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Bleader
Sep 4, 2018
Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young
These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.
By Patrick Friel
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Jean Vigo
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Dita Parlo
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Jean Daste
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Michel Simon
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Louis Lefebvre
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Gilles Margaritis
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Boris Kaufman
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Maurice Jaubert
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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The House Is Black
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Forugh Farrokhzad
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leper colony
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Iran
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The Conqueror Worm
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The Witchfinder General
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Vincent Price
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Matthew Hopkins
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Ronald Bassett
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Michael Reeves
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Carl Dreyer
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Day of Wrath
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Tigon Films
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Hammer Films
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Roger Corman
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Edgar Allan Poe
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J.R. Jones
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Wanda
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Barbara Loden
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Don Druker
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Savage Nights
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Jacques Fieschi
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Cyril Collard
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Les nuits fauves
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Romane Bohringer
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AIDS
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Philadelphia
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Carlos Lopez
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Performing Arts Feature
Jan 11, 2018
Gift Theatre's Ten 2018, Filament Theatre's
Forts!
, and four more new stage shows
A festival of ten-minute plays and an interactive kids' show are among this week's best bets.
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Blue Over You
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Michael Joseph Mitchell
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Dan Noonan
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Spot On Company
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Forts! Build Your Own Adventure
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Filament Theatre
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children's theater
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It's My Penis and I'll Cry If I Want To
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Jamie Black
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Nevermore—The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Black Button Eyes Productions
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Jonathan Christenson
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Ed Rutherford
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Nick Sula
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Slate
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Carly Olson
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The Cellphone Play
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Rammel Chan
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Northern Michigan Trust
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K. Frithjof Peterson
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Soft Things
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J. Nicole Brooks
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Nigerian Astronaut Wants to Come Home
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Tracy Letts
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The Night Safari
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Will Eno
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Cancellation
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 27, 2017
Helltrap Nightmare
,
Chic-A-Go-Go
, and more of the best Halloween happenings in Chicago this weekend
Splatter Theater
, Spektral Quartet’s Costumed Soiree, and more goings-on October 27-29
By Steve Heisler
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Do This
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helltrap nightmare
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chicago symphony orchestra
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university of chicago school of dance
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mandel hall
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downey mansion
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downton abbey
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Music
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Gossip Wolf
Oct 28, 2015
Pilsen welcomes another new record shop
Plus: The Golden Horse Ranch Band hosts Haunted Honky Tonk Karaoke, and Gel Set scores "The Fall of the House of Usher."
By Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
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606 Records
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Pilsen
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Haunted Honky Tonk Karaoke
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Big Sadie
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Elise Bergman
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Growing Power
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Gel Set
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Laura "Lulu" Callier
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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Jean Epstein
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Bleader
Oct 24, 2014
Video
The inmates take over the asylum, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Ben Sachs
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Stonehearst Asylum
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Ben Kingsley
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Michael Caine
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
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Anda Korsts's Video Metropolis
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Anda Korsts
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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Michael Keaton
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The Blue Room
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Mathieu Amalric
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Creative Writing
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Dear White People
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John Wick
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Keanu Reeves
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Levitated Mass
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Listen Up Philip
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Alex Ross Perry
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The Color Wheel
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Jason Schwartzman
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Music Box Chicago
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Nagisa Oshima
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Death by Hanging
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Empire of Passion
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Sam Raimi
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The Evil Dead
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Logan Theater Chicago
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John Carpenter Halloween
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Satyajit Ray
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Pather Panchali
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Avi Nesher Secrets
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Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Errol Morris
,
Standard Operating Procedure
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Throne of Blood
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Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
,
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
,
Facets Cinematheque
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Fatal Frame: Avant-Garde Horror on 16mm
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South Side Projections
,
Robert Downey Sr.
,
Putney Swope
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Black Cinema House
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Wyatt Cenac
,
Lav Diaz
,
Norte the End of History
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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Movie Review
Oct 22, 2014
Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine chew the scenery in
Stonehearst Asylum
In this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe, even the bad guys are good guys.
