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Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Architecture, Film, Foreign, On Video, Gene Siskel Film Center, Always at the Carlyle, New York City, hotel Georges Méliès, Wes Andeson, The Shining, The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Universal, Dave Kehr, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, Playtime, The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Miami Beach, Fontainebleau Hotel, Cracking Up, Milton Berle, Walter Winchell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, Memphis, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Robby Müller, Barton Fink, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Hollywood, John Turturro, John Goodman, Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito

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 Mar 4, 2016
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European Union Film Festival kicks off Friday, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, European Union Film Festival, Joost van Ginkel, The Paradise Suite, Bill Stamets, Fred Camper, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, London Has Fallen, The Wave, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Vincente Minnelli, The Band Wagon, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Robert Wise, West Side Story, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Peace on Earth Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2016
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Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Deadpool, Marvel Comics, The Camera Obscura, Alejandro Riera, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway, Sergei Eisenstein, Race movie, Jesse Owens, Risen movie, Rolling Papers, Denver Post, Time to Love, Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, A Separation, Touched With Fire, Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Erich von Stroheim, Greed movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, Mel Brooks, High Anxiety, Kutlug Ataman, Lola + Bilidikid, Roman Polanski, Repulsion, Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, Charles Walters, Summer Stock, Saul Levine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Vertigo, Ghostbusters, The Master, The Wild Bunch, Inherent Vice, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Sep 3, 2015
Recommended
In Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss is a woman on the edge of madness

The latest drama from indie director Alex Ross Perry explores the terror of being trapped in one's own head.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Queen of Earth, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Kentucker Audley, Patrick Fugit, Keegan DeWitt, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2014
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The cross, the crosshairs, 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, Brendan Gleeson Calvary, John Michael McDonagh, The Guard Brendan Gleeson, Ben Sachs, Into the Storm, The German Doctor, Josef Mengele, Venus in Fur, Roman Polanski, David Ives, The Bicycle movie, Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Coldwater movie, Dinosaur 13, Little White Lie, That Daughter's Crazy, Rain Pryor, Richard Pryor, The White Shadow, Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Condon, Dreamgirls, Millennium Park, Nobuhiko Obayashi, House movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Fredi M. Murer, Vitus, Chicago Cultural Center, Music Box, Summer Music Film Festival, Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night, Jonathan Demme, Stop Making Sense, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2014
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Escape From the Battle for the Conquest of the Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 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, Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rod Serling, Ben Sachs, Sex Tape, Boyhood Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Waking Life, School of Rock, Flamenco Flamenco, Carlos Saura, House of Sweet Magic The Animated Films of Helen Hill, The Promoter, Alec Guinness, Ronald Neame, The Horse's Mouth, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Wish I Was Here, Zach Braff, Garden State, Robert Gardner, Dead Birds, Nightingale Chicago, David Lynch, Eraserhead, University of Chicago Doc Films, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Alexander Mackendrick, The Ladykillers, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Music Box Chicago, Son of 70mm Film Festival, Eliza Kazan, On the Waterfront, Northwestern University Norris Center, Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Polish cinema

Highlights from Polish film history
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, Polish Cinema, Martin Scorsese, Music Box, Paweł Pawlikowski, J.R. Jones, Ida, Ashes and Diamonds, Andrzej Wajda, Camouflage, Krzysztof Zanussi, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Barrier, Jerzy Skolimowski, Deep End, Moonlighting, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bigger Than Life, A Short Film About Killing, A Short Film About Love

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
Great job turning Rosemary's Baby into a Lifetime movie, guys

Two hours in, and an entire gestational period to go.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, rosemary's baby, nbc, miniseries, sunday, part one, zoe saldana, jason isaacs, roman polanski, mia farrow, ruth gordon, horror, movies

Blogs, Bleader Dec 25, 2013
The year in movie revivals, P through Z

The final installment of a three-part series on notable repertory screenings of 2013
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Zardoz, revival screenings, Le Pont du Nord, Jacques Rivette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Music Box Theatre, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Black Cinema House, Reeling Film Festival, Cat Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Film Archives, Joyce Wieland, Shura the 48th Ronin, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Doc Films, Pandemonium, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Mary Pickford, Sparrows, Christel Schmidt, Mary Pickford Queen of the Movies, Mary Patten, Tess, Roman Polanski, DCP, Richard Fleischer, The Vikings, Violent Saturday, Noir City, John Boorman, Portage Theater, Patio Theater, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2013
Happy Together, Primer, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, Happy Together, Wong Kar-wai, Hoop Dreams, Lenny Cooke, Alexandra's Project, Rolf de Heer, Primer, Shane Carruth, Upstream Color, Joyeux Noel, Terror in a Texas Town, Joseph H. Lewis

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Commercials directed by major filmmakers

