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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one

Talking with some of Chicago's most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, documentary films, anthropology, ethnography, The Mad Masters, Les Maitres Fous, Chronicle of a Summer, The Lion Hunters, Moi un Noir, cinema verite, direct cinema, hauka religion, provocation, Wise Fool's Pub, Margaret Mead, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cahiers du cinema, Edgar Morin, Bix Beiderbecke, Mike Shea, Maxwell Street, ...And This Is Free, Jerry Tamener, Stan Karter, Niger, handheld camerawork

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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A neglected Chicago filmmaker gets his due, and the rest of this week's screenings

Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Andrew Sarris, Jean Rouch, Moi un Noir, The Lion Hunters, Doc Films, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Raising Arizona, Coen brothers, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, The Trouble With Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, Zazie in the Metro, Louis Malle, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, Chicago Cultural Center, West of Memphis, Amy Berg, West Memphis Three, Bel Borba Aqui, In Bed With Ulysses, A Haunted House, Marlon Wayans, Sexy Baby, La Rafle, Luv, Common, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 15, 2013
Further discoveries in the criminal files of Claude Sautet

Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Chabrol, The Unfaithful Wife, La Femme Infidele, Une Partie de Plaisir, Mado, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Dave Kehr

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 12, 2013
Two French filmmakers overrated by middlebrows and underrated by cineastes

Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Murmur of the Heart, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Un Coeur en Hiver, Jean-Luc Godard, Numero Deux, bourgeois realism, Lacombe Lucien, Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, Nouvelle Vague, crime films, Classe Tous Risques, A Man Escaped

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Summer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Amour, Michael Haneke, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland, The Iran Job, Last Call at the Oasis, Somewhere Between, Desire (1936), Frank Borzage, Ernst Lubitsch, Last Days of Pompeii, Silent Film Series, Music Box Theatre, revival screenings, Passage to Marseilles, Michael Curtiz, Northbrook Public Library, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP restoration, John Carpenter, The Thing, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 1/10: Oscar debates, Mykki Blanco, and Matt Braugner

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 10, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago, Oscars, Mykki Blanco, Beauty Bar, Supreme Cuts, Teen Witch, Fresh off his recent Comedy Central special Shovel Fighter, former Chicago stand-up Matt Braugner (MADtv, The Late Show with David Letterman) performs at Up Comedy Club with support from local comic favorites, Ever Mainard and Adam Burke.

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2013
Lawrence of Arabia versus Tess: Looking up and looking around

Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Roman Polanski, Tess, DCP restoration, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, skyscrapers, Panavision, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
Four evil eyes in Winchester '73 and The Paperboy

Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester '73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: This Will Kill You, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Winchester '73, Anthony Mann, James Stewart, psychopaths, Bend of the River, The Man From Laramie, It's a Wonderful Life, John Cusack, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels, drag revue

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies

A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Strange Days, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Any Day Now, Music Box Theatre, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Spaghetti Western, Tal Rosenberg, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stranger Than Fiction, Pice Check, The Rabbi's Cat, Sister, Home, Ursula Meier, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Doc Films, Wong Kar-Wai, As Tears Go By, The Walls of Jericho, film noir, John Stahl, Portage Theater, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird and the kindest cut

How a good Hollywood filmmaker uses a close-up of a child's face
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Mulligan, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Italian neorealism, Parental Guidance, Billy Crystal, family movies, advertising, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Rebecca Hall, the projectionist

"If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
- Tags: Movie Feature, University of Chicago, Rebecca Hall, movies, projectionists, Classic Film Series, film, film projection, Kyle Westphal, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Becca Hall, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Portage Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2012
Having a laugh with multimedia artist Wayne White

An interview with the subject of the documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing, which plays in Chicago this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Visual Art, Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Gene Siskel Film Center, artist documentary, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, inspirational talk, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges, puppetry, Mimi Pond, Mary Poppins

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2012
What makes for a good introduction to a film screening?

They make you want to see more
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Moviegoing, LGBT, Film, Moviegoing, introductions, Fred Camper, avant-garde cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Some Came Running, Rebel Without a Cause, mise-en-scene, Vincente Minnelli, Rob Christopher, Queue Tips, David Kodeski, Back Street, Susan Hayward, gay subtext, Shaft, "hand acting", Ben Sachs on moviegoing

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, 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, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 7, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Fri 12/7

What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 7, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, The Den Theatre, Wicker Park, Vagina II, DJ Shadow, the Mid, West Loop, Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow, Peter Margasak, DJ Intel, Zebo, Moppy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
The Insect treatment: an interview with Nate Cunningham

Talking with the longtime Siskel Film Center employee about the upcoming screenings he programmed, which will raise money for his experimental Lyme-disease treatment
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Nate Cunningham, Lyme Disease, Gene Siskel Film Center, Eric Marciano, The Age of Insects, video club, New York in the 80s, Abel Ferrara, stem-cell therapy, the Nightingale, exploitation film

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 3, 2012
Smell-o-vision replaces television?!

How unexpected odors can enhance our experience of a film
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Gross, Poverty, Moviegoing, Film, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute, Happy Together, Wong Kar-wai, The New World, Terrence Malick, sense of smell, memory, homelessness, Wedding Crashers

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2012
Weekly Top Five: Wong Kar-wai films

Top five Wong Kar-wai films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Foreign, Weekly Top Five, Film, Wong Kar-wai, Gene Siskel Film Center, In the Mood For Love, Happy Together, The Hand, Eros, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time Redux, Vulgaria, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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