- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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An interview with Dan Sallitt, director of The Unspeakable Act
Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work
- Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Pain & Gain, the latest addition to the "fire with fire" genre
Considering some of the forebears of Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 28, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The best of John Ford
My picks for the five best films of the man who shot The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
- Movies, Movie Review, Apr 24, 2013
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A new life for Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese remember a British masterpiece.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 16, 2013
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Style wars: Trance vs. Welcome to the Punch
Comparing two recent British thrillers starring James McAvoy
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Three's a crowd
Weekly top five: informal trilogies
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation
Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Nobody's perfect—the best of Billy Wilder
Top five Billy Wilder films
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 15, 2013
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Further discoveries in the criminal files of Claude Sautet
Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 13, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films
The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 8, 2013
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Strategic film command, past and present
Considering how U.S. government agencies have interacted with Hollywood in the 50s and today
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
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John Ford's long-lost Upstream returns to Chicago tomorrow
Previewing the recently rediscovered backstage comedy by one of America's greatest filmmakers
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
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An eight-minute 54-second master class by Ettore Scola
A short film by Ettore Scola
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 11, 2012
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That's entertainment: Buster Keaton's The General
Buster Keaton's The General is perfect entertainment
- Blogs, Bleader, May 29, 2012
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Feeling ambivalent about Polisse . . . for now
Feeling ambivalent about the recent French drama Polisse. But how will I feel in three decades?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2012
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The films of Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine
An interview with Doc Films programmer Edo Choi about the current Mikio Naruse/Hideko Takamine series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2011
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Coming soon: "Hitchcock for the Holidays"
A preview of the Music Box Theatre's "Hitchcock for the Holidays" film series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2011
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Now playing: Afraid to Talk
Afraid to Talk, playing Friday at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 22, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action
This week's movie action: the Music Box's Chicago French Film Festival and Summer Music Film Festival, Terri, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2011
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Editing Bordwell and Kehr
Rodney Powell of University of Chicago Press details the publication of new books by Dave Kehr and David Bordwell.
