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, Oct 25, 2012
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The 35-millimeter nanny, and the rest of this week's screenings
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, Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies
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by J.R. Jones
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Tyler Perry
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James Patterson
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Easy Money
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The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
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Shaw Brothers Studio
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For Ellen
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Paul Dano
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Middle of Nowhere
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Mourning movie
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Sinister movie
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Ethan Hawke
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Smashed movie
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War of the Buttons
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You've Been Trumped
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Castle in the Sky (1986)
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Classe Tous Risques
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Drag Me to Hell
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Wes Craven
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Logan Theater Chicago
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William Wellman
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Night Nurse
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Jacques Tourneur
,
Nightfall movie
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,
Fred Camper
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Edgar Wright
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Shaun of the Dead
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Vic Theatre Chicago
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, Oct 15, 2012
A film festival audience goes to
Paradise
Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's
Paradise: Love
by Ben Sachs
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, Oct 11, 2012
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Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies
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by J.R. Jones
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Olivier Assayas
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Summer Hours
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4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Why We Fight
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Photographic Memory
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Sherman's March
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In Bruges
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Faubrourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
,
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Frankenstein
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Alexei Guerman
,
Khroustaliov My Car!
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F.W. Murnau
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Nosferatu
,
Music Box
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,
Princess Mononoke
,
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, Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies
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by J.R. Jones
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The Paperboy movie
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Lee Daniels
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Precious movie
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About Cherry
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Dev Patel
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Heather Graham
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The Ambassador movie
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The Red Chapel
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Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
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The Last Step
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Leila Hatami
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A Separation movie
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The Oranges movie
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Allison Janney
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Oliver Platt
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Three Films: Straub and Huillet
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Twenty Days Without War
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Aleksei Guerman
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V/H/S
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Ti West
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Joe Swanberg
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
,
Marcel Pagnol
,
Daniel Auteuil
,
Won't Back Down
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
,
Viola Davis
,
Holly Hunter
,
Stanley Donen
,
Charade movie
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
King Hu
,
Come Drink With Me
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Vera Chytilova
,
Daisies
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
Alexander Payne
,
Election movie
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Columbia College Film Row Cinema
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Frank Tashlin
,
The Girl Can't Help It
,
Fred Camper
,
Joe Dante
,
Gremlins
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Pierrot le Fou
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Ken Jacobs
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Tom Tom the Piper's Son
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, Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings
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by J.R. Jones
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Drew Hunt
,
John Ford
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Howard Hawks
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Alfred Hitchcock
,
Paul W.S. Anderson
,
Mortal Kombat
,
Death Race
,
Resident Evil: Retribution
,
How to Survive a Plague
,
David France
,
ACT UP
,
The Master movie
,
Paul Thomas Anderson
,
United Film Festival Chicago
,
Music Box
,
Chicago Farmer
,
Fast Talk
,
Sadermania: From Fanship to Friendship
,
Michael Pena
,
Jake Gyllenhaal
,
Detropia
,
Heidi Ewing
,
Rachel Grady
,
Jesus Camp
,
End of Watch
,
David Ayer
,
Training Day
,
Hello I Must Be Going
,
Melanie Lynskey
,
Liberal Arts
,
Majority movie
,
Brenna Murphy
,
Robert Nelson
,
10 Years
,
Channing Tatum
,
Rosario Dawson
,
Justin Long Trouble With the Curve
,
Clint Eastwood
,
James Stewart
,
Vertigo
,
Mervyn LeRoy
,
Busby Berkeley
,
Gold Diggers of 1933
,
Tomas Alfredson
,
Let the Right One In
,
Landmark's Century Centre
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Sight & Sound
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Vertigo
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, Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
by J.R. Jones
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Music Box
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Film Noir Foundation
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White Heat
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Kiss Me Deadly
