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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 26, 2012
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Best revival screening of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse Wiseman, La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet, Juvenile Court Wiseman, Chicago Filmmakers, documentaries, movie revivals, Yilmaz Guney, The Friend, Doc Films, revival screenings, Turkish cinema, third world cinema, Arkadas, Wake in Fright, Ted Kotcheff, Australian cinema, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Variations on a Theme, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 4, 2012
Meet artist and professor Doug Ischar

Previewing a program curated by Chicago Filmmakers and taking place at Columbia College
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Doug Ischar, Tristes Tarzan, experimental film, Columbia College, Chicago Filmmakers

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 27, 2012
Our Solar System, now at 24 frames per second

Previewing the first of Chicago Filmmakers and the Adler Planetarium's "Strange Science" series
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Science, Film, Adler Planetarium, Chicago Filmmakers, Strange Science, Our Solar System, Mark Hammergren, Michael Gitlin, Travis Wilkerson

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 21, 2012
This week in tactile cinema: Miyazaki, Gitlin, Rivers

Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year's Onion City Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Onion City Film Festival, Sack Barrow, Ben Rivers, Chicago Filmmakers, Dust Studies, Michael Gitlin, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, early childhood, 16-millimeter photography, HD video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2012
Reeling Film Festival to go on hiatus

The world's second-oldest LGBT film festival has announced there will be no 2012 edition
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: LGBT, Film, Reeling Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Brenda Webb, LGBT, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, film festivals

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
Group 312 at Chicago Filmmakers

A preview of the short films program playing at Chicago Filmmakers on Friday, February 3
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Chicago Filmmakers, Group 312 Films, Group 101 Films, Nelson Carvajal

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 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, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust, Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close, Amador movie, Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Chicago Filmmakers, The Grey movie, Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, Semper Fi, Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, Tomboy movie, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, The World of Z, Zbigniew Fiks, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Gene Siskel Film Center, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Block Museum of Art, Mikio Naruse, Flowing Mikio Naruse, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, W.C. Fields, So's Your Old Man, Gregory La Cava, Stage Door, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charley Chase, His Wooden Wedding, Leo McCarey, Jay Warren, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2011
The best repertory screenings of 2011

A recap of Chicago's best revival screenings in 2011.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Best of 2011, repertory screenings, Chicago, Long Day Closes, Terence Davies, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, Doc Films, Eye & Ear Clinic, Film Studies Center, Aleksandr Medvedkin, Film Train, Man Follows Birds, Ali Khamraev, Gene Siskel Film Center, director retrospective, Jerzy Skolimowski, Hands Up!, The Naked Island, Kaneto Shindo, Luther Price, Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich, Dante's Inferno, Harry Lachman, Sepncer Tracy, Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, Music Box Theatre, Love Lust & Violence, Joe Rubin, Odd Obsession Movies, Chicago Filmmakers, Julian Antos, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Amateur, Hal Hartley, Southside Projections, Michael W. Phillips, Lord Thing, Conservative Vice Lords

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2011
Now playing: Mad Love at Chicago Filmmakers

A review of Mad Love, a collection of recent American shorts playing at Chicago Filmmakers.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Chicago Filmmakers, Mad Love, After You Left, Cheat, Joe DeRosa, Howling at the Moon, Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims, Howard from Ohio, We're Leaving, Zachary Treitz, All Flowers in Time, Jonathan Caouette, Chloe Sevigny

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 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, Ron Howard, The Dilemma movie, Moneyball, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Autoerotic movie, Joe Swanberg, Dolphin Tale, A Good Man, Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, Ravinia Festival, Killer Elite, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Love Crime, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Restless movie, Gus Van Sant, Screen Dances: Films by Nadia Oussenko, Chicago Filmmakers, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Parrish, Cry Danger, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Music Box, Jacques Feyder, The Kiss, Northbrook Public Libary, Dave Drazin, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Barbara Loden, Wanda movie, 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, Sep 14, 2011
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A look inside John Forbes's brain

The Tijuana Hercules front man has made another baffling animated video, and this one will be screened at Friday's Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase at Chicago Filmmakers.
- by Philip Montoro
- Tags: Crickets, Music, John Forbes, Tijuana Hercules, animation, video, Chicago Filmmakers, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Quicksand Passin' Through, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 8, 2011
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Preview: Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase

The Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase at Chicago Filmmakers on September 16 will screen an impressive, eclectic, and progressive mix of music videos, featuring bands from local labels like Thrill Jockey, Permanent, and HoZac.
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Crickets, Film, Music, music video, Thrill Jockey, Permanent, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Brain Idea, HoZac, Oval, Liturgy, Outer Minds, CIMMfest, Grape Juice, 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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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jun 23, 2011
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling
- by Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Onion City Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Patrick Friel, Carlos Adriano, Santoscope=Dumontage, All That Sheltering Emptiness, Color Series, Alice in Wonderland, Night, Day, Anitkabir, To Touch, Get out of the Car, Pigs, Toads, Relocation, Slave Ship, Mastering Bambi, Sugar Slim Says, Bust Chance, All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silen, Gina Carducci, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Madison Brookshire, James Fotopoulos, Jake Barningham, Yoel Miranda, J.B. Mabe, Thom Andersen, Pawel Wojtasik, Milena Gierke, Pieter Geenen, T. Marie, Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukacs, Lewis Klahr, Stephanie Barber, Nicolas Pereda

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 17, 2011
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Image X Sound

Tatsu Aoki and Jonathan Chen perform live accompaniment to Aoki's films, Friday 3/18 at Chicago Filmmakers.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Japan, jazz, traditional, bass, violin, electronics, composition, improvisation, experimental, Tatsu Aoki, Jonathan Chen, image x sound, Chicago Filmmakers, Adebukola Bodunrin, traditional, Video

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Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Previewing a program curated by Chicago Filmmakers and taking place at Columbia College

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Previewing the first of Chicago Filmmakers and the Adler Planetarium's "Strange Science" series

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Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year's Onion City Film Festival

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The world's second-oldest LGBT film festival has announced there will be no 2012 edition

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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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Columbia College professor Dan Dinello marks his retirement with a retrospective of his independent films

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A preview of the short films program playing at Chicago Filmmakers on Friday, February 3

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A recap of Chicago's best revival screenings in 2011.

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A review of Mad Love, a collection of recent American shorts playing at Chicago Filmmakers.

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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 Tijuana Hercules front man has made another baffling animated video, and this one will be screened at Friday's Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase at Chicago Filmmakers.

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The Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase at Chicago Filmmakers on September 16 will screen an impressive, eclectic, and progressive mix of music videos, featuring bands from local labels like Thrill Jockey, Permanent, and HoZac.

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

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Tatsu Aoki and Jonathan Chen perform live accompaniment to Aoki's films, Friday 3/18 at Chicago Filmmakers.

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