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Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald

Revisiting Frank Borzage's Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Books, On Video, Arts, Booze, Film, History, Frank Borzage, F. Scott Fitzgerald, MGM, Joseph L. Mankewicz, Three Comrades, Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Frachot Tone, Robert Young, Living on Velvet, Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, Nazi Germany, Dave Kehr

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Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
Zardoz has spoken, and your penis may never be the same

John Boorman's futuristic camp classic screens tonight at the Portage.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Seriously?, Film, Deliverance, John Boorman, 20th Century-Fox, Sean Connery, James Bond, Charlotte Rampling, science fiction, fantasy, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
Black Cinema House has The Blues—and more—this Friday

Previewing the first program in a summer-long outdoor film series
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Music, Black Cinema House, Chicago Film Archives, Movies Under the Stars, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog, Burden of Dreams, Chicago Public Library, The Blues, American Shoeshine, Center for Southern Folklore, Give My Poor Heart Ease, Mississippi Delta Blues, jazz documentaries, Duke Ellington, Elvin Jones

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963

Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Film, Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Al Raby, Don Rose, Robert Lucas, Benjamin Willis, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films, closing schools, Chicago Public Schools, 63 Boycott

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
The mixed blessing of watching movies online

Considering how online viewing shapes both film appreciation and filmmaking.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: The Internet, Moviegoing, Film, Small Screen, Moviegoing, Vimeo, digital video, Jason DaSilva, When I Walk, Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard, Crank: High Voltage, Nevledine/Taylor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film distribution, film exhibition, Gene Siskel Film Center, documentaries

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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 17, 2013
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Incest, adultery, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Drew Hunt, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, Away With Her, Take This Waltz, Compensation Zeinabu Irene Davis, Leviathan movie, Almost in Love, The Iceman Michael Shannon, Richard Kuklinski, Peeples Tyler Perry, Pieta Kim Ki-duk, The Island Kim Ki-duk, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Sharqiya movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, When I Walk, Jason DaSilva, White Frog, Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, Niko von Glasow, Nobody's Perfect, Bodies of Work Festival, Alfred Hitchcock Rope, Northbrook Public Library, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Joss Whedon Serenity, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, The Trial, Music Box Chicago, John Boorman, Zardoz, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
The Iceman: A true-crime story in shorthand

Notes on the new biopic about mass murderer Richard Kuklinski
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Crime, Opening, Film, The Iceman, Michael Shannon, Ray Liotta, Winona Ryder, Richard Kuklinski, Roy DeMeo, The Godfather, James Gray, true crime, porn vs. pornography, serial killer, hit man

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Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2013
Now online: Adam Curtis's Margaret Thatcher memorial

The British essay-filmmaker has uploaded his 1995 documentary The Attic to his website.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Television, Film, Politics, Adam Curtis, The Attic, Margaret Thatcher, Histoire(s) du cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, The Innocents, Winston Churchill, BBC, The Living Dead, British history

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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 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 10, 2013
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Tal Rosenberg, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, Cold Water, James Joyce, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Aqui y Alla, Dark Waters, Andre de Toth, In the House, Francois Ozon, Under the Sand, 8 Women, Potiche, Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World, Stanley Donen, Charade, University of Chicago Doc Films, Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, Music Box Chicago, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Landmark's Century Centre, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northbrook Public Library, Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Portage Theater Chicago, movies, Video

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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 8, 2013
Does Aqui y Allà (Here and There) take you anywhere?

Considering the similarities of three recent art films from Mexico, Turkey, and Israel
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Aqui y Allà (Here and There), Sharqiya, Honey, "slow cinema", Mexican cinema, international cinema, Turkish cinema, Israeli cinema, Satyajit Ray, Vittorio De Sica, Apu Trilogy, Bicycle Thieves, Facets Multimedia, Block Cinema, Pather Panchali, neorealism, Aparajito, The World of Apu

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Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2013
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Haile Gerima answers for Bush Mama at Logan Center for the Arts

The venerable indie filmmaker returns to Chicago this Thursday.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Poverty, Film, Bush Mama, Haile Gerima, Unviersity of California-Los Angeles, UCLA, LA Rebellion, Howard University, Logan Center for the Arts, Jacqueline Stewart, Northwestern University, Goodman School of Drama, Barbara O. Jones, Johnny Weathers, blaxploitation, Shaft, Superfly, movies, 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 6, 2013
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In the case of celluloid, it's better to fade away than to burn out

How the discoloration of faded prints can add to a movie's meaning.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Moviegoing, Film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Chicago Cinema Society, Patio Theater, Neil Calderone, John Cassavetes, Timothy Carey, Centennial Summer, Showboat, celluloid film, discoloration, Nashville, Robert Altman, Showboat, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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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 3, 2013
Pain & Gain, the latest addition to the "fire with fire" genre

Considering some of the forebears of Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Gross, Film, Pain & Gain, Robert Aldrich, Natural Born Killers, The Choirboys, J. Hoberman, Kiss Me Deadly, Southland Tales, Dave Kehr, grotesquerie, Nelson Rockefeller, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Idiocracy, Spetters, Michael Bay, Hustle, A.I. Bezzerides

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