,
William Castle Undertow
,
Robert Ryan
,
Max Ophuls Caught
,
Nicholas Ray
,
On Dangerous Ground
,
Howard Hughes
,
RKO Radio Pictures
,
Enterprise Pictures
,
2 Days in New York
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Julie Delpy
,
2 Days in Paris
,
Chris Rock
,
Adam Goldberg
,
ParaNorman
,
Laika Studio
,
Coraline
,
Beyond the Myth
,
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
,
Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago)
,
Free Men movie
,
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
,
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
,
Why Stop Now
,
Jesse Eisenberg
,
Melissa Leo
,
Tracy Morgan
,
Noir City: Chicago 4
,
Jacques Rivette
,
Celine and Julie Go Boating
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
F.W. Murnau
,
Nosferatu
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Robert Redford
,
Quiz Show
,
Transistor
,
Hideout Chicago
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, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings
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by J.R. Jones
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John Carpenter
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Joe Dante
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W.C. Fields
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It's a Gift
,
Twilight Zone: The Movie
,
Steven Spielberg
,
Gremlins movie
,
Matinee movie
,
Small Soldiers
,
The Hole movie
,
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
,
The Movie Orgy
,
Ben Sachs
,
Ann Hui
,
A Simple Life
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Ballplayer: Pelotero
,
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
,
Hope Springs
,
Meryl Streep
,
Tommy Lee Jones
,
Kumare movie
,
Vikram Gandhi
,
Searching for Sugar Man
,
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
,
Jan Svankmajer
,
Unforgivable movie
,
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
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Flashback Weekend
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The Thing movie
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, Aug 3, 2012
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
by J.R. Jones
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,
Drew Hunt
,
Columbia College
,
Killer Joe
,
William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band
,
The French Connection
,
The Exorcist
,
Cruising
,
Bug movie
,
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
,
Tracy Letts
,
August: Osage County
,
Knox College
,
Galesburg
,
The Exorcist
,
William Friedkin
,
A Black Harvest Feast
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Black Harvest Film Festival
,
The Christmas Tree
,
Angel Krsiti Williams
,
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
,
Girlfriend Boyfriend
,
The Loves of Pharoah
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
The Queen of Versailles
,
Richard's Wedding
,
Total Recall
,
Paul Verhoeven
,
Alice Svankmajer
,
Lewis Carroll
,
Jan Svankmajer
,
Abel Ferrara
,
The Driller Killer
,
Sam Raimi
,
The Evil Dead
,
Logan theater
,
Busby Berkeley
,
The Gang's All Here
,
Music Box
,
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
,
King Kong
,
Lewis Milestone
,
Hallelujah I'm a Bum
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Dziga Vertoz
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The Man With the Movie Camera
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, Jul 27, 2012
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All this and air-conditioning too: the week's movies
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by J.R. Jones
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Music Box
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Chicago French Film Festival
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Delphine Coulin
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Muriel Coulin
,
17 Girls
,
A Cat in Paris
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Umberto Lenzi
,
Nightmare City
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University of Chicago Doc Films. Hayao Miyazaki
,
Porco Rosso
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Sacrifice movie
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Chen Kaige
,
Farewell My Concubine
,
El Velador
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Culiacan
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The Watch movie
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Ben Stiller
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Jonah Hill
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Vince Vaughn
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Marx Brothers
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Leo McCarey
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Duck Soup
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Logan theater
,
Harold Lloyd
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The Kid Brother
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Portage theater
,
Tim Baker
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Frank Borzage
,
Little Man What Now?
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Stuart Schulberg
,
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
,
Spertus Institute
,
Jame Whale
,
Show Boat
,
50 Years @ 1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation
,
Lawndale 10
,
Block Museum of Art
,
Rare Baseball Films: The Newsreels
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David Filipi
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Ohio State University
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, Jul 16, 2012
Sherlock Holmes
opens the Silent Summer Film Festival
John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
by J.R. Jones
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Silent Film Society of Chicago
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Portage Theater
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Sherlock Holmes
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John Barrymore
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George Eastman House
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Hugh Hefner
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Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows
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Guy Ritchie
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Robert Downey Jr.
,
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Scandal in Bohemia
,
William Gillette
,
Harold Lloyd
,
The Kid Brother
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Fritz Lang
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The Spiders movie
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Douglas Fairbanks
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The Gaucho
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Stella Dallas
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Our Dancing Daughters
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, Jun 22, 2012
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Onion City experimental festival, now in progress
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by J.R. Jones
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
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Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Columbia College Ludington Building
,
Ben Sachs
,
Alex Ross Perry
,
The Color Wheel
,
Chicago Underground Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
Bel Ami
,
Twilight movie
,
Robert Pattison
,
Uma Thurman
,
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
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