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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
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Trance, Welcome to the Punch, James McAvoy, Danny Boyle, Eran Creevy, British thrillers, Hong Kong action films, American musicals, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, Rosario Dawson, style, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Dave Kehr, Douglas Sirk

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, 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 29, 2012
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Aching lovers, hockey thugs, etc
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Silence vs. Noise Week, Film, The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies, Rachel Weisz, Silence vs. Noise Week, Bleader, Goon movie, Seann William Scott, Let the Bullets Fly, Jiang Wen, Chow Yun-Fat, The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gregorio, Mid-August Lunch, John Landis, The Blues Brothers, Patio Chicago, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, Portage Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Andrei Tarkovsky, My Name Is Ivan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow, Music Box, Apichatpong Weerasathakul, Tropical Malady, Gene Siskel Film Center, Daniel Eisenberg, Phil Grabsky, In Search of Haydn, Jian Ping, Mulberry Child, Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, movies, Variations on a Theme, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2012
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How the sausage is made (ugh)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Do This, Film, Ben Sachs, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenn, The Kid With a Bike, Juvenile Court, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse movie, European Union Film Festival, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, The Life of Jesus, Twentynine Palms, The Fairy movie, Bruno Romy, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Rumba movie, Delicacy movie, Audrey Tautou, The Hunger Games, Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, Chicago Cultural Center, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Jacques Perrin, Winged Migration, Alliance Francais, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, Evanston Public Library, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds movie, Turner Classic Movies, Tippi Hedren, Ben Mankiewicz, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, The Room Wiseau, Facets Cinematheque, Vaclav Havel, Citizen Havel, Jerome McDonnell, Northwestern University, Benjamin Frommer, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 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, Marcin Wrona, The Christening, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Andre Techine, Unforgivable movie, Footnote movie, I Am Secretly an Important Man, Jesse Bernstein, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Ed Helms, Jason Siegel, Kill List, Seeking Justice, Nicolas Cage, Roger Donaldson, The Snowtown Murders, 21 Jump Street, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Music Box, Lucrecia Martel, The Holy Girl, Daniel Eisenberg, Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Music Box, The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterrey, Columbia College, Dan Dinello, Kristen Day, Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2011
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The Classic Film Series returns

The Classic Film Series, late of Bank of America Cinema, inaugurates its new home at the Portage Theater Wednesday 2/16 with Douglas Sirk's "Written on the Wind."
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Becca Hall, Julian Antos, Kyle Westphal, Michael W. Phillips, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Bank of American Cinema, LaSalle Bank Theater, Classic Film Series, South Side Projections, 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, Jan 6, 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, My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Damien Chazelle, The Klezmatics On Holy Ground, The Legend of Pale Male, My Uncle, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Buster Keaton College, Dennis Scott, Music Box, Tod Browning Freaks, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Black Gold, DuSable Museum, Flow For Love of Water, Chicago Filmmakers, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Bob Hercules, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 17, 2010
The Last Picture Show

The Classic Film Series concludes a 38-year Chicago run Saturday night at Bank of America Cinema.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Classic Film Series, Chuck Schaden, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Babes in Toyland, LaSalle Bank, Bank of America, Scott Marks, Emulsion Compulsion, Matthew Hoffman, Park Ridge Public Library, Michael Phillips, Julian Antos, Becca Hall, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage theater, Dennis Wolkowicz, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, film series, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, May 11, 2010
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Kick

Two women discover they share a fear of technology, a desire for children, and a sinister therapist in Heaven Gallery video curator Clara Alcott's 30-minute, Douglas Sirk-inspired sci-fi melodrama "Kick," which premieres Tuesday 5/11 at the Chopin Theater.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Kick, Clara Alcott, The Pretty Things, Chopin Theater, TV Pow, Douglas Sirk, Yony Leyser, Chris Hefner, Laura Klein, Sarah Weis, Arturo Cubacub, Lilli Carre, Catie Olsen, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2009
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This Week's Movie Action

New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Up in the Air Hollis Frampton, Birth of Magellan, Collapse movie, Collapse Michael Ruppert, Collapse Chris Smith, Richard Linklater, Me and Orson Welles, Breaking Point, Invictus, Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, The New Year Parade, The Princess and the Frog, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, Buster Keaton, General Buster Keaton, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2008
Forty and counting

It's an anniversary year for The American Cinema, the bible of American auteurism; where would we be without it?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Direction, Preston Sturges, Douglas Sirk, Howard Hawks, John M. Stahl, Veit Harlan, Imitation of Life ('59), Imitation of Life ('34)

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