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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, 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, Ricky Jay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, David Mamet, House of Games, Things Change, Redbelt, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Becoming Traviata, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Born in Chicago, Chicano Love Is Forever, The East movie, In the Shadow, The Internship movie, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Google, The Kings of Summer, The Tragedy of Man, Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Patio Theater Chicago, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Logan Theater Chicago, Larry Clark, Passing Through, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, James Cameron, The Terminator, Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Music Box, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Music Box Chicago, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 27, 2013
Portage Theater closed, shows relocated

The theater, recently named a city landmark, has been closed following the revocation of its liquor license.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Closing, Film, News, DNAinfo Chicago, Portage Theater Chicago, All I Desire, Portrait of Jason, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, 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, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Portage Theater Chicago, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, About Sunny, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Fast & Furious 6, Jacquot Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Maisie New, Henry James, Zoolander, Ben Stiller, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, The Hangover Part III, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Douglas Sirk, All I Desire, Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts, Logan Center for the Arts, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Comfort Station, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Music Box Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Northbrook Public Library, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Logan Theater Chicago, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

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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 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, 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, 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 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, Feb 15, 2013
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My dad the war criminal, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hitler's Children, Chanoch Ze'evi, Lore Cate Shortland, Somersault, Beautiful Creatures, North Sea Texas, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The Housemaid, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Golden Raspberry, Coming Out movie, Her Third, Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks, Leos Carax, Bad Blood, Music Box Chicago, Sam Peckinpah, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Portage Theater Chicago, Chinatown Roman Polanski, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love, Jennifer Reeves, The Time We Killed, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Lifeforce, Lord Jim, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 1, 2013
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gene Siskel Film Center, Beware of Mr. Baker, Cream Ginger Baker, Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill, Sylvester Stallone, 56 Up, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers, Shohei Imamura, Pigs & Soldiers, Mama I'm Alive, Meet the Fokkens, Movie 43, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walker, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, 50/50, Waterwalk, Otto Preminger, Advise and Consent, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Music Box Chicago, Patio Theater Chicago, Robert Rossen Lilith, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Gerg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Louder Than a Bomb, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Little Queer Film Festival, Center on Halsted, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2012
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Bhopal bests Bilbo, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Public Enemies, Bhopali, Second Unitarian Church, Starlet movie, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Wayne White, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Citadel, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Laura Linney, The Matchmaker movie, Playing for Keeps, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sundance Institute Art House Project, Music Box Chicago, Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bob Clark, Porky's, Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, John Hughes, Home Alone, Logan Theater Chicago, Home Alone: Lost in New York, Cinema Borealis, Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, Beverly Arts Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Swing Time, Northbrook Public Library, J.B. Mabe, South Side Projections, Boundary Lines, Marshall Plan, Edward Burns, City Winery, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

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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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