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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Oct 21, 2010
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Thursday, October 21, through Sunday, October 31, with screenings in Chicago and Northbrook
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Movies,
Movie Review,
Aug 12, 2010
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Attention filmmakers: how about a Nightmare Alley unrestrained by quaint Hollywood moral codes?
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Jun 24, 2010
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Thursday, June 24, through Thursday, July 1, at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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By Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, and J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, Gene Siskel Film Center, Americatown, Life Is Unpredictable: Films by Jonas Mekas, Modus Operandi, Scrappers, Some Days Are Better Than Others, Stay the Same Never Change, Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde, Wasteland Utopias, The Wild Hunt, World's Largest
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Jun 3, 2010
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Featuring Afghan Star, Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country, and more
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Apr 22, 2010
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Friday through Thursday, April 23 through 29
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Apr 15, 2010
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Through Thursday, April 29, at Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio; Landmark's Century Centre, and other venues.
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Apr 8, 2010
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Through 4/15 at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Mar 25, 2010
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Featuring Hadewijch, Brotherhood, and more
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By J.R. Jones, Andrea Gronvall, and Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Euriopean Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Around a Small Mountain, Brotherhood, Hadewijch, Helsinki, Forever, The Secret of Kells, The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, Video
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Mar 18, 2010
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Featuring Dogtooth, Lourdes, Helsinki, Forever, and more
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By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, and Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Dogtooth, Helsinki, Forever, Just Anybody, Lourdes, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, A Year Ago in Winter, Video
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Mar 11, 2010
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Through 4/1 at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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Movies,
Movie Review,
Jan 21, 2010
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As far as bad movies go, The Book of Eli is a good one.
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By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Movie Review, The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Albert and Allen Hughes, Gary Whitta, Carnegie, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits, Jennifer Beals, Video
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Movies,
Movie Review,
Jan 14, 2010
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In an uncharacteristically mordant disability doc, one thalidomide baby persuades 11 others to take off their clothes.
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By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Movie Review, Niko von Glasow, NoBody's Perfect, thalidomide, paraphilia, stump fetishism, Gene Siskel Film Center, 39 Pounds of Love, gimp mystique, thalidomider, Andreas Meyer, Grunenthal, Theo Zavelberg, Stefan Fricke, Fred Dove, Kim Morton, Bianca Vogel, Mat Fraser
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Dec 3, 2009
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The Gene Siskel Film Center presents an independent comedy film festival
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By Cliff Doerksen, J.R. Jones, and Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Gene Siskel Film Center, New Comedy Mavericks, Adventures of Power, Ari Gold, Anywhere USA, Chusy Haney-Jardine, Assassination of a High School President, Brett Simon, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, David Pasquesi, TJ Jagodowski, Woodpecker, Alex Karpovsky, Video
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Nov 12, 2009
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New narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental films from Spain, at Facets November 13-19
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By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, and Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Sidebar
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Nov 5, 2009
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Thursday, November 5, through Sunday, November 15 at multiple venues
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By Albert Williams, Cliff Doerksen, and Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Sidebar
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Nov 5, 2009
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Friday, November 6, through Sunday, November 22
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By Cliff Doerksen, J.R. Jones, and Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Sidebar
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Oct 15, 2009
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New reviews of selected films screening October 16-22
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By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, and Joshua Katzman
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, River East 21, Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Doona Bae, Coffin Rock, Effi Briest, Rupert Glasson, Hermine Huntgeburth, Eyes Wide Open, Haim Tabakman, Made in Hungaria, Gergely Fonyo, Mammoth, Lukas Moodysson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mary and Max, North by Northwest, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Tyler Perry, Videocracy, Erik Gandini, Who's Afraid of the Wolf?, Will Not Stop There, Backyard, Sabina Berman, Carlos Carrera, Berlin '36, Kaspar Heidelbach, Chicago Overcoat, Brian Caunter, Cropsey, Andre Rand, Daniel & Ana, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Michel Franco, Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, River East 21, Video
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Movies,
Movie Feature,
Oct 8, 2009
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Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15
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By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, and Joshua Katzman
- Tags: Movie Feature, CIFF, Chicago International Film Festival, Wit Hotel, Katherine Dieckmann, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Jean-Marc Vallee, The Young Victoria, Animation Nations, Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain, Antichrist, Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Breaking the Waves, Andrei Tarkovsky, Backyard, Carlos Carrera, Berlin '36, Kaspar Heidelbach, Chicago Overcoat, Cropsey, Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Andre Rand, Willowbrook State School, Daniel and Ana, Eccentricities of a Blond Girl, Michel Franco, Manoel de Oliveira, Face, Tsai Ming-Liang, The Girl on the Train, Andre Techine, Hipsters, Valery Todorovsky, The Last Days of Emma Blank, Looking for Eric, Ken Loach, The Maid, The Messenger, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi, Bong Joon-ho, Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Red Cliff, John Woo, Ricky, Alexandra Demy, Melusine Mayance, Vincere, Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Crivelli, Wit Hotel, River East 21, Video
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Movies,
Movie Sidebar,
Sep 10, 2009
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The 16th edition starts Thursday, September 10
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By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, and Andrea Gronvall
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, American Radical: : The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, The Boy With the Sun in His Eyes, Cellar, Gold, Impolex, It Came From Kuchar, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
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Movies,
Movie Review,
Aug 6, 2009
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A rom-com with an Aspergerian twist—big deal. But what if Adam were a girl?
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By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Movie Review, Adam, Max Mayer, Asperger's syndrome, Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Frankie Faison, Amy Irving, Peter Gallagher, The Philadelphia Story, Forrest Gump, Regarding Henry, King of Hearts, Midnight Cowboy, Home Sweet Home, aspie pride, Video
