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Blogs, Bleader Nov 3, 2015
Nasty Baby confirms Sebastian Silva's considerable filmmaking talent

The latest from Chilean-born, New York-based filmmaker Sebastian Silva is currently playing at the Music Box.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, It's Complicated, Nasty Baby, Sebastian Silva, Kristen Wiig, Tunde Adebimpe, French New Wave

Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2015
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Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Michael Almereyda, Experimenter, Stanley Milgram, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Taxi Jafar Panahi, The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Burnt movie, Bradley Cooper, Jem and the Holograms, The Last Witch Hunter, Vin Diesel, Nasty Baby, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Kristen Wiig, Our Brand Is Crisis, Suffragette, Carey Mulligan, Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders, Truth movie, Dan Rather, Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, Chris Marker, Le Joli Mai, Ingmar Bergman, The Magician, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Trinity United Methodist Church, Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma!, Michael Curtiz, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Victor Halperin, White Zombie, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, A Day's Work, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, First Nations Film & Video Festival, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2015
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Reeling roundup, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, 4th Man Out, Brokeback Mountain, I Am Love, Ben Sachs, The Second Mother, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Black Mass, Johnny Depp, Whitey Bulger, Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, House of Flying Daggers, Hippocrates Diary of a French Doctor, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Bobby Fischer, Tobey Maguire, Boris Spassky, Liev Schreiber, Sleeping With Other People, Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Time Out of Mind, Richard Gere, The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, Jason Blum, Paranormal Activity, Michael Powell, Age of Consent, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Josef von Sternberg, The Docks of New York, Robert Altman Nashville, Mario Monicelli, The Organizer, The Passionate Thief, Andrew Niccol, Gattaca, Shannon Hackett, Field Museum, Kevin Feldheim, Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, Slate Culturefest Live!, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2014
The ongoing Chilean new wave yields Flying Fish

Marcela Said's debut feature begins a weeklong run at Facets Multimedia this weekend.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, The Summer of Flying Fish, Marcela Said, Facets Multimedia, Chilean cinema, Sebastian Silva, Magic Magic

Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2014
Noting a couple great final shots of 2013

The last-minute shift in tone remains one of the strongest (and cheapest) effects in a filmmaker's arsenal.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, final shots, The Wolf of Wall Street, Magic Magic, Sebastian Silva, plot twists

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Magic Magic, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, year in review, 2013 movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Immigrant, James Gray, Frank Borzage, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, The World's End, Bastards, Claire Denis, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt

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

Film, Movie Review Jul 31, 2013
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In Blue Jasmine, the song remains the same

Woody Allen's latest is too enamored of the affluent to be anything but tone deaf.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen, Oscars, Ray Pride, New City, Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bernie Madoff, San Francisco, Sally Hawkins, Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky, Match Point, Claude Chabrol, Stanley Kowalski, the Fonz, Andrew Dice Clay, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2013
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Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs 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, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, The Maid movie, Michael Cera, Rufus Norris, Broken movie, Broken Tim Roth, Broken Cillian Murphy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station, Chad Hartigan, This Is Martin Bonner, The Conjuring movie, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Death Rides a Horse, Lee Van Cleef, Grown Ups 2, Adam Sandler, Oconomowoc, Terms and Conditions May Apply, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spencer Williams, Juke Joint, Black Cinema House, Don Siegel, The Lineup, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nicholas Ray, The Lusty Men, University of Chicago Doc Films, Luis Bunuel, Mexican Bus Ride, Silent Summer Film Festival, Portage Theater, Des Plaines Theater, The Sheik, Rudolph Valentino, Jay Warren, South Side Projections, Black Panthers in Their Own Words, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 17, 2013
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus: the spines are all mine

In Sebastian Silva's new Chilean feature, Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Music Box, Michael Cera, Augustin Silva, Chile, Santiago, Gaby Hoffmann, Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Magic Magic, Pablo Larrain, Tony Manero, No, Juan de Dios, La Vida Me Mata, Sundance Film Festival

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2009
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Cliff Doerksen Died for Your Sins

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Armored movie, Transylmania, John 15:13, Sebastian Silva, Maid Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Hong Sang-soo Night and Day, Hong Sang-soo, Jim Sheridan Brothers, Brothers movie, Robert De Niro Everybody's Fine, Lucrecia Martel, Headless Woman, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Dave Foley The Strip, They Came to Play, Jason Reitman, Up in the Air, Up in the Air George Clooney, Gene Siskel Film Center, New Comedy Mavericks, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Dec 3, 2009
Not All in the Family

In The Maid, a household's shallow affection is the reward for a life unlived.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Maid, Sebastian Silva, Pedro Peirano, Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedon, Alejandro Goic, Andrea Garcia-Huidobro, Agustin Silva, Mariana Loyola, Music Box, Renaissance Place

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Nasty Baby confirms Sebastian Silva's considerable filmmaking talent

The latest from Chilean-born, New York-based filmmaker Sebastian Silva is currently playing at the Music Box.

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Psychologists gone wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue

Video
Reeling roundup, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The ongoing Chilean new wave yields Flying Fish

Marcela Said's debut feature begins a weeklong run at Facets Multimedia this weekend.

Noting a couple great final shots of 2013

The last-minute shift in tone remains one of the strongest (and cheapest) effects in a filmmaker's arsenal.

My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

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

Video
In Blue Jasmine, the song remains the same

Woody Allen's latest is too enamored of the affluent to be anything but tone deaf.

Video
Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs the rest of this week's screenings?

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus: the spines are all mine

In Sebastian Silva's new Chilean feature, Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant.

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Cliff Doerksen Died for Your Sins

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.

Not All in the Family

In The Maid, a household's shallow affection is the reward for a life unlived.

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The latest from Chilean-born, New York-based filmmaker Sebastian Silva is currently playing at the Music Box.

New reviews and notable sceenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Marcela Said's debut feature begins a weeklong run at Facets Multimedia this weekend.

The last-minute shift in tone remains one of the strongest (and cheapest) effects in a filmmaker's arsenal.

The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year

Notes on the accomplished psychological thriller Magic Magic, which comes out on DVD after being denied a theatrical release

Woody Allen's latest is too enamored of the affluent to be anything but tone deaf.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In Sebastian Silva's new Chilean feature, Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant.

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.

In The Maid, a household's shallow affection is the reward for a life unlived.

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