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Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2011
Northwest Chicago Film Society alive and kicking

The fledgling classic-film series announces a second season.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Northwestern Chicago Film Society, Bank of America Cinema, Portage theater, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Fritz Lang, Western Union movie, Roy William Neill, The Black Room, Mark Robson, I Want You, Alan Rafkin, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, John Cromwell, Of Human Bondage, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Edgar G. Ulmer, Her Sister's Secret, If I Had a Million, Karl Freund, Moonlight and Pretzels, Liliom, William Desmond Taylor, Huckleberry Finn, Mitchell Leisen, Remember the Night, film societies, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2011
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Lord Thing and The Corner

Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries "The Corner" and "Lord Thing" Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Vice Lords, Lord Thing, The Corner, Robert Ford, DeWitt Beall, Lawndale, Orron Marshall, Michael W. Phillips, Bank of America Cinema, CIMMfest, South Side, projections, community art center, gang, street, black power, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2010
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Silver Scream

Halloween movie picks for October 29-30.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Reader's Guide to Halloween, Aelita; Queen of Mars, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Jay Warren, Facets Cinematheque, Nekromantic, Facets Fright School, Aelita: Queen of Mars, James Whale, Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, Wilmette theater, George A. Romero Martin, Doc Films, Bank of America Cinema, Peter Lorre, Mad Love, The Face Behind the Mask, Facets Cinematheque, Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, Cursed Bird Ensemble, John Barrymore, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Lon Chaney, Phantom of the Opera, Saint James Cathedral Chicago, Mark Herman, Halloween movies, Chicago movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vikram Jayanti, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, Wall of Sound singles Spector, Lana Clarkson, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Film Ist. A Girl & a Gun, Gustav Deutsch, Music Box, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Doc Films, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Voxare String Quartet, High Concept Laboratories, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bank of America Cinema, Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roman Polanki Repulsion, Alliance Francais, Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New releases and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Music, Film, Music Box, Rafa Alcantara, Decade of Disturbed, Cursed Bird, Del Rey, Head of Femur, A Page of Madness, Facets Cinematheque, Facets Night School, Lebanon Samuel Maoz, Mesrine Killer Instinct, Jacques Mesrine, Vengeance Johnnie To, Flipped, Rob Reiner, The Last Exorcism, Eli Roth, Inglorious Bastards, Hostel, Making Plans for Lena, Chiara Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale, Piranha, Roger Corman Alexandre Aja, The Hills Have Eyes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Blues March Soldier Jon Hendricks, On the Frontline Taking Back Our Streets, Val Lewton, Cat People, Brett Morgen, Chicago 10, Transistor, Frank Borzage, Moonrise, Bank of America Cinema, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2010
Programmer Says Bank of America Cinema Closing

Bank official calls Bank of America's Cinema's closure announcement "premature."
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Bank of America, Bank of America Cinema, Michael Phillips, Time Out Chicago, Hank Sartin, Diane Wagner, Samuel Fuller, Baron of Arizon

