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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 26, 2012
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Best revival screening of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse Wiseman, La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet, Juvenile Court Wiseman, Chicago Filmmakers, documentaries, movie revivals, Yilmaz Guney, The Friend, Doc Films, revival screenings, Turkish cinema, third world cinema, Arkadas, Wake in Fright, Ted Kotcheff, Australian cinema, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Variations on a Theme, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 3, 2012
What's new again: the films of Michael Ritchie

Revisiting the comedy-dramas of the New Hollywood director in light of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Michael Ritchie, The Bad News Bears, Prime Cut, Downhill Racer, Smile, Semi-Tough, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Hal Ashby, New Hollywood, 1970s cinema, Shampoo, The Last Detail, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Frederick Wiseman, cynicism, The Candidate, Bruce Dern

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 24, 2012
Talking truth with Fake It So Real director Robert Greene

An interview with the independent documentary filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sports, Robert Greene, Fake It So Real, Kati With an I, Owning the Weather, documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman, Facets Multimedia, Sean Price Williams, wrestling, Waiting for "Superman"

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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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Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Mar 21, 2012
From high school to the slammer

Frederick Wiseman's Juvenile Court documents the trials of youth
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Frederick Wiseman, documentary, Memphis, juvenile court

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 29, 2012
What's new again: Frederick Wiseman's Model

Revisiting Frederick Wiseman's 1980 documentary Model in light of his latest, Crazy Horse
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Crazy Horse, Model, Frederick Wiseman, documentary, Adjustment and Work, High School II, Boxing Gym

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Feb 23, 2012
The naked truth

With Crazy Horse, Frederick Wiseman documents a legendary nude cabaret
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, cabaret, Paris

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 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, Carl Jung, Michael Fassbender, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Sigmund Freud, Viggo Mortensen, Sabina Spielrein, Keira Knightley, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Lads & Jockeys, Frederick Wiseman, The Last Circus, Alex de la Iglesias, El Crimen Perfecto, New Year's Eve, Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, Valentine's Day, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, The Sitter movie, Jonah Hill, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carre, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Music Box, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Johnny Cash Christmas Special, Delilah's, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Northbrook Public Library, Mitchell Liesen, Remember the Night, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santa Sangre, Chicago Cinema Society, film societies, movies, Video

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Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 23, 2011
The Reader's Picks
Best film about Chicago

Public Housing
- Tags: Arts & Culture, The Reader's picks, Public Housing film, Frederick Wiseman, Ida B. Wells project, Chicago Housing Authority, The Reader's Picks

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 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, Tony Scott, Unstoppable, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Paul Haggis, The Next Three Days, Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Claire Denis, White Material, Music Box, Isabelle Huppert, Boxing Gym, Frederick Wiseman, Budrus, The Damned movie, Four Boxes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Monsters movie, Samson & Delilah, Skyline movie, Today's Special, Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Aasif Mandvi, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Doc Films, Ousmane Sembene, Moolaade, DuSable Museum of African American History, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, D.W. Griffith, True Heart Susie, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Feature, May 13, 2010
Three Works About Work

Daniel Kraus—editor, horror novelist, and filmmaker—screens his documentary series about people doing their jobs.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Movie Feature, Daniel Kraus, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sheriff, Ronald Hewett, Ken Vandermark, Musician, Professor, Jay Holstein, Frederick Wiseman, The Monster Variations

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2009
TIFF Review: La Danse—The Paris Opera Ballet
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Dance, Frederick Wiseman, La Danse, La Danse--The Paris Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Lehman Brothers, ballet, choreography, theater, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto film festival, film festivals, documentaries, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2009
The year's best movie (so far)

Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours lights up the European Union Film Festival. Also this week: Frederick Wiseman's epic documentary State Legislature, the latest from Chop Shop director Rahmin Bahrani, and a Russian remake of Twelve Angry Men.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Gene Siskel Film Center, European films, Olivier Assayas, Frederick Wiseman, European Union Film Festival, Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching, Summer Hours, Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche, Jeremie Renier, Musee d'Orsay, Irma Vep, Demonlover, Boarding Gate, Goodbye Solo, Rahmin Bahrani, 12, Nikita Mikhalkov, Frederick Wiseman State Legislature

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2009
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Inside the state sausage factory

Frederick Wiseman's "State Legislature" has its local premiere Saturday at Chicago Filmmakers.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, New York magazine, Chicago filmmakers, Frederick Wiseman, Titicut Follies, State Legislature, Idaho, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2009
Strike up the band

Documentary maker Frederick Wiseman appears this weekend.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, DePaul University, Frederick Wiseman, DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center, documentary filmmakers, documentary film

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