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Movie Review
May 20, 2015
Thom Andersen is back with a documentary scrapbook of his cinematic obsessions
The writer-director of
Los Angeles Plays Itself
presents
The Thoughts That Once We Had
at Logan Center.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
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The Thoughts That Once We Had
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Thom Andersen
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
,
The Exiles
,
Killer of Sheep
,
Gilles Deleuze
,
D.W. Griffith
,
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
,
The Tomb of Love
,
Chubby Checker
,
Timothy Carey
,
Debra Paget
Movies
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Movie Critic's Choice
May 9, 2013
Recommended
Bush Mama
: straight outta Watts
Haile Gerima presents a rare screening of his 1976 ghetto drama
By J.R. Jones
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,
Haile Gerima
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Bush Mama
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Barbara O. Jones
,
Johnny Weathers
,
Charles Burnett
,
Julie Dash
,
UCLA
,
LA Rebellion
,
Killer of Sheep
,
Recommended
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Movie Review
Mar 27, 2013
Recommended
Return of the
L.A. Rebellion
A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
By J.R. Jones
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Black cinema
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UCLA Film & Television Archive
,
Charles Burnett
,
Killer of Sheep
,
the National Film Registry
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Julie Dash
,
Daughters of the Dust
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
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Shaft
,
Spike Lee
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
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Elyseo J. Taylor
,
Ben Caldwell
,
Larry Clark
,
Zeinabu Irene Davis
,
Haile Gerima
,
Barbara McCullough
,
Billy Woodberry
,
Black Art Black Artists
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Van Slater
,
Compton City College
,
Medea
,
I & I: An African Allegory
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Amiri Baraka
,
Part of the Doctrine
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Duke Ellington
,
Odetta
,
B.B. King
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USC
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Northwestern University
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Block Museum of Art
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University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts
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Film Comment
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As Above So Below
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Bush Mama
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,
Zeinabu Irene Davis
,
Daughters of the Dust
,
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Bleader
Oct 8, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
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Film
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Chicago International Film Festival
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Ed Koziarski
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Illinois[e]makers
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
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Anna Boden
,
Ryan Fleck
,
Zach Galifianakis
,
Aasiv Mandvi
,
Jim Gaffigan
,
I Spit on Your Grave
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Internal Systems Coleen Fitzgibbon
,
Life As We Know It
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Katherine Heigl
,
War Don Don
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Sierra Leone
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The White Meadows
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Mohammad Rasoulof
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Iron Island
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Music Box Massacre
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Delmer Daves Dark Passage
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Northbrook Public Library
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Howard Hawk
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Frank Tashlin
,
The Girl Can't Help It
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Raoul Walsh
,
High Sierra
,
Charles Burnett
,
Killer of Sheep
,
Northwestern University Block Films
,
Stanley Kubrick Lolita
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Pather Panchali
,
Anthony Mann
,
Reign of Terror
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film festivals
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Bleader
Feb 22, 2010
Video
Facets Film School
The winter session of Facets Film School begins Monday 2/22 with weekly screenings and lectures on musicals of the 70s and 80s, screwball comedy star Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder's buddy comedies, and neorealism and its descendants.
By Ed M. Koziarski
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Saturday Night Fever
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All That Jazz
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Popeye
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One From the Heart
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Pennies From Heaven
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Absolute Beginners
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Twentieth Century
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Hands Across the Table
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The Princess Comes Across
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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To Be or Not to Be
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Facets
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,
Stephen Reginald
,
James Francis Flynn
,
Kate Balsley
,
Some Like It Hot
,
Irma La Douce
,
The Fortune Cookie
,
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
,
The Front Page
,
Buddy Buddy
,
The Bicycle Thief
,
Pather Panchali
,
Killer of Sheep
,
Taste of Cherry
,
Ratcatcher
,
Wendy and Lucy
,
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,
Bleader
Jan 21, 2008
Don't touch that dial
Early films by Charles Burnett screen tonight on Turner Classic Movies.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
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,
Turner Classic Movies
,
Charles Burnett
,
Los Angeles
,
Robert Osborne
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Killer of Sheep
,
My Brother's Wedding
,
When It Rains
,
Watts
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