Archives

Music, Concert Preview Nov 15, 2019
Recommended
Jozef Van Wissem’s antique lute repertoire has never been more timely
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Concert Preview, Jozef Van Wissem, lute, We Adore You, You Have No Name, Caravaggio, Lute Player, Jim Jarmusch, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Architecture, Film, Foreign, On Video, Gene Siskel Film Center, Always at the Carlyle, New York City, hotel Georges Méliès, Wes Andeson, The Shining, The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau, Emil Jannings, Universal, Dave Kehr, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati, Playtime, The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis, Frank Tashlin, Miami Beach, Fontainebleau Hotel, Cracking Up, Milton Berle, Walter Winchell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, Memphis, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Nicoletta Braschi, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi, Robby Müller, Barton Fink, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Hollywood, John Turturro, John Goodman, Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2016
Video
Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Deadpool, Marvel Comics, The Camera Obscura, Alejandro Riera, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway, Sergei Eisenstein, Race movie, Jesse Owens, Risen movie, Rolling Papers, Denver Post, Time to Love, Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, A Separation, Touched With Fire, Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Erich von Stroheim, Greed movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Drazin, Mel Brooks, High Anxiety, Kutlug Ataman, Lola + Bilidikid, Roman Polanski, Repulsion, Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, Charles Walters, Summer Stock, Saul Levine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Music Box 70mm Film Festival, Vertigo, Ghostbusters, The Master, The Wild Bunch, Inherent Vice, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2015
Jim Jarmusch's five best films

Highlights from the filmography of Jim Jarmusch
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Jim Jarmusch, Down by Law, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, RZA, Night on Earth, Branded to Kill, Le Samourai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Stranger Than Paradise

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it's a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Year in review, The Immigrant, James Gray, Last of the Unjust, Claude Lanzmann, Chicago International Film Festival, Sebastien Betbeder, 2 Autumns 3 Winters, Gyorgi Palfi, Free Fall, Blake Eckard, Ghosts of Empire Prairie, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida, Philippe Garrel, Jealousy, Mike Flanagan, Oculus, Salvatore Mereu, Pretty Butterflies, Isao Takahata, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Two Days One Night, Darious Britt, Unsound, Matias Pinerio, Viola, Francois Ozon, Young & Beautiful, Talya Lavie, Zero Motivation, National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, Corner Stores, Amina Waheed, Gloria, Sebastian Lelilo, Paulina Garcia, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, Exhibition, Joanna Hogg, Words and Pictures, Fred Schepisi, Juliette Binoche, Clive Owen, Jaume Collet-Serra, Non-Stop, Abderrahamane Sissako, Timbuktu, Beyond the Lights, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry, Philip Roth, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones, The Stuart Hall Project, John Akomfrah, The Amazing Catfish, Claudia Sainte-Luce, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Gardener, Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont, Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, The Golden Era, Ann Hui, Xiao Hong, Level Five, Chris Marker, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston

Film, Movie Review Nov 12, 2014
Recommended
Burroughs lays bare the notorious author of Naked Lunch

This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Howard Brookner, Burroughs: The Movie, William S. Burroughs, the Beats, Beat, Naked Lunch, On the Road, Kill Your Darlings, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, The Beat Hotel, Jim Jarmusch, New York University, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw, Saint Louis, Central West End, Joan Vollmer, Recommended

Film, Movie Review Jul 9, 2014
Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Blood Ties, Guillaume Canet, Gambit, Michael Hoffman, James Gray, The Immigrant, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cannes Film Festival, Weinstein Company, Darius Khondji, Happy Massee, Harvey Weinstein, Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Her, Indiewire, Raging Bull, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, genre cinema, Mean Streets, GoodFellas, James Caan, Abel Ferrara, Tell No One, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ladykillers, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Cameron Diaz, Chef, Think Like a Man Too, Vladimir Nabokov, Despair, Laughter in the Dark

Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2014
Forces of the past in Only Lovers Left Alive and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

Chicago is currently playing host to films by two great cinematic poets, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jim Jarmusch; the works complement each other rather nicely.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Broken, Poetry, Film, History, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, Mubi.com, Trilogy of Life, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Colin McCabe, poetry, Mia Wasikowska

Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2014
Video
The Patio's last shows for a while, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Patio Theater, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin, Chicago Silent Film Society, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, Ann Dvorak, Christina Rice, Oculus, Scarface, Howard Hawks, Pickwick Theatre, Big Men, Rachel Boynton, Hateship Loveship, Alice Munro, Natural Life, Tirtza Even, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, The Railway Man, Colin Firth, The Unknown Known, Errol Morris, Donald Rumsfeld, Under the Same Sun, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Doc Films, Joyce Wieland, Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges, California Split, Robert Altman, Love Unto Death, Alain Resnais, Music Box Theatre, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2014
Video
12 O'Clock Track: 'Lies to Live By,' a lost classic from a young Jim Jarmusch

