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Film, Movie Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Movie Tuesday: What do kids know?

Five major films about children
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Abbas Kiarostami, Gene Siskel Film Center, Yasujiro Ozu, Jacques Doillon, Samira Makhmalbaf, Harper Lee, Robert Mulligan, Terence Davies

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

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2017
Terrence Malick loves us—he just has a peculiar way of showing it

With Song to Song, the Austin-based filmmaker finds transcendental beauty in his hometown's music scene.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Piety, Terrence Malick, Song to Song, Paul Schrader, transcendental style, Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Carl Th. Dreyer, Alexander Sokurov, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, Bruno Dumont, Carlos Reygadas, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Val Kiilmer, Lykke Li, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups

Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2015
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The rise and fall of a techno DJ, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable sceenings
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Eden Mia Hansen-Love, Domestic Life, Dope movie, Guidelines movie, Infinitely Polar Bear, Mark Ruffalo, Krasno, A Little Chaos, Kate Winslet, Macaroni and Cheese, Manglehorn, Al Pacino, The Overnight, Mark Duplass, They Are We, Yasujiro Ozu, Early Summer, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Othello, Music Box Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Landmark's Century Centre, Adam Shankman, Hairspray, Northwestern University Norris Center, Penelope Spheeris, Wayne's World, Suburbia, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Shout! Factory, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Alain Resnais

Highlights from the filmography of the French surrealist Alain Resnais
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, University of Chicago's Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Alain Resnais, Je t'aime, Je t'aime, Jean-Luc Godard, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Stavisky . . ., Providence, Muriel, Statues Also Die, Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2013
The year in movie revivals, H through N

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Revival screenings, Music Box Theatre, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale Cinema, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic, An Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, Doc Films, L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted, White Light Cinema, Nanni Moretti, The Mass Is Over, Chicago International Film Festival, We Have a Pope, Max et les Ferailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mestizo, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Mario Handler, Venezuela, Guillermo Meneses, Moi un Noir, Jean Rouch, ethnography, Ivory Coast, No Fear No Die, Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, Film Studies Center, South Side Projections

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Columbia professor Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (and others) about No Fear, No Die and 35 Shots of Rum

A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Poetry, Film, Claire Denis, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jerry & Me, 35 Shots of Rum, No Fear No Die, Alex Descas, Cockfighter, Monte Hellman, Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring, colonialism, Jean-Claude Brialy, Frantz Fanon, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Cafe Lumiere, Five Dedicated to Ozu, Chester Himes, Jean-Luc Godard, nouvelle vague, Jacques Rivette, Isaach de Bankolé, Agnes Varda

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2013
An interview with Dan Sallitt, director of The Unspeakable Act

Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Opening, Film, Dan Sallitt, The Unspeakable Act, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andre de Toth, PItfall, Day of the Outlaw, Dark Waters, The Indian Fighter, Eric Rohmer, Nestor Almendros, independent filmmaking, Brooklyn, Medwood Park, L.A. Reader, Chicago Reader, film criticism, Yasujiro Ozu, incest, Tallie Medel, Wilkes-Barre, Dave Kehr, Don Druker, Myron Meisel, Hal Hartley, Whit Stillman, Doc Films

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2013
Does national culture determine moviegoing habits?

Thinking about Donald Richie's assessment of Japanese movie audiences
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Moviegoing, Film, Donald Richie, Japanese cinema, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, Kyoto, Yasujiro Ozu, Beastie Boys, Awesome I Fucking Shot That, Manifest Destiny, moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2013
See Yasujiro Ozu's final silent film this Saturday

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre's Second Saturday Silent Cinema series
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Foreign, Film, Music Box Theatre, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Yasujiro Ozu, An Inn in Tokyo, Passing Fancy, Kihachi, Sakamoto Takeshi, silent cinema, silent comedy, Japanese cinema, Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, A Story of Floating Weeds, I Was Born But..., benshi, Roger Ebert, Manny Farber, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2013
In Another Country: Hong Sang-soo's visions and revisions

