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- Film, Movie Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Masterful melodramas
Five films that show the underrated genre at its best
- Film, Movie Review Jun 6, 2019
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In Asako I & II Ryûsuke Hamaguchi wonders if human longing is innate or instilled by something beyond us
Who hasn’t experienced heightened emotional states at moments of crisis or epiphany?
- Film, Movie Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Art imitating life
Five films in which directors look at themselves via autobiographical stand-ins
- Film, Movie Feature Dec 21, 2018
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Ben Sachs picks the top ten—well, 13—movies of 2018
A mix of the new, the old, and new work by the old
- Film, Movie Review May 17, 2018
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When Rainer Werner Fassbinder cheered up
The German master’s 1972 miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day shows ordinary people improving their lives.
- Film, Movie Feature Mar 7, 2018
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More than 60 new features premiere locally at the European Union Film Festival
New films by Arnaud Desplechin, Kornél Mundruczó, MIchel Hazanavicius, and Wim Wenders light up the festival's 21st edition.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2017
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s best films
The director's 1972 film adaptation of his own stage play screens at Doc Films this Sunday at 7 PM.
- Film, Movie Review Aug 12, 2015
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Tokyo Tribe: A mixture of Cassavetes, Fassbinder, and arterial spray
Japanese street gangs do battle in the latest art-shocker from Sion Sono.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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Olivier Assayas opens up about Clouds of Sils Maria and his secrets to directing actors
The French director's latest opens in Chicago today.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2014
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Memories of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Richard Linklater's Boyhood
The German playwright and director remains a major influence on the Austin-based independent, as a crucial scene of Boyhood demonstrates.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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An interview with Richard Linklater and Northwest Chicago Film Society on film programming (part two)
The second part of a conversation between the noted film director and the local repertory film organization
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2013
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Steven Soderbergh pays homage to the great R.W. Fassbinder, by way of Liberace
The creepy showbiz saga Behind the Candelabra is now available to rent at Redbox.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2013
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Kris Swanberg's Empire Builder: Ennui go to Montana!
On the second half of tonight's "Kris & Joe Swanberg double feature" at Doc Films
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Three's a crowd
Weekly top five: informal trilogies
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: The ecstatic truth of Werner Herzog
Top five Werner Herzog films
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2012
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Cosmopolis and other talking books
Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg's faithful Don DeLillo adaptation
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2012
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Some lessons I learned from Yilmaz Güney
A wrap-up of Doc Films's recently concluded Yilmaz Guney retrospective
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2012
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This week's movie action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2012
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Spending time with Crispin Glover
Crispin Glover speaks about his two events at the Music Box
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2011
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A conversation with Stephen Cone
Stephen Cone, writer-director of The Wise Kids, talks about that film and other projects.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2011
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This week's movie action
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2010
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Strongman Ferdinand
Alexander Kluge's 1976 satire of Cold War paranoia, "Strongman Ferdinand," screens tonight at The Nightingale.