An arty pop gem from the Del-Byzanteens
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Del-Byzanteens, Lies to Live By, Jozef Van Wissem, Jim Jarmusch, Vampire Kisses, Tilda Swinton, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2013
Video
The year's most Seussian-named film festival, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between October 4 and 10
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Music Box Theatre, Docs at the Box, Shepard and Dark, Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself, A Fierce Green Fire, documentaries, nonfiction filmmaking, Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, Jean-Pierre Melville, Gene Siskel Film Center, French Classics Conserved, A Pig Across Paris, Our Children, Un Flic, Dirty Money, Dead Man, Nick Offerman, Jim Jarmusch, Doc Films, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, John Cassavetes, Faces, Josef von Sternberg, Thunderbolt, Cold Water, Olivier Assayas, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Goldstein, Mr. Bug Goes to Town, Symphony for the Soil, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Jacques Audiard, A Prophet, Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Parkland, JFK assassination, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Kartemquin Films, Our Nixon, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 2, 2013
Video
One Japanese masterpiece, two local film festivals, and the rest of this week's screenings

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 2 and 8
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Foreign, Opening, Film, Outside Satan, Bruno Dumont, Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Sisters of Gion, Doc Films, Kenji Mizoguchi, Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch, Swing High Swing Low, Mitchell Leisen, Sundown in K-Town, Better Boys Foundation, Facets Multimedia, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, Music Box Theatre, spaghetti westerns, Sergio Corbucci, The Mercenary, The Wolverine, Wasteland, The Painting, French animation, David Fincher, Seven, Alien 3, Silent Film Society of Chicago, The Flapper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2012
Video Drone: Driverx4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Television, Film, Music, Films We Like, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, You Are Not I, Sleepwalk, When Pigs Fly, Bowery Spring 1994, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Paul Bowles, Suzanne Fletcher, Carnival of Souls, Ann Magnuson, Steve Buscemi, Robby Muller, Dead Man, Breaking the Waves, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Cary Grant, Topper, Alfred Molina, Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery, movies, DVD

Film, Movie Review Jan 19, 2012
Rebel without a script

A new documentary chronicles the twilight years of Hollywood maverick Nicholas Ray
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, Jim Jarmusch, James Dean, behind the scenes

Blogs, Bleader Sep 17, 2010
The Real Ethio Jazz

A recent album by Ethiopian composer and percussionist Mulatu Astatke nails the Ethio jazz sound he began developing in the 60s.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Either/Orchestra, Chicago Jazz Festival, Ethiopian Music, Mulatu Astatke, Heliocentrics, Mulatu Steps Ahead, Getatchew Mekurya, Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers

Blogs, Bleader Dec 11, 2009
Video
More From Phil Kline

New music from New York composer Phil Kline, whose modern holiday classic "Unsilent Night" gets its Chicago debut on Sunday.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Phil Kline, Unsilent Night, John the Revelator, Ethel, Lionheart, Jim Jarmusch, Del-Byzanteens, Glenn Branca, Around the World in a Daze, Starkland Records, Cantaloupe Records, Samuel Beckett, David Shapiro, Blind Willie Johnson, liturgical music, minimalism, Video

Film, Movie Review Aug 4, 2005
The Taste of Ashes

Ingmar Bergman and Jim Jarmusch on bitter ends.
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Review, Broken Flowers, Saraband, Jim Jarmusch

Film, Movie Review May 27, 2004
Short Cuts
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Review, Jim Jarmusch, Coffee and Cigarettes, Roberti Benigni

Browse News & Politics

Browse Music

Browse Film

Browse Arts & Culture

Browse Food & Drink

Browse City Life

Browse Columns

Browse Ads

Browse Events

Articles

Issue.Year

Features

Sort by:

Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Highlights from the filmography of Jim Jarmusch

Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it's a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.

This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.

Both feature name actors—and both have been marginalized by distributors. Is there no place for serious American cinema?

Chicago is currently playing host to films by two great cinematic poets, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jim Jarmusch; the works complement each other rather nicely.

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24

An arty pop gem from the Del-Byzanteens

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between October 4 and 10

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 2 and 8

A two-disc retrospective looks at New York indie Sara Driver

A new documentary chronicles the twilight years of Hollywood maverick Nicholas Ray

A recent album by Ethiopian composer and percussionist Mulatu Astatke nails the Ethio jazz sound he began developing in the 60s.

New music from New York composer Phil Kline, whose modern holiday classic "Unsilent Night" gets its Chicago debut on Sunday.

Ingmar Bergman and Jim Jarmusch on bitter ends.

Other Searches