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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 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, Nov 30, 2012
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Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 13, 2012
What I gained from The Movie Orgy

A wrap-up of the Chicago revival of Joe Dante's first film, introduced by the director
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Joe Dante, The Movie Orgy, Nightingale Theatre, Beginning of the End, antiwar satire, Small Soldiers

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part two)

The second part of an interview with the director of Gremlins 2: The New Batch and The Movie Orgy
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Joe Dante, Gabe Klinger, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Music Box Theatre, The Movie Orgy, The Nightingale, Jon Davison, Bruce Dern, Schlitz Beer, The 'Burbs, Gremlins, Rick Baker, Innerspace, Trailers From Hell, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers Pictures, Movies Till Dawn, The Watch, Matinee, Hollywood Boulevard, Roger Corman

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Aug 8, 2012
Joe Dante invites you to an orgy

The veteran fantasy filmmaker hits town for screenings of The Hole, Gremlins 2, and his 1968 pop-culture epic The Movie Orgy
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Joe Dante, Roger Corman

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 8, 2012
The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part one)

The first part of a long interview with the director of Gremlins, Small Soldiers, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Joe Dante, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, The Hole, Music Box Theatre, The Nightingale, 3D movies, special effects, Stan Winston, Gabe Klinger, CGI, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dial M for Murder

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 6, 2012
The good fight continues in Chicago's rep houses

Considering the radical silliness of three American comedies playing in Chicago this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Film, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Joe Dante, Hallelujah I'm a Bum!, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Al Jolson, Mark Neveldine, Brain Taylor, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Portage Theatre, Music Box Theatre, Luis Bunuel, Chuck Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 19, 2012
Bracing for Cinemapocalypse, looking out for the vice squad

Talking with exploitation-film historian and restorer Joe Rubin about Gary Sherman's 1982 Vice Squad, which screens at the Music Box this weekend
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Cheese, Film, Gary Sherman, Vice Squad, Dead and Buried, Raw Meat, Joe Rubin, Alamo Drafthouse, John Alcott, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, Kenneth Peters, exploitation movies, William Lustig, Drive, Nicolas Windig Refn, Los Angeles, Cinemapocalypse, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Al Adamson, Carnival Magic, Zack Carlson, Lady Terminator, Joe Dante, Sandy Howard, Embassy Pictures

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 1, 2010
How's This Grab Ya?

Landsharks ahoy!
- by Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Film, Horror, comedy, John Carpenter, The Thing, Jack Sholder, The Hidden, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Greydon Clark, Without Warning, Adam Simon, Brain Dead, Stuart Gordon, From Beyond, Joe Dante, Ed Wood, Ron Underwood, Tremors, Kevin Bacon, Jaws, Nevada, Fred Ward, Dune, Frank Herbert

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 16, 2009
"Shades of Bacchus!" Joe Dante Talks W.C. Fields
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Joe Dante, Joe Dante Hole, Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Innerspace, Joe Dante Matinee, Small Soldiers, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Norman Z. McLeod, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Danny Kaye, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Bob Hope, Road to Rio, The Paleface, David Lynch, Martin Short, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Trailers From Hell, Roger Corman, Jahn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, filmmakers, fi;m festivals, movies

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