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Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014

The year in old movies
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Year in Review, Film, Year in review, repertory programming, Aelita: Queen of Mars, Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Logan Square International Film Series, Moumen Smihi, 44 or Tales of the Night, South Side Projections, Attica, Cinda Firestone, Logan Center for the Arts, Noir City: Chicago, The Black Vampire, Music Box Theatre, Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture, Krzysztof Zanussi, The Constant Factor, Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Corns-a-Poppin, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dead Birds, Robert Gardner, Nightingale Cinema, Domitor, University of Chicago, Domitor, Chicago Film Archives, A Pictorial Story of Hiawatha, Harun Farocki, Kevin B. Lee, Green Fields, Edgar G Ulmer, Doc Films, Yiddish-language cinema, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heroes for Sale, William A Wellman, Helen Hill, John and Faith Hubley, experimental animation, Stanley Kramer, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Son of 70mm Film Festival, Julius Caesar, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Alain Resnais, Lord Thing, DeWitt Beall, Black Harvest Film Festival, Suzan Pitt, Gallery 400, A Rage in Harlem, Bill Duke, Roommates, Chuck Vincent, Jan Nemec, Facets Multimedia, A Report on the Party and the Guests, The Shanghai Gesture, Josef von Sternberg, Henri Langlois, Bruce Jenkins, Mike Kuchar, George Kuchar, Sins of the Fleshapoids, Hold Me While I'm Naked, John Smith, structuralist film, Film Studies Center, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Ivan Dixon, Floyd Webb, Black World Cinema, William Friedkin, Sorcerer, Two Stars in the Milky Way, Chinese opera films, Waltzes From Vienna, Alfred Hitchcock, The Wind, Victor Sjostrom, Footsteps

Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2014
More on the Trilogy of Life, Nymphomaniac, and Roommates: Three ways of playing the organs

Considering how three very different films (all of which played recently in Chicago) employ hard-core imagery
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Film, Roommates, Chuck Vincent, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Trilogy of Life, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, hard-core filmmaking

Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2014
Tomorrow night Doc Films unearths a relic from the age of subversive hard-core cinema

In praise of Chuck Vincent's X-rated women's picture Roommates
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Women's Issues, LGBT, Film, Doc Films, Roommates, Chuck Vincent, Veronica Hart, Samantha Fox, Kelly Nichols, hard-core filmmaking, George Cukor, A Life of Her Own

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2014
On Wednesday Doc Films begins another eclectic summer program

Previewing the next three months of programming at venerable student film society
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Doc Films, hard-core filmmaking, Chuck Vincent, Union Pacific, Cecil B. DeMille, Roommates, Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin, Poison Friends, Emmanuel Bourdieu

Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 31, 2013
A portrait of the artists (OK, that might be a stretch) as 18-year-old porno directors

What started as a joke between two college students has led to a casting call, an awkward audition, and several hours of (so far) PG-rated footage. How far will they take it?
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, porn, VHS, unique thrift, film, Austin Powers, Austin Plowers, Cameron Chapleau, Jaboukie Young-White, porno movies, editing, porno movie titles, Craigslist, sex, casting, Exxxquire Productions, head shots, dick shots, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, Kickstarter, roommates, South Loop, DePaul University, filmmaking, documentaries, Catfish, Six Days to Air: The Making of South Park, behind-the-scenes, porn names, Dorian James, Jean de Bois, Keller Anderson, cinematography, puns, Leigh Ann Christensen, auditions, FetLife, Top Gun

News & Politics, Chicagoans Jul 26, 2013
This week's Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan

"When my dad and I started approaching the city limits and seeing the buildings, that was the first time I started to feel sad, which was strange, 'cause that was the time I should have felt most excited."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Austin, Texas, University of Texas, moving, Facebook, Craigslist, roommates, driving, Iowa, Wrigleyville, traffic, 7-Elevent, Slurpees, winter, apartments, relocating

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2012
The worst roommates I've ever had

Friends, roommates, and Santiago, Chile
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Foreign, Worst Week, roommates, gastos comunes, Santiago, Chile, Bellas Artes, Monjitas, Lastarria, asado

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A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014

The year in old movies

More on the Trilogy of Life, Nymphomaniac, and Roommates: Three ways of playing the organs

Considering how three very different films (all of which played recently in Chicago) employ hard-core imagery

Tomorrow night Doc Films unearths a relic from the age of subversive hard-core cinema

In praise of Chuck Vincent's X-rated women's picture Roommates

On Wednesday Doc Films begins another eclectic summer program

Previewing the next three months of programming at venerable student film society

A portrait of the artists (OK, that might be a stretch) as 18-year-old porno directors

What started as a joke between two college students has led to a casting call, an awkward audition, and several hours of (so far) PG-rated footage. How far will they take it?

This week's Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan

"When my dad and I started approaching the city limits and seeing the buildings, that was the first time I started to feel sad, which was strange, 'cause that was the time I should have felt most excited."

The worst roommates I've ever had

Friends, roommates, and Santiago, Chile

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A look back at the great repertory film programming in Chicago in 2014

The year in old movies

More on the Trilogy of Life, Nymphomaniac, and Roommates: Three ways of playing the organs

Considering how three very different films (all of which played recently in Chicago) employ hard-core imagery

Tomorrow night Doc Films unearths a relic from the age of subversive hard-core cinema

In praise of Chuck Vincent's X-rated women's picture Roommates

On Wednesday Doc Films begins another eclectic summer program

Previewing the next three months of programming at venerable student film society

A portrait of the artists (OK, that might be a stretch) as 18-year-old porno directors

What started as a joke between two college students has led to a casting call, an awkward audition, and several hours of (so far) PG-rated footage. How far will they take it?

This week's Chicagoan: Kayla Lane Freeman, new Chicagoan

"When my dad and I started approaching the city limits and seeing the buildings, that was the first time I started to feel sad, which was strange, 'cause that was the time I should have felt most excited."

The worst roommates I've ever had

Friends, roommates, and Santiago, Chile

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