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Bleader
, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012
The year in revival screenings
by Ben Sachs
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Facets Multimedia
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the Nightingale
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Doc Films
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Bill Douglas
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My Ain Folk
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My Way Home
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Bill Douglas Trilogy
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Robert Bresson
,
Four Nights of a Dreamer
,
White Nights
,
Two Lovers
,
La Notti Bianche
,
The Devil's Cleavage
,
George Kuchar
,
Daughters Wives and a Mother
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Mikio Naruse
,
Hideko Takamine
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Rabindranath Tagore
,
The Home and the World
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Charulata
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Northwestern University
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Block Cinema
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The Gang's All Here
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Busby Berkeley
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Les Blank
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CIMM Fest
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Macunaima
,
Impala Sound DJs
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the Whistler
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The Oak
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Lucian Pintilie
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Romanian Cinema
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The Sign of Leo
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Eric Rohmer
,
Whisper of the Heart
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Hayao Miyazaki
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Studio Ghibli
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One People
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African Diaspora Film Festival
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Come Back Africa
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Welcome to Pine Hill
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You and Me
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Fritz Lang
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Northwest Chicago Film Society
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Portage Theater
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Cinema Borealis
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Urban Peasants
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Ken Jacobs
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The Movie Orgy
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Joe Dante
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The Hole
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Gremlins 2
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South Side Hub of Projection
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Poetry Foundation
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Stan Brakhage
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Deus Ex
,
Hauling Toto Big
,
Robert Nelson
,
experimental film
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The Smiling Star
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Werner Schroeter
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Philippines
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Kingdom of Naples
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Palermo or Wolfsburg
,
Aleksei Guerman
,
Twenty Days Without War
,
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
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Nothing But a Man
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Michael Roemer
,
The Plot Against Harry
,
Robert Young
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Blogs
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Bleader
, Aug 13, 2012
What I gained from
The Movie Orgy
A wrap-up of the Chicago revival of Joe Dante's first film, introduced by the director
by Ben Sachs
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Joe Dante
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The Movie Orgy
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Nightingale Theatre
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Beginning of the End
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antiwar satire
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Small Soldiers
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Blogs
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Bleader
, Aug 9, 2012
Video
Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
by J.R. Jones
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John Carpenter
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W.C. Fields
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It's a Gift
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
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Steven Spielberg
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Gremlins movie
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Matinee movie
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Small Soldiers
,
The Hole movie
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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The Movie Orgy
,
Ben Sachs
,
Ann Hui
,
A Simple Life
,
Facets Cinematheque
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Ballplayer: Pelotero
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The Bourne Legacy
,
Jeremy Renner
,
Matt Damon
,
The Campaign movie
,
Will Ferrell
,
Zach Galifianakis
,
Celeste and Jesse Forever
,
Rashida Jones
,
Andy Samberg
,
The Curators of Dixon School
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Hope Springs
,
Meryl Streep
,
Tommy Lee Jones
,
Kumare movie
,
Vikram Gandhi
,
Searching for Sugar Man
,
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
,
Jan Svankmajer
,
Unforgivable movie
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Andre Techine
,
Wolf
,
Lotte Reiniger
,
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
,
Music Box
,
Dennis Scott
,
David Lynch
,
Blue Velvet
,
Landmark’s Century Centre
,
William Friedkin
,
s The French Connection
,
Paul Wegener
,
The Golem
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Yasujiro Ozu
,
A Hen in the Wind
,
Portage theater
,
Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
Charles Chaplin
,
Monsieur Verdoux
,
Flashback Weekend
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The Thing movie
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The Exorcist
,
Linda Blair
,
film festivals
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Blogs
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Bleader
, Aug 9, 2012
The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part two)
The second part of an interview with the director of
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
and
The Movie Orgy
by Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
,
Joe Dante
,
Gabe Klinger
,
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
,
Music Box Theatre
,
The Movie Orgy
,
The Nightingale
,
Jon Davison
,
Bruce Dern
,
Schlitz Beer
,
The 'Burbs
,
Gremlins
,
Rick Baker
,
Innerspace
,
Trailers From Hell
,
Steven Spielberg
,
Warner Brothers Pictures
,
Movies Till Dawn
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The Watch
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Matinee
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Hollywood Boulevard
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Roger Corman
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Blogs
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Bleader
, Aug 8, 2012
The orgiast: an interview with Joe Dante (part one)
The first part of a long interview with the director of
Gremlins
,
Small Soldiers
, and
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
by Ben Sachs
Tags:
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,
Joe Dante
,
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
,
The Movie Orgy
,
The Hole
,
Music Box Theatre
,
The Nightingale
,
3D movies
,
special effects
,
Stan Winston
,
Gabe Klinger
,
CGI
,
The Creature From the Black Lagoon
,
Dial M for Murder
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