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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
Gangster Squad is the most violent Hollywood movie in . . . two weeks

Ruben Fleischer's new gangster epic is gonna get even with you
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Gross, This Will Kill You, Moviegoing, Film, Politics, Ruben Fleischer, Gangster Squad, Sandy Hook shooting, Aurora Colorado shooting, Production Code Administration, Motion Picture Association of America, Django Unchained, Patrick Arden, Chicago Reader, gun violence, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2012
Worst film of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Worst of 2012
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Darling Companion, Lawrence Kasdan, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, movies, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, worst of 2012, computer animation, The Avengers, Joss Whedon, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Variations on a Theme

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Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Rebecca Hall, the projectionist

"If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
- Tags: Movie Feature, University of Chicago, Rebecca Hall, movies, projectionists, Classic Film Series, film, film projection, Kyle Westphal, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Becca Hall, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Portage Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2012
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FDR, the sitting president

Bill Murray joins a long list of actors playing the 32nd president
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Politics, Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln movie, Internet Movie Database, Art Gilmore, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Jack Young, This Is the Army, Action in the North Atlantic, Dore Schary, Sunrise at Campobello, Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight, Pearl Harbor, Edward Herrmann, Annie movie, Kenneth Branagh, Warm Springs, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Eleanor and Franklin, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, Robert Vaughn, FDR: That Man in the White House, Murrow, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
Yak, yak, yak—whack! On Killing Them Softly's source novel

The film re-creates the glum talk and savage violence of its source novel
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Arts, Film, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Box Office Mojo, Ocean's Eleven, George V. Higgins, Cogan's Trade, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which Robert Mitchum, Scoot McNairy, Richard Jenkins, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, James Gandolfini, crime fiction, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

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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
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Television, Film, Gregory Corso, What Happened to Kerouac?, Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams, Shout! Factory, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, On the Road, Walter Salles, Cannes Film Festival, John Krokides, Kill Your Darlings, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, The Steve Allen Show, William F. Buckley, Firing Line, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac, Carolyn Cassaday, Herbert Huncke, Jan Kerouac, The Beverly Hillbillies, Political Fallout of the Beat Generation, Naropa Institute, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Howl, Naked Lunch, Beat Generation, documentaries, counterculture, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2012
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Mr. Smith Screws Up Washington

The Frank Capra classic lends moral support to senate obstructionists
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Election 2012, The Next Four Years Week, Film, Politics, News, Variations on a Theme, Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver, Jefferson Smith, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, U.S. Senate, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights Act of 1957, George W. Bush, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Claire McCaskill, New York Times, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, filibuster reform, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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The funniest filmmaker you've never heard of

French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Jackie Chan, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Rumba movie, The Fairy movie, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket movie, Pierre Etaix Rupture, Happy Anniversary Pierre Etaix, Pierre Etaix The Suitor, Buster Keaton, Cirque Medrano, Spite Marriage, Pierre Etaix Yoyo, Chaplin The Circus, Chaplin Limelight, Sherlock Jr, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Belle de Jour, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, As Long As You're Healthy, Pierre Etaix Le Grand Amour, Jacques Tati Playtime, Land of Milk and Honey, The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis, Micmacs, Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Aki Kaurismaki, Le Havre, French cinema, comedy, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 2, 2012
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Kangaroo huntin', mate! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Kenneth Cook, Drew Hunt, A Late Quartet, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jerry & Me, Merhnaz Zaeed-Vafa, Jerry Lewis, Le Grand Amour, Pierre Etraix, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Flight, Denzel Washington, The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, Day Night Day Night, The Other Son, Shun Li and the Poet, The Zen of Bennett, Polish Film Festival in America, My Father's Bike, Michal Urbaniak, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Fred Camper, Jean Pierre-Melville, Bob le Flambeur, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Gang's All Here, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Logan theater Chicago, Bicycle Film Festival, Chicago Comedy Film Festival First Nations Film and Video Festival Mostra III, Chicago film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2012
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Video Drone: The director of American History X takes on the chaos in our schools

On the DVD release of Tony Kaye's Detachment
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Education, Television, Film, Detachment movie, Tony Kaye, American History X, Lake of Fire, Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, William Petersen, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, Box Office Mojo, Won't Back Down, The Cartel movie, Waiting for Superman, The Pawnbroker, education, DVD, 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 23, 2012
Video Drone: Keaton and Kovacs

A new installment of Shout! Factory's Ernie Kovacs revival includes his TV collaboration with silent genius Buster Keaton
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Comedy, Ernie Kovacs, Shout! Factory, Shout Factory, The Ernie Kovacs Collection, Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials, Ernic Kovacs Presents Percy Dovetonsils . . . Thpeaks, The Ernie Kovacs Collection: Volume 2, Take a Good Look, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Alec Guinness, Egyptian Theatre, Harry Shearer, Jeff Garlin, Bob Odenkirk, Merrill Markoe, Late Night With David Letterman, Medicine Man, Buster Keaton, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr., movies, television, comedy

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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 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, Oct 2, 2012
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Video Drone: Adventures in Plymptoons

A new video barely scratches the surface of surreal animator Bill Plympton
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts, Television, Film, Adventures in Plymptoons, Cinema Libre Studio, Alexia Anastasio, Bill Plympton, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Dave Fleischer, Chuck Jones, Nick Park, Don Hertzfeldt, Al Goldstein, Screw magazine, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Silverman, Ralph Bakshi, Ed Begley Jr., Jonathan Caouette, Keith Carradine, Terry Gilliam, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman, Moby, Matthew Modine, Martha, Weird Al Yankovic, R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, cartoonists, animation, art documentaries, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, 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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