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Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
Black Cinema House has The Blues—and more—this Friday

Previewing the first program in a summer-long outdoor film series
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Music, Black Cinema House, Chicago Film Archives, Movies Under the Stars, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, Burden of Dreams, Chicago Public Library, The Blues, American Shoeshine, Center for Southern Folklore, Give My Poor Heart Ease, Mississippi Delta Blues, jazz documentaries, Duke Ellington, Elvin Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Dream on—the American dream on film

Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, American dream, El Norte, Gregory Nava, Thieves' Highway, Jules Dassin, Stroszek, Werner Herzog, California Dreamin', Cristian Nemescu, Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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An old-school Reader blowout, 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, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Tabu, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, The Host movie, Twilight Stephenie Meyer, Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience, The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Landmark's Century Centre, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Only Dwarfs Started Small, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Logan Theater Chicago, Chris Marker, La Jetee, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2013
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When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)

A preview of the Field Museum's Lascaux cave paintings exhibit
- by Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Science, Arts, Visual Art, Field Museum, Lascaux, Robert Martin, anthropology, cave paintings, prehistoric humans, magic, religion, art, France, Chauvet, Werner Herzog

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The ecstatic truth of Werner Herzog

Top five Werner Herzog films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Werner Herzog, New German Cinema, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Cobra Verde, Klaus Kinski, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Dieter Dengler, Vietnam, Laos, Rescue Dawn, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2013
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Kung fu, women behind bars, Werner Herzog, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Portage Theater Chicago, Chicago Cinema Society, Lau Kar-leung, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The Fiancee movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fallada The Last Chapter, Little Man What Now, Fourplay Kyle Henry, The Funny Things You Do, Future Weather, The Gatekeepers, A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog, Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution, Louis Malle, Atlantic City, University of Chicago Doc Films, Leos Carax, Boy Meets Girl, Howard Hawks, El Dorado, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, Robert Siodmak, The Killers, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Northbrook Public Library, Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs, Jacques Tati Playtime, Music Box, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 12/6

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, December 6, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, Burlington, Logan Square, Owen Ashworth, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Advance Base, Leor Galil, Julie Byrne, J Fernandez, The Rebekah Theatre Project, Raven Theatre, Edgewater, Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box, Asher Klein, Lana Herzog, Werner Herzog, Maya Polsky Gallery, Permanent Mirror

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 26, 2012
The virtual realities of Brenna Murphy

A conversation with artist Brenna Murphy.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Brenna Murphy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge, David Lynch, Werner Herzog

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Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2012
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Underground movies, one flight up—and other notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Fourth Dimension, Harmony Korine, Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Trash Humpers, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Silent Souls, Jan Kwiecinski, Gene Siskel Film Center, Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, Chernobyl Diaries, For Greater Glory, Cristero War, High School, I Wish, Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Intouchables, Small Beautifully Moving Parts, Snow White & the Huntsman, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Rescue Dawn, Pritzker Military Library, Portage theater, Shaw Brothers Studio, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Fist of the White Lotus, film festivals, underground cinema, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2012
What's wrong with up in the air?

A preview of the Karlheinz Stockhausen documentary playing this weekend at the Nightingale
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Music, Helicopter String Quartet, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Scheffer, Nightingale Theater, Werner Herzog

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2011
Oscarus interruptus

Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steve James, The Interrupters, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, CeaseFire Chicago, Deanna Isaacs, Columbia College, Andrea Gronvall, Gene Siskel Film Center, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Errol Morris, Tabloid movie, Asif Kapadia, Senna movie, Buck movie, Battle for Brooklyn, Academy Awards, Oscars, best documentary feature shortlist, documentaries, movies

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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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Movies, Movie Review, Nov 17, 2011
Death and Texas

Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss and Kartemquin Films' At the Death House Door look at capital punishment in the Lone Star State.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Into the Abyss, At the Death House Door, Werner Herzog, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, Rick Perry, Kartemquin Films, executions, capital punishment, Huntsville, Texas, Carlos De Luna, Michael James Perry

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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, Apr 29, 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, Shout! Factory, Ernie Kovacs, Andrea Gronvall, Incendies, Ben Sachs, Stake Land, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog, Fast Five, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Forget Me Not movie, Henry's Crime, Keanu Reeves, The Kids Grow Up, Doug Block, 51 Birch Street, Madea's Big Happy Family, Tyler Perry Queen of the Sun, Uncle Kent, Joe Swanberg, Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen, Terence Malick, Badlands movie, Andre de Toth, Day of the Outlaw, Robert Ryan, Portage, Rene Laloux, Fantastic Planet, Lincoln Hall, Chris Marker, La Jetee, Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys, University of Chicago Doc Films, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard movie, Gene Siskel Film Center; Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes, Block Museum of Art, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Pritzker Military Library, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, movies., Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Nov 19, 2009
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The Bad Lieutenant Gone Wild

Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage whoop it up in New Orleans.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Bad Lieutenant, Nicholas Cage, Abel Ferrara, Werner Herzog, Harvey Keitel, Song of Bernadette, Frankie Thorn, Song of Bernadette, Terence McDonagh, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2009
Good News for Bad People
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Gabe Polsky, Alan Polsky, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 15, 2009
TIFF Review: Short Takes
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven, Blessed, Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Melbourne Workers Theater, The Grapes of Wrath, Ana Kokinnos, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara, Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Cage, Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon, Cannes film festival, Palme d'Or, The Road, Road Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, Dimension Films, Henny Youngman, Viggo Mortensen, film festivals, movies

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