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Film, Movie Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Movie Tuesday: A few words (and movies) on kindness

Five films that depict people—and cinema—at their best
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Richard Linklater, Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz, special education, Chicago Public Schools, Jacques Tourneur, Yasujiro Ozu, Frederick Wiseman, Ann Hui

Film, Movie Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
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Movie Tuesday: Superior sequels and remakes

Five films that achieve the rare cinematic feat of improving upon their predecessors.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Chicago Film Society, James Whale, John Huston, Frank Tashlin, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Linklater, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2018
This week on FilmStruck: Deep in the heart of Texas

FilmStruck finds more than western films deep in the heart of Texas.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Texas, FilmStruck, Lone Star, Stetsons, Longhorn cattle, John Wayne, Giant, Edna Ferber, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Boris Levin, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Dave Kehr, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, New Wave, Howard Hawks, Red River, Cahiers du Cinema, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Oscar, Robert Surtees, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Paris Texas, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Robby Müller, Hammett, John Ford, Michelangelo Antonioni, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Ry Cooder, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Blood Simple, M. Emmet Walsh, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, James M. Cain, Slacker, Richard Linklater, Austin Texas, Waking Life, The Phantom of Liberty, Playtime

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2017
Last Flag Flying is Richard Linklater’s latest triumph

The Boyhood director delivers a casually masterful adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's 2005 novel.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Last Flag Flying, Richard Linklater, Darryl Ponicsan, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carrell, Laurence Fishburne, In Transit

Blogs, Bleader Feb 23, 2015
The New York Times's crackdown on unnamed sources still not going well

The Times prefers not to tell us who said what.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, New York Times, the Oscars, Boyhood, Fox Searchlight, Richard Linklater, anonymous sources

Blogs, Bleader Feb 22, 2015
Five movies you should watch tonight instead of the Oscars

And they're all streaming online!
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Weekly Top Five, Film, Young Mr. Lincoln, John Ford, Mafioso, Alberto Lattuada, Waking Life, Richard Linklater, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Ernst Lubitsch, I Don't Want to Be a Man!, Don Hertzfeldt, 87th Academy Awards, the Lego Movie

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2015
Columnists continue to come to terms with Boyhood, musicals, and Super Bowl ads

Deep thoughts on reading the Sunday papers
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Film, News, Super Bowl ads, Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, Bud Light, Nationwide, McDonald's, Pac Man, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alexander Hamilton, "Hamilton, " Rob Weinert-Kendt, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Michael Apted, "Up" films, Mary Jo Murphy

Film, Movie Feature Dec 26, 2014
Our favorite movies of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, best films of 2014, J.R. Jones, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Calvary, John Michael McDonagh, Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Two Days, One Night, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, Joe, David Gordon Green, The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, Cheap Thrills, Eugene Ionesco, Starred Up, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette, What Now? Remind Me, Breakfast With Curtis, Joaquin Pinto, Laura Colella, Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin, E.L. Katz, Year in Review 2014, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Rambleras, Daniela Speranza, Jacques Demy, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream, Duke Ellington, Jean-Paul Sartre

Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2014
How the influence of existentialist philosophy plays out in Richard Linklater's filmmaking

Further thoughts on that Fassbinder-style tracking shot in Boyhood
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, Slacker

Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2014
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.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Richard Linklater, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Austin Film Society, Boyhood, Katzelmacher

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2014
Film critic Kenneth Turan has more to say about himself than Boyhood

One film critic explains why his opinion is special.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Film, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, History, Richard Linklater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Rebecca Hall, Kyle Westphal, Julian Antos, repertory film programming, 35-millimeter film, DCP projection, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film history, Veronika Voss, Baal, Bertolt Brecht

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Binging on The Purge, 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, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Purge: Anarchy, James DeMonaco, Tal Rosenberg, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, And So It Goes, Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas, Cannibal movie, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, Offside Jafar Panahi, Crimson Gold, Happy Christmas movie, Joe Swanberg, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham, Honeymoon Jan Hrebejk, Kawasaki's Rose, Gene Siskel Film Center, I Dreamt of You So Much That, Stefan Constantinescu, I Origins, Mike Cahill, Another Earth, Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, A Most Wanted Man, John le Carre, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Carpenter, Big Trouble in Little China, Music Box Chicago, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rob Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap, Millennium Park, Music Box, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Kim Ki-duk Time, Chicago Cultural Center, Filmspotting, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2014
An interview with Richard Linklater and Northwest Chicago Film Society on film programming

The acclaimed filmmaker discusses his second career as an exhibitor with the local film-programming organization.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, History, Richard Linklater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Julian Antos, Rebecca Hall, Kyle Westphal, film prints, film history, Austin Film Society, Slacker, nonprofit organizations, DCP projection, Boyhood

