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Blogs, 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
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2012
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Bhopal bests Bilbo, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Public Enemies, Bhopali, Second Unitarian Church, Starlet movie, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Wayne White, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Citadel, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Laura Linney, The Matchmaker movie, Playing for Keeps, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sundance Institute Art House Project, Music Box Chicago, Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bob Clark, Porky's, Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, John Hughes, Home Alone, Logan Theater Chicago, Home Alone: Lost in New York, Cinema Borealis, Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, Beverly Arts Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Swing Time, Northbrook Public Library, J.B. Mabe, South Side Projections, Boundary Lines, Marshall Plan, Edward Burns, City Winery, Chicago movies, 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 26, 2012
An eternal mystery, screening twice on Sunday

Previewing this weekend's revival of the Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Paranormal, Film, Cinema Borealis, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, Roger Ebert, horror movies

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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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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2012
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A four-star movie, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Tonight You're Mine, Maurice Pialat, We Won't Grow Old Together, Susan Morgan Cooper, Mulberry Child, Arbitrage movie, Richard Gere, The Cold Light of Day, Mabrouk El Mechri, JCVD, Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Family Portrait in Black and White, Honey movie, Magnificat: Films by Pat O'Neill, Mulberry Child, Polluting Paradise, Faith Akin, Head On, The Edge of Heaven, Side by Side, The Words, Bradley Cooper, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, Shirley Clarke, The Connection movie, Eran Riklis, The Human Resources Manager, Film Movement, Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly, Fred Camper, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, David Byrne, Bettina Richards, Home Movies and the Avant-Garde, Cinema Borealis, Errol Magidson, The Making of a Documentary: Chicago's Only Castle, Terror in the Aisles 12, The Stuff movie, Larry Cohen, Frankenhooker, Patty Mullen, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2012
Found in the crowd: Ken Jacobs's Urban Peasants

Previewing this weekend's rare screening of a 1975 work by one of the country's greatest experimental filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Ken Jacobs, Urban Peasants, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Cinema Borealis, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, found footage, Flo Jacobs, American Jewry, Yiddish language

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 7, 2012
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A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, Music Box Theatre, Bone, Larry Cohen, Seeing the Light, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, The Crowd, King Vidor, Compliance, King Vidor, Love in Another Language, Turkish cinema, Green, Sophia Takal, The Possession, Sam Raimi, Queen of Hearts, Valerie Donzelli, Samsara, California State of Mind, Big Trouble in Little China, repertory screenings, Cinema Borealis, John Carpenter, I'm No Angel, Mae West, The Searchers, John Ford, Fred Camper, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 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, Nicholas Ray, They Live by Night, In a Lonely Place, On Dangerous Ground, Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life, Bitter Victory, Thornton Wilder, Chicago Seven, Don't Expect Too Much, Susan Ray, We Can't Go Home Again, The Flowers of War, Zhang Yimou, Hero movie, House of Flying Daggers, Steven Soderbergh, Jess + Moss, Clay Jeter, King of Devil's Island, My Reincarnation, Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami, Pina movie, Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal, Wim Wenders, Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen, Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep, Scarface, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Cinema Borealis, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Perry Henzell, The Harder They Come, Kartemquin Films, Inquiring Nuns, Sergei Eisenstein, Ten Days That Shook the World, Dave Drazin, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pitfall movie, Kobo Abe, The Ghost Is Here, Video

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Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 22, 2011
Christy LeMaster, the indie film maven

'I'd been dreaming for a long time of starting my own little spot where I could show experimental and emerging work'
- Tags: Movie Feature, People Issue 2011, Christy Lemaster, Nightingale Theater, Cinema Borealis, WBEZ, Eight Forty-Eight, Cinephile, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri, True/False Film Festival, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, celluloid film, Nightingale

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 21, 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, William Colby, Steve Bogira, The Man Nobody Knew, Phoenix Program, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Margin Call, Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Pieter Bruegel, The Way to Calgary, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Texas Killing Fields, The Three Musketeers, With or Without Love, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, Woody Allen, Bananas, University of Chicago Doc Films, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Golub movie, The Last Pullman Car, Pullman State Historic Site, Jules Dassin, Rififi, Roman Polanski, The Tenant, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Beverly Arts Center, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, Universal Horror!, Cinema Borealis, Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling, 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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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 2011
Now Playing: Change Nothing

Pedro Costa's documentary on actress-singer Jeanne Balibar screens Saturday at Cinema Borealis.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music, Christy LeMaster, Nightingale Theater, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Cinema Borealis, Gabe Klinger, Jonathan Rosenbaum, In Vanda’s Room, Colossal Youth, Ben Sachs, Jeanne Balibar, Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2010
The Face You Deserve

Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes's fantastic meditation on turning 30, "The Face You Deserve," screens tonight at Cinema Borealis.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Miguel Gomes, Block Museum, 31, The Face You Deserve, Portugal, Cinema Borealis

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Movies, Movie Feature, Sep 16, 2010
Thirteen Long Shots in Suriname

Multimedia artist Ben Russell, featured at the MCA this month, on his experimental ethnography of the Saramaccan tribe
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Movie Feature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinema Borealis

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2010
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S is for Sissy

A/V Geeks presents "S is for SIssy," a collection of educational films with dubious gender messages, tonight at Cinema Borealis.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, A/V Geeks, Nightingale, Cinema Borealis, S is for Sissy, Gender, hygiene, Soapy the Germ Fighter, Neurotic Behavior, Psychodynamic View, Fears of Children, William's Dolls, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2008
Now, even harder to find

Sunday's avant-garde film program at Nightingale has been moved to Cinema Borealis.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Nightingale, Cinema Borealis, Jack Chambers, Guy Fihman, avant-garde film, experimental film

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