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Film, Movie Tuesday Oct 8, 2019
Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals

Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Todd Phillips, Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, Lon Chaney, Federico Fellini, Jacques Tati, Bill Murray, Howard Franklin, Errol Morris

Film, Movie Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Art imitating life

Five films in which directors look at themselves via autobiographical stand-ins
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Jafar Panahi, 3 Faces, John Ford, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Catherine Breillat, Nanni Moretti, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2018
Five low-budget (but still amazing) science-fiction films

These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Television, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Man from Planet X, science-fiction, film, Beyond the Time Barrier, Robert Clarke, Island of Lost Souls, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Sokoloff, Dave Kehr, Planet of the Vampires, Mario Bava, Demon Planet, Barry Sullivan, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Hercules in the Haunted World, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Dark Star, John Carpenter, Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, cult film, Eraserhead, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, David Blair, William S. Burroughs, Alamogordo, New Mexico, Trinity nuclear test site, MTV

Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
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Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den is the most beautiful movie in town this week

The Japanese master's episodic 1970 feature about life in the Tokyo slums screens Sunday at Doc Films on 35-millimeter.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Poverty, Akira Kurosawa, Dodes'ka-den, Doc Films, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, Red Beard, color filmmaking, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2018
This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Television, Filmstruck, Turner Classic Movies, Criterion Collection, L'Amore, Roberto Rossellini, The Human Voice, The Miracle, Anna Magnani, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Fugitive Kind, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, Meade Roberts, Sidney Lumet, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory, Maureen Stapleton, The Golden Coach, Paul Campbell, Ricardo Rioli, Duncan Lamont, Jean Renoir, Prosper Merimee Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Jean Debucourt, Mamma Roma, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Aldo Fabrizi, Maria Michi, Don Druker, Open City, Luchino Visconti

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Queen of Earth, Ben Sachs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Alex Gibney, Danny Boyle, Michael Fassbender, I Touched All Your Stuff, Meru, Rosenwald, Stray Dog, Debra Granik, 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington (RSO (Registered Sex Offender), A Walk in the Woods, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, John Waters, Female Trouble, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Fred Camper, John Boorman, Zardoz, Sherlock Holmes, William Gilette, Essanay Studio, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2015
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High and dry at Fifty Shades of Grey, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Last Five Years, Jeremy Jordan, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Nearing, Hogtown, Chicago Heights, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black History Month, Concerning Violence, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, The DUFF, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Denis Côté, Bestiaire, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Matthew Vaughn, Kick-Ass, McFarland USA, Kevin Costner, Rebecca Baron: Detour de Force, Song of the Sea, Tomm Moore, The Secret of Kells, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers, Music Box, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, Federico Fellini, Casanova, Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption, Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend, American Denial, Chicago Cultural Center, The Stuart Hall Project, John Akomfrah, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, They Don't Give a Damn, Logan Center for the Arts, Through a Lens Darkly, Thomas Allen Harris, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2015
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Girlz in da hood, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Girlhood, Gene Siskel Film Center, Celine Sciamma, Tomboy movie, Fish & Cat, Festival of Films From Iran, Jupiter Ascending, Wachowskis, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas, The Loft, Project Almanac, Red Army, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Pickwick Park Ridge, Federico Fellini, 8-1/2, David Fincher, Fight Club, Music Box, Harun Farocki, How to Live in the Federal Republic of Germany, Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shirley Clarke, Portrait of Jason, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2015
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Jean-Luc Godard goes 3-D, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language, Ben Sachs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Logan Center for the Arts, American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, Chris Kyle, Two Days One Night, Luc Dardennes, Jean-Pierre Dardennes, Blackhat movie, Michael Mann, Heat movie, Collateral movie, The Insider movie, The Decent One, Heinrich Himmler, A Fuller Life, Samuel Fuller, If You Don't I Will, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, A Most Violent Year, J.C. Chandor, Margin Call, All Is Lost, Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis, Still Alice, Julianne Moore, Golden Globe Awards, Taken 3, Liam Neeson, Federico Fellini, Il Bidone, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Music Box, Contempt movie, House of Wax, A Man Escaped, Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt, Vivre sa Vie, Dusan Makavejev, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Force Majeure, Gone Girl, The Overnighters, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2015
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The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon, Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagnitsev, Selma, Martin Luther King, Almost There, Kartemquin Films, Peter Anton, Daniel Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Remote Area Medical, Predestination, Marcel Carne, Le Jour se Leve, Jacques Doillon, The Crying Woman, Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, A Report on the Party and the Guests, A Woman Is a Woman, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, I Vitteloni, Ruthless People, Zucker Abrahams Zucker, Jacques Becker, Le Trou, Black Narcissus, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Fish Called Wanda, The Big Lebowski, Vessel, Video

