- Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2013
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Doc Films begins a two-part program of recent Indian documentaries
Previewing two free programs at the University of Chicago film society this month
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 19, 2013
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After tragedy, life (and art) goes on: An interview with Chicago-based documentarian Shawn Convey
A local photographer/filmmaker talks about two ongoing passion projects, documentaries about dance-movement therapy in India, and a wild horse refuge in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2013
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What I learned from Shohei Imamura's documentaries
Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 13, 2013
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Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: Rwandan children go under the knife in Open Heart
A review of the 2012 documentary short
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 8, 2013
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Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: kvetching past the graveyard in King's Point
Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: King's Point
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 6, 2013
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What's up, doc(umentary filmmakers)?
Considering the relationship between fiction and nonfiction filmmakers
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2013
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Two documentaries show Detroit in flames
Detropia and Burn ask if we should let Detroit go to blazes.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 26, 2012
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Best revival screening of 2012
Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2012
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?
A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 10, 2012
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Form fails function
Previewing the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2011
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Best of 2011, number 6: Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
J.R. Jones on Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, his number 6 movie of 2011.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2011
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Oscarus interruptus
Steve James's acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.
- News & Features, Politics, Sep 23, 2010
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The Wingnuts Had a Point
A gay Chicago filmmaker arrives at a Missouri film fest to find the state has pulled its funding under pressure from "patriots." Was it the subject matter?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 16, 2010
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Toronto International Film Fest Review: Tabloid
J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2010
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Fish Out of Water DVD release party
Fish Out of Water, Ky Dickens, Vanderbilt, bible, coming out, sorority, documentary, DVD, First Run Features, Lincoln Hall, JC Brooks, Cameron Esposito, Kristen Kaza, Kaki King, Rita J, Lady Tajima Hall, Erik Roldan, Butch Cassidy.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 30, 2009
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Michael Moore screening to benefit warehouse workers
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2009
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TIFF Review: La Danse—The Paris Opera Ballet
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2009
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TIFF Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America
A new documentary profiles the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 20, 2009
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What it was, was football
Kevin Rafferty's documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 12, 2008
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Cubs documentary seeks soundtrack artists
Still proud of being from Chicago? Like the Cubs? Maybe you can sing about it in a movie!
