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Bleader
Mar 18, 2016
Video
An ad man experiments with virtual reality, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Opening
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Creative Control
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The Automatic Hate
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The Bronze
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Melissa Rauch
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The Big Bang Theory
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The Cool World
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Shirley Clarke
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant
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Eye in the Sky
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Hello My Name Is Doris
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Sally Field
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European Union Film Festival
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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No Home Movie
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Chantal Akerman
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Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
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Sunset Song
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Terence Davies
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The Deep Blue Sea
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One Floor Below
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Orson Welles
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Chimes at Midnight
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Citizen Kane
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Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 24, 2015
Video
Agnes Le Roux is gone, but the teen sex comedy is back—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Andre Techine
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In the Name of My Daughter
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Agnes Le Roux
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Alleluia movie
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Lonely Hearts Killers
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Ant-Man
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Court movie
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(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
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Irrational Man
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Woody Allen
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Emma Stone
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Pixels
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Southpaw
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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Spencer Parsons: The Dream Is Always the Same
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Unexpected movie
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Kris Swanberg
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Orson Welles
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Chimes at Midnight
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Harold Ramis
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Ghostbusters
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Guy Hamilton
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Goldfinger
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
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Orson Welles
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Mr. Arkadin
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Buster Keaton
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The Navigator
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Silent Summer Film Festival
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Stanley Kubrick
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Spartacus
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Terror in the Aisles
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Christopher Lee
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Horror of Dracula
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The Wicker Man
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Raw Meat
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Chicago Onscreen
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Change the Reel!
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Bleader
May 8, 2015
Video
Far From the Madding Crowd
, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Film
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Carey Mulligan
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Ben Sachs
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The D Train
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Jack Black
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James Marsden
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Queen and Country
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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John Boorman
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Point Blank
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Deliverance
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Hope and Glory
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M*A*S*H
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Stripes
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About Elly
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Asghar Farhadi Separation
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Aspen Frederick Wiseman
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Black Souls
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Heaven Adores You
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Elliott Smith
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Christina Noble documentary
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Roar movie
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Tippi Hedren
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Welcome to Me
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Kristen Wiig
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Music Box Chicago
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Shira Piven
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Joan Cusack
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Orson Welles
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Chimes at Midnight
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Sam Raimi
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The Evil Dead
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
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Flowers of Shanghai
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Hope and Glory
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Edward S. Curtis
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In the Land of the Head Hunters
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Dennis Scott
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Hayao Miyazaki
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Princess Mononoke
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Alexander Korda
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That Hamilton Woman
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Frank Tashlin
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
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CineYouth Festival
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Columbia College Film Row Cinema
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Dyke Delicious May Shorts
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Chicago Filmmakers
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For Educational Purposes Only
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Washington Park Arts Incubator
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Sing-A-Long Mamma Mia
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Sonic Celluloid
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Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
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Chicago Underground Film Festival
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Ruined Heart
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Bleader
Apr 27, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Orson Welles
Highlights from the filmography of Orson Welles
By Drew Hunt
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Othello
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The Immortal Story
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Citizen Kane
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Dave Kehr
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The Stranger
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Franz Kafka
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The Trial
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F for Fake
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Chimes at Midnight
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John Falstaff
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Otto Nicolai
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May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Film
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Tal Rosenberg
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Olivier Assayas
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Something in the Air
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Cold Water
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James Joyce
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Stephen Hero
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Great Gatsby
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Baz Luhrmann
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Haile Gerima
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Bush Mama
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Logan Center for the Arts
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Aqui y Alla
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Dark Waters
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Andre de Toth
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In the House
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Francois Ozon
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Under the Sand
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8 Women
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Potiche
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Love Is All You Need
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Susanne Bier
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Anders Thomas Jensen
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Open Hearts
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Brothers
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After the Wedding
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In a Better World
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Stanley Donen
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Charade
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Orson Welles
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Chimes at Midnight
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Music Box Chicago
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Billy Wilder
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Double Indemnity
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Akira Kurosawa
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Ikiru
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Richard Linklater
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The School of Rock
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Paul Verhoeven
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Showgirls
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Landmark's Century Centre
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The Trouble With Harry
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Northbrook Public Library
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Jacques Demy
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
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Portage Theater Chicago
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Bleader
Dec 5, 2011
Movie life in Chicago: a visit to Popular Electronics
An interview with the proprietors of Popular Electronics on the northwest side of Chicago.
By Ben Sachs
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Popular Electronics
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Ahmed Maniar
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Taha Maniar
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Ben Sachs
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Orson Welles
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Magnificent Ambersons
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Chimes at Midnight
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Don
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eBay
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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
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Movies
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Sacha Baron Cohen
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Orson Welles
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Iraq War
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In Search of Mozart
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Phil Grabsky
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Doc Films
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Fritz Lang
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war movies
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Kathryn Bigelow
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Fred Camper
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Bank of America Cinema
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Bruno
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The Hurt Locker
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In Search of Beethoven
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Made in U.S.A.
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
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Blood: The Last Vampire
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Favorite Son
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How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
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Loot Darius Marder
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Chimes at Midnight
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Sergei Eisentein
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Ivan the Terrible
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Facets Night School
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Joseph von Sternberg
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The Scarlet Empress
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Scarlet Street
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