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2013
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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

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2013
Chicago Cinema Society brings Warriors, Fellini, and an exploding head to the Patio this spring

Previewing the local programming group's upcoming screenings at the historic northwest-side theater
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Whoa, Film, Chicago Cinema Society, Patio Theater, The Warriors, Walter Hill, The Other Side of Sleep, Vanishing Waves, 8 1/2, Miguel Gomes, Tabu, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki, Willow, European Union Film Festival

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2011
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Patricio Guzman, Nostalgia for the Light, The Battle of Chile, Salvador Allende, Ben Sachs, Hands Up!, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrea Gronvall, Project Nim, Man on Wire, James Marsh, A Better Life, Demian Bichir, Blank City, No Wave, Children of Hiroshima, The Ditch movie, Horrible Bosses, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Monte Carlo movie, The Names of Love, We Are the Night, Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky, University of Chicago Doc Films, Douglas Fairbanks, The Black Pirate, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Spencer Tracy, Dante's Inferno, Portage theater, Roger Corman, The Masque of the Red Death, Facets Night School, Federico Fellini, I Vitelloni, National Pastime Theater, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Wednesday, 1/20

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Don Cherry Project, Ken Vandermark, Hideout, Soup and Bread, Fred Anderson, Corey Wilkes, Velvet Lounge, South Coast, Federico Fellini, Rodan, Big Star, Where The Wild Things Are, Logan Theater, Bonsoiree Cafe & Delicacies, River North Chicago Dance Company, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Cafe Spiaggia, Tony Mantuano

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2010
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Fellini's Birthday at Rodan

Rodan screens Fellini's "8 1/2" or "La Dolce Vita" for what would be the filmmaker's 89th birthday Wednesday 1/20.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Rodan, David Enright, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2009
Sub-zero cinema

Where to go for sustenance now that the winter has arrived.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Revolutionary Road, Doc Films, Music Box, Joel and Ethan Coen, Stan Brakhage, Federico Fellini, Last Chance Harvey, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Nagisa Oshima, Nagisa Oshima Boy, A Town of Love and Hope, Youssef Chahine, Youssef Chahine The Sparrow, The Sparrow, Alexandria, Why?, Howard Alk, Coen Brothers, Fargo, Coen Brothers Fargo, Amarcord, Fellini Amarcord

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2008
Love streams

Criterion Collection adds streaming video to its web site.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Criterion Collection, Peter Brook, Lord of the Flies, Federico Fellini, Juliet of the Spirits, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Dukan Makavejev, Sweet Movie

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Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas

Five films in which directors look at themselves via autobiographical stand-ins

These five films prove that sci-fi can thrive without big budgets.

The Japanese master's episodic 1970 feature about life in the Tokyo slums screens Sunday at Doc Films on 35-millimeter.

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15

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

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Previewing the local programming group's upcoming screenings at the historic northwest-side theater

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

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Rodan screens Fellini's "8 1/2" or "La Dolce Vita" for what would be the filmmaker's 89th birthday Wednesday 1/20.

Where to go for sustenance now that the winter has arrived.

Criterion Collection adds streaming video to its web site.

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