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Movies, Movie Review, Feb 16, 2012
One drink over the line

Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery exposed life on skid row, but the filmmakers had their own problems with booze
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Lionel Rogosin, documentary, cinema verite, neorealism, the Bowery, John Cassavetes, Marina Goldovskya, rayon, James Agee, Mark Sufrin, Richard Bagley, skid row

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 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, Ben Sachs, House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello, Gene Siskel Film Center, Walter Benjamin, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012, Addiction Incorporated, Big Miracle, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Chronicle movie, Leap Year, Roscoe Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Mr. Rogers & Me, The Owls movie, Cheryl Dunye, Splinters, Papua New Guinea, W.E. movie, Madonna, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket movie, Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Northbrook Public Library, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Daniel Eisenberg, John Cassavetes, Love Streams, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2011
Coming soon: Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, repertory programming, Portage Theater, Too Late Blues, John Cassavetes, Reds, Warren Beatty, Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema, WPA Federal Theater, One-Third of a Nation, Edward Dmytryk, Give Us This Day, Christ in Concrete, House Un-American Activities, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, Gregory LaCava, So's Your Old Man, W.C. Fields, Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cecil B. DeMiille, Ten Commandments, Angel (1937), Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Margaret, Brasher Doubloon, John Brahm, Otto Preminger, Centennial Summer, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, exile, Cine-File, Michael Castelle

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2009
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The New Year Parade

Tom Quinn's working class Philadelphia family drama "The New Year Parade" opens Friday at Facets Cinematheque.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Philadelphia, Mummers, Slamdance, New Year Parade, Tom Quinn, Facets Multi-Media, John Cassavetes, Independent Spirit Awards, working class, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2007
Golden links

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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Web Sites, Orson Welles, Alain Resnais, Links, John Cassavetes, Lennie Tristano

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How the discoloration of faded prints can add to a movie's meaning.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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John Cassavetes's personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.

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Top Five Debut Films

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Looking at Abel Ferrara's 4:44 Last Day on Earth, now available on DVD

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The Gene Siskel Film Center premieres the Polish director's confounding masterpiece

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A brief consideration of alcohol's effect on filmmaking

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Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery exposed life on skid row, but the filmmakers had their own problems with booze

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

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Tom Quinn's working class Philadelphia family drama "The New Year Parade" opens Friday at Facets Cinematheque.

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