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Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2013
Talking to founder Brenda Webb about new plans for the city's LGBT film festival

Reeling, Chicago's LGBT film festival, will resume this November with greater emphasis on community-building.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: LGBT, Film, Reeling Film Festival, LGBT films, Chicago Filmmakers, Brenda Webb, Richard Knight Jr., Gretchen Blickensderfer, film festivals, independent filmmaking

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2013
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Meet French experimental filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot

Previewing an experimental shorts program organized by Chicago Filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Politics, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Chicago Filmmakers, We Are Winning Don't Forget, Columbia College, Hokin Hall, experimental film, mosaic, Even If She Had Been a Criminal, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 200000 Phantoms, Undo, Andersonville

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 27, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Wed 3/27: West Town Bikes, Kevin Coval, Feminism Flatlined

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, West Town Bikes, Women & Trans Open Shop, Kevin Coval, Louder Than A Bomb Schtick, Up Comedy Club, Rick Kogan, Malcom London, Defcee, Haymarket Books, Columbia College's Hokin Hall, Chicago Filmmakers, Evan Grae Davis, It's a Girl, Kate Nace Day, A Civil Remedy, Feminism Flatlined

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2013
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Tina Fey, child soldiers, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Caesar Must Die, Music Box Chicago, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Dorfman in Love, Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, War Witch, Irving Lerner, City of Fear, Portage Theater Chicago, Amy Heckerling Clueless, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Stranger, Ron Mann, Tales of the Rat Fink, Delilah's Chicago, Walter Hill, The Warriors movie, Patio Theater Chicago, Alliance Francais, Festival du Film Francophone, Chicago Filmmakers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2013
Speaking of porno culture, Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) screens this weekend

Previewing the groundbreaking gay hardcore film, which screens this weekend in a new digital restoration.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, LGBT, Film, Fred Halsted, L.A. Plays Itself, gay hardcore, Museum of Modern Art, Maya Deren, Patrick Friel, White Light Cinema, Nightingale Theatre, Chicago Filmmakers, "porno chic", Wakefield Poole

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2013
A Haunted House, Sexy Baby, and our nation's porno culture

Considering the sexual politics in two new releases, a social-issue documentary and a Marlon Wayans gross-out comedy.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Paranormal, Women's Issues, Film, Sexy Baby, A Haunted House, feminism, women's issues, Marlon Wayans, pornography, Barefoot in the Park, Chicago Filmmakers, Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus, Essence Atkins, monogamy

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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, May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 6, 2012
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Let my people go to the movies!

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, 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, Yvonne Rainer, Lives of Performers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2012
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Class dismissed: Columbia College film prof Dan Dinello retires

Columbia College professor Dan Dinello marks his retirement with a retrospective of his independent films
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Comedy, Columbia College, Dan Dinello, Shock Asylum, Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Dan Dinello RetireSpective: 33 Years in 45 Minutes, Wheels of Fury, Rock Lobster, Chicago Halloween, Pink Triangles Rising, Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Comedy Central, Strangers With Candy, Amy Sedaris, Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, Richard Nixon, Bryan Dinello, The Colbert Report, Barack Obama, How to Be Popular, Army Arrangement, Chicago filmmakers, Video

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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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