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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Summer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Amour, Michael Haneke, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland, The Iran Job, Last Call at the Oasis, Somewhere Between, Desire (1936), Frank Borzage, Ernst Lubitsch, Last Days of Pompeii, Silent Film Series, Music Box Theatre, revival screenings, Passage to Marseilles, Michael Curtiz, Northbrook Public Library, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP restoration, John Carpenter, The Thing, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
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Chief Keef's Finally Rich has a home at Northbrook Public Library

Chief Keef may not have moved to Northbrook but his major label debut, Finally Rich will soon be in circulation at the north suburb's public library
- by Leor Galil
- Tags: Seriously?, Music, Chief Keef, Keith Cozart, Northbrook, Northbrook Public Library, Twitter, Finally Rich, Cathleen Doyle, Andy Kim, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Billboard, Fake Shore Drive, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago 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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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2012
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Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Studs' Place, Studs Terkel, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Sebastian Bane, Patrick Wang, In the Family movie, Facets Cinematheque, Compliance movie, Craig Zobel, Great World of Sound, Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, Ira Glass, Music Box, Christiaan Zwanniken, Convento movie, The Apparition movie, Warner Bros, For a Good Time, Call movie, Lawless movie, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, The Road, Little White Lies, Guillaume Canet, Tell No One, Oslo August 31, Joachim Trier, Reprise movie, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Gibson Gowland, Eric von Stroheim, Greed, Airplane!, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawks Scarface, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 7/25

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, July 25, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Ray Bradbury, Northbrook Public Library, Francois Truffaut, Fahrenheit 451, The South Side Hub of Production, Smif-n-Wessun, the South Loop, the Shrine

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Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 20, 2012
Critics' Picks
Best Free Film Screenings

Northbrook Public Library
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2012, Northbrook Public Library, DVD projection, film projection, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder, Cecil B. DeMille, Brian de Palma, Critics' Picks

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Blogs, Bleader, May 25, 2012
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Film Center presents a digital restoration of The Gold Rush and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Elia Kazan, Wild River, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Battleship movie, Ben Sachs, Hick movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hysteria movie, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Man Who Will Come, Marzabotto, Men in Black 3, Polisse movie, Wallander: The Revenge, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Jackson, Dead Alive, Music Box, Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Lee Chang-dong, Poetry movie, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Block Museum of Art, River East 21, Crown Village 18, Pixar, Ratatouille movie, Up movie, WALL-E, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 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, Ben Sachs, House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello, Gene Siskel Film Center, Walter Benjamin, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012, Addiction Incorporated, Big Miracle, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Chronicle movie, Leap Year, Roscoe Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Mr. Rogers & Me, The Owls movie, Cheryl Dunye, Splinters, Papua New Guinea, W.E. movie, Madonna, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket movie, Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Northbrook Public Library, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Daniel Eisenberg, John Cassavetes, Love Streams, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 23, 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, Christy LeMaster, Nightingale Theatre, Charles Coleman, Facets Cinematheque, The Artist movie, Michel Hazanavicius, The Adventures of Tintin, Steve Spielberg, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher, Mission: Impossibleâ€”Ghost Protocol, Brad Bird, War Horse, We Bought a Zoo, Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Miss Minoes, My Afternoons With Margueritte, Gerard Depardieu, Three Stars movie, Michelin Red Guide, James Whale, Showboat, Northbrook Public Library, Music Box, Hitchcock for the Holidays, Rear Window, Rebecca movie, Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock, Rope movie, Rope Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo movie, Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, Marnie movie, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds movie, The Birds Alfred Hitchcock, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 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, Carl Jung, Michael Fassbender, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Sigmund Freud, Viggo Mortensen, Sabina Spielrein, Keira Knightley, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Lads & Jockeys, Frederick Wiseman, The Last Circus, Alex de la Iglesias, El Crimen Perfecto, New Year's Eve, Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, Valentine's Day, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, The Sitter movie, Jonah Hill, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carre, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Music Box, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Johnny Cash Christmas Special, Delilah's, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Northbrook Public Library, Mitchell Liesen, Remember the Night, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santa Sangre, Chicago Cinema Society, film societies, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 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, Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Hal Roach Studios, Young Adult, The Sitter, Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, No Skin Off My Ass, Bruce LaBruce, Silent Souls, Ben Sachs, Young Goethe in Love, Vincent Minnelli, The Band Wagon, Northbrook Public Library, William Desmond Taylor, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage theater, W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, Music Box, Empire Andy Warhol, Aon Center, Millennium Park, Delilah's, Star Wars Holiday Special, George Lucas, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2011
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This week's movie action: special grandma edition

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hugo movie, Hugo Martin Scorsese, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Muppets movie, Arthur Christmas, Caldecott Medal, Brian Selznick, J. Edgar movie, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar Hoover, Melancholia movie, Melancholia Lars von Trier, Rachel Getting Married, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch, My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Rid of Me, Tape movie, Tape Li Ning, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Last Waltz, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Robert Wise, The Sound of Music, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Northbrook Public Library, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, West Side Story, Orchestra Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 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, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, J. Edgar Hoover, Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cho Dependent, Margaret Cho, My Last Round, Bobby Fischer Against the World, HBO, Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog, Revenge of the Electric Car, Chris Paine, Who Killed the Electric Car?, The Women on the 6th Floor, Fabrice Luchini, Carmen Maura, Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol, Music Box, Lewis Milestone, The Front Page, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Giorgio Moroder, Music Box, Sidney Lumet, Network movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Herbert Brenon, Peter Pan, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Auditorium Theatre, Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Found magazine, Found Footage Festival, Found vs. Found, film festivals, movies, weird shit, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 19, 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, Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fright Night, Infiltrating Hollywood, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, One Day movie, Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, One Lucky Elephant, Senna movie, Formula One racing, Ayrton Senna, Viva Riva!, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Eclipse movie, L’Eclisse, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dr. Seuss, The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T., Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Way Out West, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Video

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