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Movies, Movie Feature Dec 20, 2017
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J.R. Jones picks the best films of 2017

The Reader’s film editor selects his favorite movies that premiered in Chicago this year.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Feature, The Lost City of Z, James Gray, Charlie Hunnam, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, James Baldwin, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Joseph Cedar, Loving Vincent, Vincent van Gogh, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison, Dawson City Yukon, Yukon Gold Rush, The Red Turtle, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Studio Ghibli, Death in the Terminal, Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry, Year in Review 2017, best films 2017, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2017
The Japanese animated feature Your Name is far prettier—and weirder—than any American blockbuster

Makato Shinkai's movie is the body-swapping romance-cum-disaster film you didn't realize you were waiting for.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Paranormal, Makoto Shinkai, Your Name, anime, Japanese animation, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, The Box, body-swapping, Francois Ozon, Frantz, magic hour, Shintoism

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Movies, Movie Review Feb 15, 2017
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The Red Turtle swims against the tide of children’s animation

Dutch artist Michael Dudok de Wit tells the simple story of a castaway humbled by nature.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Red Turtle, Michael Dudok de Wit, The Lego Batman Movie, DC Comics, Heavy Metal, Fantasia 2000, Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2015
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The season in sex comedies, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

A round-up of movies playing around town between July 3 and 9.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Magic Mike XXL, Terminator Genisys, The Overnight, The Little Death, 1776, A Hard Day's Night, Full Moon in Paris, Eric Rohmer, the Beatles, Michael Ritchie, Smile, Studio Ghibli, When Marnie Was There, Secret World of Arrietty, Invasion U.S.A., The Third Man, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Strongest Man, Closer to God, A Borrowed Identity, Eran Riklis, Ted 2, Seth MacFarlane, Video

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Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2015
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Suicide is painless in Amour Fou, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, The Lives of Robert Ryan, The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Set-Up, J.R. Jones, Music Box Chicago, Matthew Hoffman, Park Ridge Classic Film, Lisa Ryan, Ben Sachs, Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Heinrich von Kleist, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Chambermaid, Felix and Meira, Love at First Fight, Mamele, Molly Picon, Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper, Yves Saint Laurent, San Andreas, Saving Mes Aynak, Sunshine Superman, Carl Boenish, When Marnie Was There, Studio Ghibli, Frederick Wiseman, Domestic Violence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Music Box, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, African Metropolis: Six Stories From Six African Cities, Chatham 14, Hippies Doing Things Nude and Other Treasures From the Back Room, Comfort Station, Joanna Arnow, Nightingale Cinema Chicago, Joe Mantegna, Jon McDaniel, Bela Gandhi, Sideways movie, City Winery, Stop Making Nonsense: Japanese Surrealist Films 1960-1964, Co-Prosperity Sphere, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2015
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Hyena movie, Chicago Film Critics Festival, Music Box Chicago, Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios, Blind Frederick Wiseman, Alabama School for the Blind, In Country, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Material World Kaycee Conaway Molly Hewitt, Scraps in Black and White, Library of Congress, Tangerines movie, Michael Haneke, Cache, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Frank Tashlin, Hollywood or Bust, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Peter Weir, The Last Wave, My Neighbor Totoro, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppet Master, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge, Colleen Moore, Why Be Good?, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jay Warren, CFA Crashers, Levon Pettis, Black Cinema House, Cinemetrics Across Borders, Logan Center for the Arts, Ulysses Jenkins, Black Cinema House, Using Classroom Films to Teach About Race, South Side Community Art Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Dec 5, 2014
Reese Witherspoon goes Wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

A roundup of what's playing around town and newly reviewed films in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, The Pyramid, Wild Reese Witherspoon, Wild Cheryl Strayed, Jean-Marc Vallee, Dallas Buyers Club, Gene Siskel Film Center kicks, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Facets Cinematheque, Bad Hair, Jean Vigo, L'Atalante, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist, Mike Judge, Idiocracy, Jonathan Rosenbaum, movies

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Movies, Movie Review Dec 3, 2014
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Will Tale of the Princess Kaguya be Studio Ghibli's final masterpiece?

