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Film, Movie Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Masterworks from Africa and its diasporas

Five films that provide an all-too-brief introduction to cinema made in Africa or that consider the legacy of African traditions
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, African Diaspora International Film Festival, Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, Kino Lorber, Djibril Diop Mambety, Ousmane Sembene, Julie Dash, John Akomfrah, Abderrahmane Sissako, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2018
Five must-see African films

Five African film classics for this Black Panther moment.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Black Panther, Afro-Futurism, Haile Gerima, Sankofa. Film, Doc Films, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Africa, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso. Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Dave Kehr, Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambety, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Yeelen, Brightness, Souleymane Cisse, Bambara, Yaaba, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Waiting for Happiness, Abderrahmane Sissako, Ted Shen

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Fred Camper, Bill Stamets, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, L'Argent, Robert Bresson, Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene, Burden of Dreams, Les Blank, Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Bunuel, History is Made at Night, Frank Borzage, Mary Poppins, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger, Dana Andrews, Small Soldiers, Joe Dante, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gulliver's Travels

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 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, Tony Scott, Unstoppable, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Paul Haggis, The Next Three Days, Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Claire Denis, White Material, Music Box, Isabelle Huppert, Boxing Gym, Frederick Wiseman, Budrus, The Damned movie, Four Boxes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Monsters movie, Samson & Delilah, Skyline movie, Today's Special, Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Aasif Mandvi, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Doc Films, Ousmane Sembene, Moolaade, DuSable Museum of African American History, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, D.W. Griffith, True Heart Susie, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 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 Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cyrus John C. Reilly, Cyrus Marisa Tomei, Cyrus Jonah hill, Cyrus Deplass brothers, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Baghead, The Puffy Chair, I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, Jim Thompson, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Sweetgrass, Grown Ups Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Jonah Hex, DC Comics series, Knight and Day, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee, Shane Meadows, This Is England, Somers Town, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Jean-Luc Godard Breathless, Music Box, David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Northbrook Public Library, Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo, DuSable Museum of African American History, Max Ophuls, Lola Montes, Howard Hughes The Outlaw, Bank of America Cinema, film festivals, movies., Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2010
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Moolaadé and My Daughter the Terrorist

Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Ousmane Sembene, Moolaade, Beate Arnestad, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, My Daughter the Terrorist, College of DuPage, Women's Rights Day, Film Festival, Senegal, Burkina Faso, female circumcision, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2007
Edward Yang has died at 59

On the deaths of Edward Yang and Ousmane Sembene
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Edward Yang, Yi Yi, Ousmane Sembene, Taiwanese cinema

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Movie Tuesday: Masterworks from Africa and its diasporas

Five films that provide an all-too-brief introduction to cinema made in Africa or that consider the legacy of African traditions

Five must-see African films

Five African film classics for this Black Panther moment.

L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

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Moolaadé and My Daughter the Terrorist

Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.

Edward Yang has died at 59

On the deaths of Edward Yang and Ousmane Sembene

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Video Movie Tuesday: Masterworks from Africa and its diasporas

Five films that provide an all-too-brief introduction to cinema made in Africa or that consider the legacy of African traditions

Five must-see African films

Five African film classics for this Black Panther moment.

L'Argent, Mary Poppins, and other Reader recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

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

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Video Moolaadé and My Daughter the Terrorist

Ousmane Sembene's Burkina Faso drama "Moolaade" and Beate Arnestad's Sri Lankan documentary "My Daughter the Terrorist" screen Tuesday 3/9 in the College of DuPage's Women's Rights Day Film Festival.

Edward Yang has died at 59

On the deaths of Edward Yang and Ousmane Sembene

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