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, Jan 6, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Most anticipated films for 2013
Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013
by Drew Hunt
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, Dec 28, 2012
Thomas Mann, film critic
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Death in Venice
have had to say about Paul Thomas Anderson's
The Master
?
by Ben Sachs
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, Dec 27, 2012
Getting by in four recent American comedies
Comparing
Bernie
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Magic Mike
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Moonrise Kingdom
, and
Silver Linings Playbook
in terms of style and themes
by Ben Sachs
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, Dec 27, 2012
My favorite films of 2012
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by Drew Hunt
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Two Years at Sea
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Ben Rivers
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Wes Anderson
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The Comedy
,
Rick Alverson
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Goodbye First Love
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Django Unchained
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The Day He Arrives
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Hong Sang-soo
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The Deep Blue Sea
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Terrence Davies
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A Burning Hot Summer
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Killer Joe
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William Friedkin
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Wuthering Heights
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Turner Ross
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Let the Bullets Fly
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Post Tenebras Lux
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Hors Satan
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Bruno Dumont
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Aita
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José María de Orbe
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Memories of a Morning
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Jose Luis Guerin
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Palaces of Pity
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, Sep 3, 2012
The
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, September 3, 2012
by Drew Hunt
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, Aug 15, 2012
French disconnection
Chris Rock braves a household of galling Gauls in Julie Delpy's
2 Days in New York
by J.R. Jones
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Bleader
, Jul 16, 2012
Cinema studies to remain at Columbia College
Columbia president Warrick Carter reverses his earlier recommendation to cut Cinema Studies courses; students and faculty benefit
by Ben Sachs
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Bruce Sheridan
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Ron Falzone
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Warren Chapman
,
film history
,
film theory
,
Richard Linklater
,
Wes Anderson
,
Steven Soderbergh
,
Magic Mike
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Moonrise Kingdom
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Bernie
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Hal Ashby
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Pierrot le Fou
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, Jul 2, 2012
Grand Illusion
: going with the current
A few thoughts on Jean Renoir's directorial style, in light of the new print of
Grand Illusion
playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center
by Ben Sachs
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Bernie
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, May 17, 2012
The best little murderer in Texas
With
Bernie
, Richard Linklater turns to his home state for comic inspiration for the first time since
Dazed and Confused
by J.R. Jones
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, Jan 9, 2012
Video
Money: What do you want with it?
A lesson from Al Jolson
by Ben Sachs
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Bad News Bears
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, Jul 15, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
by J.R. Jones
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Restrepo
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Afghanistan war
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Korangal Valley
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Taliban
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Century 12 and CineArts 6
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Pipers Alley
,
The Oath
,
Osama bin Laden
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Howard Hawks
,
Rio Bravo
,
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GasLand
,
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Inception Christopher Nolan
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The Living Wake
,
Mike O'Connell
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Jesse Eisenberg
,
Adventureland
,
Facets Cinematheque
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Predators
,
Something Better Somewhere Else
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Ron Lazzeretti
,
The Sorceror's Apprentice
,
Disney
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Jay Baruchel
,
Nicolas Cage
,
Wild Grass
,
Alain Resnais
,
Last Year at Marienbad
,
Hiroshima Mon Amour
,
Music Box
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
Cluny Brown
,
Doc Films
,
Richard Linklater
,
Dazed and Confused
,
Greg Kot
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Jim DeRogatis
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Clara Bow
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Robin Hood
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, Dec 11, 2009
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New movie reviews in this week's Chicago Reader.
by J.R. Jones
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Up in the Air Hollis Frampton
,
Birth of Magellan
,
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,
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,
Richard Linklater
,
Me and Orson Welles
,
Breaking Point
,
Invictus
,
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
,
The New Year Parade
,
The Princess and the Frog
,
Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
,
Buster Keaton
,
General Buster Keaton
,
Douglas Sirk
,
The Tarnished Angels
,
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
,
The Red Shoes
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, Oct 2, 2008
Music-driven movies a cure for festival angst
Three movies about music lift spirits at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival.
by Andrea Gronvall
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,
Devendra Banhart
,
Richard Linklater
,
Led Zeppelin
,
Chess Records
,
Toronto International Film Festival
,
Bo Diddley
,
Who Do You Love
,
Muddy Waters
,
Jerry Zaks
,
It Might Get Loud
,
Davis Guggenheim
,
Jimmy Page
,
The Edge
,
U2
,
The White Stripes
,
Jack White
,
Watchmen
,
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
,
Peter Sollett
,
Michael Cera
,
Army Navy
,
Billy Joel
,
Dusty Springfield
,
The School of Rock
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Bleader
, Sep 18, 2008
Movie marathon north of the border
Five movies stand out among the 249 features in the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival.
by Andrea Gronvall
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Israel
,
Lebanon
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Richard Linklater
,
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Ed Harris
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Toronto International Film Festival
,
Danny Boyle
,
Slumdog Millionaire
,
westerns
,
Kim Jee-woon
,
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
,
Appaloosa
,
Gotz Spielmann
,
Revanche
,
Steve McQueen
,
Hunger
,
Bobby Sands
,
IRA
,
Ari Folman
,
Waltz with Bashir
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Marjane Satrapi
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Bleader
, Dec 4, 2006
You Are What You Eat
Films about our food: Our Daily Bread and Fast Food Nation
by Pat Graham
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Fast Food Nation
,
Richard Linklater
,
Our Daily Bread
,
Jean Renoir
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Blood Of The Beasts
,
Nikolas Geyrhalter
,
La Regle Du Jeu
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Bleader
, Dec 1, 2006
Fast Food Nation: The Movie
The problem with Linklater's Fast Food Nation
by Martha Bayne
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Food Chain
,
Food
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Fast Food Nation
,
Richard Linklater
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Eric Schlosser
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Slaughterhouses
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Movie Review
, Jul 1, 2004
Spur of the Moment
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Ethan Hawke
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Kim Krizan
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Julie Delpy
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