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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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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 24, 2013
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A new life for Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese remember a British masterpiece.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Pearl Harbor, London, Michael Powell, National Film Theatre, Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Criterion Collection, David Low, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Dave Kehr, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roland Culver, Anton Walbrook, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 6, 2012
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Let my people go to the movies!

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Ten Commandments, New York Times, Facets Cinematheque, Alan Govenar, The Beat Hotel, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, American Reunion, American Pie, Four Lovers, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Jiro Ono, Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters, Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, Busby Berkeley, Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, Music Box, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fictio, Robert Wise, The Sound of Musi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Daniel Eisenberg, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Chicago Filmmakers, Jon Jost, Over Here Jon Jost, Parable Jon Jost, Yvonne Rainer, Lives of Performers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 6, 2012
This week in tactile cinema

A preview of the Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger series playing at the Music Box this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Satyajit Ray, Black Narcissus, The Home and the World, Charulata, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, The Adversary, The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha, Days and Nights in the Forest, Music Box Theatre

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 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, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust, Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close, Amador movie, Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Chicago Filmmakers, The Grey movie, Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, Semper Fi, Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, Tomboy movie, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, The World of Z, Zbigniew Fiks, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Gene Siskel Film Center, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Block Museum of Art, Mikio Naruse, Flowing Mikio Naruse, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, W.C. Fields, So's Your Old Man, Gregory La Cava, Stage Door, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charley Chase, His Wooden Wedding, Leo McCarey, Jay Warren, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 26, 2011
Northwest Chicago Film Society alive and kicking

The fledgling classic-film series announces a second season.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Northwestern Chicago Film Society, Bank of America Cinema, Portage theater, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Fritz Lang, Western Union movie, Roy William Neill, The Black Room, Mark Robson, I Want You, Alan Rafkin, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, John Cromwell, Of Human Bondage, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Edgar G. Ulmer, Her Sister's Secret, If I Had a Million, Karl Freund, Moonlight and Pretzels, Liliom, William Desmond Taylor, Huckleberry Finn, Mitchell Leisen, Remember the Night, film societies, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2010
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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, Sesame Street, Muppets, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jim Henson, Fran Brill, Chicago Reader, Unstoppable movie, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Polish Film Festival in America, Reeling The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cool It, Bjorn Lomborg, Four Lions, London marathon, The Freebie, Dax Shephard and Katie Aselton, Garbo the Spy, Juan Pujol In My Sleep movie, Left Bank movie, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams, 127 Hours, Danny Boyle, Rabia, Reenactments, Room in Rome, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Alliance Francais, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Music Box, King Vidor, The Fountainhead, Northwestern University Block Films, Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Powell, Peeping Tom, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr, Wilmette theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bob Bowdon, Landmarks Century Centre, The Cartel, Bob Bowdon Cartel, Harry Brown, Michael Caine, Square movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, The Scientist, Scientist movie, Who Do You Love, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Chess Records, Cadillac Records, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale, Bank of America Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Drunken Angel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Music Box, The Hidden Fortress, Otto Preminger, Saint Joan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2009
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This Week's Movie Action

New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Up in the Air Hollis Frampton, Birth of Magellan, Collapse movie, Collapse Michael Ruppert, Collapse Chris Smith, Richard Linklater, Me and Orson Welles, Breaking Point, Invictus, Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, The New Year Parade, The Princess and the Frog, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, Buster Keaton, General Buster Keaton, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 8, 2008
Unfaithfully his

Doesn't everyone love Preston Sturges? Not quite ...
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Michael Powell, Preston Sturges

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2008
Castle keep

Bertrand Tavernier on Michael Powell's little-seen opera film "Bluebeard's Castle."
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Michael Powell, Bertrand Tavernier, Bela Bartok, Bluebeard's Castle, Hein Heckroth, Peeping Tom, Bela Balasz

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2008
Get smart

Facets Film School announces its winter session of weeknight classes.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Facets Film School, Facets Multimedia, Raul Ruiz, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

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Movies, Movie Review, Jun 8, 2000
The Communal Balancing Act
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Review, The Edge of the World, Michael Powell, John Laurie

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