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Harold Lloyd, Harold Lloyd The Freshman, Portage, Silent Summer Film Festival, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Ben-Hur, Ramon Navarro, The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks, The Penalty Lon Chaney, Harold Teen, Arthur Lake, Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie, Pollyanna, Mary Pickford, Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Rachel Weisz, Alexandria, Lovers of Hate, Bryan Poyser, Mercy Scott Caan, Ramona and Beezus, Beverly Cleary, Salt Angelina Jolie, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Artists and Models, Bank of America Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Laurent Cantet The Class, Laurent Cantet Human Resources, Abbas Kiarostami Close-Up, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, David Lynch, Lost Highway, Music Box, Scott Tobias, Onion A/V Club, Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, Doc Films, film festivals, silent movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cyrus John C. Reilly, Cyrus Marisa Tomei, Cyrus Jonah hill, Cyrus Deplass brothers, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Baghead, The Puffy Chair, I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, Jim Thompson, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Sweetgrass, Grown Ups Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jonah Hex, DC Comics series, Knight and Day, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, Shane Meadows, This Is England, Somers Town, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Jean-Luc Godard Breathless, Music Box, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Northbrook Public Library, Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo, DuSable Museum of African American History, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Howard Hughes The Outlaw, Bank of America Cinema, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Debra Granik, Winter's Bone, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Joan Rivers A Piece of Work, The Enchanted Cottage, John Cromwell, Bank of America Cinema, Audrey the Trainwreck, Frank V. Ross; 8 The Mormon Proposition, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormon church, gay marriage, I Am Comic, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Gene Siskel Film Center, J.R. Jones, My Year Without Sex, Sarah Watts, Look Both Ways, Chicago Cultural Center, Cinema/Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jack Rebney, Winnebago Industries, Ben Steinbauer, Winnebago Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ed M. Koziarski, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Cajun culture, Louisiana bayou, BP oil spill, Accomplices Frederic Mermoud, Daddy Longlegs, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Ondine, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, The A-Team, Iron Man 2, The Karate Kid, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Mort Sahl, Killers Ashton Kutchner, Killers Katherine Heigl, OSS 117 Lost in Rio, Music Box Films, Solitary Man, Michael Douglas, La Signora di Tutti, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Hotti Biscotti, First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells, Ray Harryhausen, Busby Berkeley, For Me and My Gal, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bank of America Cinema, David Lean, In Which We Serve, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Allan Arkush, Rock 'n' Roll High School, P.J. Soles, Ramones, Empty Bottle, Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Baghdad, Douglas Fairbanks, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday 6/5

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Turquoise Cafe, Beat Kitchen, Yakuza, Entombed, Reggie's Rock Club, Spring World, Lionel Marchetti, Mizu Yakitori & Sushi Lounge, Decision at Sundown, Bank of America Cinema, Afghan Kabob, Metropolis, Cuna, Snubfest, Chemically Imbalanced Theater, Vines on Clark

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday 5/29

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Andre Williams, Dirty Diamonds, Schubas, Andalous, Blowoff, Bob Mould, Richard Morel, Moxie, Brute Force, Bank of America Cinema, Taqueria Amigo Chino, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Court Theatre, Medici on 57th, Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry!, Piccolo Theater, Bistro Bordeaux

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ed M. Koziarski, Daniel Kraus, Cliff Doerksen, Gene Siskel Film Center, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room, Jack Abramoff, Lourdes, Jessica Hausner, Forbidden Cinema, Dennis Nyback, Chicago Filmmakers, Breathless movie, Just Wright, Queen Latifah, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Jay Warren, Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan, Botnik, Robert Siodmak, Cobra Woman, Kurosawa Ikiru, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, Alfred Hitchcock Lifeboat, Bank of America Cinema, Rashomon, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bob Bowdon, Landmarks Century Centre, The Cartel, Bob Bowdon Cartel, Harry Brown, Michael Caine, Square movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, The Scientist, Scientist movie, Who Do You Love, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Chess Records, Cadillac Records, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale, Bank of America Cinema, Akira Kurosawa, Drunken Angel, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Music Box, The Hidden Fortress, Otto Preminger, Saint Joan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Death at a Funeral, Chris Rock, Andrea Gronvall, Secret in Their Eyes, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Cliff Doerksen, Joshua Katzman, Peter Margasak, Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez, Everything Strange and New, Frazer Bradshaw, The Losers, Zoe Saldana, Jason Patric, Pomegranates and Myrrh, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Rebuilding Hope, 22 Years From Home, Lost Boys of Sudan, A Shine of Rainbows, Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Soundtrack for a Revolution, John Legend, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, the Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Otto Preminger, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Northbrook Public Library, Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gene Siskel Film Center, I'm No Angel, Mae West, Bank of America Cinema, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Doc Films, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2010
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Hollywood When It Was Hot

