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Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Jan 16, 2013
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Real world: Ivory Coast

For Jean Rouch’s quasi-documentary Moi, un Noir, the subjects wrote the script.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Jean Rouch, Moi un Noir, Treichville, Ivory Coast, Abidjan, Jean-Luc Godard, Recommended

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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, Nov 30, 2012
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Check out Adolf's newest playlist on Spotify, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Wagner & Me, Gene Siskel Film Center, Stephen Fry, Gosford Park, Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Fish Tank, Fat Kid Rules the World, Jacob Wysocki, Terri movie, A Liar's Autobiograpy, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, University of Chicago Doc Films, Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Jean-Luc Godard, Made in U.S.A., Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Landmark's Century Centre, Joe Dante, Small Soldiers, Richard Fleischer, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Terror in the Aisles 13, Portage Theater Chicago; Phantasm, Dario Argento, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 5, 2012
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For better and for whirrs

A few thoughts on the sound of 16-millimeter projectors
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing, Jim Trainor, The Fetishist, Roots and Culture Gallery, 16-millimeter film, film projectors, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialisme, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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Aria going to Facets? and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 31, 2012
What's new again: Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins

Revisiting Claude Chabrol's second film in light of Alex Ross Perry's The Color Wheel
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Claude Chabrol, Les Cousins, Le Beau Serge, Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer, Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films, Alex Ross Perry, The Color Wheel, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Criterion Collection, Terrence Rafferty, Francois Truffaut, The 400 Blows

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 17, 2012
The mastery of French filmmaker Philippe Garrel

In praise of the intensely personal director, whose latest, A Burning Hot Summer, is currently playing in Chicago
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Philippe Garrel, A Burning Hot Summer, Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Maurice Garrel, Brigitte Sy, Emergency Kisses, Regular Lovers, Jean-Luc Godard, autobiography, Daniel Kasman, Maximilian Le Cain, Drew Hunt, Facets Multimedia

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2012
Now on DVD: another end of the world

A review of Perfect Sense, a Scottish sci-fi romance new on DVD
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Perfect Sense, David Mackenzie, Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Young Adam, Asylum, Giles Nuttgens, digital video, apocalypse, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Melancholia, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, The Turin Horse, Jean-Luc Godard

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2012
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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, Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse, Oren Moverman, Rampart movie, Woody Harrelson, Chico & Rita, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Hell and Back Again, An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day, My Way Home, Bill Douglas, On the Ice, Thin Ice, Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Laure Prouvost, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, University of Chicago Doc Films, Otto Preminger, Daisy Kenyon, Northbrook Public Library, Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, Lancelot du Lac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Music Box, Mikio Naruse, Her Lonely Lane, Jean-Luc Godard, In Praise of Love, Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Instituto Cervantes, Flamenco School, The Spanish Room, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Andrew McCall, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 3, 2012
Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)

The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis's essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Information Age, Internet, Love and Power, Bill Clinton, Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jean-Luc Godard, Century of the Self, Power of Nightmares, Leonard Cohen, Monica Lewinsky, Loren Carpenter, New Economy, Peter Watkins, The War Game

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2011
Best of 2011, number 3: Film Socialisme

Our year-end review continues with Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard, Best of 2011, Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs, In Praise of Love, Histoire(s) du cinema, David Bowie, 1970s, John Lydon, YouTube

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2011
Coming soon: Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar

A preview of Northwest Chicago Film Society's winter calendar
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, repertory programming, Portage Theater, Too Late Blues, John Cassavetes, Reds, Warren Beatty, Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema, WPA Federal Theater, One-Third of a Nation, Edward Dmytryk, Give Us This Day, Christ in Concrete, House Un-American Activities, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, Gregory LaCava, So's Your Old Man, W.C. Fields, Twentieth Century, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, Man of the West, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cecil B. DeMiille, Ten Commandments, Angel (1937), Marlene Dietrich, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Margaret, Brasher Doubloon, John Brahm, Otto Preminger, Centennial Summer, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, exile, Cine-File, Michael Castelle

