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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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An old-school Reader blowout, 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, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Tabu, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, The Host movie, Twilight Stephenie Meyer, Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience, The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Landmark's Century Centre, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Only Dwarfs Started Small, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Logan Theater Chicago, Chris Marker, La Jetee, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 3, 2013
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That old Tabu

Miguel Gomes's Portuguese drama embraces the early sound cinema of F.W. Murnau.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Miguel Gomes, Tabu, Chicago Cinema Society, Patio Theater, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Bora Bora, Robert Flaherty, Tahiti, Mozambique, Lisbon, Pilar, Christmas, Rui Poças, Robinson Crusoe, Carnation Revolution, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Feb 27, 2013
The 16th European Union Film Festival

Gene Siskel Film Center kicks off a whopping 61-film lineup
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, European Union Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Everybody in Our Family, Radu Jude, The Happiest Girl in the World, Romania, Sightseers, Ben Wheatley, Down Terrace, Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Superclasico, Flame and Citron, Ole Christian Madsen, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Estevanez, Kierkegaard, Tabu, Miguel Gomes, Our Beloved Month of August, F.W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Lisbon, The Wall, Martina Gedeck, Austria, Marlen Haushofer, Julien Polsler

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 30, 2012
Reader's Agenda Sun 12/30: Neurosis, a servants' tour, and Lawrence of Arabia

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 30, 2012
- by Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Agenda, Neurosis, Atlast Moth, Bloodiest, Driehaus Museum, Help Wanted: The Holiday Servants' Tour, Music Box Theatre, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise film, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

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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, Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, William Castle Undertow, Robert Ryan, Max Ophuls Caught, Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground, Howard Hughes, RKO Radio Pictures, Enterprise Pictures, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris, Chris Rock, Adam Goldberg, ParaNorman, Laika Studio, Coraline, Beyond the Myth, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago), Free Men movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Noir City: Chicago 4, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Redford, Quiz Show, Transistor, Hideout Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2012
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What's screening this weekend

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar, James McTeigue, The Raven, John Cusack, Edgar Allan Poe, Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope, Lawrence Kasdan, Darling Companion, Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Daniel Nettheim, The Hunter, Willem Dafoe, Josef Astor, Lost Bohemia, Carnegie Hall, Percy Adlon, Felix Adlon, Mahler on the Couch, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, Dan Tanz, Triumph67, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Badlands, University of Chicago Doc Films, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Landmark's Century Centre, Johnnie To, Election Johnnie To, Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hong Sang-soo, Night and Day Hong Sang-soo, John Boorman, Point Blank, Music Box, Joss Whedon, Serenity movie, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Block Museum of Art, William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Adrian Martin, Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing, Heather McAdams, My Dad Heather McAdams, Scopitones, Sci-Fi Spectacular, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 12, 2011
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Sunrise in the dark

F. W. Murnau's silent 1927 masterpiece screens tonight at the Silent Summer Film Festival.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Silent Summer Film Festival, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Portage Theatre, Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marion Davies, The Cardboard Lover, Greta Garbo, The Mysterious Lady, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Janet Gaynor, A Star Is Born, Nosferatu, The Last Laugh, Faust, William Fox, Jay Warren, silent film, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 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, Film Noir Foundation, Egyptian Theater, Noir City Chicago 3, Music Box, Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Sorry Wrong Number, Barbara Stanwyck, Deadline USA, Humphrey Bogart, The Dark Mirror, Olivia De Havilland, The Blue Dahlia, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Loophole movie, Larceny movie, Andrea Gronvall, The Interrupters, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Yelling to the Sky, Gabourey Sidibe, Precious movie, Autumn Execution, Lee Hsing, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Detroit Wild City, The Help movie, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, Sleep Furiously, Wales, 30 Minutes or Less, Reuben Fleischer, Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network, Aziz Ansari, Funny People, The Whistleblower, Rachel Weisz, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, University of Chicago Doc Films, Samuel Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, The Steel Helmet, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Sunrise Murnau, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Jay Warren, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 1, 2011
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Now Playing: A Screaming Man

Black World Cinema presents Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Chadian drama A Screaming Man.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Black World Cinema, Chatham 14, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, A Screaming Man movie, Chicago International Film Festival, Dry Season movie, F.W. Murnau, The Last Laugh movie, film series, movies, Video

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