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Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films

Five very long film masterpieces.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Politics, University of Chicago, Lav Diaz, The Woman Who Left, Logan Center for the Arts, Wang Bing, documentary, Crude Oil, Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs, Jerry Sims, Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, George Bush, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Al Jolson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep, Musidora, Judex, D.W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Holocaust, Out 1, Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, Jacques Rivette, Honré de Balzac, History of the Thirteen, Juliet Berto, Francoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it's a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Year in review, The Immigrant, James Gray, Last of the Unjust, Claude Lanzmann, Chicago International Film Festival, Sebastien Betbeder, 2 Autumns 3 Winters, Gyorgi Palfi, Free Fall, Blake Eckard, Ghosts of Empire Prairie, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida, Philippe Garrel, Jealousy, Mike Flanagan, Oculus, Salvatore Mereu, Pretty Butterflies, Isao Takahata, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Two Days One Night, Darious Britt, Unsound, Matias Pinerio, Viola, Francois Ozon, Young & Beautiful, Talya Lavie, Zero Motivation, National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, Corner Stores, Amina Waheed, Gloria, Sebastian Lelilo, Paulina Garcia, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, Exhibition, Joanna Hogg, Words and Pictures, Fred Schepisi, Juliette Binoche, Clive Owen, Jaume Collet-Serra, Non-Stop, Abderrahamane Sissako, Timbuktu, Beyond the Lights, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, Philip Roth, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones, The Stuart Hall Project, John Akomfrah, The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Gardener, Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, The Golden Era, Ann Hui, Xiao Hong, Level Five, Chris Marker, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2014
Are some documentaries above criticism?

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Media, Film, History, Watchers of the Sky, documentaries, Edet Belzberg, Rafael Lemkin, genocide, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Errol Morris, The Fog of War

Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2014
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 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, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, In Secret, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, About Last Night, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Black Out, The Hangover, The Bright Day, Endless Love, Brooke Shields, The Girls in the Band, The Last of the Unjust, Claude Lanzmann, The New Black, The Pretty One, Zoe Kazan, Wedlock, Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures, Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ernest Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, King Kong, Block Museum of Art, Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, Model Shop, Gene Siskel Film Center, Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours, Music Box Chicago, Brian De Palma, The Untouchables, Hate Crimes in the Heartland, Steve Delahoyde, Chicago Filmmakers, Student Shoot-Out, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2014
Remembering Theresienstadt at the U. of C. Film Studies Center

Noting a free screening and discussion of Nazi propaganda films about the "model ghetto" in Czechoslovakia, a subject of Claude Lanzmann's upcoming The Last of the Unjust
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, History, Theresienstadt, concentration camp, Claude Lanzmann, The Last of the Unjust, Shoah, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Natascha Drubek, propaganda

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2013
What I learned from Shohei Imamura's documentaries

Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Shohei Imamura, documentaries, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers, In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand, Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Gene Siskel Film Center, compassion, comfort women, prostitution

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, D.W. Griffith, American Revolution, University of Chicago Doc Films, Andrea Gronvall, Biutiful, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel Innaritu, Javier Bardem, Vivienne Dick, Gene Siskel Film Center, Family Affair, Koolhaas Houselife, Rem Koolhaas, The Mechanic Jason Statham, Charles Bronson, Nora's Will, Queen of the Sun, Taggart Siegel, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Rite Anthony Hopkins, The Secret to a Happy Ending, Drive-By Truckers, Strongman, Stanless Steel, A Useful Life, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, Block Museum of Art, Norman Lear, Cold Turkey, Rob Christopher, Cine-File, George Cukor, Gaslight, Music Box, Roman Polanski Repulsion, So This Is Paris, Northbook Public Library, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, Logan Square International Film Series, Chicago movies, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Company Men, William S. Burroughs A Man Within, Yony Leyser, Ed Koziarski, Barney's Version, Mordechai Richler, Paul Giamatti, Dissolution Nina Menkes, Crime and Punishment, Great Directors Angela Ismailos, 12th and Delaware, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Jesus Camp, Fort Pierce Florida, The Way Back, Peter Weir, The Truman Show, Winston Churchill Walking With Destiny, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Jean-Luc Godard, Every Man for Himself, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, Doc Films, David MacKenzie Spread, Ben Sachs, Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Video

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Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films

Five very long film masterpieces.

My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it's a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.

Are some documentaries above criticism?

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries

Video
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Remembering Theresienstadt at the U. of C. Film Studies Center

Noting a free screening and discussion of Nazi propaganda films about the "model ghetto" in Czechoslovakia, a subject of Claude Lanzmann's upcoming The Last of the Unjust

What I learned from Shohei Imamura's documentaries

Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

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Five very long film masterpieces.

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it's a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Noting a free screening and discussion of Nazi propaganda films about the "model ghetto" in Czechoslovakia, a subject of Claude Lanzmann's upcoming The Last of the Unjust

Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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