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Music, The Listener Mar 8, 2021
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Catherine Ringer keeps Les Rita Mitsouko’s music alive

Her famous duo are no more, but a recent box set captures her own performances of the band’s punky, jazzy synth-pop songs.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: The Listener, Les Rita Mitsouko, Rita Mitsouko, Catherine Ringer, Fred Chichin, The No Comprendo, C’est Comme Ça, Jean-Luc Godard, Soigne Ta Droite: Une Place Sur la Terre, Keep Your Right Up, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Catherine Ringer Chante Les Rita Mitsouko à la Philharmonie de Paris, Simone Ringer, box set, Raoul Chichin, Video

Film, Movie Feature Dec 17, 2019
Ben Sachs’s top 12 films of 2019

Yes, there are some ties.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Year in Review 2019, Sunset, László Nemes, Belmonte, Federico Veiroj, The Moneychanger, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”, Radu Jude, The Wild Pear Tree, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, Relaxer, Joel Potrykus, Hotel by the River, Grass, Hong Sang-soo, Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, Bruno Dumont, The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg, First Love, Takashi Miike, Vitalina Varela, Pedro Costa, Give Me Liberty, Kirill Mikhanovsky, Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood, The Sower, Marine Francen, The Laundromat, Steven Soderbergh, The Wandering Soap Opera, Raúl Ruiz, Ghost Tropic, Bas Devos, The Grand Bizarre, Jodie Mack, The Irishman, Martin Scorsese

Film, Movie Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Movie Tuesday: Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!

In honor of the Reader’s Pets issue, here are five films with plenty of cinematic canine charisma.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Movie Tuesday, dogs Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Leo McCarey, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aki Kaurismaki, Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Jacques Tati, Samuel Fuller, Ulrich Seidl

Film, Movie Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Movie Tuesday: The director as public intellectual

Five masterpieces from filmmakers whose work has pushed the cultural envelope
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Abel Ferrara, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Luc Godard, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Jia Zhang-ke, Sergei Eisenstein, Nagisa Oshima, Dušan Makavejev

Film, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
In Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard contemplates the transition from celluloid to video

Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it's having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard, movie history, video, television, TV, Soft and Hard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera, moving images, technology, analog video

Film, Movie Review Jul 6, 2018
Lesbian revolutionaries smash sexual taboos to undermine the patriarchy in Bruce LaBruce's The Misandrists

Luckily for the patriarchy, their plan for world domination involves making porn movies.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Misandrists, Bruce LaBruce, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lina Wertmüller, Dušan Makavejev, No Skin Off My Ass, The Raspberry Reich, Susanne Sachsße, Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise, lesbianism,, radical feminism, patriarchy, movies

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2018
Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, History, LGBTQ+, On Video, Television, Derek Jarman, FilmStruck, Pride Month, Caravaggio, Jean-Luc Godard, Passion, homoerotic, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Pat Graham, The Last of England, Margaret Thatcher, Spencer Leigh, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe, Ronald Reagan, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Jerome Flynn, Elektra Quartet, Annie Lennox, Eurythmics, Cole Porter, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Cornell, Karl Johnson, Blue, AIDS, Simon Fisher Turner

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2018
An interview with Jon Moritsugu, director of Mod Fuck Explosion

The veteran underground filmmaker reflects on his four-decade career.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Jon Moritsugu, Mod Fuck Explosion, Hippy Porn, Terminal USA, Amy Davis, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Asian-American Film Festival, Rebel Without a Cause, Jean-Luc Godard, Kenneth Anger, Liquid Sky, My Degeneration, Numbskull Revolution

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 Jan 5, 2018
Doc Films showcases the lesser-known work of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki

A new nine-week, 13-film series features a number of movies that rarely screen outside of Japan.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Foreign, Seijun Suzuki, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Nagisa Oshima, Cruel Story of Youth, Nikkatsu, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, Japanese New Wave, Tom Vick, Tokyo Drifter, Harbor Toast: Victory in My Hands, Young Breasts, Everything Goes Wrong, Fighting Delinquents, The Flowers and the Angry Waves, Born Under Crossed Stars, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, Capone Cries in His Sleep

Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2017
Revisit the glory days of radical chic with Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise and Le Gai Savoir