The renowned animation studio ponders its future as founder Isao Takahata looks to the past.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, Toshio Suzuki, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Recommended

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Movies, Movie Review Feb 19, 2014
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The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, World War II, Japanese army, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Whisper of the Heart, From Up on Poppy Hill, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Castle in the Sky, Tokyo, Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Luchino Visconti, The Damned, Death in Venice, Studio Ghibli, Recommended, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2013
My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 30-21

The first in a multipart series on notable movies to first appear in Chicago this past year
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Year in Review, favorite movies of 2013, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Jodie Mack, Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project, Conversations at the Edge, La Camioneta, Mark Kendall, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, documentary films, experimental films, This Is Martin Bonner, Chad Hartigan, Paul Eenhoorn, Charles Fairbanks, Tender Muscles, Nightingale Cinema, Morning of St. Anthony's Day, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Like Father Like Son, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013 Chicago International Film Festival, The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2013
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Catching up with R.I.P.D before it dies, and the rest of this week's screenings

A summary of movies playing in Chicago from July 26 to August 1
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, R.I.P.D., Robert Schwentke, Chicago French Film Festival, Music Box Theatre, Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, Jeff Bridges, Mary Louise Parker, Blackfish, Girl Most Likely, Still Mine, The To Do List, Ernst Lubitsch, Lady Windermere's Fan, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Francis Ford Coppola, One From the Heart, Northbrook Public Library, Des Plaines Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Gone With the Wind, 4K DCP, The Sleeping Tiger, Joseph Losey, The Late George Apley, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Patio Theater, The Happy Poet, Paul Gordon, Red 2, Landmark Century Center, movies, Chicago, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2013
Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Chicago Filmmakers, South Side Projections, Cat Film Festival, Stan Brakhage, Joyce Wieland, Jacques Rivette, Studio Ghibli, The Cat Returns, The Story of Marie and Julien, Stanley Kubrick, Agnes Varda, Val Lewton, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, experimental cinema, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, cats

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Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2013
Get to Lakeview before the suns sets on Poppy Hill

The latest animated feature by Japan's Studio Ghibli is leaving town too soon.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Closing, Foreign, Education, Film, From Up on Poppy Hill, Landmark Century Centre, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Yasujiro Ozu, Ponyo, The Secret World of Arrietty, Bless Me Ultima, coming of age, Ohayo, Late Autumn

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2013
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Black is beautiful, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, L.A. Rebellion, Gene Siskel Film Center, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Gimme the Loot, Warrendale, Olympus Has Fallen, The Sapphires, Starbuck movie, Jacques Audiard, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Alliance Francais, Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho, Sascha Gervais, Music Box Chicago, The Sound of Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2012
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Best animated films of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Animation
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Secret World of Arrietty, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, David Tennant, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Helpful hints for those planning to see Pom Poko

Digging into some of the geographic and mythological references of the Studio Ghibli feature playing this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Studio Ghibli, Pom Poko, tanuki, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Japanese folklore, Tokyo, Tama Hills, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Gene Siskel Film Center, yokai

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
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A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, Soderbergh, Che, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Devotional Cinema, Nathaniel Dorsky, Elena movie, Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return movie, How to Grow a Band, Chris Thile, The Jesus Trip, Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme, Pom Poko, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Savages movie, Oliver Stone, Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley, Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid, G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, K-Town Film Festival, Better Boys' Foundation, American Revolution 2, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sarah Polley, Away From Her, Take This Waltz, Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, The Apartment, Billy Wilder, The General, Buster Keaton, Shaw Brothers, Chang Cheh, The Water Margin, Manhunter, Michael Mann, The Ocean Waves, Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Turn Me On Dammit, Savages, Oliver Stone, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Duplass brothers, Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sat 6/30

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, June 30, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Bucktown, Holstein Park, My Neighbors the Yamadas, J.R. Jones, Gene Siskel Film Center, Studio Ghibli, Fitzgerald's American Music Festival, Berwyn, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Ike Reilly

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