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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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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 4, 2013
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Sense of place versus sense of purpose in two EU Film Festival titles

Considering those movies rich in sense of place and little else
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Moviegoing, Film, European Union Film Festival, Alois Nebel, Flicker, Swedish comedy, sense of place, Neighboring Sounds, Brazilian cinema, J.R. Jones, moviegoing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Patrik Eklund, Rotoscope animation, Bob Sabiston

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 6, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 2/6: Ken Burns, In>Time Performance Festival, and the Vaccines

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, PBS, Ken Burns, The Central Park Five, Facets Cinematheque, J.R. Jones, New York, Central Park, In>Time Performance Festival, Miguel Gutierrez, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kevin Warwick, Lincoln Hall, Come of Age, the Vaccines, What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?, San Cisco

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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, Nov 28, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 11/28

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, November 28, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chunk! No Captain Chunk!, Leor Galil, Woe is Me, Bottom Lounge, Our Last Night, Secrets, Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Everything Will Be OK, I Am So Proud of You, J.R. Jones, Chicago French Market, West Loop, Marche de Noel, Christkindlmarket

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 1, 2012
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The Master and In the Family: Two challenges, two victories

Comparing two recent U.S. releases as theatrical experiences
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Whoa, Moviegoing, Film, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing, In the Family, Patrick Wang, Facets Multimedia, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tropical Malady, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Gene Siskel Film Center, digital cinema, Side by Side, J.R. Jones, Roger Ebert

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2012
Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter

Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, 70mm, Martin Scorsese, Hollis Frampton, Max Ophuls, Orson Welles, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Wes Anderson, Dave Jennings, Music Box Theater, J.R. Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 7, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Tue 8/7

What's on the Agenda for Friday, August 7, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Ernest Lubitsch, The Loves of Pharoah, Gene Siskel Film Center, J.R. Jones, Hidden Shamrock, The Chicago Way, the Outfit, Matisyahu, Congress Theater, Logan Square, The Dirty Heads, Moon Taxi

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 30, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sat 6/30

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, June 30, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Bucktown, Holstein Park, My Neighbors the Yamadas, J.R. Jones, Gene Siskel Film Center, Studio Ghibli, Fitzgerald's American Music Festival, Berwyn, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Ike Reilly

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 3, 2012
Snow White: who's the grimmest of them all?

Snow White is really a pretty creepy fairy tale.
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Whoa, Arts, Snow White, Mirror Mirror, Camille Rose Garcia, Harper Design, fairy tales, Brothers Grimm, J.R. Jones, Julia Roberts

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2012
Reader film criticism, in focus at last

The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Reader, Rotten Tomatoes, The Muppets, Cliff Doerksen, Alien vs. Predator, J.R. Jones, The Adjustment Bureau, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, D.W. Griffith, America D.W. Griffith, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ali movie, Army of Shadows, The Aviator movie, Drew Hunt, Asher Klein, film criticism, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 25, 2012
Coal play

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pitfall movie, J.R. Jones, Chicago Cultural Center, Toru Takemitsu, Kobo Abe, Century Club, The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, The Man Without a Map, Peter Grilli, Criterion Collection, French New Wave, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Knox College, Michael A. Schneider, Mat Ryohei Matsuda, Orna Shaughnessy, Robin Metz, Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, Vitalist Theatre of Chicago, The Ghost Is Here, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, theater, literature, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2012
This week's movie action

A preview of movies playing in Chicago from January 6 - 12.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Japanese film, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Lightning, Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins, A Fistful of Dollars, Doc Films, Takeshi Kitano, Outrage, Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs, J.R. Jones, Andrea Gronvall

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2012
Nixon, Mayor Rahm, Herman Cain, and Pam Grieronly in the Reader!

Going through J.R. Jones's year-end film list, thinking about politics
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: The Reefer, Resolution Week, Film, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, Nixon, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Chinatown, Jackie Brown, J.R. Jones, Reader, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Richard Nixon, President Gerald Ford, Mayor Richard M. Daley, 2000 presidential election

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 30, 2011
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This week's movie action

A summary of movies screening in Chicago between December 30 and January 5.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Best of 2011, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Tree of Life, Terence Malick, Gene Siskel Film Center, Hitchcock for the Holidays, Music Box Theatre, The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest, Vertigo, To Catch a Thief, The Birds, Marnie, After the Thin Man, Alien, Ridley Scott, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, Doc Films, Yilmaz Guney, Mikio Naruse, A Hard Day's Night, The Usual Suspects, Yojimbo, Scrappers, Hyde Park Art Center, The Maltese Falcon, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2011
Best of 2011, number 4: Goodbye, First Love

Our year-end review continues with Mia Hansen-Love's Goodbye, First Love.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Mia Hansen-Love, Goodbye First Love, Olivier Assayas, Carlos, Irma Vep, demonlover, Best of 2011, Chicago International Film Festival, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 15, 2011
Best of 2011, number 5: Poetry

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Poetry, Lee Chang-dong, Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs, Secret Sunshine, Best of 2011, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Decalogue, the human condition, South Korea, Minister of Culture, J.R. Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2011
What's new again: Satyajit Ray's The Coward (1965)

A reconsideration of Satyajit Ray's lesser-known 1965 feature in light of Jason Reitman's latest, Young Adult.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Satyajit Ray, The Coward, Kapurush, The Holy Man, Mahapurush, Young Adult, Jason Reitman, J.R. Jones, Eric Rohmer, Odd Obsession Movies, Facets Multimedia, writer's malaise, Philip Roth, Zuckerman books, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Sara Hutchinson

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2011
Best of 2011, number 6: The Strange Case of Angelica

Our year-end review continues with Manoel de Oliveira's The Strange Case of Angelica.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, J.R. Jones, The Strange Case of Angelica, Manoel de Oliveira, Best of 2011, A Talking Picture, allegory for cinema, Ricardo Trepa, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 12, 2011
Not in theaters: Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret

A reflection on Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret and the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Anna Paquin, Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids, Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Albert Brooks, J.R. Jones, improv comedy, alternative comedy, film editing, atheism, J. Camerson-Smith, pillow shots

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