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Bleader
, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012
The year in revival screenings
by Ben Sachs
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Robert Bresson
,
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Two Lovers
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La Notti Bianche
,
The Devil's Cleavage
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George Kuchar
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Daughters Wives and a Mother
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Mikio Naruse
,
Hideko Takamine
,
Satyajit Ray
,
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,
The Home and the World
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Charulata
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Northwestern University
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Block Cinema
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The Gang's All Here
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Busby Berkeley
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Les Blank
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CIMM Fest
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Macunaima
,
Impala Sound DJs
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the Whistler
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The Oak
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Lucian Pintilie
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Romanian Cinema
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The Sign of Leo
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Eric Rohmer
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Whisper of the Heart
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Hayao Miyazaki
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The Movie Orgy
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Joe Dante
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The Hole
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Gremlins 2
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South Side Hub of Projection
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Poetry Foundation
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Stan Brakhage
,
Deus Ex
,
Hauling Toto Big
,
Robert Nelson
,
experimental film
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The Smiling Star
,
Werner Schroeter
,
Philippines
,
Kingdom of Naples
,
Palermo or Wolfsburg
,
Aleksei Guerman
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Twenty Days Without War
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
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Nothing But a Man
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Michael Roemer
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The Plot Against Harry
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Robert Young
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, Dec 7, 2012
Video
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
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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
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Alfred Hitchcock
,
Marnie Hitchcock
,
Facets Cinematheque
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Michael Phillips
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Chicago Tribune
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Spirited Away
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, Sep 21, 2012
Video
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
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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
,
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,
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,
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
,
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,
Vertigo
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Bleader
, Aug 6, 2012
The good fight continues in Chicago's rep houses
Considering the radical silliness of three American comedies playing in Chicago this week
by Ben Sachs
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,
Film
,
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
,
Joe Dante
,
Hallelujah I'm a Bum!
,
The Gang's All Here
,
Busby Berkeley
,
Al Jolson
,
Mark Neveldine
,
Brain Taylor
,
Prometheus
,
Ridley Scott
,
Portage Theatre
,
Music Box Theatre
,
Luis Bunuel
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Chuck Jones
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, Aug 3, 2012
Video
Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
by J.R. Jones
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,
Drew Hunt
,
Columbia College
,
Killer Joe
,
William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band
,
The French Connection
,
The Exorcist
,
Cruising
,
Bug movie
,
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
,
Tracy Letts
,
August: Osage County
,
Knox College
,
Galesburg
,
The Exorcist
,
William Friedkin
,
A Black Harvest Feast
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Black Harvest Film Festival
,
The Christmas Tree
,
Angel Krsiti Williams
,
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
,
Girlfriend Boyfriend
,
The Loves of Pharoah
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
The Queen of Versailles
,
Richard's Wedding
,
Total Recall
,
Paul Verhoeven
,
Alice Svankmajer
,
Lewis Carroll
,
Jan Svankmajer
,
Abel Ferrara
,
The Driller Killer
,
Sam Raimi
,
The Evil Dead
,
Logan theater
,
Busby Berkeley
,
The Gang's All Here
,
Music Box
,
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
,
King Kong
,
Lewis Milestone
,
Hallelujah I'm a Bum
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Dziga Vertoz
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The Man With the Movie Camera
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Dance Critic's Choice
, Aug 1, 2012
Tap takes over the world
Japanese dancers highlighted at Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Juba! concerts
by Laura Molzahn
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Chicago Human Rhythm Project
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Busby Berkeley
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Yuji Uragami
,
Japan
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Savion Glover
,
Watanabe Tomoyuki
,
Yukiko Misumi
,
ARTN Tap Dance Company
,
FootworKINGz
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Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
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Derick K. Grant
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Sam Weber
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Bleader
, Aug 1, 2012
Serious about pleasure
On two recent films that mix politics and pop,
Step Up Revolution
and the Taiwanese feature
Girlfriend Boyfriend
by Ben Sachs
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Dance
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Step Up Revolution
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Trevor Link
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Girlfriend Boyfriend
,
Gf*Bf
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Yang Ya-che
,
Busby Berkeley
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dance
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protest
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tracking shots
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George Romero
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Stephanie Rothman
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Bleader
, Apr 6, 2012
Video
Let my people go to the movies!
