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Movies, Movie Review, Nov 21, 2012
The oral tradition

Pang Ho-cheung's Vulgaria raises the dirty joke to the level of art
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Hong Kong, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pang Ho-cheung, Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai, Fulltime Killer, Trivial Matters, Love in a Puff, dirty joke

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2012
It's a clown's world in Holy Motors, Life Without Principle, and Pierre Étaix

Reconsidering the clownish antics of three works in light of the latest Trap Door Theatre production
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Theater, Moviegoing, Film, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing, clowning, Pierre Étaix, Yoyo, Denis Lavant, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, Music Box Theatre, Gene Siskel Film Center, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Lau Ching-wan, Trap Door Theatre, The Arsonists, Victor Quezada-Perez

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
Johnnie To's Life Without Principle: a comic thriller on the investment banking industry

The thriller we live in: notes on the Hong Kong master's latest film
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, It's Complicated, Film, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Milkyway Image Ltd., Hong Kong cinema, investment banking, Denise Ho, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Nov 8, 2012
The Root of All Evil

Johnnie To’s Life Without Principle is a thriller about investment banking
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Johnnie To, Life Without Principle, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2012
Johnnie To's Election, which has little in common with the U.S. presidential election

Revisiting the Hong Kong master's gangland saga in light of the U.S. presidential election
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Election Flashback Week, Film, Variations on a Theme, Johnnie To, Election, triads, Walt Whitman, Election Day November 1884, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sparrow, Life Without Principle

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Blogs, Bleader, May 4, 2012
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Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian Pintilie, and other keywords

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Reader
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Raven movie, John Cusack, Facets Cinematheque, Lucian Pintilie, The Avengers movie, Marvel Comics, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, The First Season, Hit So Hard, Hole Live Through This, Patty Schemel, Keyhole movie, Guy Maddin, Sing Your Song, Harry Belafonte, Surviving Progress, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel, Roman Polanski, Chinatown movie, Music Box, Jack Hill, Coffy movie, Johnnie To, Exiled movie, Kim Jee-woon, The Good the Bad and the Weird, Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bob Mizer, Nightingale, Romanian cinema, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2012
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What's screening this weekend

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar, James McTeigue, The Raven, John Cusack, Edgar Allan Poe, Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope, Lawrence Kasdan, Darling Companion, Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Daniel Nettheim, The Hunter, Willem Dafoe, Josef Astor, Lost Bohemia, Carnegie Hall, Percy Adlon, Felix Adlon, Mahler on the Couch, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, Dan Tanz, Triumph67, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Badlands, University of Chicago Doc Films, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Landmark's Century Centre, Johnnie To, Election Johnnie To, Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hong Sang-soo, Night and Day Hong Sang-soo, John Boorman, Point Blank, Music Box, Joss Whedon, Serenity movie, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Block Museum of Art, William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Adrian Martin, Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing, Heather McAdams, My Dad Heather McAdams, Scopitones, Sci-Fi Spectacular, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2012
Lessons from Wisconsin: bus safety and film festival edition

Reflections on my stay at the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Madison Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Phil Solomon, Andy Warhol, J.J. Murphy, Face, international film festival, David Bordwell, Chicago International Film Festival, Orpheum Theater, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Northern Lights, John Hansen

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News & Features, Feature, Oct 6, 2011
Our guide to the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival

Escape the ubiquity of American movies with 150 features from nearly every corner of the world
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF 2011, Melancholia, Lars von Trier, Inshallah, Football, Bashir Baba, Ashvin Kumar, Salaam Dunk, Le Havre, Claude Lelouche, Pankaj Kapoor, Simon Curtis, Adrian Hodges, Haskell Wexler, Anthony Mackie, David Robinson, Joe Swanberg, The Last Rites of Joe May, Joe Maggio, Day is Done, Thomas Imbach, The Giants, Bouli Lanners, The Holding, Susan Jacobson, Rabies, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Southwest, Eduardo Nunes, The Forgiveness of Blood, Joshua Marsten, Aki Kaurismaki, The Kid with a Bike, Luke Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, On the Bridge, Olivier Morel, Cairo 678, Mohamed Diab, Cinema Komunisto, Mila Turajlic, Like Crazy, Drake Doremus, David Fine, The Bully Project, Lee Hirsch, Don't Go Breaking my Heart, Johnnie To, Good Bye, Mohammad Rasoulof, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Return Ticket, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Smuggler, Katsuhito, Ishii, Coriolanus, Shakespeare, Ralph Fiennes, The Slut, Hagar Ben-Asher, The Turin House, Bela Tarr

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