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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 6, 2012
What's new again: Frank Borzage's Moonrise

Revisiting the 1948 romance in light of Wes Anderson's recent Moonrise Kingdom
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Frank Borzage, Moonrise, Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, History is Made at Night, melodrama

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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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Movies, Movie Sidebar, May 30, 2012
Wes Anderson reigns benevolent over Moonrise Kingdom

Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, and Bruce Willis star in the cult director's latest quirky comedy
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Benjamin Britten

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Blogs, Bleader, May 29, 2012
Thoughts on Cinema Scope's "Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50" list

I finally had a chance to sit down with Cinema Scope magazine's 50th issue
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Cinema Scope magazine, The Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50, Wes Anderson, Ben Rivers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Johan Grimonperez, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, James Gray, Mia Hansen-Love

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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 17, 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, Milestone Film & Video, On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin, The Perfect Team, Rampart movie, Oren Moverman, L.A. Confidential, Declaration of War, In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, London River, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Outside the Law, Safe House, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, The Story of Lover's Rock, This Means War, Charlie's Angels movie, McG, The Vow movie, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, The Devil Probably, Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker!, Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, David Lynch, Mulholland Dr., Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Harlan County U.S.A., The Film That Changed My Life, The Interrupters, Bob Hercules, Joffrey Ballet, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Tony Adler, Steve Bogira, Deanna Isaacs, Michael Miner, Sam Worley, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 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, Hamlet and His Problems, Coriolanus, David Haglund, Ralph Fiennes, My Childhood, My Ain Folk, Bill Douglas, The Innkeepers, Ti West, The House of the Devil, My Piece of the Pie, Cedric Klapisch, When the Cat's Away, Navajo Joe, Burt Reynolds, Untamed Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Hideko Takamine, Windfall movie, The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Rowland Brown, Blood Money, Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie, Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, Mouchette, Bela Tarr, The Man From London, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 25, 2009
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No One's Pardoning These Turkeys

New movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Old Dogs, Ninja Assassins, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, John HIllcoat, Road Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, John Woo, Red Cliff, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, The SOund of Music, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, La Danse--The Paris Opera Ballet, An Education, Good Hair, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Where the Wild Things Are, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2009
A big, lengthy thumbs up for 'The Brothers Bloom' and Rian Johnson

"You've felt betrayed but found that the movie was loyal after all. You've cared about blatantly artificial characters. You've regained some of your humanity, and some of your faith in it."
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Brick, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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Why so much movie music disappoints when compared to Scott Walker's cinematic new album Bish Bosch

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Previewing programs by Phil Solomon and Wladyslaw Starewicz

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Viva La Celluloid!: The Master in 70-millimeter

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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 movies open today for the holiday weekend, including Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also: a recap of the fall's best movies still screening in theaters.

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"You've felt betrayed but found that the movie was loyal after all. You've cared about blatantly artificial characters. You've regained some of your humanity, and some of your faith in it."

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