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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Rebecca Hall, the projectionist

"If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
- Tags: Movie Feature, University of Chicago, Rebecca Hall, movies, projectionists, Classic Film Series, film, film projection, Kyle Westphal, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Becca Hall, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Portage Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Wed 12/19: An "oddball holiday classic," Kent McDill's latest book, and The Nativity

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, December 19, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Holiday Land, Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose, Kent McDill, Barbara's Bookstore, 100 Things Bulls Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, Congo Square Theatre, The Nativity, Langston Hughes, Black Nativity, Kennedy-King College Theatre, Laura Molzahn, Ilesa Duncan, McKinley Johnson

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2012
Weekly Top Five: An ode to "the soul of film noir," Robert Mitchum

Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Robert Mitchum, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Out of the Past, River of No Return, The Locket, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Lusty Men, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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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, Dec 7, 2012
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The wrong man times five, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 30, 2012
This Sunday's moviegoing dilemma: programs screen simultaneously

Previewing programs by Phil Solomon and Wladyslaw Starewicz
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Doc Films, found footage, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage, experimental film, stop-motion animation, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Cameraman's Revenge

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Exploring the obsessive nature of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood's The Beguiled

A conversation about the 1971 psychodrama with Northwest Chicago Film Society programmer Kyle Westphal
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, The Beguiled, Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, The Lineup, 70s Hollywood, psychodrama, Sergio Leone, Kyle Westphal, Universal Pictures

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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 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2012
An eternal mystery, screening twice on Sunday

Previewing this weekend's revival of the Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Paranormal, Film, Cinema Borealis, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, Roger Ebert, horror movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 24, 2012
Trying times for the Portage Theater

Will new owner Erineo "Eddie" Carranza evict the historic theater's current management?
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Film, News, Portage Theater, Erineo "Eddie" Carranza, Tom Raines, Alderman John Arena, Owen Brugh, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Great Gabbo, Dennis Wolkowicz, Dave Dziedzic

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2012
Found in the crowd: Ken Jacobs's Urban Peasants

Previewing this weekend's rare screening of a 1975 work by one of the country's greatest experimental filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Ken Jacobs, Urban Peasants, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Cinema Borealis, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, found footage, Flo Jacobs, American Jewry, Yiddish language

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 29, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 8/29

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 29, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Ringling Bros., Joffrey Tower, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Anthony Mann, The Chase, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Chives, Treehouse, Jerry's, Wicker Park, Peter Margasak

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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The boy who wasn't there, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bart Layton, The Imposter, Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, The Expendables 2, Sylvester Stallone, Hit and Run movie, Dax Shepard, Patang movie, Prashant Bhargava, Premium Rush movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Robot & Frank, Frank Langella, Black Harvest Film Festiva, Gene Siskel Film Center, Brooklyn Castle, Father's Day, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Music Box, Arthur Penn, The Chase movie, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Noel, Pretty Poison, Greg Mottola, Superbad, University of Chicago Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 14, 2012
Rare Ozu at the Portage tomorrow night

Previewing A Hen in the Wind, screening from 35-millimeter at the Portage tomorrow night
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, A Hen in the Wind, Yasujiro Ozu, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Late Spring, Japanese cinema, World War II

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 3, 2012
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, Columbia College, Killer Joe, William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Cruising, Bug movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Knox College, Galesburg, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, A Black Harvest Feast, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, The Christmas Tree, Angel Krsiti Williams, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Girlfriend Boyfriend, The Loves of Pharoah, Ernst Lubitsch, The Queen of Versailles, Richard's Wedding, Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, Alice Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Jan Svankmajer, Abel Ferrara, The Driller Killer, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan theater, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Music Box, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, King Kong, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

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Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Jun 26, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Chicagoans recommend a labor memoir, the Walking Dead comics, and Reggie Wilson's dance work in progress
- by Joe Valdez and Asher Klein
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Rebecca Hall, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Crimes of a Christian, Kent Dickinson, Local 110, unions, Chicago projectionist union, Paul Czarnowski, G-Mark Comics, The Walking Dead, Roell Schmidt, Reggie Wilson, Links Hall

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 20, 2012
Big Wednesday: One People and other notable screenings

Previewing the highly Surinamese film One People and other movies playing around town tonight
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, One People, Pim de la Parra, Facets Multimedia, African Diaspora Film Festival, Suriname, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, My Neighbor Totoro

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