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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2011
Now playing: Afraid to Talk

Afraid to Talk, playing Friday at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, Afraid to Talk, Edward L. Cahn, Louis Calhern, Dave Kehr, Film Comment, Evanston

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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, Apr 29, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Shout! Factory, Ernie Kovacs, Andrea Gronvall, Incendies, Ben Sachs, Stake Land, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, Fast Five, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Forget Me Not movie, Henry's Crime, Keanu Reeves, The Kids Grow Up, Doug Block, 51 Birch Street, Madea's Big Happy Family, Tyler Perry Queen of the Sun, Uncle Kent, Joe Swanberg, Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, Terence Malick, Badlands movie, Andre de Toth, Day of the Outlaw, Robert Ryan, Portage, Rene Laloux, Fantastic Planet, Lincoln Hall, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys, University of Chicago Doc Films, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard movie, Gene Siskel Film Center; Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Block Museum of Art, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Pritzker Military Library, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Bowser, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation, The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, Certifiably Jonathan, Jonathan Winters, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb, Andrea Geyer, Adolf Eichmann, The Critics, Adam Langer, I Am Number Four, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Into Eternity, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Just Go With It, Adam Sandler, Oscar-Nominated Films 2011: Live Action, Landmark's Century Centre, Zenith, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Aparajito, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Block Museum of Art, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, Raoul Peck, Lumumba, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Northbrook Public Library, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Bessie Coleman Library, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 11, 2011
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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Lucy Walker, Waste Land, Jardim Gramacho landfill, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago International Film Festival, Music Box, Cedar Rapids movie, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, The Eagle movie, The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inspector Bellamy, Claude Chabrol, Loveless movie, The Roommate movie, The Woodmans, Francesa Woodman, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Harold Lloyd, Girl Shy, Doc Films, Robert Rossen, The Hustler, Block Museum of Art, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Loyola University, Ted Hardin, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Greta Garbo, Northbrook Public Library, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Cary Grant, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Clint Eastwood, Play Misty for Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2011
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, D.W. Griffith, American Revolution, University of Chicago Doc Films, Andrea Gronvall, Biutiful, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel Innaritu, Javier Bardem, Vivienne Dick, Gene Siskel Film Center, Family Affair, Koolhaas Houselife, Rem Koolhaas, The Mechanic Jason Statham, Charles Bronson, Nora's Will, Queen of the Sun, Taggart Siegel, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Rite Anthony Hopkins, The Secret to a Happy Ending, Drive-By Truckers, Strongman, Stanless Steel, A Useful Life, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, Block Museum of Art, Norman Lear, Cold Turkey, Rob Christopher, Cine-File, George Cukor, Gaslight, Music Box, Roman Polanski Repulsion, So This Is Paris, Northbook Public Library, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Logan Square International Film Series, Chicago movies, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2011
Morning Art: The Guerrilla Girls

Part of The Satirical Edge in Contemporary Prints and Graphics, on display at the Block Museum of Art.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, Block Museum of Art, the Guerilla Girls, The Satirical Edge in Contemporary Prints and Graphics

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 14, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, Carancho, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes, Fair Game, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, Hereafter, Clint Eastwood; Housemaid Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, The Minutemen, Trust Clive Owen, Trust Catherine Keener, Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer, Jack Rebney, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight, Last Train Home, My Soul to Take, Wes Craven, Nowhere Boy, John Lennon, RED, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Sailor's Luck, Raoul Walsh, Skirt Day, Isabelle Adjani, Tehran Tehran, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Guignol, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Portage theater, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Block Museum of Art, White Heat, James Cagney, film festivals, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 13, 2010
Morning Art: Theo Leffmann

Part of "Land Without End," on display at the Block Museum of Art
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, Theo Leffman, Land Without End, Block Museum of Art

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 2/25

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Elephant Gun, Bottom Lounge, La Sardine, Pierced Arrows, Lokal, The Lady With the Dog, Carson's Restaurant, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Fireman's Ball, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Campagnola, The World Is Flat! A Weekend of Toy Theater, Links Hall, Stuart Sherman, Cuna, Kendal Duque, Sepia, Living Quarters, Strangeloop Theatre, Trap Door Theatre, The Southern

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2010
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, The Wolfman, Metacritic, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Charles Darwin Creation, Fred Camper, Adele Friedman, Chicago Filmmakers, Peter Margasak, Celestial Navigations, Al Jarnow, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sesame Street, Ajami, Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, Happy Tears, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2010, Sons of Cuba, Havana Boxing Academy, Visitors (Jeonju Digital Projects 2009), Jeonju film festival, Jacques Tati Parade, Jacques Tati Playtime, Frank Capra, American Madness, Chekhov's Motifs, The Lady With the Dog, Shirley Clarke, The Cool World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milos Forman, The Fireman's Ball, Block Museum of Art, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Bank of America Cinema, Fritz Lang, While the City Sleeps, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

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