TV commercials directed by major filmmakers
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Wes Anderson, Prada, Castello Cavalcanti, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Léa Seydoux, Gus Van Sant, Miller Genuine Draft, Edgar Wright, Pizza Hut, Nick Frost, Victoria's Secret, Michael Bay, Parisienne, the Coen brothers, Emir Kusturica, Roman Polanski, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, David Lynch, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Gap, American Express, Francois Truffaut, Day for Night, Jules et Jim, Fahrenheit 451, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
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Guerrillas, gamma people, 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, Escape From Tomorrow, Disneyland, Disney World, Ben Sachs, Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine, School of the Art Institute, All Is Lost, Robert Redford, Bad Grandpa, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Carrie movie, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sissy Spacek, The Counselor, Ridley Scott, Cormac McCarthy, The Gamma People, Marianna Milhorat: Notions of Space, Hou Hsiao-hsien, City of Sadness, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michael Reeves, The Conqueror Worm, Gene Siskel Film Center, Far From Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter Halloween, Logan Theater Chicago, River East 21, Landmark's Century Centre, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, John Cassavetes, Minnie and Moskowitz, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Music Box Chicago, Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark, George Pal, War of the Worlds, Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man, Englewood International Film Festival, Chatham 14, Chicago International Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Chris & Heather's Halloween Hootenanny, Fitzgerald's, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2013
Now on DVD: This year's other Michael Cera-Sebastian Silva collaboration

Notes on the accomplished psychological thriller Magic Magic, which comes out on DVD after being denied a theatrical release
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Magic Magic, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Chile, Chilean cinema, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Augustin Silva, Catalina Sandina Moreno, Christopher Doyle, Francis Ford Coppola, RedBox, straight-to-DVD movies, psychological horror, Repulsion, Roman Polanski, Claude Chabrol

Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of New Hollywood

Top five New Hollywood films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, New Hollywood, Northbrook Public Library, The Cotton Club, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Siskel Film Center, Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, Roman Polanski, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Alan J. Pakula, Klute, Rainy People, Apocalypse Now, Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, Kent Jones, Point Blank, John Boorman, Lee Marvin

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, 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, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Apr 25, 2013
Recommended Video
Rob Zombie returns from the dead

The Lords of Salem is a tale of modern-day witches.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Halloween, Halloween II, The Lords of Salem, Rob Zombie, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Three's a crowd

Weekly top five: informal trilogies
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, John Carpenter, Apocalypse Trilogy, The Thing, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft, cosmicism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, BRD Trilogy, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola, Veronika Voss, Germany, Nazism, John Ford, Cavalry Trilogy, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, Dave Kehr, Native American, WWII, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alienation Trilogy, L'Avventura, La Notte, Eclipse, Roman Polanski, Apartment Trilogy, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films

The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, The Ghost Writer, Chinatown, The Pianist, The Tenant, Dave Kehr, Franz Kafka, William Castle, Knife in the Water, National Film School in Łódź, Repulsion, Carnage, Harold Pinter, Samuel Becket, Freud, Frantic, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2013
Lawrence of Arabia versus Tess: Looking up and looking around

Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Roman Polanski, Tess, DCP restoration, Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, skyscrapers, Panavision, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2012
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The 35-millimeter nanny, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Aardman Animations, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Laika Inc., Coraline, ParaNorman, Cloud Atlas, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Chicago Cultural Center, DePaul University, Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue, My Home movie, Reluctant Bachelor movie, No Men Allowed, The Sessions movie, John Hawke, Helen Hunt, The Seventh Companion, Aleksei Guerman, Vincent Grenier: Tabula Rasa, The Whisperer in Darkness, H.P. Lovecraft, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Logan Theater Chicago, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Lake, Landmark's Century Centre, University of Chicago Doc Films, Rupert Julian, Phantom of the Opera, Beverly Arts Center, Isa Takahata, Pom Poko, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Northbrook Court, Englewood Film Festival, I Ain't Scared of You—A Tribute to Bernie Mac, Georges Melies Cine-Concert, Lawrence Leherissey-Melies, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Jirokichi the Rat, Kataoka Ichiro, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Debuts

Top Five Debut Films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, Unfaithfully Yours, Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, L'Age D'Or, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, The Family Nest, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Badlands, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accatone, Mama Roma, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Film, Movie Review May 16, 2012
Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, uncut

The Gene Siskel Film Center premieres the Polish director's confounding masterpiece
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Poland, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Andrzej Zulawski, World War II, Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Jerzy Grotowski

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2012
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Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian Pintilie, and other keywords

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's Reader
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Raven movie, John Cusack, Facets Cinematheque, Lucian Pintilie, The Avengers movie, Marvel Comics, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, The First Season, Hit So Hard, Hole Live Through This, Patty Schemel, Keyhole movie, Guy Maddin, Sing Your Song, Harry Belafonte, Surviving Progress, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Doc Films, Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel, Roman Polanski, Chinatown movie, Music Box, Jack Hill, Coffy movie, Johnnie To, Exiled movie, Kim Jee-woon, The Good the Bad and the Weird, Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bob Mizer, Nightingale, Romanian cinema, movies, Video

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