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Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Dream on—the American dream on film

Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, American dream, El Norte, Gregory Nava, Thieves' Highway, Jules Dassin, Stroszek, Werner Herzog, California Dreamin', Cristian Nemescu, Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ben Sachs

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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 4, 2013
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Rare Jacques Rivette comes to the Film Center this week

Previewing Le Pont du Nord, screening in Chicago three times next week
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pascale Ogier, Bulle Ogier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film: The Front Line

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 4, 2013
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RIP Roger Ebert: 1942-2013

The legendary film critic died Thursday.
- by Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: RIP, Film, News, Roger Ebert, Life Itself, Michael Miner, Neil Steinberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 21, 2013
Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90

Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, RIP, Theater, Film, Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Melo, Not on the Lips, Jean Anouilh, Eurydice, theater, death, Wild Grass, Alex Reval, Michel Piccoli, Matthieu Amalric, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last Year at Marienbad, Alan Ayckbourn

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 17, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: We're all a little bit Spartacus—the best of Stanley Kubrick

Top five Stanley Kubrick films
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Stanley Kubrick, Music Box, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Killing, Full Metal Jacket, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barry Lyndon, NASA, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise

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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, Dec 27, 2012
Worst film of 2012

Best of 2012 Countdown: Worst of 2012
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Darling Companion, Lawrence Kasdan, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, movies, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, worst of 2012, computer animation, The Avengers, Joss Whedon, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Nuns, superspies, wild animals, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Skyfall, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Suitor movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn, Anna Karenina, Joe Wright, Atonement movie, Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Band of Sisters, Mary Fishman, Bestiaire, Chasing Ice, National Geographic, James Balog, Extreme Ice Survey, Land of Milk and Honey, 1911 Revolution, Jackie Chan, Shaolin movie, Jet Li, The Shaolin Temple, Sushi: The Global Catch, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Fred Camper, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, Facets Cinematheque, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Monkey Business, Marx Brothers, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Chicago movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrman, Moulin Rouge, Hyde Park on Hudson, Bill Murray, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Les Miserables, Tom Hooper, The King's Speech, Not Fade Away, David Chase, Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, The Fighter movie, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln movie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Daniel Strathairn, Skyfall movie, James Bond, A Late Quartet, Yaron Zliberman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Francine Melissa Leo, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge, Ben Sachs, The Nine Muses, John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, Nobody Walks, Lena Dunham, Older Children, Duncan Riddell, A Red Orchid Theatre, As Long as You're Healthy, Yoyo Pierre Etaix, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pierre Etaix, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, University of Chicago Doc Films, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, Music Box Chicago, Dennis Scott, Fred Wilcox, Forbidden Planet, Laura Otto Preminger, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Marnie Alfred Hitchcock, Northbrook Public Library, Hayao Miyakzaki, My Neighbor Totoro, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Fred Camper, Lawrence Jordan, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Viaduct Theater, John Davies, V-Day 11.11.11, Loyola University Lewis Towers, Jonathan Rosenbaum, You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, Cinema Borealis, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2012
This way, myth: Leos Carax's Holy Motors

Some helpful hints for those planning to see the dreamlike French art film, which opens Friday
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Leos Carax, Holy Motors, The Lovers on the Bridge, Boy Meets Girl, surrealism, Denis Lavant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Pola X, Yekaterina Golubeva, "dream factory"

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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, Oct 2, 2012
Meet "the best Chicago filmmaker you've never heard of"

Previewing a program of short films by Chicago filmmaker and professor Peter Thompson
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Peter Thompson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lowlands, Universal Hotel, Universal Citizen, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Bruce Sheridan

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 21, 2012
What's the story? Who cares!

Why it's foolish to be alarmed by "story-less" movies
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Shots Fired, Film, Graeme McMillan, The Bourne Legacy, Time Magazine, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, story-less movies, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Gene Siskel Film Center, genre movies, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Chuck Jones, Looney Tunes, Charlie Chaplin

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 8, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 8/8

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 8, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, The Northwest Chicago Film Society, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Portage Theater, Rufus Wainwright, Peter Margasak, the Vic, Out of the Game, Adam Cohen, Krystle Warren, The Navy Pier Grand Ballroom, Taste of the Nation, Share Our Strength

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 27, 2012
I miss Chicago's worst movie theater

Remembering the woebegone final years of the Pipers Alley movie theater
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Worst Week, Film, Pipers Alley, moviegoing, JCVD, Southland Tales, Chelsea on the Rocks, Village movie theater, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Date Movie

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2012
Film scholars exposed (and Exposed) at Northwestern

Previewing Northwestern University's conference on film criticism
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Education, Film, Northwestern University, Block Cinema, Illuminating the Shadows, Exposed, James Toback, Girish Shambu, Adrian Martin, Movie Mutations, LOLA, Elena Gorfinkel, Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2012
The globe theater

A piece in the new Atlantic reveals the secrets of international movie marketing.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Atlantic Monthly, Nicole Allan, Antonio Banderas, Shrek, DreamWorks Animation, Puss in Boots, Columbia Pictures, Andrew Garfield, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, global marketing, movies

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