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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2012
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This is halftime!

There are better inspirational videos than that schlocky Clint Eastwood ad
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Mudville, Media, Politics, Clout City, Super Bowl, Halftime in America, Chrysler, Clint Eastwood, Barack Obama, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 3: The Tree of Life

J.R. Jones on The Tree of Life, his third-favorite film of 2011.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Brad Pitt, Douglas Trumbull, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Hereafter movie, Hereafter Clint Eastwood, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2011
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This week's movie action: special grandma edition

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 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, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, J. Edgar Hoover, Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cho Dependent, Margaret Cho, My Last Round, Bobby Fischer Against the World, HBO, Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog, Revenge of the Electric Car, Chris Paine, Who Killed the Electric Car?, The Women on the 6th Floor, Fabrice Luchini, Carmen Maura, Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol, Music Box, Lewis Milestone, The Front Page, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Giorgio Moroder, Music Box, Sidney Lumet, Network movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Herbert Brenon, Peter Pan, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Auditorium Theatre, Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Found magazine, Found Footage Festival, Found vs. Found, film festivals, movies, weird shit, Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Nov 10, 2011
The boys in the bureau

Clint Eastwood's biopic probes the alleged gay double life of J. Edgar Hoover
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, J. Edgar Hoover, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, FBI, Dustin Lance Black, Clyde Tolson, spying, blackmail, homosexuality, closeted homosexual

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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, Feb 11, 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, Lucy Walker, Waste Land, Jardim Gramacho landfill, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago International Film Festival, Music Box, Cedar Rapids movie, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, The Eagle movie, The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inspector Bellamy, Claude Chabrol, Loveless movie, The Roommate movie, The Woodmans, Francesa Woodman, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Harold Lloyd, Girl Shy, Doc Films, Robert Rossen, The Hustler, Block Museum of Art, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Loyola University, Ted Hardin, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Greta Garbo, Northbrook Public Library, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Cary Grant, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Clint Eastwood, Play Misty for Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 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, Sesame Street, Muppets, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Henson, Fran Brill, Chicago Reader, Unstoppable movie, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Polish Film Festival in America, Reeling The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cool It, Bjorn Lomborg, Four Lions, London marathon, The Freebie, Dax Shephard and Katie Aselton, Garbo the Spy, Juan Pujol In My Sleep movie, Left Bank movie, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams, 127 Hours, Danny Boyle, Rabia, Reenactments, Room in Rome, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Alliance Francais, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Music Box, King Vidor, The Fountainhead, Northwestern University Block Films, Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Peeping Tom, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr, Wilmette theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2009
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What's Old: Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone at the Music Box.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Music Box, Henry Fonda, westerns, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, spaghetti westerns, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 23, 2008
Star light--or better yet, star bright

Smart takes on Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Atlantic, New York Times, Clint Eastwood, New York Times Magazine, Manohla Dargis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Parker, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey Atlantic, Clint Eastwood New York Times, Gran Torino, Gran Torino New York Times, Yes Man Atlantic, Yes Man, Lynn Hirschberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman New York Times, Doubt, Doubt New York Times, Synecdoche New York

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 16, 2007
Other voices, other blogs

Issues of cinema, history, language, and cyberspace arising from a symposium in Mar del Plata
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Clint Eastwood, Mar del Plata, Cinema of Tomorrow, Quintin, cyberspace

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2007
How "Japanese" is it?

Regarding Letters From Iwo Jima: how do you say "Spielberg" in Japanese?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Suribachi

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Movies, Movie Review, Jan 11, 2007
New Perspectives

Clint Eastwood looks at WW II from the losing side and Karen Moncrieff slices and dices the usual slasher narrative.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Review, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Dead Girl, Clint Eastwood

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Movies, Movie Review, Dec 23, 2004
A Little Transcendence Goes a Long Way

Clint Eastwood reaches for redemption while Martin Scorsese settles for entertainment.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Review, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo Dicaprio

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A conversation about the 1971 psychodrama with Northwest Chicago Film Society programmer Kyle Westphal

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Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter

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J.R. Jones on The Tree of Life, his third-favorite film of 2011.

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Clint Eastwood's biopic probes the alleged gay double life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Sergio Leone at the Music Box.

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Smart takes on Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Issues of cinema, history, language, and cyberspace arising from a symposium in Mar del Plata

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Regarding Letters From Iwo Jima: how do you say "Spielberg" in Japanese?

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Clint Eastwood looks at WW II from the losing side and Karen Moncrieff slices and dices the usual slasher narrative.

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Clint Eastwood reaches for redemption while Martin Scorsese settles for entertainment.