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Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2015
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Life on Mars, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Ridley Scott, The Martian, Matt Damon, Yakuza Apocalypse, Takashi Miike, Big Stone Gap, Ashley Judd, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, National Lampoon, The Fool movie, Freeheld, Julianne Moore, He Named Me Malala, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize, Labyrinth of Lies, Pan movie, Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Spring Night Summer Night, Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth, Buster Keaton, Battling Butler, Dennis Scott, George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Anthony Mann, Men in War, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Fred Camper, Eric Rohmer, Pauline at the Beach, Archie Mayo, The Petrified Forest, Gordon Parks, Shaft, Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night, Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World, Global Girls Film Fest, Heart Like a Hand Grenade, Green Day, American Idiot, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Beaches of Agnes, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2015
Chicago celebrates the films and photography of French master Agnès Varda

The filmmaker and photographer arrives in town tomorrow for a weeklong residency at the University of Chicago.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Gender Issues, Arts, Visual Art, Agnes Varda, Cinevardaphoto, University of Chicago, Le Bonheur, Vagabond, The Gleaners and I, The Beaches of Agnes, One Sings the Other Doesn't

Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2015
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Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I, Stuart Sherman, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Rahmin Bahrani, Man Push Cart, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Patricio Guzman, The Battle of Chile, Thomas McCarthy, The Station Agent, Steven Spielberg, The Sugarland Express, Denis Villeneuve, Incendies, Dreamcatcher, Brenda Myers-Powell, 4th Man Out, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Meet the Patels, The Mend, Sandra Luchino Visconti, The Transporter Refueled, Milos Forman, Amadeus: The Director's Cut, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Fred Camper, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Ernst Lubitsch, So This Is Paris, Jay Warren, Frank Capra Submarine, Dennis Scott, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, Red Squads and Beyond 1960s to Present, Reel Abilities Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
Legendary artist Agnès Varda schools Chicago on filmmaking and photography
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Fall Preview, Agnes Varda, Fall Preview 2015, CinéVardaExpo, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2015
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Spike Lee drinks Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Spike Lee, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess, Manuscripts Don't Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Fifty Shades of Grey, Love Hunter, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Seventh Son, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako, Today movie, White Rabbit, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Gene Siskel Film Center, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Saint John Cantius Church, Jay Warren, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Music Box, Don Siegel, Escape From Alcatraz, University of Chicago Doc Films, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Music Box, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Marcel Carne, The Adultress, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago Opera Theater, Jennifer Reeder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Remembering Harold Washington, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Chatham 14, Black History Month, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about No Fear, No Die and 35 Shots of Rum

A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Poetry, Film, Claire Denis, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jerry & Me, 35 Shots of Rum, No Fear No Die, Alex Descas, Cockfighter, Monte Hellman, Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring, colonialism, Jean-Claude Brialy, Frantz Fanon, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Cafe Lumiere, Five Dedicated to Ozu, Chester Himes, Jean-Luc Godard, nouvelle vague, Jacques Rivette, Isaach de Bankolé, Agnes Varda

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
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Guerrillas, gamma people, 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, Escape From Tomorrow, Disneyland, Disney World, Ben Sachs, Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine, School of the Art Institute, All Is Lost, Robert Redford, Bad Grandpa, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Carrie movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sissy Spacek, The Counselor, Ridley Scott, Cormac McCarthy, The Gamma People, Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Hou Hsiao-hsien, City of Sadness, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Reeves, The Conqueror Worm, Gene Siskel Film Center, Far From Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter Halloween, Logan Theater Chicago, River East 21, Landmark's Century Centre, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, John Cassavetes, Minnie and Moskowitz, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Music Box Chicago, Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark, George Pal, War of the Worlds, Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man, Englewood International Film Festival, Chatham 14, Chicago International Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Chris & Heather's Halloween Hootenanny, Fitzgerald's, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2013
Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Chicago Filmmakers, South Side Projections, Cat Film Festival, Stan Brakhage, Joyce Wieland, Jacques Rivette, Studio Ghibli, The Cat Returns, The Story of Marie and Julien, Stanley Kubrick, Agnes Varda, Val Lewton, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, experimental cinema, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, cats

