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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 7, 2012
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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
- Tags: 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, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 24, 2012
CIFF notes: talking cheap with Gimme the Loot director Adam Leon

An interview with the writer-director of the independent New York comedy Gimme the Loot
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Poverty, Film, Adam Leon, Gimme the Loot, independent filmmaking, New York, teen movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Little Fugitive

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2012
My favorite third of a mile

Why I appreciate the 15-minute walk between Stony Island Avenue and Ida Noyes Hall
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Things I Love, Transportation, Moviegoing, Film, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago International Film Festival, Ben Sachs on moviegoing, Tom Tom the Piper's Son

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
CIFF notes: Experience Leviathan

Leviathan is an unparalleled experience
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, Chicago International Film Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2012
CIFF notes: The Drudgery Train

First impressions of the Japanese coming-of-age picture playing at the Chicago International Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Drudgery Train, Japanese film, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenta Nishimura

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 17, 2012
CIFF notes: Darezhan Omirbaev's Student

First impressions of the respected Kazakh filmmaker's latest, now playing at the Chicago International Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Food Chain, Film, Darezhan Omirbaev, Student, Kent Jones, central Asian films, Kazakh films, Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Physical Evidence, Chicago International Film Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 16, 2012
CIFF notes: a good year for Iranian films, if not Iranian filmmakers

Observations of Meeting Leila and Rhino Season, two of the Iranian films in this year's Chicago International Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Women's Issues, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Iranian films, Meeting Leila, Leila Hatami, Adel Yaraghi, Rhino Season, Bahman Ghobadi, Monica Bellucci, Behrouz Vossoughi

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2012
A film festival audience goes to Paradise

Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Moviegoing, Film, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love, Chicago International Film Festival, Lee Daniels, The Paperboy, film festivals, Ben Sachs on moviegoing

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 2012
CIFF notes: after The Delay, a dip in the Mekong

Observations of two films to play on the first day of this year's Chicago International Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF notes, The Delay (La Demora), Rodrigo Pla, Uruguayan cinema, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mekong Hotel

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
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Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Ken Burns, The Civil War documentary, The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight, Photographic Memory, Ross McElwee, Sherman's March, Bright Leaves, Argo, Ben Affleck, Now Forager, The One-Armed Swordsman, Shaw Brothers, The Other Dream Team, Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, In Bruges, Waiting for a Miracle, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie, Faubrourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, DuSable Museum of African American History, James Whale, Frankenstein, Logan Theater Chicago, Alexei Guerman, Khroustaliov My Car!, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Music Box, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, University of Chicago Doc Films, Cinema Borealis, Chicago Northwest Film Society, Chicago Film Archives, Home Movies and the Avant Garde, Music Box of Horrors, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Feature, Oct 11, 2012
Our guide to the 48th Chicago International Film Festival

For two weeks, the world is your neighborhood
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago International Film Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video

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Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Readers' Poll

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2012
Lessons from Wisconsin: bus safety and film festival edition

Reflections on my stay at the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Madison Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Phil Solomon, Andy Warhol, J.J. Murphy, Face, international film festival, David Bordwell, Chicago International Film Festival, Orpheum Theater, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Northern Lights, John Hansen

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 4: Terri

J.R. Jones on Terri, his fourth-favorite film of 2011.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Fox Searchlight, Cyrus movie, Paramount Vantage, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Chicago International Film Festival, Lynn Shelton, Humpday movie, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Your Sister's Sister, Azazel Jacobs, The Goodtimeskid, Good Times Kid, Momma's Man, John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Bridger Zadina, Olivia Crocicchia, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2011
Best of 2011, number 4: Goodbye, First Love

Our year-end review continues with Mia Hansen-Love's Goodbye, First Love.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Mia Hansen-Love, Goodbye First Love, Olivier Assayas, Carlos, Irma Vep, demonlover, Best of 2011, Chicago International Film Festival, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 3, 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, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, Music Box, Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, In Memoriam, Gene Siskel Film Center, Polish Film Festival in America, Rosemont 18, In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland, The Secret Garden, Europa Europa, Facets Cinematheque, Pickwick, Chicago International Film Festival, Le Havre, Aki Kaurismaki, Like Crazy, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, The Double, Richard Gere, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Tower Heist, Brett Ratner, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Urbanized, Gary Hustwit, Helvetica, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Ray Boulting, John Boulting, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Music Box, Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon, Doc Films; Zhao Dayong, Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Portage, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 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, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Oct 13, 2011
Week two of the Chicago International Film Festival

New films by Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Mia Hansen-Love, and Jay and Mark Duplass
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF 2011

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