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
by J.R. Jones
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Portage Theater
,
Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
The Ten Commandments
,
New York Times
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Alan Govenar
,
The Beat Hotel
,
Asian American Showcase
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
American Reunion
,
American Pie
,
Four Lovers
,
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
,
Jiro Ono
,
Ivan Reitman
,
Ghostbusters
,
Mervyn LeRoy
,
Gold Diggers of 1933
,
Busby Berkeley
,
Douglas Sirk
,
Imitation of Life
,
Music Box
,
Quentin Tarantino
,
Pulp Fictio
,
Robert Wise
,
The Sound of Musi
,
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
,
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
,
Daniel Eisenberg
,
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
,
A Matter of Life and Death
,
Black Narcissus
,
The Red Shoes
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Jon Jost
,
Over Here Jon Jost
,
Parable Jon Jost
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Yvonne Rainer
,
Lives of Performers
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Bleader
, Jun 10, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
by J.R. Jones
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,
Jack Rebney
,
Winnebago Industries
,
Ben Steinbauer
,
Winnebago Man
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Ed M. Koziarski
,
Ted Hardin
,
Elizabeth Coffman
,
Veins in the Gulf
,
Cajun culture
,
Louisiana bayou
,
BP oil spill
,
Accomplices Frederic Mermoud
,
Daddy Longlegs
,
Ben Safdie
,
Joshua Safdie
,
Ondine
,
Neil Jordan
,
The Crying Game
,
The A-Team
,
Iron Man 2
,
The Karate Kid
,
Will Smith
,
Jaden Smith
,
Mort Sahl
,
Killers Ashton Kutchner
,
Killers Katherine Heigl
,
OSS 117 Lost in Rio
,
Music Box Films
,
Solitary Man
,
Michael Douglas
,
La Signora di Tutti
,
Max Ophuls
,
Lola Montes
,
Rachid Bouchareb
,
Days of Glory
,
Hotti Biscotti
,
First Men in the Moon
,
H.G. Wells
,
Ray Harryhausen
,
Busby Berkeley
,
For Me and My Gal
,
Gene Kelly
,
Judy Garland
,
Bank of America Cinema
,
David Lean
,
In Which We Serve
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Fritz Lang Metropolis
,
Allan Arkush
,
Rock 'n' Roll High School
,
P.J. Soles
,
Ramones
,
Empty Bottle
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Sanjuro
,
Raoul Walsh
,
The Thief of Baghdad
,
Douglas Fairbanks
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Bleader
, Aug 6, 2009
Madam, I'm Adam
by J.R. Jones
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Cliff Doerksen
,
Max Mayer
,
Adam movie
,
Adam Hugh Dancy
,
Adam Max Mayer
,
Hugh Dancy
,
Asperger's syndrome
,
Rose Byrne
,
Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Andrea Gronvall
,
The Seed
,
Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
,
Orangeburg massacre
,
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
,
Marion Barry
,
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
,
The Garden
,
Scott Hamilotn Kennedy Garden
,
South Central Los Angeles
,
Revanche
,
Rumba
,
The Answer Man
,
Jeff Daniels
,
The Cove
,
In Sickness and In Health
,
In My Father's Church
,
Irene in Time
,
Henry Jaglom
,
Julie & Julia
,
Meryl Streep
,
Julia Child
,
Paper Heart
,
Michael Cera
,
Brighton Rock
,
Graham Greene
,
Busby Berkeley
,
Footlight Parade
,
James Cagney
,
Girl Shy
,
Harold Lloyd
,
Silent Summer Film Festival
,
Kind Hearts and Coronets
,
Dennis Price
,
Alec Guinness
,
Modern Times
,
Charlie Chaplin
,
Pather Panchali
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Hitchcock Psycho
,
Grant Park
,
Rear Window
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Northbrook Public Library
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Chicago movies
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, Apr 25, 2007
Blaze of gory
The better half of Grindhouse might not be the one you'd expect.
by Pat Graham
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Pere Portabella
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Quentin Tarantino
,
Robert Rodriguez
,
Grindhouse
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Guy Maddin
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Planet Terror
,
John Carpenter
,
Mario Bava
,
George Romero
,
Busby Berkeley
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