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Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Tal Rosenberg, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, Cold Water, James Joyce, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Aqui y Alla, Dark Waters, Andre de Toth, In the House, Francois Ozon, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, Stanley Donen, Charade, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Music Box Chicago, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Portage Theater Chicago, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2013
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Haile Gerima answers for Bush Mama at Logan Center for the Arts

The venerable indie filmmaker returns to Chicago this Thursday.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Poverty, Film, Bush Mama, Haile Gerima, Unviersity of California-Los Angeles, UCLA, LA Rebellion, Howard University, Logan Center for the Arts, Jacqueline Stewart, Northwestern University, Goodman School of Drama, Barbara O. Jones, Johnny Weathers, blaxploitation, Shaft, Superfly, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2013
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Austin Pendleton goes time-tripping back to Skidoo

The Steppenwolf ensemble member recalls making an LSD comedy with Groucho Marx.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Paranormal, Film, Skidoo, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse, Anatomy of a Murder, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Jackie Gleason, Austin Pendleton, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Gloria Bowman, Home Projectionist, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, Groucho Marx, Harry Nilsson, Cesar, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Meredith, Batman, LSD, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2013
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens tonight

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dawn Porter, Gideon's Army, Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, Brett Willis, The Last White Knight, Paul Saltzman, Delay De La Beckwith, Byron DE La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cyn, Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim, Rafea: Solar Mama, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Nagieb Khaja, film festivals, movies, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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An old-school Reader blowout, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Tabu, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, The Host movie, Twilight Stephenie Meyer, Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience, The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Landmark's Century Centre, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Only Dwarfs Started Small, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Logan Theater Chicago, Chris Marker, La Jetee, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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Thumbs upward: Roger Ebert, 1942-2013

On the late movie critic and literary adventurer
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: RIP, Film, Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, film criticism, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, L.A. Rebellion, Gene Siskel Film Center, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Gimme the Loot, Warrendale, Olympus Has Fallen, The Sapphires, Starbuck movie, Jacques Audiard, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Alliance Francais, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Sascha Gervais, Music Box Chicago, The Sound of Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2013
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The tragedy of Rick Alverson's The Comedy

Tim Heidecker makes his dramatic debut in this indie feature by the director of New Jerusalem.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Narcissism, On Video, Arts, Television, Film, Comedy, Ben Sachs, Rick Alverson, The Comedy Tim Heidecker, Facets Cinematheque, Tim Heidecker, Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2013
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Tina Fey, child soldiers, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Caesar Must Die, Music Box Chicago, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Dorfman in Love, Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, War Witch, Irving Lerner, City of Fear, Portage Theater Chicago, Amy Heckerling Clueless, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Stranger, Ron Mann, Tales of the Rat Fink, Delilah's Chicago, Walter Hill, The Warriors movie, Patio Theater Chicago, Alliance Francais, Festival du Film Francophone, Chicago Filmmakers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2013
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John Ford on tap, and the rest of this week's movie coverage

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Red Lion Lincoln Square, Joe Heinen, John Ford, European Union Film Festival, Anne Fontaine, Ulrich Siedl, Alain Resnais, The End of Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell, Ed Koch movie, The Silence movie, Upside Down movie, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Reincarnated movie, Reincarnated Snoop Dogg, Roger Vadim, Barbarella, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, University of Chicago Logan Center, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings, Portage Theater Chicago, Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Music Box, Wilmette Theater, Tim Kazurinsky, Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, Mitzi Gaynor, Leonard Maltin, South Pacific, Turner Classic Movies Road to Hollywood, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 12, 2013
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Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, made with real eggs

Criteron Collection releases a digital restoration of the 1944 wartime thriller
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: On Video, Film, Ministry of Fear, Criterion Collection, Fritz Lang, Paramount Pictures, Seton Miller, Joan Bennett, Walter Wanger, Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window, Graham Greene, Ray Milland, Dan Duryea, James Stewart, Vertigo, Carl Esmond, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Napier, DVDs, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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Pig Death Machine and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Pig Death Machine, Jon Moritsugu, Scumrock, A Body Without Organs, Steve Graves, Vigilante Vigilante, Max Good, European Union Film Festival, Barbara Christian Petzold, Christian Petzold Yella, Jerichow, The ABCs of Death, Emperor movie, Tommy Lee Jones, Douglas MacArthur, The Monk movie, Seymour Cassel, No Gael Garcia Bernal, Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, RO (Registered Sex Offender), and Yossi Eytan Fox, Yossi & Jagger, Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Hood, King Vidor The Crowd, University of Chicago Doc Films, Pearl Gluck Divan, Harold Washington Library Center, Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai 2046, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2013
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This weekend at the Logan, the alphabet . . . in horror films

The alphabetically inspired horror anthology The ABCs of Death screens late-night at the Logan.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Paranormal, Grammar, Gross, Film, Logan Theater Chicago, The ABCs of Death, Simon Rumley, Jorge Michel Grau, Noboru Iguchi, Xavier Gens, Angela Bettis, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, Mario Bava, Kill, Baby . . . Kill!, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Mikhail Glinka, Mihail Glinka Valse Fantasie in B Minor, horror movies, anthology films, movies, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Feb 28, 2013
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Christopher Hitchens, Benny the Bull, and Purple Rain
- by Katie Kather, Janey Lee, and Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Prince, Taylor Kelley, Second City Training Center, Purple Rain, Andy Eninger, movies, Olga Karlatos, Hawley Shoffner, Blizzard Babies, Benny the Bull, Chicago Bulls, mascots, Joakim Noah, Christopher Hitchens, God, books, atheism, Christianity, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Lutheranism, United Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2013
I've seen your boobs, all right

On the 1949 Oscar ceremony, and this year's
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Shots Fired, Film, 1949 Academy Awards, 2013 Academy Awards, Robert Montgomery, Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Walter Huston, Christoph Waltz, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Dr. King Schultz, Seth McFarland, The Avengers, Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy, William Shatner, movies

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