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Film, Movie Feature Oct 13, 2020
Highlights of the Chicago International Film Fest

What to stream as part of the 56th annual CIFF
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, And Tomorrow the Entire World, Julia von Heinz, Days, Tsai Ming-liang, Finding Yingying, Jiayan "Jenny" Shi, Mama Gloria, Luchina Fisher, Memory House, João Paulo Miranda Maria, Notturno, Gianfranco Rosi, There Is No Evil, Mohammad Rasoulof, Transoceánicas, Meritxell Colell, Lucía Vassallo, Christian Petzold, Undine, Hong Sang-soo, The Woman Who Ran

Film, Movie Feature Dec 17, 2019
Ben Sachs’s top 12 films of 2019

Yes, there are some ties.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Year in Review 2019, Sunset, László Nemes, Belmonte, Federico Veiroj, The Moneychanger, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”, Radu Jude, The Wild Pear Tree, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, Relaxer, Joel Potrykus, Hotel by the River, Grass, Hong Sang-soo, Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, Bruno Dumont, The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg, First Love, Takashi Miike, Vitalina Varela, Pedro Costa, Give Me Liberty, Kirill Mikhanovsky, Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood, The Sower, Marine Francen, The Laundromat, Steven Soderbergh, The Wandering Soap Opera, Raúl Ruiz, Ghost Tropic, Bas Devos, The Grand Bizarre, Jodie Mack, The Irishman, Martin Scorsese

Film, Movie Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Movie Tuesday: The male animal

Five films that examine, interrogate, or critique traditional male behavior.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Nicholas Ray, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Aldrich, Kenji Mizoguchi, Maurice Pialat, Hong Sang-soo, Erich von Stroheim, Akira Kurosawa, Elaine May, Clint Eastwood, Dorothy B. Hughes

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2018
Pirates of Penzance and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Charles White at the Art Institute and more goings-on 7/16-7/19.
- By Tyra Nicole Triche
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Charles White, Asap Ferg, Pirates of Penzance, Art Institute of Chicago, Roommate, Steppenwolf, Hong Sang-soo, The Day After, Tilikum, House of Blues, Wilder Maker

Film, Movie Review Jul 12, 2018
Recommended
Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee's real-life affair yields a trio of films about infidelity

The South Korean director and his actress lover are back with The Day After
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Day After, Hong Sang-soo, Kim Min-hee, Berlin film festival, On the Beach at Night Alone, Claire’s Camera, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Sae-byeok, South Korean cinema, autobiographical films, movies, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2017
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Ben Sachs’s favorite films of 2017

A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Year in Review, Films of 2017, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Joseph Cedar, Richard Gere, Sixty Six, Lewis Klahr, L'Important C'Est D'Aimer, Andrzej Zulawski, Chicago International Film Festival, The Third Part of the Night, Doc Films, Film Studies Center, Dim the Fluorescents, Daniel Warth, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Nowhere to Hide, Zaradasht Ahmed, Facets Cinematheque, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, Mimosas, Oliver Laxe, Song to Song, Terrence Malick, Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion, Alain Guiraudie, Staying Vertical, The Florida Project, Sean Baker, Princess Cy, Stephen Cone, The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismaki, The Lovers, Azazel Jacobs, The Ornithologist, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, The Lost City of Z, James Gray, Darius Khondji, Slack Bay, Bruno Dumont, In Transit, Mudbound, Dee Rees, Julieta, Pedro Almodovar, Alice Munro, On the Beach at Night Alone, Hong Sang-soo, Western, Valeska Grisebach, Frantz, Francois Ozon, The Moderns, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Behemoth, The Breadwinner, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Faces Places, Felicite, A Ghost Story, Golden Years, Last Flag Flying, Our Time Will Come, Personal Shopper, Video

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

Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2013
Weekly Top Five: The best of Korean New Wave

Weekly Top Five: Korean New Wave
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Korean New Wave, Oldboy, Music Box, Spike Lee, Kim Jee-woon, Kim Ki-duk, The Host, Bong Joon-ho, Peppermint Candy, Lee Chang-dong, Memento, Christopher Nolan, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring, Cinema Scope, Woman Is the Future of Man, Hong Sang-soo, Memories of a Murder

Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2013
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The best new movie in theaters, the best new movie not in theaters, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 27 and October 3
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, Music Box Theatre, Gordon Kindlmann, Anne Dodge, Hong Sang-soo, School of the Art Institute, SAIC, Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I Declare War, Inequality for All, Mother of George, Metallica: Through the Never, Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World, Shirley Clarke, Thom Andersen, Eadweard Muybridge Zoopraxographer, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ron Howard, Rush, Formula 1, Enough Said, Nicole Holofcener, Please Give, Doc Films, The Terence Davies Trilogy, The Great Gabbo, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Olivier Assayas, Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Summer Hours, Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, House of Games, David Mamet, Sabotage, Alfred Hitchcock, Patio Theater, The Big Clock, Northbrook Public Library, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, 3-D, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Sep 25, 2013
Where's the love for filmmaker (and honorary Chicagoan) Hong Sang-soo?

The South Korean writer-director is a stalwart of contemporary cinema—and even an SAIC grad. But you still won't find his work on local movie screens.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Hong Sang-soo, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, South Korea, School of the Art Institute, SAIC, Woman on the Beach, Night and Day, The Day He Arrives, Like You Know It All, Hahaha, In Another Country, Isabelle Huppert, Tale of Cinema, Oki's Movie, Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Our Sunhi, Philip Roth

Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2013
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

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

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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Take This Waltz, and more in this week's (and next week's) notable screenings

A preview of this week's notable screenings
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Sarah Polley, Away From Her, Take This Waltz, Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, The Apartment, Billy Wilder, The General, Buster Keaton, Shaw Brothers, Chang Cheh, The Water Margin, Manhunter, Michael Mann, The Ocean Waves, Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Turn Me On Dammit, Savages, Oliver Stone, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Duplass brothers, Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2012
The Mother of all Korean cinema

Mother screens at Doc Films as part of its nearly completed Korean New Wave series
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Doc Films, Korean cinema, Bong Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Kim Ki-duk, Korean New Wave, Mother, 3-Iron, The Host, Nightmare Alley, Poetry, The Way Home

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2012
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What's screening this weekend

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Taika Waititi, Boy movie, Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar, James McTeigue, The Raven, John Cusack, Edgar Allan Poe, Nanni Moretti, We Have a Pope, Lawrence Kasdan, Darling Companion, Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Daniel Nettheim, The Hunter, Willem Dafoe, Josef Astor, Lost Bohemia, Carnegie Hall, Percy Adlon, Felix Adlon, Mahler on the Couch, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, Dan Tanz, Triumph67, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Badlands, University of Chicago Doc Films, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Landmark's Century Centre, Johnnie To, Election Johnnie To, Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda, Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hong Sang-soo, Night and Day Hong Sang-soo, John Boorman, Point Blank, Music Box, Joss Whedon, Serenity movie, F.W. Murnau, Sunrise movie, Block Museum of Art, William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Adrian Martin, Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing, Heather McAdams, My Dad Heather McAdams, Scopitones, Sci-Fi Spectacular, movies, Video

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

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2011
Best of 2011, number 2: Secret Sunshine

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Best of 2011, Korean New Wave, Oasis (film), Bong Joon-ho, Park Chanwook, Hong Sang-soo, Im Sang-soo, Terence Malick, Tree of Life, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, tragedy

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2009
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Cliff Doerksen Died for Your Sins

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Armored movie, Transylmania, John 15:13, Sebastian Silva, Maid Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Hong Sang-soo Night and Day, Hong Sang-soo, Jim Sheridan Brothers, Brothers movie, Robert De Niro Everybody's Fine, Lucrecia Martel, Headless Woman, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Dave Foley The Strip, They Came to Play, Jason Reitman, Up in the Air, Up in the Air George Clooney, Gene Siskel Film Center, New Comedy Mavericks, movies, Video

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What to stream as part of the 56th annual CIFF

Yes, there are some ties.

Five films that examine, interrogate, or critique traditional male behavior.

Charles White at the Art Institute and more goings-on 7/16-7/19.

The South Korean director and his actress lover are back with The Day After

A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.

Our critics weigh in on 22 new films making their local premieres.

Highlights from the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section.

Weekly Top Five: Korean New Wave

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 27 and October 3

The South Korean writer-director is a stalwart of contemporary cinema—and even an SAIC grad. But you still won't find his work on local movie screens.

The South Korean filmmaker's collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert is now available on DVD.

Top Ten Films of 2012

A preview of this week's notable screenings

Mother screens at Doc Films as part of its nearly completed Korean New Wave series

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

A brief consideration of alcohol's effect on filmmaking

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.

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