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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 3/15: The Good Food Fest, Hair Lit, Vol. 1, and "Performing the Night Sky"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, March 15, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Trade, School Food, and Food Policy Day, Good Food Fest, local food, organic food, UIC Forum, the 80s and 90s, Hair Lit, Vol. 1, Poison, Twisted Sister, Warrant, Nick Ostdick, Orange Alert Press, Matt Rowan, Lindsay Hunter, Mike Joyce, Quimby's, Terri Kapsalis, School of the Art Institute, Theater Oobleck, Artemis Willis, Performing the Night Sky: Heavenly Bodies, Microcosms and the Moving Image, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 2/23: Chicago Maritime Festival, Pictures and Sounds, and Another 90s Party

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, February 23, 2013
- by Janey Lee
- Tags: Do This, Arts, maritime heritage, Chicago Maritime Festival, Chicago History Museum, nautical history, WHPK, University of Chicago, student-run radio, multimedia festival, Pictures and Sounds, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, John Wiese, experimental music, new video work, silent film, outsider film, 90s music, B Starr, Beauty Bar, Another 90s Party, It seems the 90s have supplanted the 80s as the go-to decade for themed dance parties, as evident in Another 90s Party's ongoing soirees at the Beauty Bar. B Starr hosts, and period attire is highly encouraged.

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 1, 2013
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The first knockout of 2013, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Neighboring Sounds, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Gene Siskel Film Center, Beware of Mr. Baker, Cream Ginger Baker, Bullet to the Head, Walter Hill, Sylvester Stallone, 56 Up, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers, Shohei Imamura, Pigs & Soldiers, Mama I'm Alive, Meet the Fokkens, Movie 43, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walker, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, 50/50, Waterwalk, Otto Preminger, Advise and Consent, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, Music Box Chicago, Patio Theater Chicago, Robert Rossen Lilith, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Gerg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Louder Than a Bomb, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, F.W. Murnau Sunrise, Little Queer Film Festival, Center on Halsted, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 30, 2012
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Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 2, 2012
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Kangaroo huntin', mate! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Kenneth Cook, Drew Hunt, A Late Quartet, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jerry & Me, Merhnaz Zaeed-Vafa, Jerry Lewis, Le Grand Amour, Pierre Etraix, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Flight, Denzel Washington, The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, Day Night Day Night, The Other Son, Shun Li and the Poet, The Zen of Bennett, Polish Film Festival in America, My Father's Bike, Michal Urbaniak, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Fred Camper, Jean Pierre-Melville, Bob le Flambeur, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Gang's All Here, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Logan theater Chicago, Bicycle Film Festival, Chicago Comedy Film Festival First Nations Film and Video Festival Mostra III, Chicago film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 25, 2012
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The 35-millimeter nanny, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Aardman Animations, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Laika Inc., Coraline, ParaNorman, Cloud Atlas, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Chicago Cultural Center, DePaul University, Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue, My Home movie, Reluctant Bachelor movie, No Men Allowed, The Sessions movie, John Hawke, Helen Hunt, The Seventh Companion, Aleksei Guerman, Vincent Grenier: Tabula Rasa, The Whisperer in Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Lake, Landmark's Century Centre, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rupert Julian, Phantom of the Opera, Beverly Arts Center, Isa Takahata, Pom Poko, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Northbrook Court, Englewood Film Festival, I Ain't Scared of You—A Tribute to Bernie Mac, Georges Melies Cine-Concert, Lawrence Leherissey-Melies, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Jirokichi the Rat, Kataoka Ichiro, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 11, 2012
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Now playing: Dark Shadows, Headhunters, and God Bless America

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, God Bless America movie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bad Fever movie, Close Quarters movie, Tim Kazurinsky, Susan Messing, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Dark Shadows, Tim Burton, Headhunters movie, The Killing Floor movie, The Perfect Family, Kathleen Turner, Sound of My Voice, The World in His Arms, Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, Northbrook Public Library, Marcel Carne, Children of Paradise, Music Box theater, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Josef von Sternberg, Morocco movie, John Woo, Red Cliff, Jean Renoir, The River, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chris Langdon, Chicago Filmmakers, Dyke Delicious, Kartemquin Films, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 2, 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, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bullhead movie, The Hunter movie, Kati With an I, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Undefeated movie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, The Barefoot Contessa, University of Chicago Doc Films, Clair Denis, Beau Travail, Daniel Eisenberg, Edward Dmytryk, Christ in Concrete, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Music Box, Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Michael Hazanavicius, OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, The Artist movie, Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Beverly Arts Center, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, Wilmette theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, WHPK, Pictures and Sounds, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 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, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust, Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close, Amador movie, Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Chicago Filmmakers, The Grey movie, Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington, Ed Harris, Semper Fi, Marine Corps, Camp Lejeune, Tomboy movie, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, The World of Z, Zbigniew Fiks, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Gene Siskel Film Center, Delmer Daves, Dark Passage, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Block Museum of Art, Mikio Naruse, Flowing Mikio Naruse, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West, W.C. Fields, So's Your Old Man, Gregory La Cava, Stage Door, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charley Chase, His Wooden Wedding, Leo McCarey, Jay Warren, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 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, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Michael James Perry, Death Row movie, Investigation Discovery, Kartemquin Films, At the Death House Door, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, The Interrupters, Peter Gilbert, Fred Camper, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Every Song Is About Me, Lope movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 3 movie, Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run, Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows, University of Chicago Doc Films, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Music Box, Jean-Luc Godard, Week-end movie, Chicago Food Film Festival, Kendall College, Intelligentsia Roasting Works, Illinois International Film Festival, Viaduct Theater, Kinky Film Festival, Leather Archives and Museum, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 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, Universal Pictures, Bridesmaids, Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Funny People, Albert Brooks, The Double Hour, Meeks' Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Coming Back for More, Sly Stone, The Devil's Trap, Frantisek Vlacil, Everything Must Go, Raymond Carver, Will Ferrell, Forks Over Knives, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Make Believe, World Magic Seminar, Mia and the Migoo, Twelve Thirty movie, Josef von Sternberg, Dishonored, Portage theater, Clara Bow, It movie, It Clara Bow, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid movie, The Kid Chaplin, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wim Wenders, King of the Road, Block Museum of Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie movie, Marnie Hitchcock, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fritz Lang, Metropolis movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, Peter Pan movie, Wilmette theater, Bela Tarr, Satantango, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Michael Winterbottom, Summer in Genoa, Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Landmark's Century Centre, Beyond the Years, Im Kwon-taek, Sopyonje, Princess Kaiulani, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett; The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Shooting Robert King, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Northbrook Public Library, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 4, 2010
Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Movies

Doc Films and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Doc Films, University of Chicago, U of C, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Univ. of Chicago Film Studies Center

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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, Jan 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and recommended revivals in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Cliff Doerksen, Denzel Washington, The Book of Eli, Clair Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Gigante, Facets Cinematheque, Liverpool, Say My Name, Chicago Filmmakers, Tapped, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders, A Face in the Crowd, Olsen and Johnson, Hellzapoppin', Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger, Jack Nicholson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Howard Hawks, Scarface, John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Eric Rohmer, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2009
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What's Old: Letter From an Unknown Woman

Tonight at 7, University of Chicago Film Studies Center presents a 35-millimeter screening of Max Ophuls' classic heartbreaker.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, La Signora di Tutti, Caught, The Reckless Moment, La Ronde, The Earrings of Madame de..., Ophuls Letter From an Unknown Woman, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2007
Filmmaker appearance canceled

German filmmaker Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck will not appear at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center as scheduled.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck, German films, University of Chicago Film Studies Center

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