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Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2018
Five must-see films about film

Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, LGBT, On Video, Academy Awards, Agnès Varda, Oscars, Dorothy Malone, André S. Labarthe, Cinéastes de notre temps Cinéma, de notre temps, Criterion, YouTube, Colin Campbell, Colleen Moore, Little Orphant Annie, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society, Lois Weber, Scandal Mongers, Sensation Seekers, Film Studies Center, Logan Center for the Arts, J.R. Jones, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Hitler's Hollywood, Filming "Othello", Orson Welles, Othello, Shakespeare, Micheal MacLiammoir, Iago, Hilton Edwards, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rock Hudson's Home Movies, Mark Rappaport, The Scenic Route, Eric Farr, Histoire(s) du cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Gaumont, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Boris Godunov, The Last Bolshevik, Alexander Medvedkin, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, Los Angeles

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2017
Video
Ben Sachs’s favorite films of 2017

A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Year in Review, Films of 2017, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Joseph Cedar, Richard Gere, Sixty Six, Lewis Klahr, L'Important C'Est D'Aimer, Andrzej Zulawski, Chicago International Film Festival, The Third Part of the Night, Doc Films, Film Studies Center, Dim the Fluorescents, Daniel Warth, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Nowhere to Hide, Zaradasht Ahmed, Facets Cinematheque, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, Mimosas, Oliver Laxe, Song to Song, Terrence Malick, Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion, Alain Guiraudie, Staying Vertical, The Florida Project, Sean Baker, Princess Cy, Stephen Cone, The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismaki, The Lovers, Azazel Jacobs, The Ornithologist, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, The Lost City of Z, James Gray, Darius Khondji, Slack Bay, Bruno Dumont, In Transit, Mudbound, Dee Rees, Julieta, Pedro Almodovar, Alice Munro, On the Beach at Night Alone, Hong Sang-soo, Western, Valeska Grisebach, Frantz, Francois Ozon, The Moderns, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Behemoth, The Breadwinner, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Faces Places, Felicite, A Ghost Story, Golden Years, Last Flag Flying, Our Time Will Come, Personal Shopper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2015
The next month is the time to catch the thriving local experimental-video-art scene

A preview of programs by local and formerly local artists Jake Barningham, Michele Smith, Jesse Malmed, and Melika Bass
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Visual Art, Experimental video, Jake Barningham, Jesse Malmed, Melika Bass, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Film Studies Center, Michele Smith

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 5/16: Manifest Urban Arts Festival, The Inspector and the Prince, and Owls

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 16
- By Osita Nwanevu
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Hood Internet, Youngblood Hawke, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Film Studies Center, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Paola Iovene, opera, Owls, Cap'n Jazz, Mike Kinsella, Tim Kinsella, Victor Villareal, Sam Zurick, TWO, Subterranean

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
Another week, another great set of free programs at the U. of C. Film Studies Center

Noting free screenings of Ernst Lubitsch's silent feature Three Women and the recent Chinese opera adaptation The Inspector and the Prince
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Tom Gunning, David Drazin, Chinese opera films, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Ernst Lubitsch, Three Women

Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2014
The free Chinese-opera series continues this weekend at the Film Studies Center

Noting a rare screening of Huang Shuqin's Woman, Demon, Human from 16-millimeter
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Arts, Film, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, Woman Demon Human, Chinese opera, Huang Shuqin

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 13, 2014
Celebrate Valentine's Day with avant-garde video game artist Eddo Stern

Previewing a mixed-media presentation at the U. of C. Film Studies Center
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Media, Film, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Eddo Stern, Games on Stage, Harun Farocki

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 1/31: Crispin Glover, Chicago Deep Freeze Festival, and Has the Film Already Started?

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 31
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Crispin Glover, George McFly, It is Fine. Everything is Fine!, Epitonic, Chicago Deep Freeze Festival, Wicker Park, Public Works Gallery, Subterranean, Double Door, Mike Lebovitz, Kellye Howard, Meat Wave, Bloodiest, Carbon Tigers, Maurice Lemaître, Has the Film Already Started?, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, France, Paris

Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2013
The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Revival screenings, Music Box Theatre, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale Cinema, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic, An Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, Doc Films, L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted, White Light Cinema, Nanni Moretti, The Mass Is Over, Chicago International Film Festival, We Have a Pope, Max et les Ferailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mestizo, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Mario Handler, Venezuela, Guillermo Meneses, Moi un Noir, Jean Rouch, ethnography, Ivory Coast, No Fear No Die, Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, Film Studies Center, South Side Projections

