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Movies, 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: Movie Review, The Thoughts That Once We Had, Thom Andersen, 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, Movie Critic's Choice May 9, 2013
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Bush Mama: straight outta Watts

Haile Gerima presents a rare screening of his 1976 ghetto drama
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Barbara O. Jones, Johnny Weathers, Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, UCLA, LA Rebellion, Killer of Sheep, Recommended

Movies, Movie Review Mar 27, 2013
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Return of the L.A. Rebellion

A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Black cinema, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, the National Film Registry, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Shaft, Spike Lee, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elyseo J. Taylor, Ben Caldwell, Larry Clark, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Haile Gerima, Barbara McCullough, Billy Woodberry, Black Art Black Artists, Van Slater, Compton City College, Medea, I & I: An African Allegory, Amiri Baraka, Part of the Doctrine, Duke Ellington, Odetta, B.B. King, USC, Northwestern University, Block Museum of Art, University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts, Film Comment, As Above So Below, Bush Mama, O. Funmilayo Makarah, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Daughters of the Dust, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Ed Koziarski, Illinois[e]makers, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Zach Galifianakis, Aasiv Mandvi, Jim Gaffigan, I Spit on Your Grave, Internal Systems Coleen Fitzgibbon, Life As We Know It, Katherine Heigl, War Don Don, Sierra Leone, The White Meadows, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Music Box Massacre, Delmer Daves Dark Passage, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawk, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, 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, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, 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
- Tags: Film, Saturday Night Fever, All That Jazz, Popeye, One From the Heart, Pennies From Heaven, Absolute Beginners, Twentieth Century, Hands Across the Table, The Princess Comes Across, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, To Be or Not to Be, Carole Lombard, Billy Wilder, neorealism, musical, Facets, Film School, Patrick Friel, 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, Video

Blogs, 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: Film, Movies, Turner Classic Movies, Charles Burnett, Los Angeles, Robert Osborne, Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, When It Rains, Watts, African-American directors

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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.

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Bush Mama: straight outta Watts

Haile Gerima presents a rare screening of his 1976 ghetto drama

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Return of the L.A. Rebellion

A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.

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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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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.

Don't touch that dial

Early films by Charles Burnett screen tonight on Turner Classic Movies.

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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.

Recommended Bush Mama: straight outta Watts

Haile Gerima presents a rare screening of his 1976 ghetto drama

Recommended Return of the L.A. Rebellion

A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.

Video This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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.

Don't touch that dial

Early films by Charles Burnett screen tonight on Turner Classic Movies.

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Bush Mama: straight outta Watts

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Return of the L.A. Rebellion

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This Week's Movie Action

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Facets Film School