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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2013
An interview with Stephen Graves, director of A Body Without Organs

Speaking with a first-time documentary filmmaker, whose movie screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival tomorrow
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Stephen Graves, A Body Without Organs, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ostomy, communal living, polyamory, illness

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 3/6: CUFF, Samothrace, and Reading Under the Influence

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 6, 2013.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Logan Theatre, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Untitled, Sandra Gibson, Luis Recorder, Olivia Block, Bryan Spinks, Seattle, Samothrace, Ultra Lounge, Reading Under the Influence, Sheffield's, Christine Sneed, Little Known Facts, Columbia College, Shawn Shiflett, Silver Tongue, Wyl Villacres, Darwyn Jones, 2nd Story

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 5, 2013
Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival

Four days of the bizarre, the outrageous, and the extralegal
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Logan, All the Memory in the World, Mike Olenick, Vertigo, Fight Club, Blow Out, Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Ape, Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Grand Rapids, A Body Without Organs, Stephen Graves, Bill Graves, Hit & Stay, Pig Death Machine, Jon Moritsugu, Mod Fuck Explosion, Scumrock, Amy Davis, Amy Davis, Hannah Levbarg, Todd Verow, School of Change, Jennet Thomas, Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, Max Good

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 5, 2013
Chicago Public Library presents free documentary screenings for Women's History Month

Noting the monthlong citywide program
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Women's Issues, Film, Chicago Public Library, Women's History Month, In the Family, Kartemquin Films, Jonathan Demme, I'm Carolyn Parker the Good the Mad and the Beautiful, Girl Model, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Harold Washington Library, documentary films, women's issues

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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Music, In Rotation, Feb 25, 2013
In Rotation: CUFF artistic director Bryan Wendorf on the blackened Krautrock of Aluk Todolo

Plus: Reader associate editor Kevin Warwick on the Busy Bea Flea Mall, filmmaker Mike Gibisser on folk firebrand Barbara Dane, and more
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: In Rotation, Kevin Warwick, flea markets, thrift stores, record shopping, records, Paw Paw, Michigan, Busy Bea Flea Mall, Pissed Jeans, Sub Pop, Trouble in Mind Records, brunch, The Birthday Party, Aluk Todolo, Guardian Alien, Greg Fox, Krautrock, black metal, Nick Cave, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wax Trax!, Saki, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, Christian Terstegge, Arvo Pärt, Barbara Dane, Nicolas Collins, Wellman Braud, Duke Ellington, NPR, Crown Liquors

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 22, 2012
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Onion City experimental festival, now in progress

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Columbia College Ludington Building, Ben Sachs, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Bel Ami, Twilight movie, Robert Pattison, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas, The Cat Returns, Studio Ghibli, Dark Horse Todd Solondz, Happiness Todd Solondz, Kill Daddy Goodnight, Natural Selection movie, Payback Jennifer Baichwal, Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Ethan Hawke, Julien Temple, Earth Girls Are Easy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Pritzker Military Library, Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz, Landmark's Century Centre, John Ford, The Searchers, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2012
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Underground movies, one flight up—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Fourth Dimension, Harmony Korine, Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Trash Humpers, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Silent Souls, Jan Kwiecinski, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, Chernobyl Diaries, For Greater Glory, Cristero War, High School, I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Intouchables, Small Beautifully Moving Parts, Snow White & the Huntsman, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Rescue Dawn, Pritzker Military Library, Portage theater, Shaw Brothers Studio, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Fist of the White Lotus, film festivals, underground cinema, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2012
Learning through seeing: an interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat

An interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat about her feature I Have Always Been a Dreamer
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Architecture, Film, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Sabine Gruffat, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Detroit, Dubai, Ben Russell, experimental film, documentary, Bill Brown

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 30, 2012
Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival

The 19th annual fest opens Thursday night at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Andrew Bird, Xan Aranda, Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, David Redmon, A. Sabin, Axel Ranisch, Sabine Gruffat, Robert Todd, Daniel Martinico, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Ben Rivers, Lindsay Denniberg, Michal Kosakowski

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 4, 2011
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Salonathon