Film, Movie Review Jul 18, 2014
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Boyhood is the fatherhood of the manhood

In Richard Linklater's film, people change—but do they ever really grow up?
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Movie Review, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, Texas, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
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Urban bombing, third-trimester abortion, the scourge of slavery, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, MOVE, Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, After Tiller, Jacques Becker, Antoine and Antoinette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Escape Plan, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenneger, The Fifth Estate, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John, Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, Phil Morehart, Facets Fright School, Terence Davies Distant Voices Still Lives, David Fincher, Fight Club, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Gene Siskel Film Center, Olivier Assayas, Late August Early September, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Todd Haynes Safe, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Roberto Rossellini, Voyage to Italy, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Nosferatu, Carl Schurz Slocum Hall, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Chicago History Museum, Music Box, Werner Herzog, Music Box of Horrors, Sound Opinions, High Fidelity, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Sep 4, 2013
At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story

From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on Grand Theft Auto IV, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Sergei Eisenstein, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin, Buffalo Death Mask, Andy Warhol, Grand Theft Auto IV, JB Mabe, To the Change Assigned, Lewis Klahr, Kiss the Rain, David Fincher, Matt Wolf, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, I Am Micro, Seven, Vincent Grenier, Watercolor (Fall Creek), Jake Barningham, Pták básně I a II, Phil Solomon, Empire, Gus Van Sant, Aula Magna, Manuel Barenboim, Ant Hill, Gerry, Andres Denegri, Elephant, Last Days, Joseph Cornell, George Kuchar, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Morning of Saint Anthony's Day, As the Flames Rose, João Pedro Rodrigues, Columbia College, Ferguson Theater, O Fantasma, Two Drifters, To Die Like a Man, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Saint Anthony's Day, Jean Cocteau, The Human Voice, Ben Rivers, Phantoms of a Libertine, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies, Slow Action, Two Years at Sea, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Stephen Graves, A Body Without Organs, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, I Am Micro, Kamal Swaroop, Double Play, Richard Linklater, James Benning

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2013
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A couple of smoke screens and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 30 and September 5
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Drew Hunt, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, David Lowery, Terrence Malick, Charles Fairbanks, The Nightingale, Richard Linklater, "Before" trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah, Laurence Knapp, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Northbrook Public Library, Greed, Eric von Stroheim, Gus Van Sant, Mala Noche, Doc Films, Patio Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Rebecca Hall, One Hour With You, Ernst Lubitsch, American Made Movie, The Attack, Closed Circuit, Eric Bana, Off Label, pharmaceutical industry, Saturday Morning Mystery, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2013
Further thoughts about Frances Ha and its supermodels

Noah Baumbach's entertaining new comedy pays tribute to 60s French New Wave films, but to what end?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Voyage to Italy, French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Raoul Coutard, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Chloe in the Afternoon, Breathless, Jules and Jim, The Soft Skin, Vivre Sa Vie, Masculine-Feminine, Band of Outsiders, Blancanieves, The Artist, pastiche, tribute, reference, Greta Gerwig, film criticism

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2013
Voyage to Italy, Before Midnight, and the movie theater as sanctuary

When big-screen presentation is essential to what a movie is saying
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Piety, Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, Roberto Rossellini, Voyage to Italy, Andre Bazin, Europa '51, Stromboli, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, 70-millimeter, Music Box Theatre, Gene Siskel Film Center, cinematic realism, religious filmmaking

Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2013
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NCFS hits the road, 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, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, High Treason, Patio Theater Chicago, Facets Cinematheque, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Soska sisters, American Mary, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ulrich Seidl, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Before Midnight, After Earth, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, As Above So Below, L.A. Rebellion, Now You See Me, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Fritz Lang, The Big Heat, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcee, Music Box, Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, Northbrook Public Library, Chris Marker, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Voyage to Italy, Gene Siskel Film Center, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2013
New work by famed experimentalist James Benning rides into town

Previewing the local premiere of Benning's Easy Rider at the Nightingale
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, James Benning, Nightingale Cinema, Gabe Klinger, Easy Rider, landscape films, Deseret, One Way Boogie Woogie, Deseret, California trilogy, Landscape Suicide, The Movie Orgy, Richard Linklater, experimental films, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, 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, Tal Rosenberg, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, Cold Water, James Joyce, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Aqui y Alla, Dark Waters, Andre de Toth, In the House, Francois Ozon, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, Stanley Donen, Charade, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Music Box Chicago, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Portage Theater Chicago, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, Video

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