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Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2012
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The funniest filmmaker you've never heard of

French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Jackie Chan, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Rumba movie, The Fairy movie, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket movie, Pierre Etaix Rupture, Happy Anniversary Pierre Etaix, Pierre Etaix The Suitor, Buster Keaton, Cirque Medrano, Spite Marriage, Pierre Etaix Yoyo, Chaplin The Circus, Chaplin Limelight, Sherlock Jr, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Belle de Jour, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, As Long As You're Healthy, Pierre Etaix Le Grand Amour, Jacques Tati Playtime, Land of Milk and Honey, The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis, Micmacs, Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Aki Kaurismaki, Le Havre, French cinema, comedy, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2012
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Kangaroo huntin', mate! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ted Kotcheff, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Kenneth Cook, Drew Hunt, A Late Quartet, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jerry & Me, Merhnaz Zaeed-Vafa, Jerry Lewis, Le Grand Amour, Pierre Etraix, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Flight, Denzel Washington, The Loneliest Planet, Julia Loktev, Day Night Day Night, The Other Son, Shun Li and the Poet, The Zen of Bennett, Polish Film Festival in America, My Father's Bike, Michal Urbaniak, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Fred Camper, Jean Pierre-Melville, Bob le Flambeur, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Gang's All Here, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Don Siegel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Logan theater Chicago, Bicycle Film Festival, Chicago Comedy Film Festival First Nations Film and Video Festival Mostra III, Chicago film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2011
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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, My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Damien Chazelle, The Klezmatics On Holy Ground, The Legend of Pale Male, My Uncle, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Buster Keaton College, Dennis Scott, Music Box, Tod Browning Freaks, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Black Gold, DuSable Museum, Flow For Love of Water, Chicago Filmmakers, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Bob Hercules, 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

Film, Movie Review Feb 11, 2010
In and Out of Sync

In the films of Jacques Tati, even system failure can be sublime.
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Review, Jacques Tati, Colette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jour de Fete, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime, Traffic, Parade, Traffic

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video This Week's Movie Action

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