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Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2012
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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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2014
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Oscar shorts out the wazoo, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Landmark's Century Centre, Academy Awards, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Cation, The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentary, Music Box, Hirokazu Kore-edu, Like Father Like Son, Ben Sachs, Chicago International Film Festival, Fire in the Blood, I Am Breathing, I Frankenstein, Aaron Eckhart, Jobriath A.D., Labor Day, Jason Reitman, Up in the Air, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Wong Kar-wai, As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Gene Siskel Film Center, Terry Gilliam Brazil, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Northbrook Public Library, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Native Land, Block Museum of Art, John Cassavetes Shadows, George Cukor, Sylvia Scarlett, Jia Zhang-ke, A Touch of Sin, Crispin Glover, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine, White Light Cinema, Harun Farocki, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Has the Film Already Started?, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2014
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 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, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, In Secret, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, About Last Night, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Black Out, The Hangover, The Bright Day, Endless Love, Brooke Shields, The Girls in the Band, The Last of the Unjust, Claude Lanzmann, The New Black, The Pretty One, Zoe Kazan, Wedlock, Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures, Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ernest Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, King Kong, Block Museum of Art, Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, Model Shop, Gene Siskel Film Center, Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, Music Box Chicago, Brian De Palma, The Untouchables, Hate Crimes in the Heartland, Steve Delahoyde, Chicago Filmmakers, Student Shoot-Out, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2012
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That's not my finger! and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2013
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Death be proud, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Summer Music Film Festival, Music Box Chicago, A Band Called Death, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Levon Helm, Ain't in It for My Health, Byzantium Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, Interview With the Vampire, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, My Dinner With Andre, As Cool as I Am, Claire Danes, Games Curtis Harrington, Night Tide, James Caan, Katherine Ross, Simone Signoret, The Heat movie, Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Men in Hope, 100 Bloody Acres, Unfinished Song, Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stamp, White House Down, Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot, Logan Theater Chicago, Francis Ford Coppola, The Cotton Club, Northbrook Public Library, My Dinner With Andre, Gene Siskel Film Center, Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff, Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Landmark's Century Centre, Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Jane Addams Hull House, Vivian Maier, Black Cinema House, Radical Speculation, Chicago Filmmakers, Tied House Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 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, Beeswax, Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, The Last Station, Leo Tolstoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Kerry Condon, Helen, Black Mail, Hurt McDermott, Dear John, Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson, From Paris With Love, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frozen, Open Water, Lady Terminator, Facets Night School, Mystery Team, Music Box, The Necessities of Life, Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov, When in Rome, Kristen Bell, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Luis Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Tati, Jour de Fete, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Erich von Stroheim, Queen Kelly, John Ford, The Quiet Man, Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Chicago Symphony Ochestra, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
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Showdown in Cairo, 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, Jehane Noujaim, The Square, Egyptian Revolution, Tahrir Square, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Best Offer, Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso, Geoffrey Rush, Big Bad Wolves, The Legend of Hercules, Cutthroat Island, Renny Harlin, Mortified Nation, Old Goats, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, University of Chicago Doc Films, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, George Stevens, Gunga Din, Pickwick Park Ridge, George Cukor, Little Women, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Northbrook Public Library, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Picasso and the Mayor, Tom Palazzolo, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of New Hollywood

Top five New Hollywood films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, New Hollywood, Northbrook Public Library, The Cotton Club, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Siskel Film Center, Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, Roman Polanski, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Rainy People, Apocalypse Now, Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, Kent Jones, Point Blank, John Boorman, Lee Marvin

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Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2012
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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, Ben Sachs, House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello, Gene Siskel Film Center, Walter Benjamin, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012, Addiction Incorporated, Big Miracle, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Chronicle movie, Leap Year, Roscoe Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Mr. Rogers & Me, The Owls movie, Cheryl Dunye, Splinters, Papua New Guinea, W.E. movie, Madonna, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket movie, Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Northbrook Public Library, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Daniel Eisenberg, John Cassavetes, Love Streams, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2013
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The best new movie in theaters, the best new movie not in theaters, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 27 and October 3
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, Music Box Theatre, Gordon Kindlmann, Anne Dodge, Hong Sang-soo, School of the Art Institute, SAIC, Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I Declare War, Inequality for All, Mother of George, Metallica: Through the Never, Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World, Shirley Clarke, Thom Andersen, Eadweard Muybridge Zoopraxographer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ron Howard, Rush, Formula 1, Enough Said, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Doc Films, The Terence Davies Trilogy, The Great Gabbo, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Olivier Assayas, Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Summer Hours, Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, House of Games, David Mamet, Sabotage, Alfred Hitchcock, Patio Theater, The Big Clock, Northbrook Public Library, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, 3-D, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2013
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Great popular art, past and present, and the rest of this week's movies