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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The education of an illusionist, 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, Ricky Jay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, David Mamet, House of Games, Things Change, Redbelt, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, Becoming Traviata, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Born in Chicago, Chicano Love Is Forever, The East movie, In the Shadow, The Internship movie, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Google, The Kings of Summer, The Tragedy of Man, Violet & Daisy, Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Billy Wilder, Ace in the Hole, Patio Theater Chicago, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Logan Theater Chicago, Larry Clark, Passing Through, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, James Cameron, The Terminator, Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Top Hat, Music Box, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Music Box Chicago, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2013
Agnès Varda from Thursday to Sunday

Two films by the great French filmmaker are playing around town in the next four days.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Agnes Varda, Vagabond, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Gleaners and I, cinecriture, Doc Films, Logan Theatre, La Pointe Courte, stream of consciousness, Jacquot, Alain Resnais, French New Wave, Kung Fu Master!, Le Bonheur

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

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2013
This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Politics, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Art Theater Guild, ATG, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, A Man Vanishes, The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Funeral Parade of Roses, Matsumoto Toshio, Ecstasy of the Angels, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoshihige Yoshida, Coup d'Etat, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Agnes Varda, La Pointe Courte, Alain Resnais, Repo Man, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Japanese cinema, experimental film, pink films, underground cinema, Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2012
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Screening this week: Richard Linklater's Bernie, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Andrzej Zulawski Possession, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bernie Richard Linklater, Bernie Jack Black, Bernie movie, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Paul Simon, Under African Skies, Battleship movie, Liam Neeson, Mansome, Morgan Spurlock, The Moth Diaries, The Outfit movie, Robert Duvall, Robert Ryan, Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, The Samaritan movie, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Elizabeth Banks, Cameron Diaz, Anna Kendrick, Jennifer Lopez, Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki, Caramel Nadine Labaki, Agnes Varda, Cleo From 5 to 7, Block Museum of Art, Jean Renoir, The Golden Coach, University of Chicago Doc Films, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Landmark's Century Centre, Vincente Minelli, Lust for Life, Bong Joon-ho Mother, Jean Eustache, The Mother and the Whore, Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Express, Sonic Celluloid, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2010
School's In for the Summer

Facets Film School's first summer session begins June 14.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Facets Cinematheque, Jeffrey Jon Smith, Stage Door, The Old Maid, The Women Cukor, The Great Lie, So Proudly We Hail, Old Acquaintance, Therese Grisham, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Caught Ophuls, Le Plaisir, The Earrings of Madame de, Lola Montes, Kristen Barnes, Agnes Varda, La Pointe Courte, Cleo From 5 to 7, Le Bonheur, One Sings the Other Doesn't, Vagabond Varda, The Beaches of Agnes, Michael N.J. Wright, Carolina Posses Emiliani, David Mamet, Woody Allen, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bullets Over Broadway, Spartan, Match Point, Redbelt, Cassandra's Dream, night school, film appreciation, movies.

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Michael Winterbottom, Summer in Genoa, Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Landmark's Century Centre, Beyond the Years, Im Kwon-taek, Sopyonje, Princess Kaiulani, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett; The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Shooting Robert King, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Northbrook Public Library, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Life on Mars, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Chicago celebrates the films and photography of French master Agnès Varda

The filmmaker and photographer arrives in town tomorrow for a weeklong residency at the University of Chicago.

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Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Legendary artist Agnès Varda schools Chicago on filmmaking and photography

Video
Spike Lee drinks Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about No Fear, No Die and 35 Shots of Rum

A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)

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Guerrillas, gamma people, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday

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The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Agnès Varda from Thursday to Sunday

Two films by the great French filmmaker are playing around town in the next four days.

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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.

This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild

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Screening this week: Richard Linklater's Bernie, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

School's In for the Summer

Facets Film School's first summer session begins June 14.

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The filmmaker and photographer arrives in town tomorrow for a weeklong residency at the University of Chicago.

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A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Two films by the great French filmmaker are playing around town in the next four days.

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Facets Film School's first summer session begins June 14.

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