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 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, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Michael James Perry, Death Row movie, Investigation Discovery, Kartemquin Films, At the Death House Door, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, The Interrupters, Peter Gilbert, Fred Camper, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Every Song Is About Me, Lope movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 3 movie, Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run, Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows, University of Chicago Doc Films, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Music Box, Jean-Luc Godard, Week-end movie, Chicago Food Film Festival, Kendall College, Intelligentsia Roasting Works, Illinois International Film Festival, Viaduct Theater, Kinky Film Festival, Leather Archives and Museum, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 9, 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, Jean-Luc Godard, Ben Sachs, Film Socialisme, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shawn Ku, Beautiful Boy, Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Cathryn Collins, Vlast (Power), Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Beginners movie, Mike Mills, Thumbsucker, Christopher Plummer, The Big Uneasy, Harry Shearer, New Orleans, Fred and Vinnie, Mars movie, hristopher Wetyzel Award for Independent Film Comedy, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, Submarine movie, Super 8, J.J. Abrams, Star Trek, Steven Spielberg, Roy Ward Baker, Don't Bother to Knock, Music Box, Tim Burton, Ed Wood, Northbrook Public Library, Frantisek Vlacil, Marketa Lazarova, Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers, Scott Tobias, Onion A/V Club, Rob Reiner, This Is Spinal Tap, John Water, The Wizard of Oz, Female Trouble, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Jun 9, 2011
Jean-Luc Godard takes back the culture with Film Socialisme
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialsme, Gene Siskel Film Center, Notre Musique, Histoire(s) de cinema

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 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, Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau, Of Gods and Men, Scheherazade Tell Me a Story, Battle: Los Angeles, Cold Weather, Aaron Katz, HappyThankYouMorePlease, Happy Thank You More Please, Red Riding Hood, European Union Film Festival, Change Nothing, Pedro Costa; Illegal movie, Kawasaki's Rose, The Red Chapel, Two in the Wave, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Dennis Scott, Sam Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Doc Films, Todd Haynes Safe, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 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, The Company Men, William S. Burroughs A Man Within, Yony Leyser, Ed Koziarski, Barney's Version, Mordechai Richler, Paul Giamatti, Dissolution Nina Menkes, Crime and Punishment, Great Directors Angela Ismailos, 12th and Delaware, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Jesus Camp, Fort Pierce Florida, The Way Back, Peter Weir, The Truman Show, Winston Churchill Walking With Destiny, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, Jean-Luc Godard, Every Man for Himself, Charles Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, Doc Films, David MacKenzie Spread, Ben Sachs, Howard Hawks, To Have and Have Not, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and recommended revivals in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Cliff Doerksen, Denzel Washington, The Book of Eli, Clair Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Gigante, Facets Cinematheque, Liverpool, Say My Name, Chicago Filmmakers, Tapped, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders, A Face in the Crowd, Olsen and Johnson, Hellzapoppin', Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger, Jack Nicholson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Howard Hawks, Scarface, John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Eric Rohmer, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 10, 2009
Never mind Bruno, here's The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow's heart-stopping war movie is being showered with accolades, all deserved. Also this week: Bruno, the Chicago premiere of Godard's Made in U.S.A., and a brooding (what else?) documentary on Beethoven.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Gene Siskel Film Center, Iraq War, In Search of Mozart, Phil Grabsky, Doc Films, Fritz Lang, war movies, Kathryn Bigelow, Fred Camper, Bank of America Cinema, Bruno, The Hurt Locker, In Search of Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Made in U.S.A., 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Blood: The Last Vampire, Favorite Son, How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Loot Darius Marder, Chimes at Midnight, Sergei Eisentein, Ivan the Terrible, Facets Night School, Joseph von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress, Scarlet Street

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