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Film, Movie Review Oct 29, 2015
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Banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi makes a secret drama

The Iranian renegade is back in the driver's seat for Taxi
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Jafar Panahi, Taxi film, Iran, This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
My favorite films of 2014 (that premiered in Chicago)

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2014
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best films of 2014, Buzzard, Citizenfour, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, See You Next Tuesday, Gone Girl, Jealousy, Memphis, What Now? Remind Me, Closed Curtain, Boyhood, Enemy, the Grand Budapest Hotel, Happy Christmas, It Felt Like Love, Night Moves, Palo Alto, They Came Together, 22 Jump Street, Under the Skin, We Are the Best!, Whiplash, Wild, Winter Sleep

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Binging on The Purge, 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, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Purge: Anarchy, James DeMonaco, Tal Rosenberg, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, And So It Goes, Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas, Cannibal movie, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, Offside Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold, Happy Christmas movie, Joe Swanberg, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham, Honeymoon Jan Hrebejk, Kawasaki's Rose, Gene Siskel Film Center, I Dreamt of You So Much That, Stefan Constantinescu, I Origins, Mike Cahill, Another Earth, Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, A Most Wanted Man, John le Carre, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Carpenter, Big Trouble in Little China, Music Box Chicago, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rob Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap, Millennium Park, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Kim Ki-duk Time, Chicago Cultural Center, Filmspotting, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Leviathan, Computer Chess, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, The Lords of Salem, Rob Zombie, Viola, Matías Piñeiro, The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola, I Used to Be Darker, Matt Porterfield, Pavilion, Tim Sutton, Alexander Payne, Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Drug War, Johnnie To, Her, Spike Jonze, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Ape, Joel Potrykus, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panah, Kambuzia Partovi, The Battle of Tabato, João Viana, Concrete Parlay, Fern Silva, Solar Sight III, Lawrence Jordan, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesque Foraging, David Gatten, Dusty Stacks of Mom, Jodie Mack, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser

Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2013
Final thoughts on this year's Chicago International Film Festival

Ten favorites from the festival lineup, plus stray thoughts on a few other features
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, La Jaula de Oro, Mexican cinema, Diego Quemada-Diez, Heli, Workers, Purgatorio, Tanta Agua, Uruguayan cinema, Leticia Jorge, Ana Guevara, At Berkeley, Stray Dogs, The Mass Is Over, Nanni Moretti, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, Stranger by the Lake, Like Father Like Son, The Missing Picture, Grigris, The Immigrant, James Gray, The Purge

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2013
At Berkeley at CIFF: Some got lost, others left early

On seeing Frederick Wiseman's latest long-form documentary with an audience
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Moviegoing, Film, Frederick Wiseman, At Berkeley, Chicago International Film Festival, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, The Mass Is Over, Nanni Moretti, University of California, long movies, public education

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Banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi makes a secret drama

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013

Final thoughts on this year's Chicago International Film Festival

Ten favorites from the festival lineup, plus stray thoughts on a few other features

At Berkeley at CIFF: Some got lost, others left early

On seeing Frederick Wiseman's latest long-form documentary with an audience

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Recommended Banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi makes a secret drama

The Iranian renegade is back in the driver's seat for Taxi

My favorite films of 2014 (that premiered in Chicago)

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2014

Video Binging on The Purge, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013

Final thoughts on this year's Chicago International Film Festival

Ten favorites from the festival lineup, plus stray thoughts on a few other features

At Berkeley at CIFF: Some got lost, others left early

On seeing Frederick Wiseman's latest long-form documentary with an audience

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Banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi makes a secret drama

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Binging on The Purge, and the rest of this week's screenings