The Chicago Underground Film Festival curates a program of "fantastical, funny, friendly, freakish films" from this year's lineup Monday 8/8 at Beauty Bar.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Food, Swag, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, Beauty Bar, Salonathon, Andrew Mauset-Mooney, Lazslo Lassu, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Peripetei'em, Andrew Rosinski, Beads, Kari Corbett, Crispin Rosenkranz, Uncontrollable Joy for Life, Steven Summers, The Forest, John Bonham, Daniel Martinico, Be Kind Rewind, Blockbuster Tapes, Moby Dick, Tony Balko, Mike Olenick, Spaceboy, Unicornhole, Kerry Lataila, chromographic, 3D, Lusas Dimick, Dax Norman, Video

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Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 23, 2011
Best local film festival

Chicago International Film Festival voted best local film festival
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best local film festival, Readers' poll, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago International Music and Movies Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 7, 2011
CUFF announces prize winners

The judges of the Chicago Underground Film Festival have spoken.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Adele Horne, Ryan Garrett, John Price, Ben Rivers, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Damon Russell, Snow on tha Bluff, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, underground film, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 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, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Battle for Brooklyn, Prospect Heights, Profane movie, Usama Alshaibi, Snow on tha Bluff, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, The Green Wave, 12 Angry Lebanese, Reginald Rose, 12 Angry Men, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven, Palm D'Or, Cannes film festival, River East 21, Century 12 and CineArts 6, L'Amour Fou, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Berg, X-Men: First Class, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Doc Films, Budd Boetticher, Comanche Station, Portage theater, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, William Castle, House on Haunted Hill, The Screaming Skull, Shock Theater, Wicker Park Arts Center, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jun 2, 2011
Chicago Underground Film Festival resurfaces
- by Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, Battle of Brooklyn, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, Cardboard Cutout Sundown, Melika Bass, Kelly Reichardt, Julia Fuller, Ross Nugent, Ann Steurnagel, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman, Profane, Usama Alshaibi, Snow on the Bluff, Curtis Snow, Damon Russell, Some Girls Never Learn, Jerzy Rose, Jared Larson, Mike Lopez, Halle Butler, Alexander Stewart, Total Badass, Bob Ray, Chad Holt

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 28, 2010
Chicago Movie Music

Two new verite documentaries scored by Chicago-connected improvisers, Frank Rosaly and Ernst Karel
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Film, Music, Post No Bills, Scrappers, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Frank Rosaly, film music, Sweetgrass, Ernst Karel

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 24, 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 Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cyrus John C. Reilly, Cyrus Marisa Tomei, Cyrus Jonah hill, Cyrus Deplass brothers, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Baghead, The Puffy Chair, I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, Jim Thompson, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Sweetgrass, Grown Ups Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jonah Hex, DC Comics series, Knight and Day, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, Shane Meadows, This Is England, Somers Town, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Jean-Luc Godard Breathless, Music Box, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Northbrook Public Library, Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo, DuSable Museum of African American History, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Howard Hughes The Outlaw, Bank of America Cinema, film festivals, movies., Video

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How Side Effects and See You Next Tuesday reflect new trends in the movies' depiction of mental illness.

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First impressions of this year's Audience Award winner at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Speaking with a first-time documentary filmmaker, whose movie screens at the Chicago Underground Film Festival tomorrow

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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 6, 2013.

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Four days of the bizarre, the outrageous, and the extralegal

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Noting the monthlong citywide program

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Plus: Reader associate editor Kevin Warwick on the Busy Bea Flea Mall, filmmaker Mike Gibisser on folk firebrand Barbara Dane, and more

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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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An interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat about her feature I Have Always Been a Dreamer

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The 19th annual fest opens Thursday night at Gene Siskel Film Center

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The Chicago Underground Film Festival curates a program of "fantastical, funny, friendly, freakish films" from this year's lineup Monday 8/8 at Beauty Bar.

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Chicago International Film Festival voted best local film festival

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The judges of the Chicago Underground Film Festival have spoken.

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

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Two new verite documentaries scored by Chicago-connected improvisers, Frank Rosaly and Ernst Karel

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