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Blogs, Bleader, May 19, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Joseph Lewis and the B movie swamp

My five favorite Joseph Lewis films, in light of Doc Films' screening of the director's Gun Crazy tomorrow night
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Joseph H. Lewis, My Name is Julia Ross, A Lady Without Passport, Terror in a Texas Town, The Big Combo, Gun Crazy

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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This week in Indian cinema: Wadala, Goa, and Gatsby,

Briefly noting three recent Indian films playing in Chicago this week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Bollywood, River East 21, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, Amitabh Bachchan, Jai Bhim Comrade, Doc Films, Dalits, untouchables, Shootout at Wadala, Manya Surve, Go Goa Gone, Indian cinema, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2013
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Doc Films begins a two-part program of recent Indian documentaries

Previewing two free programs at the University of Chicago film society this month
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Doc Films, Jashn-e-Azadi, Jai Bhim Comrade, Indian cinema, documentaries, Smart Museum, The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989, Sanjay Kak

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Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2013
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This weekend's must-see revival: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie on 35-millimeter

John Cassavetes's personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Patio Theater, Chicago Cinema Society, Ray Carney, Gloria, The Godfather Part II, Sans Soleil, Fantastic Planet, Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, crime film, revival screenings, repertory screenings, Frank Capra, Aurora, Cristi Puiu, Philip Lopate, Criterion Collection, film noir, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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This spring Doc Films remembers a creative revolution

Previewing a series devoted to the films of Japan's Art Theater Guild
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Politics, Doc Films, University of Chicago, Art Theater Guild, ATG, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, A Man Vanishes, The Ceremony, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Funeral Parade of Roses, Matsumoto Toshio, Ecstasy of the Angels, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoshihige Yoshida, Coup d'Etat, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Agnes Varda, La Pointe Courte, Alain Resnais, Repo Man, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Japanese cinema, experimental film, pink films, underground cinema, Scarlet Street, Fritz Lang

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 28, 2013
Revisiting Walter Hill's 1981 quasi-war movie Southern Comfort

The director of The Warriors has become so alien to contemporary American cinema that his movies feel new again.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Shots Fired, Film, Walter Hill, Southern Comfort, The Driver, The Warriors, Bullet to the Head, Doc Films, Chicago Cinema Society, Roger Ebert, Vietnam War, Johnny Handsome, Brion James, war movies, John Carpenter, Samuel Fuller, Neveldine/Taylor

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 6, 2013
What's up, doc(umentary filmmakers)?

Considering the relationship between fiction and nonfiction filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Calcutta, Louis Malle, Doc Films, documentaries, fiction filmmaking, Shohei Imamura, A Man Vanishes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Close-Up, Abbas Kiarostami, Orson Welles, F for Fake, Luis Bunuel, Land Without Bread, ABC Africa

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Nobody's perfect—the best of Billy Wilder

Top five Billy Wilder films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Doc Films, Billy Wilder, Edgar G. Ulmer, Detour, Max Ophuls, Caught, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, auteurists, Cahiers du Cinema, Irma La Douce, Andrew Sarris, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, History and Memory 1927–1949, Love in the Afternoon, Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard, The Emperor Waltz, Bing Crosby, The Major and The Minor, Gregory La Cava, Leo McCarey, Some Like It Hot, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Marilyn Monroe, The Apartment, Avanti!, The Lost Weekend, One Two Three

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2013
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Cosmopolis and the incredible shrinking theater

Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Transportation, Moviegoing, Film, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, DVD, moviegoing, mise-en-scene, stretch limo

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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A neglected Chicago filmmaker gets his due, and the rest of this week's screenings

Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Andrew Sarris, Jean Rouch, Moi un Noir, The Lion Hunters, Doc Films, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Raising Arizona, Coen brothers, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, The Trouble With Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, Zazie in the Metro, Louis Malle, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, Chicago Cultural Center, West of Memphis, Amy Berg, West Memphis Three, Bel Borba Aqui, In Bed With Ulysses, A Haunted House, Marlon Wayans, Sexy Baby, La Rafle, Luv, Common, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 12, 2013
Two French filmmakers overrated by middlebrows and underrated by cineastes

Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Murmur of the Heart, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Un Coeur en Hiver, Jean-Luc Godard, Numero Deux, bourgeois realism, Lacombe Lucien, Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, Nouvelle Vague, crime films, Classe Tous Risques, A Man Escaped

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
Controversy in action, and the rest of this week's movies

A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Strange Days, Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, Any Day Now, Music Box Theatre, Django, Sergio Corbucci, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Spaghetti Western, Tal Rosenberg, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stranger Than Fiction, Pice Check, The Rabbi's Cat, Sister, Home, Ursula Meier, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Doc Films, Wong Kar-Wai, As Tears Go By, The Walls of Jericho, film noir, John Stahl, Portage Theater, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 3, 2013
This winter at Doc Films: Mitchum, Wong, Coens, and more

Previewing the University of Chicago film society's winter calendar
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Doc Films, Robert Mitchum, William Wellman, The Story of G.I. Joe, Ernie Pyle, 1928, King Vidor, The Driver, Walter Hill, Howard Hawks, El Dorado, Rio Bravo, The Patsy, Marion Davies, Secret Ceremony, Joseph Losey, The Wind, Victor Sjostrom, Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs, University of Chicago, Joel and Ethan Coen, Louis Malle, Amy Taubin, Wong Kar-Wai, Christopher Doyle, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Gus Van Sant, Psycho, Zhang Yimou, Hero

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012

The year in revival screenings
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best of 2012, year in review, revival screenings, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, the Nightingale, Doc Films, Bill Douglas, My Ain Folk, My Way Home, Bill Douglas Trilogy, Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer, White Nights, Two Lovers, La Notti Bianche, The Devil's Cleavage, George Kuchar, Daughters Wives and a Mother, Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, Charulata, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, The Gang's All Here, Busby Berkeley, Les Blank, CIMM Fest, Macunaima, Impala Sound DJs, the Whistler, The Oak, Lucian Pintilie, Romanian Cinema, The Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, Whisper of the Heart, Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, One People, African Diaspora Film Festival, Come Back Africa, Welcome to Pine Hill, You and Me, Fritz Lang, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Cinema Borealis, Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs, The Movie Orgy, Joe Dante, The Hole, Gremlins 2, South Side Hub of Projection, Poetry Foundation, Stan Brakhage, Deus Ex, Hauling Toto Big, Robert Nelson, experimental film, The Smiling Star, Werner Schroeter, Philippines, Kingdom of Naples, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Nothing But a Man, Michael Roemer, The Plot Against Harry, Robert Young

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 26, 2012
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Best revival screening of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Revival screening
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse Wiseman, La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet, Juvenile Court Wiseman, Chicago Filmmakers, documentaries, movie revivals, Yilmaz Guney, The Friend, Doc Films, revival screenings, Turkish cinema, third world cinema, Arkadas, Wake in Fright, Ted Kotcheff, Australian cinema, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Walkabout, Variations on a Theme, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 30, 2012
This Sunday's moviegoing dilemma: programs screen simultaneously

Previewing programs by Phil Solomon and Wladyslaw Starewicz
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Doc Films, found footage, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage, experimental film, stop-motion animation, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Cameraman's Revenge

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 15, 2012
Do the Strand—Chick Strand, that is

Previewing a program of works by the great experimental filmmaker Chick Strand at Doc Films
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Chick Strand, Doc Films, Angel Blue Sweet Wings, experimental cinema, Canyon Cinema, Anselmo and the Women, Cartoon le Mousse, By the Lake

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 28, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: horror films of the aughts

Top five horror films from the aughts
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Devil's Backbone, The Devil's Rejects, Trick 'r Treat, House of the Devil, Frontiere(s), Halloween, Doc Films, Xavier Gens, Ti West, Rob Zombie, Guillermo del Toro, Michael Dougherty, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

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