Noting new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 9 and 15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drug War, Johnnie To, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alfred Hitchcock, Music Box Theatre, Hitchcock 9, silent films, popular art, 2 Guns, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, South Side Projections, Logan Center for the Arts, Revolution on Film, ONO, Trick Bag, Kartemquin Films, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Northbrook Public Library, Peter Kuttner, Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, District 9, Europa Report, Sebastian Cordero, sci-fi, Lovelace, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, biopic, Kid-Thing, Facets Multimedia, The Spectacular Now, Landmark Century Center, We're the Millers, The Year I Broke My Voice, Chicago Filmmakers, Doc Films, Our Daily Bread, Babe, King Vidor, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, The Game, Fight Club, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2013
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Chief Keef's Finally Rich has a home at Northbrook Public Library

Chief Keef may not have moved to Northbrook but his major label debut, Finally Rich will soon be in circulation at the north suburb's public library
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Seriously?, Music, Chief Keef, Keith Cozart, Northbrook, Northbrook Public Library, Twitter, Finally Rich, Cathleen Doyle, Andy Kim, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Billboard, Fake Shore Drive, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2010
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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, Jack Rebney, Winnebago Industries, Ben Steinbauer, Winnebago Man, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ed M. Koziarski, Ted Hardin, Elizabeth Coffman, Veins in the Gulf, Cajun culture, Louisiana bayou, BP oil spill, Accomplices Frederic Mermoud, Daddy Longlegs, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Ondine, Neil Jordan, The Crying Game, The A-Team, Iron Man 2, The Karate Kid, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Mort Sahl, Killers Ashton Kutchner, Killers Katherine Heigl, OSS 117 Lost in Rio, Music Box Films, Solitary Man, Michael Douglas, La Signora di Tutti, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Hotti Biscotti, First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells, Ray Harryhausen, Busby Berkeley, For Me and My Gal, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Bank of America Cinema, David Lean, In Which We Serve, Northbrook Public Library, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Allan Arkush, Rock 'n' Roll High School, P.J. Soles, Ramones, Empty Bottle, Akira Kurosawa, Sanjuro, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Baghdad, Douglas Fairbanks, movies., Video

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Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2012
Critics' Picks
Best Free Film Screenings

Northbrook Public Library
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2012, Northbrook Public Library, DVD projection, film projection, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder, Cecil B. DeMille, Brian de Palma, Critics' Picks

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2013
Northbrook Public Library revisits Francis Ford Coppola's 80s work

Noting three upcoming revival screenings at the suburban library
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Cheese, Film, Francis Ford Coppola, Northbrook Public Library, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Rumble Fish, One From the Heart, Cinema du Look, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Diva, Luc Besson, Subway, Streets of Fire, Nicolas Roeg, Eureka, Insignificance, Peter Greenaway, Alain Resnais, Julien Temple, Walter Hill, Melo, Drowning by Numbers, postmodernism

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2009
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What's Old: Frank Tashlin at Northbrook Public Library

Frank Tashlin screens in 35-millimeter at Northbrook Public Library.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Walt Disney, Jerry Lewis, Northbrook Public Library, Frank Tashlin, Warner Brothers, Bob Hope, Son of Paleface, Dean Martin, Artists and Models, Hollywood or Bust, Susan Slept Here, The Girl Can't Help It, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Video

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Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2013
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, 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, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Portage Theater Chicago, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, About Sunny, Penelope Ann Miller, Dylan Baker, Fast & Furious 6, Jacquot Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, What Maisie New, Henry James, Zoolander, Ben Stiller, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, The Hangover Part III, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Douglas Sirk, All I Desire, Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts, Logan Center for the Arts, Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, Comfort Station, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Music Box Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock Notorious, Northbrook Public Library, Harold Lloyd, Safety Last, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, University of Chicago Doc Films, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Logan Theater Chicago, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

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Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2010
It's Not That Good, but If I Use a Photo From It, Will You Please Read My Post?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre, Renaissance Place, Good the Bad the Weird, Iron Man 2, Babies movie, Ferlinghetti A City Light, Human Centipede, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron, Gene Siskel Film Center, Takedowns and Falls, Vincent A Life in Color, Joseph Losey, Galileo, Doc Films, Anthony Mann, Glenn Miller Story, Northbrook Public Library, Maurice Pialat, Loulou, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Vittorio de Sica, Umberto D, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Word Is Out, Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago movies, movies.

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2010
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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, 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

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