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,
Movie Feature
Aug 1, 2018
Recommended
The Third Murder
deepens on a repeat screening
Hirokazu Kore-eda directed this Japanese legal drama about a homicide that's not what it seems.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Feature
,
The Third Murder
,
Hirokazu Kore-eda
,
Nobody Knows
,
Still Walking
,
Like Father, Like Son
,
Fyodor Dostoevsky
,
Masharu Fukuyama
,
Koji Yakusho
,
Suzu Hirose
,
Otto Preminger
,
Anatomy of a Murder
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
A Short Film About Killing
,
Ja
,
Recommended
Movies
,
Movie Review
Nov 9, 2017
Michal Węgrzyn’s
Rage
is a fast-moving thriller about a TV journalist in Communist Poland
It screens at this year’s Polish Film Festival in America.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
Rage Michal Węgrzyn
,
Polish Film Festival in America
,
cinema of moral anxiety
,
Marcin Roykiewicz
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Camouflage
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Camera Buff
,
Jakub Świderski
,
Paulina Chapko
,
Communist Poland
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 14, 2014
Blessed art the five best film adaptions of the Bible
The best cinematic treatments of the Bible
By Drew Hunt
Tags:
Weekly Top Five
,
Film
,
Ridley Scott
,
Exodus: Gods and Kings
,
Cecil B. DeMille
,
Quo Vadis
,
Mervyn LeRoy
,
Last Temptation of Christ
,
Martin Scorsese
,
A Serious Man
,
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
Pier Pasolo Pasolini
,
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
,
The Decalogue
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 16, 2014
An interview with Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi (part two)
The 75-year-old writer-director talks about Catholicism, movie stars, and memories of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Foreign
,
Piety
,
Film
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Polish cinema
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
The Illumination
,
Catholicism
,
The Contract
,
Leslie Caron
,
Foreign Body
,
Camera Buff
Movies
,
Movie Feature
Oct 9, 2014
A half century of CIFF milestones, from Scorsese's debut to Lee Daniels's achievement award
We dug through the Chicago International Film Festival's archives, talked to people who were around back in the day, and assembled a time line covering the fest's 50 years.
By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Feature
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Chicago International Film Festival
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CIFF
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Martin Scorsese
,
I Call First
,
Roger Ebert
,
John Lennon
,
Yoko Ono
,
Dusan Makavejev
,
Gold Hugo
,
Michael Kutza
,
Leo Burnett
,
Andrzej Wajda
,
Krysztof Zanussi
,
Mel Brooks
,
Ann Miller
,
Edith Head
,
Richard B. Ogilvie
,
Nagisa Oshima
,
Satyajit Ray
,
Frantisek Vlacil
,
Mike Leigh
,
Milos Forman
,
Werner Herzog
,
Maurice Pialat
,
King Hu
,
The Valiant Ones
,
Lindsay Anderson
,
Orson Welles
,
Filming "Othello"
,
Billy Wilder
,
Jules Dassin
,
John Carpenter
,
Ingmar Bergman
,
William Friedkin
,
Gloria Swanson
,
Neil Simon
,
John Houseman
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Wim Wenders
,
Nicholas Ray
,
Menahem Golan
,
Francois Truffaut
,
Fanny Ardant
,
Rod Stewart
,
Jeff Nichols
,
Michael Shannon
,
Mia Hansen-Love
,
Lee Daniels
,
Gabourey Sidibe
,
Frederick Wiseman
,
Jafar Panahi
,
James Gray
,
Joel Coen
,
Ethan Coen
,
Abdellatif Kechiche
,
Alexander Payne
,
Hirokazu Kore-Edu
,
Van Halen
,
Luchino Visconti
,
Michael Haneke
,
Saul Bass
,
Elizabeth C. Morris
,
Jim Healy
,
Spike Lee
,
Coretta Scott King
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FIRPRESCI
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Robert Altman
,
Bill Kurtis
,
Robert Benton
,
Nicolas Cage
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Manoel de Oliveira
,
Cristi Puiu
,
Huey Lewis and the News
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Douglas Trumbull
,
Peter Greenaway
,
Ken Russell
,
John Akomfrah
,
Jean Rouch
,
Raul Ruiz
,
Andre Techine
,
Bela Tarr
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Leon Golub
,
Kartemquin Films
,
Arch Oboler
,
Abbas Kiarostami
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 29, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best of Polish cinema
