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Film
,
Movie Review
Aug 12, 2015
Recommended
Tokyo Tribe
: A mixture of Cassavetes, Fassbinder, and arterial spray
Japanese street gangs do battle in the latest art-shocker from Sion Sono.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Sion Sono
,
Tokyo Tribe
,
Suicide Club
,
Love Exposure
,
John Cassavetes
,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
Riki Takeuchi
,
Takashi Miike
,
Dead or Alive
,
Recommended
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 21, 2014
Video
Your moment of Zen, 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
,
Jon Stewart
,
Rosewater
,
Tommy Lee Jones
,
The Homesman
,
Chicago Italian Film Festival
,
Music Box
,
Coming to Terms
,
Jon Jost
,
Foxcatcher
,
Bennett Miller
,
Moneyball
,
Capote
,
Steve Carell
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Channing Tatum
,
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
,
National Gallery
,
Frederick Wiseman
,
Josef von Sternberg
,
The Devil Is a Woman
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
High and Low
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Alain Berliner
,
My Life in Pink
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Stanley Kubrick
,
Paths of Glory
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
film festivals
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 1, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Walter Hill
Highlights from the filmography of Walter Hill.
By Drew Hunt
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Weekly Top Five
,
Film
,
Walter Hill
,
Wild Bill
,
The Long Riders
,
Last Man Standing
,
the Warriors
,
48 Hrs.
,
Hard Times
,
Johnny Handsome
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 30, 2014
Video
Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week's hard-to-spell screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Opening
,
Film
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Camouflage Zanussi
,
The Constant Factor
,
Ben Sachs
,
The Dance of Reality
,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
,
El Topo
,
The Holy Mountain
,
Heroes for Sale
,
William A. Wellman
,
The Public Enemy
,
Nothing Sacred
,
American Jesus
,
Black Box
,
Stephen Cone
,
The Wise Kids
,
Chinese Puzzle
,
Cedric Klpaisch
,
When the Cat's Away
,
Cold in July
,
Michael C. Hall
,
Sam Shepard
,
Don Johnson
,
Just a Sigh
,
Emmanuelle Devos
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Manakamana
,
Leviathan movie
,
A Million Ways to Die in the West
,
Family Guy
,
Seth MacFarlane
,
The Supreme Price
,
M.K.O. Abiola
,
X-Men: Days of Future Past
,
Michael Snow
,
*Corpus Callosum
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Charles Chaplin
,
The Great Dictator
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Chicago Opera Theater
,
Leo McCarey
,
Make Way for Tomorrow
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
To Be or Not to Be
,
Pete Docter
,
Bob Peterson
,
Up Pixar
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 3, 2014
The Manxman
,
The Warriors
, 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
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Old Movies to Watch Now
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,
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Abraham Lincoln
,
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,
The Manxman
,
The Warriors
,
The Gang's All Here
,
The Scent of Green Papaya
,
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 5, 2013
Video
Almodovar takes flight, 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
,
Pedro Almodovar
,
I'm So Excited
,
Drew Hunt
,
Julian Roman Polsler
,
The Wall movie
,
A Hijacking movie
,
Despicable Me 2
,
The Hellbenders
,
Sergio Corbucci
,
Django
,
Navajo Joe
,
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
,
The Lone Ranger
,
Armie Hammer
,
Johnny Depp
,
Midnight's Children
,
Salman Rushdie
,
The Way Way Back
,
Steve Carell
,
Toni Colette
,
Allison Janney
,
Sam Rockwell
,
Otto Preminger
,
Bonjour Tristesse
,
Patio Theater Chicago
,
Northwestern Chicago Film Society
,
Hayao Miyazaki
,
Kiki's Delivery Service
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
David Lean
,
Lawrence of Arabia
,
Luchino Visconti
,
The Leopard Visconti
,
Kenji Mizoguchi
,
The Life of Oharu
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
Logan Theater Chicago
,
Landmark's Century Centre
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 28, 2013
Chicago Cinema Society brings
Warriors
, Fellini, and an exploding head to the Patio this spring
Previewing the local programming group's upcoming screenings at the historic northwest-side theater
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Whoa
,
Film
,
Chicago Cinema Society
,
Patio Theater
,
The Warriors
,
Walter Hill
,
The Other Side of Sleep
,
Vanishing Waves
,
8 1/2
,
Miguel Gomes
,
Tabu
,
Federico Fellini
,
8 1/2
,
Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki
,
Willow
,
European Union Film Festival
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 28, 2013
Revisiting Walter Hill's 1981 quasi-war movie
Southern Comfort
The director of
The Warriors
has become so alien to contemporary American cinema that his movies feel new again.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
On Video
,
Shots Fired
,
Film
,
Walter Hill
,
Southern Comfort
,
The Driver
,
The Warriors
,
Bullet to the Head
,
Doc Films
,
Chicago Cinema Society
,
Roger Ebert
,
Vietnam War
,
Johnny Handsome
,
Brion James
,
war movies
,
John Carpenter
,
Samuel Fuller
,
Neveldine/Taylor
Columns & Opinion
,
On Culture
Dec 28, 2012
After the Newtown shootings, another tragedy revisited
Victory Gardens Theater revives
The Warriors
By Deanna Isaacs
Tags:
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
,
Mary Hollis Inboden
,
The Warriors
,
Kimberly Senior
,
Evan Linder
,
The Warriors for Newton
,
Jonesboro, Arkansas
,
Westside Middle School shooting
,
Jonesboro shooting
,
New Colony
,
Will Rogers
,
theater
,
benefits
,
Newton, Connecticut
,
Sandy Hook school shooting
,
school shootings
,
Victory Gardens Theater
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 11, 2012
Video
Now playing:
Dark Shadows
,
Headhunters
, and
God Bless America
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Film
,
God Bless America movie
,
Bobcat Goldthwait
,
Bad Fever movie
,
Close Quarters movie
,
Tim Kazurinsky
,
Susan Messing
,
Dave Pasquesi
,
T.J. Jagodowski
,
Dark Shadows
,
Tim Burton
,
Headhunters movie
,
The Killing Floor movie
,
The Perfect Family
,
Kathleen Turner
,
Sound of My Voice
,
The World in His Arms
,
Raoul Walsh
,
Gregory Peck
,
Anthony Quinn
,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
,
All About Eve
,
Northbrook Public Library
,
Marcel Carne
,
Children of Paradise
,
Music Box theater
,
Quentin Tarantino
,
Kill Bill Vol. 2
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Alan J. Pakula
,
Klute
,
Josef von Sternberg
,
Morocco movie
,
John Woo
,
Red Cliff
,
Jean Renoir
,
The River
,
Wes Anderson
,
Rushmore movie
,
Terrence Malick
,
The Thin Red Line
,
Walter Hill
,
The Warriors
,
Logan theater
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Chris Langdon
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Dyke Delicious
,
Kartemquin Films
,
Chicago movies
,
Video
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