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Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2015
Orson Welles's five best performances in films he didn't direct

Highlights from Orson Welles's acting career
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Weekly Top Five, Orson Welles, F for Fake, the Lady From Shanghai, The Third Man, The Long Hot Summer, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Compulsion, Richard Fleischer, RoGoPaG, Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Ricotta, Moby Dick, John Huston, Jane Eyre, Robert Stevenson, Carol Reed

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2015
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The Chicago Film Critics Festival, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week's notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Hyena movie, Chicago Film Critics Festival, Music Box Chicago, Bobcat Goldthwait, Andrew Bujalski, Francois Ozon, BIll Plympton, Tomm Moore, Joe Swanberg, Kris Swanberg, The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios, Blind Frederick Wiseman, Alabama School for the Blind, In Country, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, Studio Ghibli, Gene Siskel Film Center, Material World Kaycee Conaway Molly Hewitt, Scraps in Black and White, Library of Congress, Tangerines movie, Michael Haneke, Cache, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Frank Tashlin, Hollywood or Bust, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Peter Weir, The Last Wave, My Neighbor Totoro, John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppet Master, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mervyn LeRoy, Waterloo Bridge, Colleen Moore, Why Be Good?, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jay Warren, CFA Crashers, Levon Pettis, Black Cinema House, Cinemetrics Across Borders, Logan Center for the Arts, Ulysses Jenkins, Black Cinema House, Using Classroom Films to Teach About Race, South Side Community Art Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2014
The Moderns, The Lady From Shanghai and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which 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, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Lady from Shanghai, Funny Face, Sacco and Vanzetti, Sex is Comedy, Cat People, the Moderns

Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The film maudit

Weekly top five: Films maudit
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Film maudit, Michael Cimino, Heaven's Gate, Jean Cocteau, Festival du Film Maudit, Andre Bazin, L'Atalante, The Lady From Shanghai, The Long Voyage Home, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, The Yards, James Gray, Nacho Libre, Jared Hess, You Me and Dupree, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2013
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Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2013
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Kung fu, women behind bars, Werner Herzog, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Portage Theater Chicago, Chicago Cinema Society, Lau Kar-leung, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The Fiancee movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fallada The Last Chapter, Little Man What Now, Fourplay Kyle Henry, The Funny Things You Do, Future Weather, The Gatekeepers, A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog, Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution, Louis Malle, Atlantic City, University of Chicago Doc Films, Leos Carax, Boy Meets Girl, Howard Hawks, El Dorado, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, Robert Siodmak, The Killers, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Northbrook Public Library, Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs, Jacques Tati Playtime, Music Box, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 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, Chicago International Film Festival, Carancho, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes, Fair Game, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame, Hereafter, Clint Eastwood; Housemaid Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, The Minutemen, Trust Clive Owen, Trust Catherine Keener, Winnebago Man, Ben Steinbauer, Jack Rebney, Gene Siskel Film Center, Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight, Last Train Home, My Soul to Take, Wes Craven, Nowhere Boy, John Lennon, RED, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Sailor's Luck, Raoul Walsh, Skirt Day, Isabelle Adjani, Tehran Tehran, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Guignol, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Portage theater, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Block Museum of Art, White Heat, James Cagney, film festivals, movies., Video

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Orson Welles's five best performances in films he didn't direct

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The Moderns, The Lady From Shanghai and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

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Weekly Top Five: The film maudit

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