By Ben Sachs
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Brad Anderson
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Stonehearst Asylum
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Plan 9
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The Call
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Transsiberian
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The Machinist
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
,
Jim Sturgess
,
Ben Kingsley
,
David Thewlis
,
Joe Gangemi
,
Michael Caine
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Bleader
May 4, 2012
Video
Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian Pintilie, and other keywords
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Reader
By J.R. Jones
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Film
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Edgar Allan Poe
,
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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The Raven movie
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John Cusack
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Facets Cinematheque
,
Lucian Pintilie
,
The Avengers movie
,
Marvel Comics
,
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Judi Dench
,
Maggie Smith
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The First Season
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Hit So Hard
,
Hole Live Through This
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Patty Schemel
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Keyhole movie
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Guy Maddin
,
Sing Your Song
,
Harry Belafonte
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Surviving Progress
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Terry Gilliam
,
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Doc Films
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Josef von Sternberg
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The Blue Angel
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Roman Polanski
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Chinatown movie
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Music Box
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Jack Hill
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Coffy movie
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Johnnie To
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Exiled movie
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Kim Jee-woon
,
The Good the Bad and the Weird
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Ari Folman
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Waltz With Bashir
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Bob Mizer
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Nightingale
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Romanian cinema
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movies
,
Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 26, 2012
Video
What's screening this weekend
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
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Taika Waititi
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Boy movie
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Philippe Falardeau
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Monsieur Lazhar
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James McTeigue
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The Raven
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John Cusack
,
Edgar Allan Poe
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Nanni Moretti
,
We Have a Pope
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Lawrence Kasdan
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Darling Companion
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Kevin Kline
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Diane Keaton
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Nicholas Stoller
,
The Five-Year Engagement
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Jason Segel
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Emily Blunt
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Daniel Nettheim
,
The Hunter
,
Willem Dafoe
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Josef Astor
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Lost Bohemia
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Carnegie Hall
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Percy Adlon
,
Felix Adlon
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Mahler on the Couch
,
Think Like a Man
,
Steve Harvey
,
Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man
,
Dan Tanz
,
Triumph67
,
Chicago Palestine Film Festival
,
Terrence Malick
,
Badlands
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
The Big Lebowski
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
Johnnie To
,
Election Johnnie To
,
Charles Crichton
,
A Fish Called Wanda
,
Vincente Minnelli
,
Meet Me in St. Louis
,
Hong Sang-soo
,
Night and Day Hong Sang-soo
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John Boorman
,
Point Blank
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Music Box
,
Joss Whedon
,
Serenity movie
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F.W. Murnau
,
Sunrise movie
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Block Museum of Art
,
William Wellman
,
Wild Boys of the Road
,
Portage theater
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Northwest Chicago Film Society
,
Adrian Martin
,
Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing
,
Heather McAdams
,
My Dad Heather McAdams
,
Scopitones
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Sci-Fi Spectacular
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movies
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Video
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Bleader
Feb 10, 2012
There was a little churl . . .
George Will compared Gingrich to whose horrid little girl?
By Michael Miner
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Media
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Lit & Lectures
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Politics
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News Bites
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Books
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Clout City
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Newt Gingrich
,
George Will
,
This Week With George Stephanopoulos
,
Jake Tapper
,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
,
Blanche Roosevelt Tucker
,
Edith Longfellow
,
Ernest Longfellow
,
Edgar Allan Poe
,
Hiawatha
,
Evangeline
,
Eldorado
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 10, 2009
4/13 -- Michael Chabon lecture
Lecture on Edgar Allen Poe by novelist Michael Chabon on Monday.
By Nicholas Teddy
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Free Shit
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Swag
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Northwestern University
,
Edgar Allan Poe
,
Michael Chabon
,
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Blogs
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Bleader
Dec 14, 2008
RIP FJA
Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.
By Albert Williams
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Performing Arts
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Onstage
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Arts
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Peter Lorre
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Ray Harryhausen
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Boris Karloff
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Bela Lugosi
,
Lon Chaney Jr.
,
Forrest J. Ackerman
,
Famous Monsters of Filmland
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Frankenstein
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Dracula
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King Kong
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Phantom of the Opera
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Lon Chaney
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Willis J. O'Brien
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Tod Browning
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Castle of Frankenstein
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Jules Verne
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Ray Bradbury
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