The South Korean filmmaker's collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert is now available on DVD.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Narcissism, On Video, Film, In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo, Isabelle Huppert, Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Lou Reed, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jeonju International Film Festival, Claire Denis, Lou Reed, autobiographical fiction, Yasujiro Ozu, Luis Bunuel, South Korean cinema

Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2013
Get to Lakeview before the suns sets on Poppy Hill

The latest animated feature by Japan's Studio Ghibli is leaving town too soon.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Closing, Foreign, Education, Film, From Up on Poppy Hill, Landmark Century Centre, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Yasujiro Ozu, Ponyo, The Secret World of Arrietty, Bless Me Ultima, coming of age, Ohayo, Late Autumn

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2012
Rare Ozu at the Portage tomorrow night

Previewing A Hen in the Wind, screening from 35-millimeter at the Portage tomorrow night
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, A Hen in the Wind, Yasujiro Ozu, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Late Spring, Japanese cinema, World War II

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Aug 8, 2012
The devastation's in the details

In Ann Hui's A Simple Life, grand themes grow from tiny moments
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Ann Hui, Deanie Ip, Andy Lau, Hong Kong, character dramas, Boat People, nursing home, Yasujiro Ozu, the elderly

Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2012
Making sense with experimental animator Barry Doupé

An interview with Vancouver-based experimental editor Barry Doupé, whose feature The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important screens at the Onion City Film Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Whoa, Film, Visual Art, Barry Doupé, The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important, Cestral, 3D animation, Ponytail, Onion City Film Festival, Yasujiro Ozu, Good Morning, Death in Venice, office environment, experimental animation, gender inequality, 9 to 5

Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2012
A filmmaker under the influence

A brief consideration of alcohol's effect on filmmaking
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Hangover Week, Film, Hangover Week, John Ford, The Wings of Eagles, George Cukor, Yasujiro Ozu, John Cassavetes, Hong Sang-soo, Tokyo Story, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2012
The films of Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine

An interview with Doc Films programmer Edo Choi about the current Mikio Naruse/Hideko Takamine series.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Doc Films, Flowing, Floating Clouds, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edo Choi, Sound of the Mountain, Japanese film, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2009
Video
Killer flicks and pho

Rodan's Soupline Cinema Sundays serve up classics by Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Kore-eda and Sammo Hung.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Yasujiro Ozu, Rodan, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar Wai, Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Wan Guchan, Princess Iron Fan, Nobody Know, Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog, Toshiro Mifune, Hua Shan, The Super Inframan, Good Morning, Ronny Yu, Brigitte Lin, The Bride with White Hair, Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Sammo Hung, Ang Hun Tranh, The Scent of Green Papaya, Odd Obsession, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 23, 2007
How "Japanese" is it?

Regarding Letters From Iwo Jima: how do you say "Spielberg" in Japanese?
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Suribachi

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Five major films about children

Five films that depict people—and cinema—at their best

With Song to Song, the Austin-based filmmaker finds transcendental beauty in his hometown's music scene.

New reviews and notable sceenings

Highlights from the filmography of the French surrealist Alain Resnais

The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings

A conversation about the French filmmaker's two films about immigrant communities in France, No Fear, No Die (1990) and 35 Shots of Rum (2008)

Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work

Thinking about Donald Richie's assessment of Japanese movie audiences

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre's Second Saturday Silent Cinema series

The South Korean filmmaker's collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert is now available on DVD.

The latest animated feature by Japan's Studio Ghibli is leaving town too soon.

Previewing A Hen in the Wind, screening from 35-millimeter at the Portage tomorrow night

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

In Ann Hui's A Simple Life, grand themes grow from tiny moments

An interview with Vancouver-based experimental editor Barry Doupé, whose feature The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important screens at the Onion City Film Festival

A brief consideration of alcohol's effect on filmmaking

An interview with Doc Films programmer Edo Choi about the current Mikio Naruse/Hideko Takamine series.

Rodan's Soupline Cinema Sundays serve up classics by Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa, Kore-eda and Sammo Hung.

Regarding Letters From Iwo Jima: how do you say "Spielberg" in Japanese?

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