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Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2009
A big, lengthy thumbs up for 'The Brothers Bloom' and Rian Johnson

"You've felt betrayed but found that the movie was loyal after all. You've cared about blatantly artificial characters. You've regained some of your humanity, and some of your faith in it."
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Brick, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2009
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Opening this week

New films by Kirby Dick, Steven Soderbergh, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Carlos Saura, and Rian Johnson.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Olivier Assayas, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Summer Hours, Masaki Kobayashi, Outrage Kirby Dick, The Girlfriend Experience, Soderbergh Girlfriend Experience, Steven Soderbergh, Assayas Summer Hours, Adoration Atom Egoyan, Adoration Egoyan, Carlos Saura, Fados, Fados Saura, Kobayashi Human Condition, Pare Lorentz, Pare Lorentz The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2009
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Johnson shows his Bloom

"Brick" director Rian Johnson talks about his new caper film "The Brothers Bloom," starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi, at two Landmark screenings Saturday.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Babel, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Brick, Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2008
The new, improved art film: more fireballs

The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson's follow-up to his oddball noir Brick, premieres at the Toronto film festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Toronto Film Festival, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, Brick, fim festivals

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