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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, 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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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 21, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The best of "Bloody" Sam Peckinpah

Weekly Top Five: Sam Peckinpah
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Sam Peckinpah, Convoy, Portage Theater, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Cross of Iron, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Orson Welles, WW II, New Hollywood

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2013
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Tomorrow at the Portage, see one of the few female-directed Hollywood films of the 1950s

Previewing Ida Lupino's The Bigamist, which the Northwest Chicago Film Society will present this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Women's Issues, Film, Ida Lupino, The Bigamist, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Filmmakers, Collier Young, Joan Fontaine, The Hitch-hiker, women filmmakers, RKO Pictures, Howard Hughes, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Senses of Cinema

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 2, 2013
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It's Mary Pickford Week in Chicago

Previewing two Mary Pickford movies playing in town this week, both of them introduced by film historian Christel Schmidt
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Mary Pickford, Christel Schmidt, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, Sparrows, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Music Box Theatre, United Artists, Kyle Westphal, silent cinema, Fountain of Youth

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: "Film is like a battleground"—the best of Samuel Fuller

Weekly top five: Samuel Fuller films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, The Baron of Arizona, James Wong Howe, Andre Bazin, Underworld U.S.A., Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, Cold War, Gene Evans, The Steel Helmet, White Dog, Shark!, The Big Red One, Forty Guns

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2013
Inspecting the cracks of American film history with Hold Back the Dawn

Previewing the neglected 1941 romantic drama (cowritten by Billy Wilder) which screens tomorrow night
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Mitchell Leisen, Hold Back the Dawn, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Mark Rappaport, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Preston Sturges, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Midnight, Easy Living, Portage Theater

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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, 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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