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Movies, Movie Review, Sep 19, 2012
Big boss man

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is a thinly veiled story of L. Ron Hubbard
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Music, Gossip Wolf, Aug 22, 2012
Gossip Wolf: Lending The Master a hand

Singer-songwriter Daniel Knox helps out with the Music Box's 70-millimeter screening. Plus: Chrissy Murderbot gets down with his dog, and the Burlington turns five.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Daniel Knox, Music Box, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Atwood, Chris Shivley, Chrissy Murderbot, Chris E. Pants, Bloodiest, Rabbit Rabbit, Cave, E+, Lasers and Fast and Shit, Burlington

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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, Aug 17, 2012
Coming not so soon: The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson's take on the Church of Scientology, which previewed at the Music Box Thursday night
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago, Weinstein Company, Dave Jennings, Joaquin Phoenix, L. Ron Hubbard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Scientology, Ambyr Childers, Amy Adams, Enchanted movie, New York Daily News, Tom Cruise, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2012
Punch-Drunk Love and a film's usefulness

How Punch-Drunk Love is the most useful film I've ever seen
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Best Week, Film, Adam Sandler, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2012
Video
This week's movie action
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, European Union Film Festival, Putin's Kiss, Nashi, Innocence, Belle Epine, Friends With Kids, Jennifer Westfeldt, Being Flynn, Robert De Niro, Fighting 69th, James Cagney, Forgiveness of Blood, Joshua Marston, John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pixar, Andrew Stanton, Lured, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Lasse Halstrom, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako, David Fincher, Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, Pola Rapaport, Writer of O, Talking Pictures Festival, 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, Jan 13, 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, Carnage movie, The Iron Lady, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Bresson, Beneath the Blindfold, Stranger Than Fiction, Roman Polanski, Charlotte Rampling: The Look, Nalini by Day Nancy by Night, Margaret Thatcher, Joyful Noise movie, Man on a Mission movie, Newlyweds, Edward Burns, Andrea Gronvall, Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures, Roxaboxen Exhibitions, Mikio Naruse, Floating Clouds, Stanley Kubrick, The Killing movie, Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not, Crispin Hellion Glover, Big Slide Show, What Is It? Movie, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine!, Chicago screenings, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 5, 2008
He's ba-a-a-aack!

Living without movies for a month: it's not something you want to try at home.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Paul Thomas Anderson, How I Got Into College, Savage Steve Holland, There Will Be Blood, Iron Man, Redbelt, Robert Elswit, David Mamet, Heist

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2008
Pooper at the party

Wherein our Reader critics decide to celebrate the Oscars--so who invited this guy?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Academy Awards, Ellen DeGeneres, Paul Thomas Anderson, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Southland Tales, Penelope Cruz, Al Qaeda, Paul Dano, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Ten Canoes

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2008
Chicago Reader virtual Oscar party

Reader critics give Oscar a little advice.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Academy Awards, Sicko, Ratatouille, The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Thomas Anderson, Gone Baby Gone, Across the Universe, No Country for Old Men, Oscar, Atonement, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Savages, Laura Linney, Away From Her, Julie Christie, Daniel Day Lewis, Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen, Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There, Persepolis, Into the Wild, Julian Schnabel, La Vie en Rose, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, Sweeney Todd, George Clooney, Amy Ryan

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2007
Whose favorite year?

Has 2007 been "one of the best years" for movies? Some of us think not.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Otar Iosseliani, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sight & Sound, A.V. Club, Noel Murray, California Split, Thieves Like Us, Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 31, 2007
Risky business

Even for control-conscious filmmakers, it sometimes pays to throw caution to the wind.
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, David Bordwell, The Travelling Players, Theo Angelopoulos, Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Punctuated equilibrium, Billy Madison

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Previewing the Siskel Center's retrospective of the great Russian director, which begins tomorrow with My Friend Ivan Lapshin and Twenty Days Without War

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Singer-songwriter Daniel Knox helps out with the Music Box's 70-millimeter screening. Plus: Chrissy Murderbot gets down with his dog, and the Burlington turns five.

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Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter

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Paul Thomas Anderson's take on the Church of Scientology, which previewed at the Music Box Thursday night

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How Punch-Drunk Love is the most useful film I've ever seen

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Living without movies for a month: it's not something you want to try at home.

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Wherein our Reader critics decide to celebrate the Oscars--so who invited this guy?

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Reader critics give Oscar a little advice.

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Has 2007 been "one of the best years" for movies? Some of us think not.

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Even for control-conscious filmmakers, it sometimes pays to throw caution to the wind.

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