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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 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

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2013
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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

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 17, 2013
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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

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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 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

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Movies, 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

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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

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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

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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

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Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2009
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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

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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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