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Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2015
Larry Clark's solution to America's social ills? It has something to do with cunnilingus . . .

Clark's Marfa Girl receives its Chicago premiere this week.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Opening, Film, Larry Clark, Marfa Girl, Facets Cinematheque, Wassup Rockers, Ken Park

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2014
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Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Cheap Thrills, Dom Hemingway, Jude Law, Hide Your Smiling Faces, Joe Nicolas Cage, Joe David Gordon Green, Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson, Chicago Latino Film Festival, River East 21, Cuban Fury, Nick Frost, Shaun of the Dead, Documented Jose Antonio Vargas, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Draft Day, Kevin Costner, The French Minister, Bertrand Tavernier, 'Round Midnight, Life and Nothing But, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hawks and Sparrows, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Robert Altman Nashville, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Larry Clark, Passing Through, Joyce Wieland, Reason Over Passion, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Music Box, Alejandro Amenabar, The Sea Inside, Juan Jose Campanella, The Secret in Their Eyes, Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Logan Theater Chicago, Sci-Fi Spectacular, Patio Theater Chicago, Legend Tom Cruise, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Escape From New York, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2014
Coming soon: The worthwhile provocation It Felt Like Love

Previewing an independent debut feature, which opens tomorrow at Facets Multimedia
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: The Internet, Women's Issues, Film, It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, Facets Multimedia, Sexy Baby, Larry Clark

Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
At CIFF: the immersive nightmare of Heli

First impressions of the troubling Mexican art film, which won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Heli, Amat Escalante, Mexican cinema, Steven Spielberg, Cannes Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala, Carlos Reygadas, Battle in Heaven, Steven Spielberg, Larry Clark

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ricky Jay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, David Mamet, House of Games, Things Change, Redbelt, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Becoming Traviata, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Born in Chicago, Chicano Love Is Forever, The East movie, In the Shadow, The Internship movie, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Google, The Kings of Summer, The Tragedy of Man, Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Patio Theater Chicago, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Logan Theater Chicago, Larry Clark, Passing Through, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, James Cameron, The Terminator, Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Music Box, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Music Box Chicago, movies, Video

Movies, 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
- 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

Movies, Movie Review Dec 12, 2012
Kinky to a fault

Sean Baker's Starlet never progresses past its clever plot twists
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Starlet movie, Sean Baker, Dree Hemingway, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Larry Clark, Besedka Johnson

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2012
Now playing: Pure

A review of the Swedish drama Pure, screening again tomorrow at the European Union Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, Pure, Till Det Som Ar Vackert, European Union Film Festival, Alicia Vikander, teenage delinquency, Larry Clark

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Larry Clark's solution to America's social ills? It has something to do with cunnilingus . . .

Clark's Marfa Girl receives its Chicago premiere this week.

Video
Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Coming soon: The worthwhile provocation It Felt Like Love

Previewing an independent debut feature, which opens tomorrow at Facets Multimedia

At CIFF: the immersive nightmare of Heli

First impressions of the troubling Mexican art film, which won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival

Video
The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Return of the L.A. Rebellion

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

Kinky to a fault

Sean Baker's Starlet never progresses past its clever plot twists

Now playing: Pure

A review of the Swedish drama Pure, screening again tomorrow at the European Union Film Festival

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Clark's Marfa Girl receives its Chicago premiere this week.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Previewing an independent debut feature, which opens tomorrow at Facets Multimedia

First impressions of the troubling Mexican art film, which won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

Sean Baker's Starlet never progresses past its clever plot twists

A review of the Swedish drama Pure, screening again tomorrow at the European Union Film Festival

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