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Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2017
‘The Serenity of Madness’ showcases the brilliance and wonder of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s art

An exhibit of the acclaimed Thai filmmaker's photography and video work is currently on display at the School of the Art Institute's Sullivan Galleries.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, On Video, Piety, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Serenity of Madness, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Cemetery of Splendor, video art, School of the Art Institute, Sullivan Galleries, Ashes, Sakda (Rousseau), Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat, Mekong Hotel, Thailand

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2017
Terrence Malick loves us—he just has a peculiar way of showing it

With Song to Song, the Austin-based filmmaker finds transcendental beauty in his hometown's music scene.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Piety, Terrence Malick, Song to Song, Paul Schrader, transcendental style, Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Carl Th. Dreyer, Alexander Sokurov, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, Bruno Dumont, Carlos Reygadas, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Val Kiilmer, Lykke Li, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2016
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Son of Saul opens at Music Box, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Laszlo Nemes, Son of Saul, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anesthesia movie, Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, Frozen Head State Park, Cemetery of Splendor, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The 5th Wave, Chloe Grace Moretz, The Finest Hours, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin, Ronit Bezalel, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green, Carl Reiner, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, Fred Zinnemann, Julia movie, Charlie Chaplin, The Kid, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, On the Town, Seijun Suzuki, Pistol Opera, Steve James, Stevie movie, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2014
Weekly Top Five: Un Certain Regard winners

Highlights from the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or, Jane Campion, Un Certain Regard, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, Party Girl, Claire Denis, Hong Sang-Soo, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Luc Godard, Blissfully Yours, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tulpan, Sergey Dvortsevoy, Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, Hahaha, SAIC, Hong-Sang Soo, Cristi Puiu, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2013
At CIFF: Of Good Report, a kamikaze exercise in shock value from South Africa

Notes on another unfortunate cliche of contemporary global art cinema—and one film that avoids mediocrity by being flat-out bad
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Seriously?, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Of Good Report, South African cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky, festival films, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, We Are What We Are, Jim Mickle, Wild Duck, ambiguity, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Mothusi Magano, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, Petronella Tshuma, censorship

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2013
Essential versus arbitrary mystery in contemporary art house cinema

Reflections on trends in contemporary art house movies, as observed in this year's Chicago International Film Festival and Doc Films' ongoing Hou Hsiao-Hsien retrospective
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Chasing Fireflies, "slow cinema", Pedro Costa, Cristi Puiu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Dust in the Wind, Honey, Starlet, Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry, art house cinema, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lisandro Alonso, Los Muertes, Liverpool, Aurora, Doc Films, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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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 Dec 27, 2012
My favorite films of 2012

Top Ten Films of 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Things I Love, Film, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers, Haywire, Steven Soderbergh, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, The Comedy, Rick Alverson, Goodbye First Love, Mia Hanson-Love, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Deep Blue Sea, Terrence Davies, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Bernie, Richard Linklater, Killer Joe, William Friedkin, Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold, Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross, Turner Ross, The Color Wheel, Alex Ross Perry, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Alps, Yorgos Lanthimos, Let the Bullets Fly, Wen Jiang, Wanderlust, David Wain, Keyhole, Guy Maddin, Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, The Innkeepers, Ti West, In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo, 2012), 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, Aita, José María de Orbe, Memories of a Morning, Jose Luis Guerin, Palaces of Pity, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2012
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
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF notes, The Delay (La Demora), Rodrigo Pla, Uruguayan cinema, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mekong Hotel

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2012
The Master and In the Family: Two challenges, two victories

Comparing two recent U.S. releases as theatrical experiences
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Whoa, Moviegoing, Film, Ben Sachs on Moviegoing, In the Family, Patrick Wang, Facets Multimedia, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tropical Malady, Aleksei Guerman, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Gene Siskel Film Center, digital cinema, Side by Side, J.R. Jones, Roger Ebert

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2012
Apichatpong Weerasethakul spreads his Ashes

Spreading the word about the Thai filmmaker's latest short, which is streaming for free online
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Film, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashes, Mubi.com, LomoKino, Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, experimental cinema

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Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2012
Thoughts on Cinema Scope's "Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50" list

I finally had a chance to sit down with Cinema Scope magazine's 50th issue
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Film, Cinema Scope magazine, The Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50, Wes Anderson, Ben Rivers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Johan Grimonperez, Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, James Gray, Mia Hansen-Love

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Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2012
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Let my people go to the movies!

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Ten Commandments, New York Times, Facets Cinematheque, Alan Govenar, The Beat Hotel, Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, American Reunion, American Pie, Four Lovers, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Jiro Ono, Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters, Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, Busby Berkeley, Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, Music Box, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fictio, Robert Wise, The Sound of Musi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Daniel Eisenberg, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, Chicago Filmmakers, Jon Jost, Over Here Jon Jost, Parable Jon Jost, Yvonne Rainer, Lives of Performers, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2012
Into great silence

How certain recent movies use silence as an artistic device
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Silence vs. Noise Week, Film, Silence vs. Noise Week, Slow Cinema, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso, James Benning, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2010
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Chicago International Film Festival announces first 20 titles

David Schwimmer's "Trust," Ben Berkowitz's "Polish Bar," and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" are among the 20 titles announced for the Chicago International Film Festival this October.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Schwimmer, Trust, Lookingglass, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Ben Berkowitz, Polish Bar, Vincent Piazza, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Bertrand Tavernier, The Princess of Montpensier, Round Midnight, SAIC, Art Institute of Chicago, Tamara Drewe, Go For It, Aimee Garcia, Carmen Marron, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2007
Favorite films 2006

What year-end lists are actually about: the reenchantment of the world
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, The Forsaken Land, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Best Lists, Morris Berman, The Reenchantment of the World

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