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Film, Movie Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Four hours or bust!

Five films that are more than epic
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, George Cukor, Manoel de Oliveira, Jacques Rivette, Frederick Wiseman, Lav Diaz, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2018
Discover the erotic, macabre world of French director Jean Rollin

The Music Box will screen three films by the cult favorite in March.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Paranormal, Jean Rollin, Music Box Theatre, Lips of Blood, The Iron Rose, Fascination, Jacques Rivette, Louis Feuillade, Les Vampires, Fantomas

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
Five must-see lo-o-o-ong films

Five very long film masterpieces.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Politics, University of Chicago, Lav Diaz, The Woman Who Left, Logan Center for the Arts, Wang Bing, documentary, Crude Oil, Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs, Jerry Sims, Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, George Bush, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Al Jolson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep, Musidora, Judex, D.W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Holocaust, Out 1, Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, Jacques Rivette, Honré de Balzac, History of the Thirteen, Juliet Berto, Francoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2017
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Nocturama is the most important new movie to play in Chicago this year

Bertrand Bonello's 2016 masterpiece is currently in the middle of a weeklong Chicago run at Facets.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Boom!, Do This, Film, Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello, The Brood, David Cronenberg, The Devil Probably, Robert Bresson, Toni Erdmann, Willow Smith, Whip My Hair, John Carpenter, Assault on Precinct 13, George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead, Steadicam, Jacques Rivette, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
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Your Movie Is an Act of Self-Negation, Charlie Brown! plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, The Peanuts Movie, Charles Schulz, Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson, Dalton Trumbo, Bryan Cranston, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, Ronit Bezalel, Brooklyn movie, John Crowley, Boy A, Nick Hornby, Love the Coopers, Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Madame Phung's Last Journey, My All American, Aaron Eckhart, Angelo Pizzo, The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzman, Spotlight, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Field Museum Chicago, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Craig Laurence Rice, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks, Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho, Irving Rapper, Now Voyager, Wim Wenders, Paris Texas, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Eric Rohmer, The Tree the Mayor and the Media Center, John Ford, Upstream, Dennis Scott, Light and Noir Film Festival, Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce, Mostra: Brazilian Film Series, Polish Film Festival in America, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2015
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The Polish Film Festival comes to town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Polish Film Festival in America, Barista movie, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, I Smile Back, Sarah Silverman, Love Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone, Radical Grace, Spectre James Bond, John Landis, Animal House, Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon, Early Spring, Fred Camper, Walt Disney, Fantasia, Russ Meyers, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Eric Rohmer, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, Robert Altman Nashville, Sound Opinions at the Movies, Jacques Rivette, Out 1, Ingmar Bergman, Through a Glass Darkly, Clint Eastwood, American Sniper, Columbia College Cinema Slapdown, Chicago Comedy Film Festival, Josh Oppenheimer, The Art of Killing, The Look of Silence, Mostra: Brazilian Film Series, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Lana Wachowski, The Matrix, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
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Jennifer Aniston takes the Cake, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jennifer Aniston, Cake movie, Cake Jennifer Aniston, River East 21, Ben Sachs, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Drew Hunt, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action, Mommy Xavier Dolan, Amira & Sam, Freaks and Geeks, Martin Starr, Black or White, Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Black Sea, Jude Law, The Bubble, Emptying the Skies, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Giuseppe Andrews, Independence Day, Still Life, Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky, Jean-Luc Godard, Les Carabiniers, Masculine Feminine, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jack Arnold, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Wim Wenders, Pina movie, Maya Deren, University of Chicago Doc Films, Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious movie, Jacques Rivette, The Nun, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Remembering Harold Washington, The Day After Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Apr 16, 2014
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In Oculus, home is where the haunting is

A brother and sister reunite at the site of their parents' gruesome deaths in Mike Flanagan's haunted-house movie.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Mike Flanagan, Oculus, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, George Romero, Living Dead, Insidious, The Conjuring, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, supernatural horror, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2014
Matias Piñeiro's Viola riffs on Shakespeare and messes with your mind

Noting the Chicago premiere of the 2012 Argentinian art film
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Theater, Film, Viola, Matias Piñeiro, J. Hoberman, Argentinian cinema, Doc Films, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare, Jacques Rivette

Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about No Fear, No Die and 35 Shots of Rum

A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Poetry, Film, Claire Denis, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jerry & Me, 35 Shots of Rum, No Fear No Die, Alex Descas, Cockfighter, Monte Hellman, Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring, colonialism, Jean-Claude Brialy, Frantz Fanon, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Cafe Lumiere, Five Dedicated to Ozu, Chester Himes, Jean-Luc Godard, nouvelle vague, Jacques Rivette, Isaach de Bankolé, Agnes Varda

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2013
Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Chicago Filmmakers, South Side Projections, Cat Film Festival, Stan Brakhage, Joyce Wieland, Jacques Rivette, Studio Ghibli, The Cat Returns, The Story of Marie and Julien, Stanley Kubrick, Agnes Varda, Val Lewton, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, experimental cinema, My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, cats

Film, Movie Review May 1, 2013
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Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Jacques Rivette, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Miami, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers, Tony Shalhoub, GoodFellas, Horatio Alger, Ken Jeong

Blogs, Bleader Apr 4, 2013
Rare Jacques Rivette comes to the Film Center this week

Previewing Le Pont du Nord, screening in Chicago three times next week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pascale Ogier, Bulle Ogier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film: The Front Line

Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Marathon Films

The top five films with "marathon" running times
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Variations on a Theme, La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Fanny and Alexander, The Decalogue, Berlin Alexanderplatz, La Commune (Paris 1871), Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, Privilege, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2012
What's the story? Who cares!

Why it's foolish to be alarmed by "story-less" movies
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Shots Fired, Film, Graeme McMillan, The Bourne Legacy, Time Magazine, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, story-less movies, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gene Siskel Film Center, genre movies, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Chuck Jones, Looney Tunes, Charlie Chaplin

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, William Castle Undertow, Robert Ryan, Max Ophuls Caught, Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground, Howard Hughes, RKO Radio Pictures, Enterprise Pictures, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris, Chris Rock, Adam Goldberg, ParaNorman, Laika Studio, Coraline, Beyond the Myth, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago), Free Men movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Noir City: Chicago 4, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Redford, Quiz Show, Transistor, Hideout Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2012
The Cat Returns: A great use of ten minutes

A close look at the opening scenes of the Studio Ghibli cartoon feature The Cat Returns
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Studio Ghibli, The Cat Returns, Hayao Miyazaki, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Gang of Four, animation, movie fantasy, Hiroyuki Morita

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2012
Acting secrets from Nicolas Cage

A quick preview of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which opens Friday
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Neveldine/Taylor, Nicolas Cage, Gamer, Crank, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jacques Rivette

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2011
Now Playing: Change Nothing

Pedro Costa's documentary on actress-singer Jeanne Balibar screens Saturday at Cinema Borealis.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music, Christy LeMaster, Nightingale Theater, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Cinema Borealis, Gabe Klinger, Jonathan Rosenbaum, In Vanda’s Room, Colossal Youth, Ben Sachs, Jeanne Balibar, Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2008
People like us . . . almost

Other times, other customs? In the movies that isn't always true.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Breillat, The Last Mistress, The Duchess of Langeais, July Monarchy, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Dominique Ingres, L.P. Hartley, Ferdinand VII, Louis XVIII, Age of Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Joan the Maid

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2007
How film history gets rewritten

Jacques Rivette's "Out 1" demonstrates how film history can be determined by lack of information.
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Jacques Rivette, Out 1, French cinema, Out 1: Spectre

Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2007
Footnotes to Out 1

Online resources illuminate Jacques Rivette's 12-hour masterpiece Out 1.
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, Jacques Rivette, Out 1, French cinema, Cahiers du Cinema, Jean-Marie Straub

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2007
Celine & Julie: the typeface

Looking for a new angle on Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating? Try the credits and titles.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Louis Feuillade, Art nouveau, Hector Guimard, Boecklin standard, Metropolitain, 7 bis, Rue du Nadir aux Pommes, Les Vampires, Benguiat gothic

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2007
One sings, the other doesn't

How Rivette's Celine and Julie sparked a late-70s debate in the Reader.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Virginia Wright Wexman, B. Ruby Rich, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Louis Feuillade, The 1,000 Greatest Films

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