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Film
,
Movie Review
Dec 14, 2017
Video
The Shape of Water
is wondrous, but woefully narrow-minded
The visual achievement of Guillermo del Toro's new fantasy can't alleviate its reductive worldview.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The Shape of Water
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Hellboy
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Vanessa Taylor
,
Sally Hawkins
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Alexandre Desplat
,
Michael Shannon
,
Octavia Spencer
,
Cold War
,
fantasy films
,
horror movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 1, 2014
Video
CIMMFest ascendant, 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
,
Music
,
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Tommy Boyce
,
Bobby Hart
,
Candy Store Prophets
,
Boyce & Hart: The Guys Who Wrote 'Em
,
Monkees
,
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
,
Angel Ernst Lubitsch
,
Marlene Dietrich
,
Melvyn Douglas
,
Bachelor Weekend
,
Blue Ruin
,
Brick Mansions
,
Luc Besson
,
District B13
,
Paul Walker
,
Dancing in Jaffa
,
Fading Gigolo
,
John Turturro
,
Woody Allen
,
Locke Tom Hardy
,
Love Meetings
,
Pier Paolo Pasolini
,
Now: In the Wings on a World Stage
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Richard III
,
The Other Woman
,
Finding Nemo
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Robert Altman
,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Wojciech Has
,
The Saragossa Manuscript
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Strangers on a Train
,
Music Box
,
Frank Perry
,
The Swimmer
,
Indie Boots Film Festival
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Kartemquin Films
,
School of the Art Institute
,
film festivals
,
movies
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Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 11, 2014
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
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
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Patio Theater Chicago
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Legend Tom Cruise
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Pan's Labyrinth
,
Night of the Living Dead
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Escape From New York
,
film festivals
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movies
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Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 12, 2013
Audio
Video
Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Haskell Wexler
,
Medium Cool
,
Michael Winterbottom The Look of Love
,
Steve Coogan Paul Raymond Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
,
Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
,
Music Box
,
Crimes Against Humanity
,
Dealin' With Idiots
,
Jeff Garlin
,
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
,
Matthew Goode
,
Deliver Us From Evil
,
Pacific Rim
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Hellboy
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
20 Feet From Stardom
,
V/H/S/2
,
The Vikings
,
Kirk Douglas
,
Patio Theater Chicago
,
Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
Grave of the Fireflies
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Charulata
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Isao Takahata
,
Grave of the Fireflies
,
Blake Edwards
,
The Pink Panther
,
Northwestern University Norris Center
,
Hayao Miyazuki
,
Princess Mononoke
,
Nicholas Ray
,
Rebel Without a Cause
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Tod Browning
,
The Unholy Three
,
Dennis Scott
,
In the Shadow of His Airness
,
Michael Jordan
,
South Side Community Arts Center
,
Stanley M. Freehling: Chicago's Man of the Arts
,
Facets Cinematheque
,
movies
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Audio
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Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 25, 2013
Video
Spouses at odds, a ghostly guardian, a trip to the hospital, and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Drew Hunt
,
Tiger Tail in Blue
,
Frank V. Ross
,
Audrey the Trainwreck
,
Mama Guillermo del Toro
,
Andres Muschietti
,
Hellboy
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Ben Sachs
,
The Waiting Room docuentary
,
Peter Nicks
,
Broken City
,
Allen Hughes
,
Menace II Society
,
Mark Wahlberg
,
Russell Crowe
,
The End of Time
,
Peter Mettler
,
The Flying Ace
,
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
,
The Last Stand
,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
Johnny Knoxville
,
and Kim Jee-woon
,
I Saw the Devil
,
A Tale of Two Sisters
,
Little by Little
,
Jean Rouch
,
Chronicle of a Summer
,
Quartet Dustin Hoffman
,
Tom Courtenay
,
Maggie Smith
,
Billy Connolly
,
John Huston
,
Beat the Devil
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Casablanca
,
Patio Theater
,
Sergei Paradjanov
,
The Color of Pomegranates
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
,
Louis Malle
,
The Fire Within
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Jaguar Jean Rouch
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Frank Borzage
,
Little Man
,
What Now?
,
Alec Guinness
,
The Man in the White Suit
,
Music Box
,
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Civic Cinema
,
The United States of ALEC
,
American legislative Exchange Council
,
Columbia College Film Row Cinema
,
Sundance Film Festival
,
Touchy Feely
,
Lynn Shelton
,
Your Sister's Sister
,
Ellen Page
,
Allison Janney
,
Rosemarie DeWitt
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 26, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
Brighton Rock
,
Boulting brothers
,
Roy Boulting
,
John Boulting
,
Graham Greene
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Facets Multimedia
,
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
,
Rebels of the Neon God
,
Tsai Ming-liang
,
Goodbye Dragon Inn
,
Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video
,
Preacher movie
,
Daniel Kraus
,
Sheriff movie
,
Musician movie
,
Professor movie
,
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
,
John Corbett
,
Peter Margasak
,
Disco and Atomic War
,
Dallas TV show
,
Soviet Union
,
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
,
Guillermo Del Toro
,
Pan's Labyrinth
,
Earthwork movie
,
Stan Herd
,
Farmageddon
,
Kiss and Tell
,
Monga movie
,
The Mysterious Lady
,
Greta Garbo
,
Silent Summer Film Festival
,
Ode movie
,
Ode to Billy Joe
,
Kelly Reichradt
,
Wendy and Lucy
,
Meek's Cutoff
,
One Day movie
,
Anne Hathaway
,
Jim Sturgess
,
Our Idiot Brother
,
Paul Rudd
,
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
,
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
,
Robert Rodriguez
,
Don Siegel
,
Charley Varrick
,
Albert Lamorisse
,
The Red Balloon
,
White Mane
,
Music Box
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 1, 2008
What the hell ...
Is Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II just another hack job or something closer to "aaarrrttt"?
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Pan'S Labyrinth
,
Hellboy
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Hayao Miyazaki
,
Brian De Palma
,
Stan Brakhage
,
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
,
Andrew Tracy
,
Jim Emerson
,
Michael Bay
,
Peter Jackson
,
Raising Cain
,
Vincente Minnelli
,
Jeff Koons
,
Joseph H. Lewis
,
Termite art
,
J.S. Bach
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 26, 2007
A night at the Oscars
Not everyone is gaga for the red carpet.
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Little Miss Sunshine
,
Pan'S Labyrinth
,
The Departed
,
79th Annual Academy Awards
,
Ellen DeGeneres
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Abigail Breslin
,
The Lives of Others
,
Josephine Baker
,
Negritude
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 5, 2007
In praise of Hellboy
Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece may not be the film you think ...
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Pan'S Labyrinth
,
Hellboy
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Snakes and Ladders
,
IndieWire critics poll
Film
,
Movie Review
Jan 4, 2007
Thinking Inside the Box
In
Pan's Labyrinth
, Guillermo del Toro makes genre work for him. In
Children of Men
, Alfonso Cuaron lets it get in his way.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Alfonso Cuaron
,
Guillermo del Toro
,
Children of Men
,
Pan's Labyrinth
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 14, 2006
Avoiding Movies About Torture
Some people like to watch scenes of torture, some don't
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Tags:
Film
,
Torture
,
Pan'S Labyrinth
,
Saw
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 12, 2006
The Long, Long Trailer
If some movie preview trailers tend to overstay their welcome, take heart--another one will be along in no time.
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
M P A A Code
,
Golden Trailer Awards
,
Plitt Theatres
,
Pan'S Laybrinth
,
Tears Of The Sun Trailers
,
Pan'S Labyrinth
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