Krzysztof Kieslowski

Movies, Movie Feature Aug 1, 2018
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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, Chicago International Film Festival, CIFF, 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, FIRPRESCI, Robert Altman, Bill Kurtis, Robert Benton, Nicolas Cage, Robert Downey Jr., Manoel de Oliveira, Cristi Puiu, Huey Lewis and the News, 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: Weekly Top Five, 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, 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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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.

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.

Blessed art the five best film adaptions of the Bible

The best cinematic treatments of the Bible

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.

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.

Weekly Top Five: The best of Polish cinema

Highlights from Polish film history

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Godzilla vs. Hairy Who, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Face of Love: Make that a double

Annette Bening stars as a widow whose new man is a ringer for her old one.

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

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.

If you liked Inside Llewyn Davis . . .

Revisiting Robert Mulligan's Love With the Proper Stranger in light of the Coen brothers' latest

Best of 2011, number 5: Poetry

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry

Pretty poison

As long as we've a middle class to discomfit, there'll always be Michael Hanekes around to do it.

Whither "aahhrrtt"?

Wondering about Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue (screening at the Siskel Center this week): is it art, "aahhrrtt," or just plain kitsch?

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Hirokazu Kore-eda directed this Japanese legal drama about a homicide that's not what it seems.

It screens at this year’s Polish Film Festival in America.

The best cinematic treatments of the Bible

The 75-year-old writer-director talks about Catholicism, movie stars, and memories of Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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.

Highlights from Polish film history

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Annette Bening stars as a widow whose new man is a ringer for her old one.

Noting an academic conference about the relationship between film editing and computational statistics

There aren't many epic narratives playing in theaters, so I've had to get my fix elsewhere.

Revisiting Robert Mulligan's Love With the Proper Stranger in light of the Coen brothers' latest

Our year-end review continues with Lee Chang-dong's Poetry

As long as we've a middle class to discomfit, there'll always be Michael Hanekes around to do it.

Wondering about Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue (screening at the Siskel Center this week): is it art, "aahhrrtt," or just plain kitsch?

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