Two films from a transformative period in the director's career screen this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Politics, Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise, Le Gai Savoir, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto, Dziga Vertov Group, political filmmaking, Gene Siskel Film Center, Week-end, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Maoism

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2017
The still-relevant satire Little Murders is the best movie in town this week

Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter revival of Alan Arkin's 1971 film adaptation of Jules Feiffer's stage play.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Little Murders, Jules Feiffer, Elliott Gould, Alan Arkin, comic strips, satire, Jean-Luc Godard, Week-end, Masculine Feminine, Two or Three Things I Know About Her

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2015
Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman is back and as relevant as ever

The director's 1964 masterpiece plays all week in a new digital restoration.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Poetry, Jean-Luc Godard, A Married Woman, consumerism, Goodbye to Language, Macha Meril

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2015
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How to kick drugs while also surviving a hostage crisis, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Captive movie, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, A Brilliant Young Mind, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Goodnight Mommy, The Intern, Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, On Broadway, Joey McIntyre, New Kids on the Block, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Stonewall movie, Wildlike, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Rohmer, The Aviator's Wife, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, Chicago, David Drazin, Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces, Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, Fred Camper, Jean-Luc Godard, A Married Woman, Whit Stillman Metropolitan, Ingmar Bergman, Monika, Gordon Parks, World of Piri Thomas, Bathtub Songs: And Other Extracurricular Activities, Killa (The Fort), Chicago South Asian Film Festival, The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead, Dancing & Drowning: Animations From Kate Raney & Jeremy Bessoff, In Search of the Black Knight, Kinosonik #15, Manhattan Short Film Festival, Conversations at the Edge, Wayne Boyer and Larry Janiak: Camera and Line, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2015
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Taste the blood of Jemaine Clement, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, What We Do in the Shadows, Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Eagle vs Shark, Shaun of the Dead, Music Box Chicago, Ben Sachs, Wild Tales, Actress movie, Ballet 422, New York City Ballet, Bluebird movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Amy Morton, Focus Will Smith, Focus movie, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, The Lazarus Effect, Poison Pen, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Tales movie, What's the Time in Your World?, Leila Hatami, A Separation, Jean-Luc Godard, Every Man for Himself, Hail Mary, Gene Siskel Film Center, Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man, Marx Brothers, Horse Feathers, Annoyance Film Night, Annoyance Theatre, An Evening With Ernie Gehr, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, 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 13, 2015
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Spike Lee drinks Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Spike Lee, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess, Manuscripts Don't Burn, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Fifty Shades of Grey, Love Hunter, Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Seventh Son, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako, Today movie, White Rabbit, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Gene Siskel Film Center, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Saint John Cantius Church, Jay Warren, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Music Box, Don Siegel, Escape From Alcatraz, University of Chicago Doc Films, Agnes Varda, The Gleaners and I, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Music Box, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Marcel Carne, The Adultress, Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago Opera Theater, Jennifer Reeder, Museum of Contemporary Art, Remembering Harold Washington, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Chatham 14, Black History Month, 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 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

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2015
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Al Pacino in The Humbling, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Barry Levinson, Philip Roth, The Humbling, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon Prime, The Boy Next Door, Jennifer Lopez, Match movie, Patrick Stewart, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, R100, Big Man Japan, Spare Parts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, This May Be the Last Time, The Wedding Ringer, Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders, Pierrot le Fou, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Music Box Chicago, Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou, Jean Vigo, Zero for Conduct, Viridiana, University of Chicago Doc Films, Marx Brothers, Duck Soup, Logan Theater Chicago, Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 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

Film, Movie Review Jan 14, 2015
Recommended
Jean-Luc Godard goes 3-D, hurls ideas in your face

Goodbye to Language ponders the future of communication.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Jean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language, A Woman Is a Woman, Fabrice Aragno, Histoire(s) du Cinéma, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2015
Why did it take so long for Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language to reach Chicago?

Or is it more appropriate to ask how it got here so soon?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language 3-D, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dziga Vertov Group

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

Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2015
The best of Jean-Luc Godard in the 60s

Five in the wave: The top five early Godard films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave, Vivre Sa Vie, Week-end, Contempt, Made in U.S.A., 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Alphaville

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