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2013
The year in movie revivals, A through G

The first in a three-part series on Chicago's best repertory film screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Repertory film programming, Jacques Becker, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Antoine and Antoinette, Casque d'Or, Altered States, John Corigliano, Ken Russell, Harris Theater, Hitchcock 9, Music Box Theatre, Champagne, The Manxman, Alfred Hitchcock, Coming Out, East German cinema, The Driver, Walter Hill, Bruce Dern, Doc Films, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Terence Davies, Dust in the Wind, L.A. Rebellion, Emma Mae, Jamaa Fanaka, Film Studies Center, Far From Vietnam, Block Cinema, documentary filmmaking, The Flying Ace, race films, Portage Theater, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, silent film, Goldstein, Chicago Film Archives, Patio Theater, Second City

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2013
Between Beyond the Valley and Dutch Wife in the Desert, Chicago is in the "pink" this weekend

Two subversive sexploitation classics are screening in Chicago.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, Russ Meyer, Koji Wakamatsu, pink films, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Roger Ebert, Music Box Theatre, The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, Mitsuru Meike, Chicago International Film Festival, Stephanie Rothman, Roger Corman, New World Pictures, The Student Nurses, The Working Girls, sexploitation, Funeral Parade of Roses, Matsumoto Toshio, Dutch Wife in the Desert, Seijun Suzuki, Yamatoya Atsushi, Branded to Kill, Pandemonium

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2013
Video
Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2013
Tomorrow night, journey from the infinite to the microscopic at the Logan Center for the Arts

Previewing a multimedia event presented by the Film Studies Center
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Technology, Film, Visions of Scale, Performing the Night Sky, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Artemis Willis, magic lantern, Adler Planetarium, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2012
Video Audio
Bikes as instruments in Richard Lerman's Travelon Gamelon

Composer Richard Lerman presents his bicycle sound art composition, Travelon Gamelon, at this weekend's Logan Launch Festival
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Do This, Transportation, Two Wheels, Music, Travelon Gamelon, Richard Lerman, Two Wheels, piezo microphones, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Brian Labycz, Film Studies Center, sound art, sonic, tranducer, Hyde Park, Video, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2011
The best repertory screenings of 2011

A recap of Chicago's best revival screenings in 2011.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Best of 2011, repertory screenings, Chicago, Long Day Closes, Terence Davies, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, Doc Films, Eye & Ear Clinic, Film Studies Center, Aleksandr Medvedkin, Film Train, Man Follows Birds, Ali Khamraev, Gene Siskel Film Center, director retrospective, Jerzy Skolimowski, Hands Up!, The Naked Island, Kaneto Shindo, Luther Price, Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich, Dante's Inferno, Harry Lachman, Sepncer Tracy, Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, Blue Collar, Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, Music Box Theatre, Love Lust & Violence, Joe Rubin, Odd Obsession Movies, Chicago Filmmakers, Julian Antos, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Amateur, Hal Hartley, Southside Projections, Michael W. Phillips, Lord Thing, Conservative Vice Lords

Blogs, Bleader Oct 26, 2011
Video
Luke Fowler's sonic cinema in Chicago

Experimental Scottish filmmaker Luke Fowler visits Chicago to attend two screenings of his work this week.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Film, Music, Post No Bills, Luke Fowler, A Grammar for Listening, experimental film, experimental music, sound art, Lee Patterson, Eric La Casa, Toshiya Tsunoda, Charles Curtis, Xentos Jones, Cornelius Cardew, Alasdair Roberts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge, Film Studies Center, All Divided Selves, Video

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Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.

A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.

A preview of programs by local and formerly local artists Jake Barningham, Michele Smith, Jesse Malmed, and Melika Bass

The year in old movies

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 16

Noting free screenings of Ernst Lubitsch's silent feature Three Women and the recent Chinese opera adaptation The Inspector and the Prince

Noting a rare screening of Huang Shuqin's Woman, Demon, Human from 16-millimeter

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

Previewing a mixed-media presentation at the U. of C. Film Studies Center

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 31

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

The first in a three-part series on Chicago's best repertory film screenings of 2013

Two subversive sexploitation classics are screening in Chicago.

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.

Previewing a multimedia event presented by the Film Studies Center

Composer Richard Lerman presents his bicycle sound art composition, Travelon Gamelon, at this weekend's Logan Launch Festival

A recap of Chicago's best revival screenings in 2011.

Experimental Scottish filmmaker Luke Fowler visits Chicago to attend two screenings of his work this week.

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