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Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Music, On Video, Chicago Underground Film Festival, CUFF, underground, Half-Cocked, Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky, Horns and Halos, Freakwater, Sleepyhead, Grifters, J.R. Jones, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, D.W. Harper, Charles Whitman, Stephen Grant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Straightman, Ben Berkowitz, Benjamin Redgrave, John Cassavetes, Shadows, The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, Columbia Record and Tape Club, 60 Minutes, Migrating Forms, James Fotopoulos, Fred Camper, Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, Robert Dickerson, Smoke, AIDS, Patti Smith, Nice Bombs, Usama Alshaibi, Baghdad, Iraq, Putty Hill, Hamilton, Matthew Porterfield, David Gordon Green, George Washington, Your Highness, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Ronald Bronstein, Frownland, Carlen Altman, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Jake Williams, This Is My Land, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2015
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Al Pacino demonstrates the magic of Method acting in the 'naturalistic fairy tale' Manglehorn

The collaboration between Pacino and indie director David Gordon Green (George Washington) screens all week in Chicago.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: We're Old, Film, Manglehorn, Al Pacino, David Gordon Green, Tim Orr, Video

Film, Movie Feature Dec 26, 2014
Our favorite movies of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, best films of 2014, J.R. Jones, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Calvary, John Michael McDonagh, Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Two Days, One Night, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, Joe, David Gordon Green, The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, Cheap Thrills, Eugene Ionesco, Starred Up, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette, What Now? Remind Me, Breakfast With Curtis, Joaquin Pinto, Laura Colella, Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin, E.L. Katz, Year in Review 2014, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Rambleras, Daniela Speranza, Jacques Demy, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream, Duke Ellington, Jean-Paul Sartre

Film, Movie Review Oct 1, 2014
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God calls the righteous to heaven, leaves Nicolas Cage

An agnostic airline pilot tries to navigate the End Times in Left Behind.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Left Behind, Vic Armstong, Nicholas Cage, Peggy Sue Got Married, Vampire's Kiss, The Wicker Man, Jerry Bruckheimer, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alex Proyas, Knowing, David Gordon Green, Joe, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Seeking Justice, Trespass, Stolen, End Times, Christian eschatology, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2014
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Tom Cruise, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, 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, Cold in July, Ben Sachs, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow, Words and Pictures, Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, George Cukor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Across the River, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, Mads Mikkelson, Innocent Sorcerers, Andrzej Wajda, Maleficent, Angelina Jolie, Sleeping Beauty, Return to Homs, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain, Joe Pytka, Space Jam, William A. Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Gordon Green, Joe Nicolas Cage, Tivoli Des Plaines, After Hours Film Society, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Particle Fever, Facets Cinematheque, Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists, Museum of Contemporary Art, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films

Notable films that never made it to screen
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Alain Resnais, Stan Lee, the Monster Maker, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jesus, historical Jesus, David Cronenberg, Pierre David, Marry Shelley, Frankenstein, The Fly, Robert Bresson, Genesis, Dino de Laurentiis, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, Harold Ramis, Steven Soderbergh, David Gordon Green, John Waters, John Belushi, John Goodman, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Magic Magic, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, year in review, 2013 movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Immigrant, James Gray, Frank Borzage, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, The World's End, Bastards, Claire Denis, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2013
Those movies that say "Thank you, come again"

When narrative movies construct self-contained little worlds for you to explore
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, The World's End, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche, Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going!, The 49th Parallel, David Cronenberg, moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2013
All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)

The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Comedy, David Gordon Green, interview, The Sitter, Prince Avalanche, Jonah Hill, Undertow, Snow Angels, All the Real Girls, Your Highness, Morse code, Howard Hawks, Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Craig Zobel, Judd Apatow, Super Mario Brothers, Buster Keaton

Blogs, Bleader Aug 20, 2013
All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green

A two-part interview with the director of George Washington, Pineapple Express, and Prince Avalanche
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Booze, Film, Comedy, David Gordon Green, interview, Prince Avalanche, George Washington, All the Real Girls, Paul Schneider, Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, The Sitter, Pineapple Express, Snow Angels, moonshine

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2013
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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Ulzana's Raid, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Emperor of the North, The Longest Yard, The Spectacular Now, The Act of Killing, Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Apache, Vera Cruz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Precious, The Paperboy, The Canyons, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser, Expose Me Lovely, Raymond Chandler, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Gene Siskel Film Center, Highland Park, In a World..., lake Bell, Kick-Ass 2, comic book adaptation, Steve Jobs, Jobs, biopic, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, Sabata, spaghetti western, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home Again, Jamaica, The Retrieval, revival screenings, Faust, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill, Doc Films, Diamond Jim, Preston Sturges, Patio Theater, David Fincher, Zodiac, Panic Room, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 8, 2013
Dear Paradise: Love

A letter to Ulrich Seidl's controversial art film, which screened in Chicago in early June
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Transportation, Moviegoing, Film, Paradise: Love, Ulrich Seidl, moviegoing, Down's syndrome, sex tourism, image, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, public transportation, Farran Smith Nehme, MUBI, retinalechoes, developmental disabilities

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2011
Now playing: The Sitter

A review of the new Jonah Hill comedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Sitter movie, Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Kylie Bunbury, David Gordon Green, Your Highness, movies

Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, Alexandre O. Phillipe, The People vs. George Lucas, The Hangover Part II, The Hypnagogic Empiric, George Monteleone, Sirius Frantisek Vlacil, 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie, This Is My Land . . . Hebron, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Charlie Chaplink City Lights, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alfred Hitchcock, Family Plot, University of Chicago Doc Films, Manoel de Oliveira, I'm Going Home, Tim Burton, Mars Attacks, Modern Times, David Gordon Green, Undertow, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Feb 27, 2003
All the Real Girls
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, David Gordon Green, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Schneider, North Carolina, Pipers Alley

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As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.

The collaboration between Pacino and indie director David Gordon Green (George Washington) screens all week in Chicago.

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs

An agnostic airline pilot tries to navigate the End Times in Left Behind.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Notable films that never made it to screen

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

When narrative movies construct self-contained little worlds for you to explore

The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.

A two-part interview with the director of George Washington, Pineapple Express, and Prince Avalanche

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

A letter to Ulrich Seidl's controversial art film, which screened in Chicago in early June

A review of the new Jonah Hill comedy.

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

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