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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2012
Where is God?

Roman Polanski's Carnage and the Goodman Theatre production of the Yasmina Reza play on which it's based
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Carnage, God of Carnage, Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton, Holocaust, amorality, Goodman Theatre, Rick Snyder

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2012
Now playing: Sundance Institute 2011 shorts program

A review of the 2011 Sundance Institute shorts program currently playing at the Music Box Theatre
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sundance Institute, short films, Incident at a bank, Ruben Osterlund, Lake Bell, Worst Enemy, Roman Polanski, Jane Campion, Francois Ozon, Michaela Watkins, Matt Walsh, We're Leaving, Zachary Treitz, Kitty Genovese Syndrome

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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, Nov 11, 2011
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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, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, J. Edgar Hoover, Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Cho Dependent, Margaret Cho, My Last Round, Bobby Fischer Against the World, HBO, Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog, Revenge of the Electric Car, Chris Paine, Who Killed the Electric Car?, The Women on the 6th Floor, Fabrice Luchini, Carmen Maura, Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol, Music Box, Lewis Milestone, The Front Page, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Giorgio Moroder, Music Box, Sidney Lumet, Network movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Herbert Brenon, Peter Pan, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Auditorium Theatre, Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Found magazine, Found Footage Festival, Found vs. Found, film festivals, movies, weird shit, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 21, 2011
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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, William Colby, Steve Bogira, The Man Nobody Knew, Phoenix Program, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Margin Call, Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Pieter Bruegel, The Way to Calgary, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Texas Killing Fields, The Three Musketeers, With or Without Love, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, Woody Allen, Bananas, University of Chicago Doc Films, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Golub movie, The Last Pullman Car, Pullman State Historic Site, Jules Dassin, Rififi, Roman Polanski, The Tenant, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Beverly Arts Center, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, Universal Horror!, Cinema Borealis, Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2011
Poles Apart

Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Facets Film School, Polish Cinema in Exile, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Anna Karina, film noir, night classes, continuing education, screenings, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 18, 2011
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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, Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, Limitless movie, Neil Burger, The Lucky Ones, The Illusionist, Paul movie, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Music Box, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Mick Garris, Critters 2: The Main Course, Chuck Russell, The Blob, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, The Arbor movie, Andrea Dunbar, The First Beautiful Thing, Letters to Father Jacob, Nenette movie, Le Quattro Volte, Rabbit a la Berlin, The Invisible Frame, Berlin Wall, The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey, Monogamy movie, Murderball, Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, Turner Classic Movies, Robert Osborne, Jane Powell, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Terrence Malick, Badlands movie, Jim Trainor, Charles Chaplin, The Kid movie, Mayne Stage, Marc Ribot, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Links Hall, Harold Lloyd, Movie Crazy, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage, Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire, Catherine Denueve, Roman Polanski, Repulsion movie, Luis Bunuel, Belle de Jour, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Francois Ozon, 8 Women, Francois Truffaut, The Last Metro, Potiche, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2010
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Sza/Za plays to Polanski

Warsaw duo Sza/Za premiere their live score for a series of Roman Polanski short films Sunday, Nov. 14 in the Polish Film Festival in America
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Roman Polanski, Poland, Lodz Film School, Polish Film Festival in America, Warsaw, Sza/Za, live, score, Murder, Teeth Smile, The Breakup Dance, Two Men With a Wardrobe, When Angels Fall, The Lamp, Mammals, Paweł Szamburski, Patryk Zakrocki, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 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, Andrea Gronvall, North Face, Nordwande, Music Box, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Kevin Smith, Cop Out, Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, District 13: Ultimatum, Luc Besson, Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, House Nobuhiko Obayashi, Unmade Beds, Visit Ingrid Bergman, The Wedding Song, Fritz Lang, Clash by Night, David Cronenberg, eXistenZ, Doc Films, John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Fred Camper, Christopher Maclaine, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Material and Code, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2009
Roman Polanski and the Huffington Post: BFFs

Roman Polanski's chief apologist thinks he's writing serious scholarship.
- by Amanda Hess
- Tags: The Sexist, Roman Polanski, Bernard-Henri Levy, rapists, rape, consent, celebrity, Huffington Post, HuffPo, Arianna Huffington

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 3, 2008
Roman Polanski: Case dismissed?

Roman Polanski's attorneys cite "Wanted and Desired" in a motion to dismiss his statutory rape case.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Roman Polanski, Marina Zenovich, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Laurence J. Rittenband

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2008
Roman Polanski: not desired

A new documentary at Music Box lets Roman Polanski off the hook.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Roman Polanski, Marina Zenovich, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, U.S. judicial system, Sharon Tate

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The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week

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Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17

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Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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The Gene Siskel Film Center premieres the Polish director's confounding masterpiece

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Roman Polanski's Carnage and the Goodman Theatre production of the Yasmina Reza play on which it's based

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A review of the 2011 Sundance Institute shorts program currently playing at the Music Box Theatre

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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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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Reader contributor Ben Sachs launches a class on Polish expatriate directors at Facets Film School.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Warsaw duo Sza/Za premiere their live score for a series of Roman Polanski short films Sunday, Nov. 14 in the Polish Film Festival in America

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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Roman Polanski's chief apologist thinks he's writing serious scholarship.

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Roman Polanski's attorneys cite "Wanted and Desired" in a motion to dismiss his statutory rape case.

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A new documentary at Music Box lets Roman Polanski off the hook.

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