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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2012
Dear Ocean's Eleven,

A letter to Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Ocean's Eleven, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Golden Era Hollywood, Cary Grant, Doc Films

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 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, Nicholas Ray, They Live by Night, In a Lonely Place, On Dangerous Ground, Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life, Bitter Victory, Thornton Wilder, Chicago Seven, Don't Expect Too Much, Susan Ray, We Can't Go Home Again, The Flowers of War, Zhang Yimou, Hero movie, House of Flying Daggers, Steven Soderbergh, Jess + Moss, Clay Jeter, King of Devil's Island, My Reincarnation, Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami, Pina movie, Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal, Wim Wenders, Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen, Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep, Scarface, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Cinema Borealis, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Perry Henzell, The Harder They Come, Kartemquin Films, Inquiring Nuns, Sergei Eisenstein, Ten Days That Shook the World, Dave Drazin, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pitfall movie, Kobo Abe, The Ghost Is Here, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2011
Best of 2011, number 10: And Everything Is Going Fine

Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, J.R. Jones, 2011, Kafka, Schizopolis, The Limey, Point Blank, Richard Lester, Carol Reed, John Boorman

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Movies, Movie Review, Sep 8, 2011
Reach out, touch somebody, and die

In Contagion, your next kiss (or cocktail peanut) could be fatal
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Contagion, Steven Soderbergh, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, disaster movies, Irwin Allen, The Poseiden Adventure, Airport, Towering Inferno

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 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, Steven Soderbergh, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Bowser, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation, The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, Certifiably Jonathan, Jonathan Winters, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb, Andrea Geyer, Adolf Eichmann, The Critics, Adam Langer, I Am Number Four, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Into Eternity, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Just Go With It, Adam Sandler, Oscar-Nominated Films 2011: Live Action, Landmark's Century Centre, Zenith, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Aparajito, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Block Museum of Art, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, Raoul Peck, Lumumba, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Northbrook Public Library, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Bessie Coleman Library, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Feb 17, 2011
Death Became Them

New documentaries remember Phil Ochs and Spalding Gray.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, movie review, Spalding Gray, Phil Ochs, Steven Soderbergh, Kenneth Browser, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 29, 2010
Raindance Reunion

Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Michael Shamberg, Raindance, corporation, reunion, Elizabeth Coffman, Loyola University, radical software, media activism, Republican, democrat, national, convention, City News Bureau, Time Magazine, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Contagion, Pulp Fiction, Erin Brockovich, New York, San Francisco, TVTV, Veins in the Gulf, Louisiana, wetlands

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Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2009
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Opening this week

New films by Kirby Dick, Steven Soderbergh, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Carlos Saura, and Rian Johnson.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Olivier Assayas, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Summer Hours, Masaki Kobayashi, Outrage Kirby Dick, The Girlfriend Experience, Soderbergh Girlfriend Experience, Steven Soderbergh, Assayas Summer Hours, Adoration Atom Egoyan, Adoration Egoyan, Carlos Saura, Fados, Fados Saura, Kobayashi Human Condition, Pare Lorentz, Pare Lorentz The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains, Video

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Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013

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Comparing Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes

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Top Ten Films of 2012

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Sifting trough 15 years of trash and treasure.

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Columbia president Warrick Carter reverses his earlier recommendation to cut Cinema Studies courses; students and faculty benefit

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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The new comedy Magic Mike peels a few layers from the enigmatic director

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Revisiting the New Hollywood classic in light of Steven Soderbergh's 70s homage Magic Mike

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A preview of this week's notable screenings

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Revisiting the comedy-dramas of the New Hollywood director in light of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike

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A short review of the male stripper comedy directed, improbably, by Steven Soderbergh

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A letter to Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.

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In Contagion, your next kiss (or cocktail peanut) could be fatal

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

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New documentaries remember Phil Ochs and Spalding Gray.

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Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.

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New films by Kirby Dick, Steven Soderbergh, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Carlos Saura, and Rian Johnson.

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