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Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2018
The new Suspiria manages to be about women's power without being feminist

Luca Guadagnino's remake takes too much pleasure in the destruction of women.
- By Andrea Thompson
- Tags: Dance, Film, Gender Issues, Suspiria, Luca Guadagnino, Dario Argento, horror movies, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloé Grace Moretz, The Beguiled

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2017
Thanks to Chicago Cinema Society, a rare print of Dario Argento’s Suspiria is touring the nation

The local programming group is also handling distribution for the sci-fi cult classic Liquid Sky.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Paranormal, Chicago Cinema Society, Neil Calderone, Jason Coffman, Suspiria, Dario Argento, Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman, film distribution, Music Box Theatre, Davis Theater, Santa Sangre, The Last Circus, Synapse Films

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The Best of Lucio Fulci

The best of exploitation maestro Lucio Fulci
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Lucio Fulci, The Beyond, Delilah's, Italian horror cinema, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, H.P. Lovecraft, Austin Spare, The House by the Cemetery, Don't Torture a Duckling, Una sull'altra, One on Top of the Other, Zombi 2, George Romero, Dawn of the Dead, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, New Hollywood, San Francisco

Music, Music Sidebar Apr 30, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival 2014 (the music part)

Music headliners include Yo La Tengo, disco orchestra Escort, and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Yo La Tengo, Concord Music Hall, Escort, Goblin, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Metro, Claudio Simonetti, Bloodshot Records, Logan Square Auditorium, Bloodshot Records, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, Double Door, Califone, Pat O'Neil, Water and Power, First Ward, Tim Kinsella, LeRoy Bach, Marvin Tate, Hideout, Closed Sessions, Blu & Exile, Alex Wiley, ShowYouSuck, Psalm One, Serengeti, Larry Ochs, Elastic, Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz, Tim Daisy, These New Puritans, Empty Bottle, Joyful Noise, Victor Villarreal, Owls, Cap'n Jazz

Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 11/30: Corrections House, Paper Machete, and classic horror films

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, November 30
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Corrections House, Eyehategod, Neurosis, Bloodiest, Empty Bottle, Last City Zero, the Paper Machete, Carisa Barreca, Stephen Walker, Gary Schultz, Devil in My Ride, Suspiria, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, The Black Cat, Patio Theater, the Green Mill

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
Video
Sperm blowout, hoop dreams deferred, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Delivery Man, Starbuck, Vince Vaughn, Lenny Cooke, Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie, Third Ward TX, Joe Swanberg, All the Light in the Sky, Jane Adams, Claire Denis, Bastards, Kasi Lemmons, Black Nativity, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Langston Hughes, Disney Frozen, Hans Christian Andersen, Homefront movie, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Joe Dante, The Burbs, University of Chicago Doc Films, Olivier Assayas Carlos, Jean-Luc Godard Contempt, Joseph Losey, The Servant, Claire Denis, The Intruder, W.C. Fields, Million Dollar Legs, Joel McCrea, Girls About Town, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Patio Theater Chicago, The Sound of Music, Music Box Chicago, Block Museum of Art, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Logan Center for the Arts, From 2337 West Monroe Street, Fred Hampton, Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist, The Room movie, Cinema Minima, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deck the Holodeck, Cole's Bar, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2013
Video
Weekly Top Five: Commercials directed by major filmmakers

TV commercials directed by major filmmakers
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Wes Anderson, Prada, Castello Cavalcanti, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Léa Seydoux, Gus Van Sant, Miller Genuine Draft, Edgar Wright, Pizza Hut, Nick Frost, Victoria's Secret, Michael Bay, Parisienne, the Coen brothers, Emir Kusturica, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, David Lynch, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Gap, American Express, Francois Truffaut, Day for Night, Jules et Jim, Fahrenheit 451, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Horror-fest essentials

Criteria and picks for your own scary-movie marathon
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Massacre, Patio Theater, horror movie marathons, The Phantom Carriage, Halloween, Kill Baby. . . Kill!, Dead Alive, Twentynine Palms, Cache, Inland Empire, Shaun of the Dead, Cemetery Man, Kuroneko, Wolf Creek, The Shining, Psycho, Nosferatu, A Page of Madness, Deep Red, April Fool's Day, Martin, David Lynch, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Bruno Dumont, Peter Jackson, Mario Bava, Victor Sjöström

Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2013
Audio Video
The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, James Gray, Two Lovers, We Own the Night, Chicago Theater, Joaquin Phoenix, The Immigrant, Dario Argento, John McNaughton, Tsai Ming-liang, The Massacre, Patio Theater Chicago, A.C.O.D., Adam Scott, Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks, Ghost Anthology: A History of Argentine Experimental Film, The Summit, We Are What We Are, When Comedy Went to School, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean Renoir, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Buster Keaton, The General, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Music Box Chicago, Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Darren Aronofsky Pi, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Malman, John Ford: Poet in the Desert, John Ford Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Oct 10, 2013
The Massacre: Shocks around the clock

The long-running horror marathon relocates to the Patio Theater.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, the Portage, the Patio, Frankensein, Edison Studios, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Vincent Price, Guy Maddin, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, George Romero, Martin, Gary Sherman, Dead and Buried, Roger Corman, Fred Walton, April Fool's Day, Nightmare on Elm Street, Part Two: Freddy's Revenge, Mark Patton, Dario Argento, Deep Red, Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2013
Video
Our guide to the 49th Chicago International Film Festival

Reviews of all the highlights from the festival's first week, plus spotlights of four directors whose films shouldn't be missed
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg, Ben Sachs, Brianna Wellen, Dave Kehr, and Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Feature, CIFF, Chicago International Film Festival, Djamila Sahraoui, Parvis Shahbazi, Dario Argento, James Gray, John McNaughton, Tsai Ming-liang, Frederick Wiseman, Federico Fellini, Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, João Viana, Yu Liu, Abdellatif Kechiche, Amy Morton, Louisa Krause, John Slattery, Emily Meade, Margo Martindale, Adam Driver, Jody Lee LipesLance Edmands, Licia Maglietta, Silvio Soldini, Bruno Ganz, Lonesome Solo, Marlon Moreno, Robert Flores Prieto, Penny Vozniak, Jennifer Lynch, Adrian Sitaru, Rutger Hauer, Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento, Tomasz Wasilewski, Mateusz Banasiuk, Bartosz Gelner, Brianna Zepeda, John RangelRodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, David Grann, Justin Webster, Paulina Garcia, Valentina Muhr, Moisés Sepúlveda, Joel Karekezi, Khaled Jarrar, Bernard Attal, Stefan Zweig, Gregory Nava, Diego Quemada-Diez, Jacek Borcuch, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge, Ilya Isayev, Nestor Guzzini, Denis Shvedov, Alain Guiraudie, Yuri Bykov, Pierre Deladonchamps, Haskell Wexler, Rodrigo Reyes, Verna Bloom, Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Peter Bonerz, Saleh Bakri, Carlos Lechuga, Chung Mong-Hong, Peter Plaugborg, Jimmy Wang Yu, Sonja Richter, Simon Staho, Rithy Panh, Alex de la Iglesia, Michael Noer, Marie Bäumer, Mark Waschke, Denis Dercourt, Saskia Rosendahl, Sophie Rois, Santiago Loza, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 19, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Cheer-Accident emerges from hibernation

Plus: Baathhaus go through plenty of "blood, glitter, and jizz" at their first video shoot, and Lamp shines on a new EP
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Cheer-Accident, Thymme Jones, Mayne Stage, Dante Kester, Gillespie Killings, Sounds Like Braille, Rock in Opposition, Carmaux, France, Faust, Soft Machine, Baathhaus, Instagram, Vine, Dan Foley, Dario Argento, Suspiria, James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus

Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The twisted beauty of Dario Argento

Weekly Top Five: Dario Argento films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Dario Argento, Music Box, Inferno, Do You Like Hitchcock, The Card Player, Mario Bava, Edgar Allen Poe, Suspiria, J. Hoberman, Deep Red, David Hemmings, Sleepless, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Mother of Tears

Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2012
Video
Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2012
Video
Goblin goes for the gold

Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Paranormal, Music, John Carpenter, Goblin, Dario Argento, Raekwon, Neon Indian, Justice, Umberto, the Olympics, WTF, Russia, synchronized swimming, Video

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Luca Guadagnino's remake takes too much pleasure in the destruction of women.

The local programming group is also handling distribution for the sci-fi cult classic Liquid Sky.

The best of exploitation maestro Lucio Fulci

Music headliners include Yo La Tengo, disco orchestra Escort, and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, November 30

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

TV commercials directed by major filmmakers

Criteria and picks for your own scary-movie marathon

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The long-running horror marathon relocates to the Patio Theater.

Reviews of all the highlights from the festival's first week, plus spotlights of four directors whose films shouldn't be missed

Plus: Baathhaus go through plenty of "blood, glitter, and jizz" at their first video shoot, and Lamp shines on a new EP

Weekly Top Five: Dario Argento films

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics

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