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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Jun 13, 2012
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Pete Cosey

The late guitar genius, most famous for his role in Miles Davis's electric bands, never recorded under his own name
- by Plastic Crimewave
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Pete Cosey, Miles Davis, Etta James, Howlin' Wolf, Chess Records, Muddy Waters, The Pharoahs, The Cochrans, Herbie Hancock, Bill Frisell, Akira Sakata, Martin Scorsese

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2012
Scorsese's George Harrison doc on the big screen

Living in the Material World, broadcast earlier this year on HBO, screens Sunday at Facets Cinematheque.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music, Facets Cinematheque, George Harrison, Beatles, Martin Scorsese, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Mojo, All Things Must Pass Album, rock music, rock documentaries, music documentaries

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Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Nov 23, 2011
Hugo, a 3-D children's fantasy by...

Martin Scorsese? Are you breakin' my fuckin' balls, or what?
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Hugo, Brian Selznick, Martin Scorsese, 3-D, magic, Ben Kingsley, Georges Melies

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 15, 2011
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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, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Mysteries of Lisbon, Raul Ruiz, Time Regained, Three Lives and Only One Death, Music Box, Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University, Fast Talk, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Martin Scorsese, Hugo movie, George Clooney, The Ides of March, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn, Pedro Almodovar, The Skin I Live In, Amigo movie, John Sayles, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star, Sunshine State, Bellflower movie, Evan Glodell Circumstance movie, Maryam Keshavarz, Daylight movie, Drive movie, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson movie, Pusher trilogy, Gun Hill Road, Esai Morales, I Don't Know How She Does It, Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah, Where Soldiers Come From, Arthur Penn, Alice's Restaurant, Music Box, Billy Wilder, The Apartment, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, fall arts preview, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 14, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Kaneto Shindo, The Naked Island, Gene Siskel Film Center, Seto Inland Sea, Tabloid movie, Errol Morris, Beats Rhymes & Life The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Candy Darling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Identification Marks None, Jerzy Skolimowski, A Love Affair of Sorts, Mother Kaneto Shindo, Hiroshima, Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese, HBO, Fran Lebowitz, Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile Part One The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie and The Battle of Chile Part Two The Coup D'Etat, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buck Privates, Buck Privates Come Home, Pritzker Military Library, Ed Tracy, Rene Clair, The Crazy Ray, University of Chicago Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot, Music Box, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2011
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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, Steven Soderbergh, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Bowser, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation, The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, Certifiably Jonathan, Jonathan Winters, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb, Andrea Geyer, Adolf Eichmann, The Critics, Adam Langer, I Am Number Four, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Into Eternity, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Just Go With It, Adam Sandler, Oscar-Nominated Films 2011: Live Action, Landmark's Century Centre, Zenith, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Aparajito, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Block Museum of Art, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, Raoul Peck, Lumumba, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Northbrook Public Library, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Bessie Coleman Library, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2011
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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, en Sachs, The Housemaid, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Andrea Gronvall, Louder Than a Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Breath Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring Kim Ki-duk, Lemmy 49% Motherf**cker 51% Son of a Bitch, Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead, The Regretters, The Devilles, Chicago Filmmakers, The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe Rotunno, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Goodfellas, Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Music Box, W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Northbrook Public Library;, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2011
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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Company Men, William S. Burroughs A Man Within, Yony Leyser, Ed Koziarski, Barney's Version, Mordechai Richler, Paul Giamatti, Dissolution Nina Menkes, Crime and Punishment, Great Directors Angela Ismailos, 12th and Delaware, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Jesus Camp, Fort Pierce Florida, The Way Back, Peter Weir, The Truman Show, Winston Churchill Walking With Destiny, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Jean-Luc Godard, Every Man for Himself, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, Doc Films, David MacKenzie Spread, Ben Sachs, Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2011
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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Damien Chazelle, The Klezmatics On Holy Ground, The Legend of Pale Male, My Uncle, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Buster Keaton College, Dennis Scott, Music Box, Tod Browning Freaks, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Black Gold, DuSable Museum, Flow For Love of Water, Chicago Filmmakers, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Bob Hercules, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2010
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Reader Contributors Hit the Road

Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ed M. Koziarski, Lake County Film Festival, Junko Kajino, First Breath of Tengan Rei, College of Lake County, Andrea Gronvall, Elmhurst College, Poverty on the Silver Screen, Schaible Science Center, John Ford, Grapes of Wrath, Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire, Chicago Reader, film festivals, film series, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, The Wolfman, Metacritic, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Charles Darwin Creation, Fred Camper, Adele Friedman, Chicago Filmmakers, Peter Margasak, Celestial Navigations, Al Jarnow, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sesame Street, Ajami, Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, Happy Tears, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2010, Sons of Cuba, Havana Boxing Academy, Visitors (Jeonju Digital Projects 2009), Jeonju film festival, Jacques Tati Parade, Jacques Tati Playtime, Frank Capra, American Madness, Chekhov's Motifs, The Lady With the Dog, Shirley Clarke, The Cool World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milos Forman, The Fireman's Ball, Block Museum of Art, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Bank of America Cinema, Fritz Lang, While the City Sleeps, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 12, 2010
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Romantic Advice From Martin Scorsese

Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer star in Frank Borzage's History Is Made at Night on Saturday night at Bank of America Cinema.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Bank of America Cinema, Martin Scorsese, Herve Dumont, Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, Leo Carillo, Colin Clive, Dave Kehr, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

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- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Beeswax, Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, The Last Station, Leo Tolstoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Kerry Condon, Helen, Black Mail, Hurt McDermott, Dear John, Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson, From Paris With Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frozen, Open Water, Lady Terminator, Facets Night School, Mystery Team, Music Box, The Necessities of Life, Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov, When in Rome, Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Luis Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Tati, Jour de Fete, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Erich von Stroheim, Queen Kelly, John Ford, The Quiet Man, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Chicago Symphony Ochestra, movies, Video

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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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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 27, 2008
Scott Marks is alive and well and living online

Whatever became of Scott Marks?
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Martin Scorsese, Classic Film Series, Scott Marks, Museum of Photographic Art, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, Emulsion Compulsion, Jerry Lewis

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In Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright, a city boy is swallowed up by the outback

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The late guitar genius, most famous for his role in Miles Davis's electric bands, never recorded under his own name

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Living in the Material World, broadcast earlier this year on HBO, screens Sunday at Facets Cinematheque.

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Martin Scorsese? Are you breakin' my fuckin' balls, or what?

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Reader contributors Andrea Gronvall and Ed M. Koziarski make personal appearances this week in the suburbs.

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