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Film, Movie Review Jul 19, 2017
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Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie

Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Gene Siskel Film Center, My Journey Through French Cinema, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Sautet, Les Choses de la Vie, Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival, Romy Schneider, Paul Guimard Intersection, Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Gérard Lartigau, Classe Tous Risques, Lino Ventura, Jose Giovanni, Île de Ré, French cinema, Recommended

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 Mar 21, 2013
Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90

Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, RIP, Theater, Film, Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Melo, Not on the Lips, Jean Anouilh, Eurydice, theater, death, Wild Grass, Alex Reval, Michel Piccoli, Matthieu Amalric, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last Year at Marienbad, Alan Ayckbourn

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2013
Further discoveries in the criminal files of Claude Sautet

Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Chabrol, The Unfaithful Wife, La Femme Infidele, Une Partie de Plaisir, Mado, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Dave Kehr

Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2013
Two French filmmakers overrated by middlebrows and underrated by cineastes

Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Murmur of the Heart, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Un Coeur en Hiver, Jean-Luc Godard, Numero Deux, bourgeois realism, Lacombe Lucien, Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, Nouvelle Vague, crime films, Classe Tous Risques, A Man Escaped

Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2013
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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Summer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Amour, Michael Haneke, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, The Sheik and I, Caveh Zahedi, Gangster Squad, Ruben Fleischer, Zombieland, The Iran Job, Last Call at the Oasis, Somewhere Between, Desire (1936), Frank Borzage, Ernst Lubitsch, Last Days of Pompeii, Silent Film Series, Music Box Theatre, revival screenings, Passage to Marseilles, Michael Curtiz, Northbrook Public Library, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP restoration, John Carpenter, The Thing, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 9, 2013
Mad Max

Claude Sautet flips the script on cop movies in Max et les Ferrailleurs
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, The Dictator's Guns, A Simple Story, Un Coeur en Hiver

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2012
What's new again: Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz

Revisiting an overlooked 1969 spy film by the Master of Suspense in light of The Bourne Legacy
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Topaz, The Bourne Legacy, Alfred Hitchcock, Tony Gilroy, Luis Bunuel, The Phantom of Liberty, Jeremy Renner, Playtime, Jacques Tati, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Michel Piccoli, Frederick Stafford, Sarah Kane, Rachel Weisz

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2012
Volleyball as a subversive art

Parsing out the radical implications of Nanni Moretti's Italian comedy We Have a Pope
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Piety, Film, We Have a Pope, Habemus Papam, Nanni Moretti, Caro Diario, Michel Piccoli, religious satire, Sacher Films

Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 25, 2012
Video
Upon this wobbly rock I will build my church

A newly elected pontiff has second thoughts in We Have a Pope
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Nanni Moretti, religion, Catholicism, the Vatican, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Video

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Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie

Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.

The year in movie revivals, H through N

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

Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90

Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival

Further discoveries in the criminal files of Claude Sautet

Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)

Two French filmmakers overrated by middlebrows and underrated by cineastes

Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals

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The birth of cinema verite, and the rest of this week's movies

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17

Mad Max

Claude Sautet flips the script on cop movies in Max et les Ferrailleurs

What's new again: Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz

Revisiting an overlooked 1969 spy film by the Master of Suspense in light of The Bourne Legacy

Volleyball as a subversive art

Parsing out the radical implications of Nanni Moretti's Italian comedy We Have a Pope

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Upon this wobbly rock I will build my church

A newly elected pontiff has second thoughts in We Have a Pope

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Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.

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

Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival

Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)

Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals

Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17

Claude Sautet flips the script on cop movies in Max et les Ferrailleurs

Revisiting an overlooked 1969 spy film by the Master of Suspense in light of The Bourne Legacy

Parsing out the radical implications of Nanni Moretti's Italian comedy We Have a Pope

A newly elected pontiff has second thoughts in We Have a Pope

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