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Film, Movie Feature Feb 13, 2020
Chicago Movie Journal: The communist imagination

The romantic pull of the Soviet ideology in film.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, communist film, Ninotchka, Great Garbo, Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, Crime, mystery, thriller, film, boats, FilmStruck, Macao, Josef von Sternerg, Paramount, RKO, Howard Hughes, Nicholas Ray, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Dave Kehr, L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Roberto Rossellini, La Notte, Eclipse, L’Eclisse, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Purple Noon, Alain Delon, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rene Clement, Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Henri Decae, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet, Playtime, Bill Kearns, Knife in the Water, Jerzy Skolimowski, Moonlighting, Roman Polanski, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Don Druker, Night Moves, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Watergate, Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Florida Keys, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Alan Sharp, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, James Woods

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2018
This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Television, Filmstruck, Turner Classic Movies, Criterion Collection, L'Amore, Roberto Rossellini, The Human Voice, The Miracle, Anna Magnani, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Fugitive Kind, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, Meade Roberts, Sidney Lumet, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory, Maureen Stapleton, The Golden Coach, Paul Campbell, Ricardo Rioli, Duncan Lamont, Jean Renoir, Prosper Merimee Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Jean Debucourt, Mamma Roma, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Aldo Fabrizi, Maria Michi, Don Druker, Open City, Luchino Visconti

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2014
Ranking Roberto Rossellini's five realist films

Highlights from the filmography of Roberto Rossellini
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Germany Year Zero, The Flowers of St. Francis, Stromboli, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Voyage to Italy, neorealism, modern art cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2014
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Everyone else is wrong, 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, Damien Chazelle, Whiplash, Ben Sachs, Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal, CitizenFour, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Hellaware, J'Accuse, Abel Gance, E-Team, Human Rights Watch, Harmontown, Community Dan Harmon, Horns Daniel Radcliffe, The X-Ray of Civilization, Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner, Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chicago Symphony Center, Cameron Carpenter, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan Theater Chicago, Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Music Box Chicago, Albert Brooks, s Modern Romance, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Henry Selick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roberto Rossellini, Open City, Samuel Fuller, Shock Corridor, WIP Theater Chicago, Lee Kepraios, Mostra V: Brazilian Film Series, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, First Nations Film and Video Festival, Mitchell Museum, LaDonna Harris: Indian 101, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2013
Lessons of random double features

Pairing films from very different points in film history might lead to novel insights about cinema on the whole.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, double features, Doc Films, Clean, Olivier Assayas, Enthusiasm, Dziga Vertov, L'Amore, 30 Door Key, Roberto Rossellini, Jerzy Skolimowski, Raymond Durgnat, Films and Feelings

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

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 26, 2013
Weekly Top Five: What's in the frame and what's out—the best of Martin Scorsese

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Doc Films, New Hollywood, Shutter Island, The Departed, Hugo, Taxi Driver, Michael Powell, Steven Spielberg, Jaws, Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, My Voyage to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, Goodfellas, Casino, The King of Comedy, Dave Kehr, Juliette Lewis, New York City

Film, Movie Review Mar 21, 2013
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Caesar Must Die takes Shakespeare to the slammer

Roman prisoners stage Shakespearean tragedy in Caesar Must Die.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Caesar Must Die, Music Box, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italian neorealist cinema, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Behind Bars, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Paisan, Cesare Zavattini, L'Italia non e un Paese Povero, San Miniato, July 1944, Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Lizzani, Talking About Cinema, Night of the Shooting Stars, Pirandello, Goethe, Tolstoy, The Subversives, St. Michael Had a Rooster, Rome Open City, Germany Year Zero, Cannes film festival, Palme d'Or, Padre Padrone, Fabio Cavalli, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2012
Voyage to Rossellini: free lecture tomorrow

Previewing a lecture on the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini at the Italian Cultural Institute
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Roberto Rossellini, Adriano Apra, Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, realism

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, en Sachs, The Housemaid, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Andrea Gronvall, Louder Than a Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Breath Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter . . . and Spring Kim Ki-duk, Lemmy 49% Motherf**cker 51% Son of a Bitch, Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead, The Regretters, The Devilles, Chicago Filmmakers, The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn, Luchino Visconti, The Leopard, Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe Rotunno, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Goodfellas, Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, Music Box, W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Ernst Lubitsch, One Hour With You, Northbrook Public Library;, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Fred Camper, Jacques Tati, Gene Siskel Film Center, Mon Oncle, Traffic Jacques Tati, Gone Rogue: An Iconoclastic Look at Church and State, Tom Palazzolo, Life As Lincoln, Ed M. Koziarski, Orgasm Inc., Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan, Saint John of Las Vegas, Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Peter Dinklage, Sarah Silverman, Still Bill, Bill Withers, Valentine's Day Garry Marshall, Pretty Woman, The Wolfman, Benicio Del Toro, John Ford, The Searchers, Doc Films, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, Hellzapoppin', Ivan Brunetti, John Badham, Saturday Night Fever, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Music Box, Casablanca, Bank of America Cinema, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, Lars von Trier, Antichrist, movies, Video

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Chicago Movie Journal: The communist imagination

The romantic pull of the Soviet ideology in film.

Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.

This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Ranking Roberto Rossellini's five realist films

Highlights from the filmography of Roberto Rossellini

Video
Everyone else is wrong, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Lessons of random double features

Pairing films from very different points in film history might lead to novel insights about cinema on the whole.

Video
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

Voyage to Italy, Before Midnight, and the movie theater as sanctuary

When big-screen presentation is essential to what a movie is saying

Video
NCFS hits the road, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Weekly Top Five: What's in the frame and what's out—the best of Martin Scorsese

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films

Recommended Video
Caesar Must Die takes Shakespeare to the slammer

Roman prisoners stage Shakespearean tragedy in Caesar Must Die.

Voyage to Rossellini: free lecture tomorrow

Previewing a lecture on the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini at the Italian Cultural Institute

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

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New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

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The romantic pull of the Soviet ideology in film.

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Highlights from the filmography of Roberto Rossellini

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Pairing films from very different points in film history might lead to novel insights about cinema on the whole.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

When big-screen presentation is essential to what a movie is saying

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Weekly top five: Martin Scorsese films

Roman prisoners stage Shakespearean tragedy in Caesar Must Die.

Previewing a lecture on the great filmmaker Roberto Rossellini at the Italian Cultural Institute

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

New reviews and notable films in this week's Chicago Reader.

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