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Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 23, 2013
Our coverage of the Asian American Showcase

The annual event continues through next Thursday at Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The 18th Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Crumbles, Akira Boch, Echo Park, Los Angeles, Someone I Used to Know, Nadine Truong, Sunset Stories, Ernesto Foronda, Valerie Stadler, Xmas Without China, Tom Xia, Alicia Dwyer, Tatsu Aoki, The Escape

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
The mixed blessing of watching movies online

Considering how online viewing shapes both film appreciation and filmmaking.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: The Internet, Moviegoing, Film, Small Screen, Moviegoing, Vimeo, digital video, Jason DaSilva, When I Walk, Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard, Crank: High Voltage, Nevledine/Taylor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film distribution, film exhibition, Gene Siskel Film Center, documentaries

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Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
An interview with Dan Sallitt, director of The Unspeakable Act

Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Opening, Film, Dan Sallitt, The Unspeakable Act, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andre de Toth, PItfall, Day of the Outlaw, Dark Waters, The Indian Fighter, Eric Rohmer, Nestor Almendros, independent filmmaking, Brooklyn, Medwood Park, L.A. Reader, Chicago Reader, film criticism, Yasujiro Ozu, incest, Tallie Medel, Wilkes-Barre, Dave Kehr, Don Druker, Myron Meisel, Hal Hartley, Whit Stillman, Doc Films

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Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 5/17: Manifest, Fight Girl Battle World, and Asian American Showcase

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 17
- by Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Columbia College, Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Fight Girl Battle World, Qui Nguyen, Theater Wit, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Next Generation

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Movies, Movie Review, May 16, 2013
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Talkin' 'bout The Unspeakable Act

In Dan Sallitt's indie drama, a brother and sister wrestle with incestuous feelings.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Review, The Unspeakable Act, incest, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dan Sallitt, Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Eric Rohmer, Flowers in the Attic, Chinatown, Mubi.com, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Feeling the burn, 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, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/3: Cinco de Mayo Festival, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, and Cremaster Cycle

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.
- by Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Little Village, Cinco de Mayo Festival, Mexico, France, Battle of Puebla, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Bridgeport Art Center, Paul Virant, Perennial Virant, Abraham Conlon, Fat Rice, City Winery, River North Beer, Tenzing, Four Roses, Olmeca Altos, Cremaster Cycle, Matthew Barney, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

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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.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Pearl Harbor, London, Michael Powell, National Film Theatre, Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Criterion Collection, David Low, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Dave Kehr, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roland Culver, Anton Walbrook, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 18, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Thu 4/18: Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Gilbert Hernandez, and Pissed Jeans

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 18, 2013.
- by Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Quimby's Bookstore, Gilbert Hernandez, Love and Rockets, Marble Season, Aimee Levitt, Pissed Jeans, Empty Bottle, Honeys, Kevin Warwick

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2013
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Pasolini's Salo: A film that bleeds onto other films

How the 1975 film has affected my enjoyment of everything I've seen since
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Television, Moviegoing, Film, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mary Patten, Gene Siskel Film Center, Revolution in the Air, Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, Hail, This Is Martin Bonner, Gary Indian, Criterion Collection, coprophagia, power, torture, brutality

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2013
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When celluloid film bleeds over the screen

On the sensation of watching film stock exceed the screen's parameters
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Moviegoing, Film, Celluloid exhibition, digital film exhibition, DCP, Vagabond, Gene Siskel Film Center, 35-millimeter film, Apocalypse Now Redux, McClurg Court Cinemas, moviegoing, Breakfast of Champions, Rabo Karabekian

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2013
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens tonight

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dawn Porter, Gideon's Army, Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, Brett Willis, The Last White Knight, Paul Saltzman, Delay De La Beckwith, Byron DE La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cyn, Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim, Rafea: Solar Mama, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Nagieb Khaja, film festivals, movies, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 4, 2013
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Rare Jacques Rivette comes to the Film Center this week

Previewing Le Pont du Nord, screening in Chicago three times next week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pascale Ogier, Bulle Ogier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film: The Front Line

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, L.A. Rebellion, Gene Siskel Film Center, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Gimme the Loot, Warrendale, Olympus Has Fallen, The Sapphires, Starbuck movie, Jacques Audiard, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Alliance Francais, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Sascha Gervais, Music Box Chicago, The Sound of Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 3/29: "100 Acts of Sewing," Psycho/Hitchcock double feature, and Frank Fairfield

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, March 29, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Sonya Philip, 100 Acts of Sewing, Lillstreet Arts Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho, Sacha Gervasi, Hitchcock, Psycho, Hitchcock, Gus Van Sant, Frank Fairfield, Depression, Farm Security Administration, Harry Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music, Bill Meyer, Fairfield, Schubas, Andrew Pelletier

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Movies, Movie Review, Mar 27, 2013
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Return of the L.A. Rebellion

A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Black cinema, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, the National Film Registry, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Shaft, Spike Lee, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elyseo J. Taylor, Ben Caldwell, Larry Clark, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Haile Gerima, Barbara McCullough, Billy Woodberry, Black Art Black Artists, Van Slater, Compton City College, Medea, I & I: An African Allegory, Amiri Baraka, Part of the Doctrine, Duke Ellington, Odetta, B.B. King, USC, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts, Film Comment, As Above So Below, Bush Mama, O. Funmilayo Makarah, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Daughters of the Dust, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2013
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Tina Fey, child soldiers, 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, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Caesar Must Die, Music Box Chicago, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Dorfman in Love, Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, War Witch, Irving Lerner, City of Fear, Portage Theater Chicago, Amy Heckerling Clueless, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Stranger, Ron Mann, Tales of the Rat Fink, Delilah's Chicago, Walter Hill, The Warriors movie, Patio Theater Chicago, Alliance Francais, Festival du Film Francophone, Chicago Filmmakers, film festivals, movies, Video

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