Ti West, The House of the Devil, My Piece of the Pie, Cedric Klapisch, When the Cat's Away, Navajo Joe, Burt Reynolds, Untamed Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Hideko Takamine, Windfall movie, The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Rowland Brown, Blood Money, Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie, Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, Mouchette, Bela Tarr, The Man From London, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2011
Coming soon: Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, repertory programming, Portage Theater, Too Late Blues, John Cassavetes, Reds, Warren Beatty, Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema, WPA Federal Theater, One-Third of a Nation, Edward Dmytryk, Give Us This Day, Christ in Concrete, House Un-American Activities, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, Gregory LaCava, So's Your Old Man, W.C. Fields, Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cecil B. DeMiille, Ten Commandments, Angel (1937), Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Margaret, Brasher Doubloon, John Brahm, Otto Preminger, Centennial Summer, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, exile, Cine-File, Michael Castelle

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2011
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This week's movie action: special grandma edition

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 15, 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, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Mysteries of Lisbon, Raul Ruiz, Time Regained, Three Lives and Only One Death, Music Box, Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University, Fast Talk, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Martin Scorsese, Hugo movie, George Clooney, The Ides of March, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn, Pedro Almodovar, The Skin I Live In, Amigo movie, John Sayles, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star, Sunshine State, Bellflower movie, Evan Glodell Circumstance movie, Maryam Keshavarz, Daylight movie, Drive movie, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson movie, Pusher trilogy, Gun Hill Road, Esai Morales, I Don't Know How She Does It, Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah, Where Soldiers Come From, Arthur Penn, Alice's Restaurant, Music Box, Billy Wilder, The Apartment, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, fall arts preview, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 14, 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, Kaneto Shindo, The Naked Island, Gene Siskel Film Center, Seto Inland Sea, Tabloid movie, Errol Morris, Beats Rhymes & Life The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Candy Darling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Identification Marks None, Jerzy Skolimowski, A Love Affair of Sorts, Mother Kaneto Shindo, Hiroshima, Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese, HBO, Fran Lebowitz, Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile Part One The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie and The Battle of Chile Part Two The Coup D'Etat, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buck Privates, Buck Privates Come Home, Pritzker Military Library, Ed Tracy, Rene Clair, The Crazy Ray, University of Chicago Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot, Music Box, movies, Video

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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, Feb 22, 2010
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Facets Film School

The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Saturday Night Fever, All That Jazz, Popeye, One From the Heart, Pennies From Heaven, Absolute Beginners, Twentieth Century, Hands Across the Table, The Princess Comes Across, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, To Be or Not to Be, Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder, neorealism, musical, Facets, Film School, Patrick Friel, Stephen Reginald, James Francis Flynn, Kate Balsley, Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Front Page, Buddy Buddy, The Bicycle Thief, Pather Panchali, Killer of Sheep, Taste of Cherry, Ratcatcher, Wendy and Lucy, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2009
Afric-a-go-go

The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week's Critic's Choices and new reviews.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Film Festivals, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Science fiction, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jia Zhang-ke, Andrea Gronvall, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, Cliff Doerksen, Errol Flynn, Food, Inc., African Diaspora Film Festival, Glorious Exit, Gospel Hill, Giancarlo Esposito, Jacques Romain, Youssou N'Dour, Return to Goree, Moon movie, Seraphine de Senlis, 24 City, Accidental Army, Czechslovak Legion, Capers movie, Mr. Art Critic, Eating Buccaneeers, Will Ferrell, Land of the Lost, Sandra Bullock, Proposal movie, Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola, Conversation Coppola, Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder, Adventures of Robin Hood, Exile Ophuls, James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.

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Previewing the neglected 1941 romantic drama (cowritten by Billy Wilder) which screens tomorrow night

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The movie adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's best seller comes to Blu-Ray.

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Top five Billy Wilder films

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In praise of black-and-white wide-screen

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A preview of this week's notable screenings

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Northbrook Public Library

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An overview of reviews in this week's issue and notable screenings around town

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Considering the similarities between Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen (whose Let the Bullets Fly just opened in Chicago) and the great Billy Wilder

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.

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The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week's Critic's Choices and new reviews.