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Film, Movie Review Jun 6, 2018
Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Story of a Satellite

In this Spanish drama, a young man whose father was killed by a falling satellite keeps an eye on the sky.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Story of a Satellite, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Miriam Albert-Sobrino, Sonia Albert-Sobrino, Also Sisters, Pedro Almodovar, Alfonso Miguez, Spanish cinema, movies

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2017
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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 Apr 21, 2014
The case of the missing missing reel

As celluloid projection becomes a thing of the past, it's increasingly rare to watch a movie out of order in the theater.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, All About My Mother, Pedro Almodovar, Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, missing reels

Film, Movie Feature Dec 24, 2013
Video
Year in review: 2013 at the movies

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Year in Review 2013, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Haneke, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Jia Zhang-ke, Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Jason Osder, Wilson Goode, Jeremy Scahill, Rithy Panh, David O. Russell, Frederick Wiseman, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise trilogy, Edward Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler, Andrew Bujalski, Pedro Almodovar, Tsai Ming-liang, Miguel Gomes, Johnnie To, Alfonso Cuaron, Alain Resnais, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2013
Video
Almodovar takes flight, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pedro Almodovar, I'm So Excited, Drew Hunt, Julian Roman Polsler, The Wall movie, A Hijacking movie, Despicable Me 2, The Hellbenders, Sergio Corbucci, Django, Navajo Joe, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, The Way Way Back, Steve Carell, Toni Colette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwestern Chicago Film Society, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard Visconti, Kenji Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Walter Hill, The Warriors, Logan Theater Chicago, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 3, 2013
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Pedro Almodovar, wacky once more

I'm So Excited! is a throwback to the director's early farces.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Pedro Almodovar, I'm So Excited, Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Madrid, Mexico City, Pointer Sisters, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Law of Desire, David Cronenberg, The Flower of My Secret, Lola Dueñas, Javier Camara, Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Raul Arevalo, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2011
Video
This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, William Colby, Steve Bogira, The Man Nobody Knew, Phoenix Program, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Margin Call, Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Pieter Bruegel, The Way to Calgary, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Texas Killing Fields, The Three Musketeers, With or Without Love, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, Woody Allen, Bananas, University of Chicago Doc Films, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Golub movie, The Last Pullman Car, Pullman State Historic Site, Jules Dassin, Rififi, Roman Polanski, The Tenant, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Beverly Arts Center, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, Universal Horror!, Cinema Borealis, Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Mysteries of Lisbon, Raul Ruiz, Time Regained, Three Lives and Only One Death, Music Box, Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University, Fast Talk, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Martin Scorsese, Hugo movie, George Clooney, The Ides of March, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn, Pedro Almodovar, The Skin I Live In, Amigo movie, John Sayles, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star, Sunshine State, Bellflower movie, Evan Glodell Circumstance movie, Maryam Keshavarz, Daylight movie, Drive movie, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson movie, Pusher trilogy, Gun Hill Road, Esai Morales, I Don't Know How She Does It, Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah, Where Soldiers Come From, Arthur Penn, Alice's Restaurant, Music Box, Billy Wilder, The Apartment, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, fall arts preview, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2009
Dinner & A Show: Monday, 12/21

A free show at the Empty Bottle, sophisticated Italian food in Evanston, and more
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Netherfriends, Empty Bottle, Shawn Rosenblatt, Sundance Shorts, Don Hertzfeldt, I Am So Proud Of You, Music Box, Julius Meinl Cafe, Broken Promises, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Landmark's Century Centre, Buffet Palace, Century 12 and CineArts 6, The Stained Glass Bistro, Blue Nativity, Campagnola

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2008
Doc Films' rockin' new year

Doc Films is back in action after the holiday break.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, University Of Chicago, Dave Kehr, Film Noir, Doc Films, Samuel Fuller, Jacques Demy, Ernst Lubitsch, Jacques Tati, college film societies, Tom Gunning, Pedro Almodovar, sexploitation, Mike Mashon, Japanese cinema

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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Story of a Satellite

In this Spanish drama, a young man whose father was killed by a falling satellite keeps an eye on the sky.

Video
Ben Sachs’s favorite films of 2017

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

The case of the missing missing reel

As celluloid projection becomes a thing of the past, it's increasingly rare to watch a movie out of order in the theater.

Video
Year in review: 2013 at the movies

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.

Video
Almodovar takes flight, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Pedro Almodovar, wacky once more

I'm So Excited! is a throwback to the director's early farces.

Video
This week's movie action

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

Video
This Week's Movie Action

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

Dinner & A Show: Monday, 12/21

A free show at the Empty Bottle, sophisticated Italian food in Evanston, and more

Doc Films' rockin' new year

Doc Films is back in action after the holiday break.

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In this Spanish drama, a young man whose father was killed by a falling satellite keeps an eye on the sky.

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

As celluloid projection becomes a thing of the past, it's increasingly rare to watch a movie out of order in the theater.

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

I'm So Excited! is a throwback to the director's early farces.

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

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

A free show at the Empty Bottle, sophisticated Italian food in Evanston, and more

Doc Films is back in action after the holiday break.

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