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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 17, 2011
Meet John Doe Doesn't Need Memorable Tunes

The musical based on Frank Capra's movie needs a new focus.
- by Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Porchlight Music Theater, Meet John Doe, Frank Capra, Andrew Gerle, Eddie Sugarman, Matt August, Robert Riskin

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 26, 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, Jake Gyllenhaal, Pfizer, Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs, Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, Jake Whitney, Burlesque movie, Cher, Christine Aguilera, Doghouse movie, Faster, Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Made in Dagenham, Sally Hawkins, Happy Go Lucky movie, Ford Motor Company, 7 Days in Slow Motion, Sing The Music of Sesame Street, Stigmata movie, Sundance Institute 2010 Shorts Program, Sundance Film Festival, Tangled movie, Rapunzel, Three Days With the Family, Terrence Malick, Badlands movie, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Frenzy (1972), Saturday and Sunday at Music Box; the full-length cut of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Pritzker Park, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, The Wolfman, Metacritic, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Charles Darwin Creation, Fred Camper, Adele Friedman, Chicago Filmmakers, Peter Margasak, Celestial Navigations, Al Jarnow, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sesame Street, Ajami, Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, Happy Tears, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2010, Sons of Cuba, Havana Boxing Academy, Visitors (Jeonju Digital Projects 2009), Jeonju film festival, Jacques Tati Parade, Jacques Tati Playtime, Frank Capra, American Madness, Chekhov's Motifs, The Lady With the Dog, Shirley Clarke, The Cool World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milos Forman, The Fireman's Ball, Block Museum of Art, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Bank of America Cinema, Fritz Lang, While the City Sleeps, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2009
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Bedford Falls as the Promised Land

"U.S. Catholic" columnist Patrick McCormick plumbs the theological implications of "It's A Wonderful Life" in a screening and lecture Sunday 12/6 and Monday 12/7 at Dominican University.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Books, It's A Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Bedford Falls, Pottersville, Promised Land, U.S. Catholic, Patrick McCormick, Dominican University, Siena Center, Priory Campus, River Forest, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 27, 2008
Dharma in disguise

It's a more wonderful life than anyone ever thought!
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Buddhism, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Benito Mussolini, Jimmy Stewart

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"U.S. Catholic" columnist Patrick McCormick plumbs the theological implications of "It's A Wonderful Life" in a screening and lecture Sunday 12/6 and Monday 12/7 at Dominican University.

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It's a more wonderful life than anyone ever thought!

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