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Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2012
Aleksei Guerman and the art of time travel

Previewing the Siskel Center's retrospective of the great Russian director, which begins tomorrow with My Friend Ivan Lapshin and Twenty Days Without War
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Transportation, Film, Aleksei Guerman, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Twenty Days Without War, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, time travel, Soviet history, Stalinist purges, Scientology, NKVD, secret police, Yuri Nikulin, Kevin B Lee

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2009
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Kanikôsen

Takiji Kobayashi's subversive novel about insurrection aboard a Japanese imperial crab fishing ship gets a film adaptation from goofy surrealist Sabu in "Kanikôsen," screening Monday 10/19 and Tuesday 10/20 in the Chicago International Film Festival.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Kanikosen, Sabu, Takiji Kobayashi, Communist, crab, fishing, fishermen, Japan, Russia, secret police, torture, Chicago International Film Festival, manga, Video

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