Park Ridge Public Library presents a nine-week series on precode Hollywood.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Precode cinema, Motion Picture Production Code, Wild Boys of the Road, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Matthew Hoffman, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, Park Ridge Public Library, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Rouben Mamoulian, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Dorothy Arzner, Merrily We Go to Hell, Mervyn LeRoy, Three on a Match, Heroes for Sale, Midnight Mary, Alfred E. Green, Baby Face, Mitchell Leisen, Murder at the Vanities, lecture series, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Paul Greengrass, Green Zone, Universal Pictures, European Union Film Festival, Dogtooth, Just Anybody, Lourdes, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, A Year Ago in Winter, Helsinki Forever, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jennifer Aniston, Bounty Hunter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jonathan Demme, Neil Young Trunk Show, Nick Nolte No Exit, Repo Men, Runaways movie, She's Out of My League, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Brickman, Risky Business, Music Box, Fritz Lang, Secret Beyond the Door, Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues, Bezazian Branch Library, Bank of America Cinema, God's Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell, Anthony Mann, Winchester 73, Bend of the River, Naked Spur, Man From Laramie, Man of the West, Jack Lord, Hawaii Five-O, Tina Louise, Gilligan's Island, Vic Morrow, Michael Landon, Little House on the Prairie, Robert Ryan, United Artists, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, The Wolfman, Metacritic, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Charles Darwin Creation, Fred Camper, Adele Friedman, Chicago Filmmakers, Peter Margasak, Celestial Navigations, Al Jarnow, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sesame Street, Ajami, Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, Happy Tears, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2010, Sons of Cuba, Havana Boxing Academy, Visitors (Jeonju Digital Projects 2009), Jeonju film festival, Jacques Tati Parade, Jacques Tati Playtime, Frank Capra, American Madness, Chekhov's Motifs, The Lady With the Dog, Shirley Clarke, The Cool World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milos Forman, The Fireman's Ball, Block Museum of Art, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Bank of America Cinema, Fritz Lang, While the City Sleeps, Music Box, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, University of Chicago Doc Films, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2010
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Romantic Advice From Martin Scorsese

Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer star in Frank Borzage's History Is Made at Night on Saturday night at Bank of America Cinema.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Bank of America Cinema, Martin Scorsese, Herve Dumont, Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, Leo Carillo, Colin Clive, Dave Kehr, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fred Camper, Jacques Tati, Gene Siskel Film Center, Mon Oncle, Traffic Jacques Tati, Gone Rogue: An Iconoclastic Look at Church and State, Tom Palazzolo, Life As Lincoln, Ed M. Koziarski, Orgasm Inc., Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, Saint John of Las Vegas, Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Peter Dinklage, Sarah Silverman, Still Bill, Bill Withers, Valentine's Day Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, The Wolfman, Benicio Del Toro, John Ford, The Searchers, Doc Films, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, Hellzapoppin', Ivan Brunetti, John Badham, Saturday Night Fever, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Music Box, Casablanca, Bank of America Cinema, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Lars von Trier, Antichrist, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday 1/2

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Dinner & a Show, Von Freeman, Green Mill, Willie Pickens, Ch'ava Cafe, Pandora's Box, Bank of America Cinema, La Pena, Panic in the Streets, Cibo Matto, The Pillowman, Flourish Bakery Cafe, The Message Is in the Music, Black Ensemble Theter, Fishpond

Movies, Movie Sidebar Oct 22, 2009
Chicago International Children's Film Festival

The 26th installment gets rolling October 22, continuing with screenings every Saturday and Sunday through November 1.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Bank of America Cinema, Facets Cinematheque, Thorne Auditorium, animation, Little Robbers, Matter of Loaf and Death, Frogs and Toads, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University

Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2009
Never mind Bruno, here's The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow's heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard's Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Siskel Film Center, Iraq War, In Search of Mozart, Phil Grabsky, Doc Films, Fritz Lang, war movies, Kathryn Bigelow, Fred Camper, Bank of America Cinema, Bruno, The Hurt Locker, In Search of Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Made in U.S.A., 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Blood: The Last Vampire, Favorite Son, How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Loot Darius Marder, Chimes at Midnight, Sergei Eisentein, Ivan the Terrible, Facets Night School, Joseph von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Scarlet Street

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2008
Alphabet killer

Bank of America announces its new schedule, with only one B movie screening.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Michael Phillips, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, revival houses

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2008
Scott Marks is alive and well and living online

Whatever became of Scott Marks?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Martin Scorsese, Classic Film Series, Scott Marks, Museum of Photographic Art, LaSalle Bank Cinema, Bank of America Cinema, Emulsion Compulsion, Jerry Lewis

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