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Blogs, Bleader, May 19, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Joseph Lewis and the B movie swamp

My five favorite Joseph Lewis films, in light of Doc Films' screening of the director's Gun Crazy tomorrow night
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Joseph H. Lewis, My Name is Julia Ross, A Lady Without Passport, Terror in a Texas Town, The Big Combo, Gun Crazy

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Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Dream on—the American dream on film

Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, American dream, El Norte, Gregory Nava, Thieves' Highway, Jules Dassin, Stroszek, Werner Herzog, California Dreamin', Cristian Nemescu, Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ben Sachs

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 28, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The best of John Ford

My picks for the five best films of the man who shot The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Gregg Toland, Fort Apache, The Quiet Man, Gideon's Day, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, How Green Was My Valley?, Gideon's Day, Wagon Master, Dave Kehr, The Searchers, Young Mr. Lincoln, Cheyenne Autumn, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 21, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The best of "Bloody" Sam Peckinpah

Weekly Top Five: Sam Peckinpah
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Sam Peckinpah, Convoy, Portage Theater, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Cross of Iron, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Orson Welles, WW II, New Hollywood

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 14, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: "Alright, alright, alright"—the best of Richard Linklater

Top five Richard Linklater films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused, Quentin Tarantino, David O. Russell, Gregg Araki, Alexandre Rockwell, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Gus van Sant, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, The School of Rock, Jean Renoir, Don't Knock the Rock, The Newton Boys, Bernie, Jack Black, Tape, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Ethan Hawke, Julie Deply, Before Midnight, Waking Life, Slacker, Dazed and Confused

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 7, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: "Violence is not funny"—the best of William Friedkin

Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, William Friedkin, The Friedkin Connection, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library, The Exorcist, Killer Joe, Filmspotting, Adam Kempenaar, The Exorcist, Deliverance, Straw Dogs, New Hollywood, Rampage, Richard Chase, Bug, Rules of Engagement, the Hunted, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, To Live and Die in L.A, Robby Muller, Repo Men, Paris Texas, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, Cruising, The French Connection, Sorcerer, The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 31, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Demystifying cultural roots with spaghetti westerns

Weekly Top Five: Spaghetti westerns
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Goonies, Fargo, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, Keoma, Enzo Castellari, Franco Nero, Marlon Brando, Four of the Apocalypse, Lucio Fulci, The Beyond, Zombie, Silver Saddle, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Quentin Tarantino, For a Few Dollars More, Klaus Kinski, Companeros, Antonio Margheretti, The Stranger and the Gunfighter, José Luis Merino, Requiem for a Gringo

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Three's a crowd

Weekly top five: informal trilogies
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, John Carpenter, Apocalypse Trilogy, The Thing, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft, cosmicism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, BRD Trilogy, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola, Veronika Voss, Germany, Nazism, John Ford, Cavalry Trilogy, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, Dave Kehr, Native American, WWII, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alienation Trilogy, L'Avventura, La Notte, Eclipse, Roman Polanski, Apartment Trilogy, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: "Film is like a battleground"—the best of Samuel Fuller

Weekly top five: Samuel Fuller films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, The Baron of Arizona, James Wong Howe, Andre Bazin, Underworld U.S.A., Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, Cold War, Gene Evans, The Steel Helmet, White Dog, Shark!, The Big Red One, Forty Guns

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 10, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The twisted beauty of Dario Argento

Weekly Top Five: Dario Argento films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Dario Argento, Music Box, Inferno, Do You Like Hitchcock, The Card Player, Mario Bava, Edgar Allen Poe, Suspiria, J. Hoberman, Deep Red, David Hemmings, Sleepless, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Mother of Tears

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

Weekly Top Five: sci-films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, Philip Kaufman, Dave Kehr, Fearless Frank, sci-fi, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dead End Drive-In, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Raoul Walsh, Robert Aldrich, unk food, punk rock, B-movies, Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Cannes Film Festival, 9/11, Repo Man, Alex Cox, Ronald Reagan, Criterion Collection, Luis Bunuel, Scanners, David Cronenberg, The Fly, Roger Corman, It Conquered the Earth, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man From Planet X, Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The ecstatic truth of Werner Herzog

Top five Werner Herzog films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Werner Herzog, New German Cinema, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Cobra Verde, Klaus Kinski, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Dieter Dengler, Vietnam, Laos, Rescue Dawn, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Stanley Kubrick, Music Box, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Killing, Full Metal Jacket, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barry Lyndon, NASA, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Idea missing—the best of Steven Soderbergh

The top five Steven Soderbergh films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Steven Soderbergh, Side Effects, Magic Mike, Schizopolis, King of the Hill, Contagion, Che, The Limey, Out of Sight, The Informant!, The Underneath, Bubble, Haywire

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The haphazard grace of Roger Corman

Weekly Top Five: the films of Roger Corman, auteur
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cinema Minima, Cole's, Logan Square, Super Bowl, Ivan Reitman, Meatballs, Maya Deren, Roger Corman, Death Race 2000, It Conquered the Earth, The Wild Angels, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Undead, Bucket of Blood, Machine-Gun Kelly, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Trip, Bloody Mama

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Nobody's perfect—the best of Billy Wilder

Top five Billy Wilder films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Edgar G. Ulmer, Detour, Max Ophuls, Caught, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, auteurists, Cahiers du Cinema, Irma La Douce, Andrew Sarris, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, History and Memory 1927–1949, Love in the Afternoon, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard, The Emperor Waltz, Bing Crosby, The Major and The Minor, Gregory La Cava, Leo McCarey, Some Like It Hot, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Marilyn Monroe, The Apartment, Avanti!, The Lost Weekend, One Two Three

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The trouble with never having seen Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry

Top Five Alfred Hitchcock films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Sabotage, Lifeboat, Marnie, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Sight and Sound Magazine, North by Northwest, The Birds, Psycho, The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 13, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films

The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, The Ghost Writer, Chinatown, The Pianist, The Tenant, Dave Kehr, Franz Kafka, William Castle, Knife in the Water, National Film School in Łódź, Repulsion, Carnage, Harold Pinter, Samuel Becket, Freud, Frantic, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Most anticipated films for 2013

Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Taste of Money, Side Effects, Mud, Frances Ha, Before Midnight, Im Sang-Soo, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Jeff Nichols, Richard Linklater, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2012
Weekly Top Five: An ode to "the soul of film noir," Robert Mitchum

Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Robert Mitchum, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Out of the Past, River of No Return, The Locket, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Lusty Men, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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