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Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2018
Chicago Doomed & Stoned Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Film, Music, chicago doomed & stone festival, wonder years, concord music hall, full metal jacket, filmworker, music box, ric wilson, banba, lincoln hall, waiting for godot, druid theatre, chicago shakespeare theater, juno, diablo cody, tully, jason reitman, stories of the body, mother teresa, the ready, reggie's rock club

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Year in Review, Film, Ben Sachs, Drew Hunt, Bridesmaids, Alan Partridge, Bad Words, Dumb and Dumber To, Top Five, Big Eyes, Tim Burton, Margaret Keane, The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Meryl Streep, Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh, J.M.W. Turner, Pelican Dreams, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Strange Little Cat, Unbroken Angelina Jolie, Louis Zamperini, The Way He Looks, Zero Motivation, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975), A Clockwork Orang, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Lolita, Paths of Glory, The Shining, Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2014
Breaking Away, Full Metal Jacket, and and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

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, Breaking Away, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Full Metal Jacket, The Navigator, Ratatouille, Warrendale, Untamed

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2013
Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Stanley Kubrick, Music Box, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Killing, Full Metal Jacket, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barry Lyndon, NASA, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2012
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Onion City experimental festival, now in progress

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Columbia College Ludington Building, Ben Sachs, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Bel Ami, Twilight movie, Robert Pattison, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas, The Cat Returns, Studio Ghibli, Dark Horse Todd Solondz, Happiness Todd Solondz, Kill Daddy Goodnight, Natural Selection movie, Payback Jennifer Baichwal, Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Ethan Hawke, Julien Temple, Earth Girls Are Easy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Pritzker Military Library, Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz, Landmark's Century Centre, John Ford, The Searchers, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2012
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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, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bullhead movie, The Hunter movie, Kati With an I, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Undefeated movie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, The Barefoot Contessa, University of Chicago Doc Films, Clair Denis, Beau Travail, Daniel Eisenberg, Edward Dmytryk, Christ in Concrete, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Music Box, Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Michael Hazanavicius, OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, The Artist movie, Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Beverly Arts Center, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, Wilmette theater, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, WHPK, Pictures and Sounds, film festivals, movies, Video

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

Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2009
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Recent History

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. Army, Baghdad, Iraq war, Venice film festival, Vietnam war, Platoon Oliver Stone, Full Metal Jacket, Mark Boal, Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Afghanistan, Jeremy Renner, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2009
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Size Does Matter

Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour WWII epic "The Human Condition" opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn't at least five or six hours?
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, The Da Vinci Code, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, J.R. Jones, Stanley Kubrick, The Betrayal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cliff Doerksen, Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, Full Metal Jacket, Every Little Step, Fatal Contact, Angels & Demons, Exclusively Yours, Lumpen, Mike Finch, Jazz in the Diamond District, Lost in the Fog, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Management Jennifer Aniston, Management Aniston Zahn, Mob Sister, Next Day Air, Rudo y Cursi, Diego Luna, Video

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Chicago Doomed & Stoned Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.

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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Breaking Away, Full Metal Jacket, and and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films

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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

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Onion City experimental festival, now in progress

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This week's movie action

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Recent History

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie

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A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Top five Stanley Kubrick films

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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

The Hurt Locker: the first post-Iraq Iraq war movie

Masaki Kobayashi's ten-hour WWII epic "The Human Condition" opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn't at least five or six hours?

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