Highlights from Polish film history
By Drew Hunt
Tags:
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,
Film
,
Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
,
Polish Cinema
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Music Box
,
Paweł Pawlikowski
,
J.R. Jones
,
Ida
,
Ashes and Diamonds
,
Andrzej Wajda
,
Camouflage
,
Krzysztof Zanussi
,
Roman Polanski
,
Knife in the Water
,
Barrier
,
Jerzy Skolimowski
,
Deep End
,
Moonlighting
,
The Decalogue
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Bigger Than Life
,
A Short Film About Killing
,
A Short Film About Love
Blogs
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Bleader
May 16, 2014
Video
Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, 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
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Leslie Buchbinder
,
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
Ben Sachs
,
Jon Favreau Chef
,
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
,
For No Good Reason
,
Hunter S. Thompson
,
Ralph Steadman
,
Godzilla
,
Music Box Chicago
,
Million Dollar Arm
,
Jon Hamm
,
Palo Alto
,
Gia Coppola
,
James Franco
,
Sepideh
,
Young & Beautiful
,
Francois Ozon
,
Tomas Alfredson
,
Let the Right One In
,
University of Chicago Doc Films
,
Ernst Lubitsch
,
Nintochka
,
Asghar Farhadi The Past
,
Ratatouille movie
,
Alfred Hitchcock
,
Rear Window
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
A Short Film About Killing
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Kelly Reichardt
,
Wendy and Lucy
,
movies
,
Video
Movies
,
Movie Review
Mar 12, 2014
The Face of Love
: Make that a double
Annette Bening stars as a widow whose new man is a ringer for her old one.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Review
,
The Face of Love
,
Annette Bening
,
Ed Harris
,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
No End
,
Blue
,
Matthew McDuffie
,
Arie Posin
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 26, 2014
It's all in the timing: U. of C. hosts a conference on Cinemetrics this Saturday
Noting an academic conference about the relationship between film editing and computational statistics
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Education
,
Technology
,
Film
,
Cinemetrics
,
University of Chicago Film Studies Center
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Tom Gunning
,
Michael Baxter
,
Daria Khitrova
,
Yuri Tsivian
,
computational statistics
,
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 27, 2014
Finding the right stories for winter, when getting to the theater proves difficult
There aren't many epic narratives playing in theaters, so I've had to get my fix elsewhere.
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Books
,
Arts
,
Television
,
Moviegoing
,
Film
,
Moviegoing
,
Buddenbrooks
,
Thomas Mann
,
Breaking Bad
,
epic narrative
,
Blue Is the Warmest Color
,
At Berkeley
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 9, 2014
If you liked
Inside Llewyn Davis
. . .
Revisiting Robert Mulligan's
Love With the Proper Stranger
in light of the Coen brothers' latest
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
On Video
,
Film
,
Love With the Proper Stranger
,
Robert Mulligan
,
Steve McQueen
,
Natalie Wood
,
Inside Llewyn Davis
,
Coen brothers
,
Production Code
,
The Decalogue
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 15, 2011
Best of 2011, number 5:
Poetry
Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's
Poetry
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Film
,
Poetry
,
Lee Chang-dong
,
Chicago Reader
,
Ben Sachs
,
Secret Sunshine
,
Best of 2011
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Decalogue
,
the human condition
,
South Korea
,
Minister of Culture
,
J.R. Jones
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 29, 2007
Pretty poison
As long as we've a middle class to discomfit, there'll always be Michael Hanekes around to do it.
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Michael Haneke
,
Cache
,
Suspicion
,
Trois Couleurs
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 15, 2007
Whither "aahhrrtt"?
Wondering about Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue (screening at the Siskel Center this week): is it art, "aahhrrtt," or just plain kitsch?
By Pat Graham
Tags:
Film
,
Blue
,
Krzysztof Kieslowski
,
Kitsch
,
What is art?
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