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Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2013
Talking to founder Brenda Webb about new plans for the city's LGBT film festival

Reeling, Chicago's LGBT film festival, will resume this November with greater emphasis on community-building.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: LGBT, Film, Reeling Film Festival, LGBT films, Chicago Filmmakers, Brenda Webb, Richard Knight Jr., Gretchen Blickensderfer, film festivals, independent filmmaking

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Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, 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, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

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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, Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, 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 8, 2013
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens tonight

The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dawn Porter, Gideon's Army, Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, Brett Willis, The Last White Knight, Paul Saltzman, Delay De La Beckwith, Byron DE La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cyn, Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim, Rafea: Solar Mama, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Nagieb Khaja, film festivals, movies, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2013
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Tina Fey, child soldiers, 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, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Caesar Must Die, Music Box Chicago, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Admission Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Dorfman in Love, Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers, War Witch, Irving Lerner, City of Fear, Portage Theater Chicago, Amy Heckerling Clueless, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Stranger, Ron Mann, Tales of the Rat Fink, Delilah's Chicago, Walter Hill, The Warriors movie, Patio Theater Chicago, Alliance Francais, Festival du Film Francophone, Chicago Filmmakers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2013
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John Ford on tap, and the rest of this week's movie coverage

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Red Lion Lincoln Square, Joe Heinen, John Ford, European Union Film Festival, Anne Fontaine, Ulrich Siedl, Alain Resnais, The End of Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell, Ed Koch movie, The Silence movie, Upside Down movie, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Reincarnated movie, Reincarnated Snoop Dogg, Roger Vadim, Barbarella, Logan Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box, Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, University of Chicago Logan Center, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings, Portage Theater Chicago, Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Music Box, Wilmette Theater, Tim Kazurinsky, Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, Mitzi Gaynor, Leonard Maltin, South Pacific, Turner Classic Movies Road to Hollywood, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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Pig Death Machine and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Pig Death Machine, Jon Moritsugu, Scumrock, A Body Without Organs, Steve Graves, Vigilante Vigilante, Max Good, European Union Film Festival, Barbara Christian Petzold, Christian Petzold Yella, Jerichow, The ABCs of Death, Emperor movie, Tommy Lee Jones, Douglas MacArthur, The Monk movie, Seymour Cassel, No Gael Garcia Bernal, Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Bob Byington, RO (Registered Sex Offender), and Yossi Eytan Fox, Yossi & Jagger, Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Hood, King Vidor The Crowd, University of Chicago Doc Films, Pearl Gluck Divan, Harold Washington Library Center, Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai 2046, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2013
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Chan-wook Park, Abbas Kiarostami, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, European Union Film Festival, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Pavilion movie, Tim Sutton, Stoker movie, Chan-wook Park, Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bryan Singer, X-Men, Phantom Ed Harris, A Place at the Table, Snitch movie, Dwayne Johnson, Zhang Yimou Hero, (University of Chicago Doc Films, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Logan Theater Chicago, Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad, Buster Keaton, Steamboat Bill Jr., Chicago Irish Film Festival, River East 21, Society for Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2013
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My dad the war criminal, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hitler's Children, Chanoch Ze'evi, Lore Cate Shortland, Somersault, Beautiful Creatures, North Sea Texas, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The Housemaid, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Golden Raspberry, Coming Out movie, Her Third, Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks, Leos Carax, Bad Blood, Music Box Chicago, Sam Peckinpah, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Portage Theater Chicago, Chinatown Roman Polanski, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love, Jennifer Reeves, The Time We Killed, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Lifeforce, Lord Jim, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, 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, Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2012
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A film festival audience goes to Paradise

Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Moviegoing, Film, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise: Love, Chicago International Film Festival, Lee Daniels, The Paperboy, film festivals, Ben Sachs on moviegoing

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
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Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Ken Burns, The Civil War documentary, The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight, Photographic Memory, Ross McElwee, Sherman's March, Bright Leaves, Argo, Ben Affleck, Now Forager, The One-Armed Swordsman, Shaw Brothers, The Other Dream Team, Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, In Bruges, Waiting for a Miracle, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie, Faubrourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, DuSable Museum of African American History, James Whale, Frankenstein, Logan Theater Chicago, Alexei Guerman, Khroustaliov My Car!, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Music Box, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, University of Chicago Doc Films, Cinema Borealis, Chicago Northwest Film Society, Chicago Film Archives, Home Movies and the Avant Garde, Music Box of Horrors, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, 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, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, John Ford, Howard Hawks, 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, Sight & Sound, Vertigo, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, 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
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, 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, 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, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, 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, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, 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
- Tags: Film, 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, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

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