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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 21, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The best of "Bloody" Sam Peckinpah

Weekly Top Five: Sam Peckinpah
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Sam Peckinpah, Convoy, Portage Theater, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Cross of Iron, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Orson Welles, WW II, New Hollywood

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2013
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Tomorrow at the Portage, see one of the few female-directed Hollywood films of the 1950s

Previewing Ida Lupino's The Bigamist, which the Northwest Chicago Film Society will present this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Women's Issues, Film, Ida Lupino, The Bigamist, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Filmmakers, Collier Young, Joan Fontaine, The Hitch-hiker, women filmmakers, RKO Pictures, Howard Hughes, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Senses of Cinema

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: "Film is like a battleground"—the best of Samuel Fuller

Weekly top five: Samuel Fuller films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Samuel Fuller, Park Row, The Baron of Arizona, James Wong Howe, Andre Bazin, Underworld U.S.A., Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, Cold War, Gene Evans, The Steel Helmet, White Dog, Shark!, The Big Red One, Forty Guns

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2013
Inspecting the cracks of American film history with Hold Back the Dawn

Previewing the neglected 1941 romantic drama (cowritten by Billy Wilder) which screens tomorrow night
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Mitchell Leisen, Hold Back the Dawn, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Mark Rappaport, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Preston Sturges, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Midnight, Easy Living, Portage Theater

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 1/30: Nordic Thunder, The Flying Ace, and Sonia Sotomayor

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard, Cobra Lounge, Portage Theater, The Flying Ace, race film, the Northwest Chicago Film Society, Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court, Harold Washington Library, My Beloved World, Supreme Court, Hispanic

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies

A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Strange Days, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Any Day Now, Music Box Theatre, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Spaghetti Western, Tal Rosenberg, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stranger Than Fiction, Pice Check, The Rabbi's Cat, Sister, Home, Ursula Meier, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Doc Films, Wong Kar-Wai, As Tears Go By, The Walls of Jericho, film noir, John Stahl, Portage Theater, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Rebecca Hall, the projectionist

"If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
- Tags: Movie Feature, University of Chicago, Rebecca Hall, movies, projectionists, Classic Film Series, film, film projection, Kyle Westphal, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Becca Hall, Univ. of Chicago Doc Films, Portage Theater, Gene Siskel Film Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Wed 12/19: An "oddball holiday classic," Kent McDill's latest book, and The Nativity

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, December 19, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Holiday Land, Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose, Kent McDill, Barbara's Bookstore, 100 Things Bulls Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, Congo Square Theatre, The Nativity, Langston Hughes, Black Nativity, Kennedy-King College Theatre, Laura Molzahn, Ilesa Duncan, McKinley Johnson

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2012
Weekly Top Five: An ode to "the soul of film noir," Robert Mitchum

Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Robert Mitchum, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Out of the Past, River of No Return, The Locket, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Lusty Men, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2012
John Ford's long-lost Upstream returns to Chicago tomorrow

Previewing the recently rediscovered backstage comedy by one of America's greatest filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, John Ford, Upstream, Portage Theater, Dave Kehr, long-lost movies, backstage drama, Earle Foxe, silent movies, The Wings of Eagles, Young Mr. Lincoln, Will Rogers, Gideon's Day, Grant Withers, Nancy Nash

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Exploring the obsessive nature of Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood's The Beguiled

A conversation about the 1971 psychodrama with Northwest Chicago Film Society programmer Kyle Westphal
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, The Beguiled, Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, The Lineup, 70s Hollywood, psychodrama, Sergio Leone, Kyle Westphal, Universal Pictures

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
Chicago to host two more marathons . . . of horror

Previewing 24-hour horror marathons at the Music Box and the Portage Theater
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Paranormal, Film, Music Box Theatre, Music Box of Horrors, Portage Theater, The Massacre, horror marathons, Jack Hill, Spider Baby or the Maddest Story Ever Told, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Doug McLaren, Mary Wolfe

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 24, 2012
Trying times for the Portage Theater

Will new owner Erineo "Eddie" Carranza evict the historic theater's current management?
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Film, News, Portage Theater, Erineo "Eddie" Carranza, Tom Raines, Alderman John Arena, Owen Brugh, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Great Gabbo, Dennis Wolkowicz, Dave Dziedzic

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 29, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 8/29

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 29, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Ringling Bros., Joffrey Tower, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Anthony Mann, The Chase, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Chives, Treehouse, Jerry's, Wicker Park, Peter Margasak

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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The boy who wasn't there, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bart Layton, The Imposter, Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, The Expendables 2, Sylvester Stallone, Hit and Run movie, Dax Shepard, Patang movie, Prashant Bhargava, Premium Rush movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Robot & Frank, Frank Langella, Black Harvest Film Festiva, Gene Siskel Film Center, Brooklyn Castle, Father's Day, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Music Box, Arthur Penn, The Chase movie, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Noel, Pretty Poison, Greg Mottola, Superbad, University of Chicago Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 14, 2012
Rare Ozu at the Portage tomorrow night

Previewing A Hen in the Wind, screening from 35-millimeter at the Portage tomorrow night
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, A Hen in the Wind, Yasujiro Ozu, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Late Spring, Japanese cinema, World War II

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 8, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 8/8

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 8, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, The Northwest Chicago Film Society, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Portage Theater, Rufus Wainwright, Peter Margasak, the Vic, Out of the Game, Adam Cohen, Krystle Warren, The Navy Pier Grand Ballroom, Taste of the Nation, Share Our Strength

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