- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2013
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Reading Alone in Berlin in Berlin
Catching up on a stack of Hans Fallada novels
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one
Talking with some of Chicago's most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 15, 2013
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Further discoveries in the criminal files of Claude Sautet
Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 12, 2013
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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
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2012
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Now playing: The Ignorant Fairies (2001), which sounds much better in Italian
Noting the Italian Cultural Institute's revival of Ferzan Ozpetek's melodrama
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2012
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Weekly Top Five: Wong Kar-wai films
Top five Wong Kar-wai films
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Propaganda hits social media like a mortar shell
How Jennifer Egan's New Yorker story presaged the insidious Gaza PR war being waged over social media
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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This week in Bollywood screenings: Son of Sardaar
Notes on the latest Bollywood feature to play at the River East 21
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Johnnie To's Life Without Principle: a comic thriller on the investment banking industry
The thriller we live in: notes on the Hong Kong master's latest film
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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Starting a dialogue about Brazil with Mostra director Ariani Freidl
A short interview with the director of Chicago's annual Brazilian film festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2012
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How watching the presidential debates made me famous*
A group of "exotic gringos" watches the debates in a land far away
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2012
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CIFF notes: The Drudgery Train
First impressions of the Japanese coming-of-age picture playing at the Chicago International Film Festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 17, 2012
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CIFF notes: Darezhan Omirbaev's Student
First impressions of the respected Kazakh filmmaker's latest, now playing at the Chicago International Film Festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 16, 2012
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CIFF notes: a good year for Iranian films, if not Iranian filmmakers
Observations of Meeting Leila and Rhino Season, two of the Iranian films in this year's Chicago International Film Festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 2012
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CIFF notes: after The Delay, a dip in the Mekong
Observations of two films to play on the first day of this year's Chicago International Film Festival
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
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Lovely piece of Brit: a spectre haunts the Times
British English, like carp, threatens the American way of life
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2012
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Aleksei Guerman and the art of time travel
Previewing the Siskel Center's retrospective of the great Russian director, which begins tomorrow with My Friend Ivan Lapshin and Twenty Days Without War
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 3, 2012
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Coming soon: films by Werner Schroeter
Thoughts on the late German director, the subject of an upcoming partial retrospective at Facets
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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This week in New German Cinema
Previewing a screening of the experimental German film Studies for the Decay of the West, screening this Sunday at the Nightingale
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 26, 2012
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Now playing: Barfi!
First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town
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