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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 30, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Debuts

Top Five Debut Films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, Unfaithfully Yours, Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, L'Age D'Or, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, The Family Nest, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Badlands, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accatone, Mama Roma, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
See the light in Hyde Park tomorrow

Previewing a program of three experimental classics that draw inspiration from poetry
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, Stan Brakhage, Larry Jordan, James Broughton, Four in the Afternoon, Charles Olson, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Orson Welles, experimental film, Deus Ex, The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, South Side Hub of Projection

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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, Aug 17, 2012
Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter

Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, 70mm, Martin Scorsese, Hollis Frampton, Max Ophuls, Orson Welles, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Wes Anderson, Dave Jennings, Music Box Theater, J.R. Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 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, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust, Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close, Amador movie, Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Chicago Filmmakers, The Grey movie, Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, Semper Fi, Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, Tomboy movie, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, The World of Z, Zbigniew Fiks, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Gene Siskel Film Center, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Block Museum of Art, Mikio Naruse, Flowing Mikio Naruse, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, W.C. Fields, So's Your Old Man, Gregory La Cava, Stage Door, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charley Chase, His Wooden Wedding, Leo McCarey, Jay Warren, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2011
Movie life in Chicago: a visit to Popular Electronics

An interview with the proprietors of Popular Electronics on the northwest side of Chicago.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Popular Electronics, Ahmed Maniar, Taha Maniar, Ben Sachs, Don, region-free DVD players, Orson Welles, Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight, Don, eBay, top seller

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 14, 2010
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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, Chicago International Film Festival, Carancho, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes, Fair Game, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, Hereafter, Clint Eastwood; Housemaid Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, The Minutemen, Trust Clive Owen, Trust Catherine Keener, Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer, Jack Rebney, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight, Last Train Home, My Soul to Take, Wes Craven, Nowhere Boy, John Lennon, RED, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Sailor's Luck, Raoul Walsh, Skirt Day, Isabelle Adjani, Tehran Tehran, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Guignol, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Portage theater, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Block Museum of Art, White Heat, James Cagney, film festivals, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 29, 2010
British Film Noir at Music Box

Two film noir classics by British director Carol Reed screen all week at Music Box.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, film noir, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Harry Lime, Odd Man Out, James Mason, Nicholas Wapshott, Abbey Theatre, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fay Compton, William Fay, F.J. McCormick, Kathleen Ryan, The Fallen Idol, Cannes film festival, Our Man in Havana, Alec Guinness, Graham Greene, Oliver!, Robert Krasker

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2009
Daddy Dourest

Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews a memoir by Chris Welles Feder about her father, film director Orson Welles.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Museum of the Moving Image, Chris Welles Feder, Orson Welles, In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles, film directors, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 10, 2009
Never mind Bruno, here's The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow's heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard's Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Siskel Film Center, Iraq War, In Search of Mozart, Phil Grabsky, Doc Films, Fritz Lang, war movies, Kathryn Bigelow, Fred Camper, Bank of America Cinema, Bruno, The Hurt Locker, In Search of Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Made in U.S.A., 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Blood: The Last Vampire, Favorite Son, How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Loot Darius Marder, Chimes at Midnight, Sergei Eisentein, Ivan the Terrible, Facets Night School, Joseph von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Scarlet Street

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2007
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"The Most Beautiful Six Minutes in the History of Cinema"

The most beautiful six minutes in the history of cinema? A rare deleted scene from Orson Welles's "Don Quixote."
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Orson Welles, Don Quixote, Giorgio Agamben, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 14, 2007
The best scene from Orson Welles's Don Quixote

An unseen sequence by Orson Welles is appearing soon in cable TV
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Orson Welles, Don Quixote, Discovering Orson Welles

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2007
Golden links

More treasures available online
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Web Sites, Orson Welles, Alain Resnais, Links, John Cassavetes, Lennie Tristano

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2007
The truth about "It's All True"

An exciting new book examines Orson Welles's most misunderstood film project.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Orson Welles, Catherine Benamou, It's All True

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 12, 2007
Benjamin Schwarz on David Thomson: A defense of Orson Welles

Atlantic editor Benjamin Schwarz's inordinate praise for biographer and film critic David Thomson raises the question of what exactly Schwarz is extolling.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Orson Welles, The Atlantic, David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film, Benjamin Schwarz

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2006
Welles cinematographer Gary Graver is dead

Gary Graver, Orson Welles's cinematographer from the late 60s until the mid-80s, died late last week.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Gary Graver, Cinematography, Orson Welles, F For Fake, The Other Side Of The Wind

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