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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

Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2018
Steven Soderbergh's Unsane is a provocation disguised as genre entertainment

Shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus, the director's new psychological thriller considers gender politics and the zeitgeist.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Women's Issues, Unsane, Steven Soderbergh, Kafka, Franz Kafka, The Girlfriend Experience, Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, iPhone 7 Plus

Film, Movie Review Aug 17, 2017
Recommended Video
Logan Lucky is an Ocean’s Eleven for the red states

Channing Tatum and Adam Driver star as West Virginia brothers in need of a big score in Steven Soderbergh’s latest.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Steven Soderbergh, Ocean’s Eleven, Logan Lucky, Charlotte Motor Speedway, NASCAR, Coca-Cola 600, Fingerprint Films, Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Katie Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Hilary Swank, Bleecker Street, Boone County West Virginia, Rebecca Blunt, Jules Asner, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2015
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Magic Mike XXL is the best new movie of 1933

The sequel to Steven Soderbergh's 2012 sleeper hit invokes the spirit of Depression-era musicals in its breezy artistry.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Dim the Lights, Film, Dance, Magic Mike XXL, Busby Berkeley, Warner Bros., Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Channing Tatum, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 1, 2015
Recommended Video
Money can't buy you brains (in a sex comedy)

Three new summer releases indicate that all raunch and no smarts make for a dull film.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Magic Mike XXL, Gregory Jacobs, The Overnight, Patrick Brice, The Little Death, Josh Lawson, Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike, Channing Tatum, Ginuwine, Joe Manganiello, Andie MacDowell, The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Lynn Shelton, Katie Aselton, Charlie McDowell, Craig Johnson, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzma, Adam Scott, Judith Godrèche, Bojana Novakovic, Kate Mulvany, Damin Herriman, Patrick Brammall, Alan Dukes, Lisa McCune, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2014
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Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what's screening around town this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Happy Valley, Amir Bar-Lev, My Kid Could Paint That, The Tillman Story, Penn State, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, Union Carbide, Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, The Eagle and the Hawk, Fredric March, Cary Grant, Horrible Bosses 2, Steven Spielberg Jaws, Music Box Chicago, Steven Soderbergh, King of the Hill Soderbergh, University of Chicago Doc Films, Akira Kurosawa, Red Beard, Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line, Ben Stiller, Zoolander, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2014
Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films

Notable films that never made it to screen
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Alain Resnais, Stan Lee, the Monster Maker, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jesus, historical Jesus, David Cronenberg, Pierre David, Marry Shelley, Frankenstein, The Fly, Robert Bresson, Genesis, Dino de Laurentiis, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, Harold Ramis, Steven Soderbergh, David Gordon Green, John Waters, John Belushi, John Goodman, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2013
My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Leviathan, Computer Chess, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, The Lords of Salem, Rob Zombie, Viola, Matías Piñeiro, The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola, I Used to Be Darker, Matt Porterfield, Pavilion, Tim Sutton, Alexander Payne, Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Drug War, Johnnie To, Her, Spike Jonze, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Ape, Joel Potrykus, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panah, Kambuzia Partovi, The Battle of Tabato, João Viana, Concrete Parlay, Fern Silva, Solar Sight III, Lawrence Jordan, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesque Foraging, David Gatten, Dusty Stacks of Mom, Jodie Mack, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2013
Steven Soderbergh pays homage to the great R.W. Fassbinder, by way of Liberace

The creepy showbiz saga Behind the Candelabra is now available to rent at Redbox.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, LGBT, Film, Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fox and His Friends, Veronika Voss, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Liberace, Michael Douglas, Matt Damon

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2013
Neighborhood movies, past and present

Noting the marginalization of working life in mainstream U.S. cinema
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Neighborhoods, Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, Newlyweeds, Shaka King, Facets Multimedia, pre-Code cinema, Mervyn LeRoy, James Whale, William Wellman, Three on a Match, The Reluctant Maiden, Night Nurse, Gimme the Loot, Yes We're Open, The Crumbles, The Happy Poet, Carmina or Blow-Up, Next Day Air, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Warner Brothers, Forbidden Hollywood

Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2013
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Coming soon: Christian Bale, bongo man!

Christian Bale will perform a rhythmless rat-a-tat on stuff in two separate upcoming releases.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Humor, Film, Music, Christian Bale, Out of the Furnace, American Hustle, David O. Russell, Amy Adams, The Fighter, Steven Soderbergh, Crazy Heart, bongos, Buena Vista Social Club, coming attractions, movies, Don Jon, multiplex, Method acting, Casey Affleck, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Elmore Leonard adaptations

Top five Elmore Leonard adaptations.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Touch, Paul Schrader, Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino, Don Siegel, 52 Pick-Up, John Frankenheimer, Cannon Films, Cat Chaser, Abel Ferrara

Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2013
Weekly Top Five: "Alright, alright, alright"—the best of Richard Linklater

Top five Richard Linklater films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused, Quentin Tarantino, David O. Russell, Gregg Araki, Alexandre Rockwell, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Gus van Sant, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, The School of Rock, Jean Renoir, Don't Knock the Rock, The Newton Boys, Bernie, Jack Black, Tape, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Ethan Hawke, Julie Deply, Before Midnight, Waking Life, Slacker, Dazed and Confused

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2013
The ongoing relationship between psychiatry and American movies

How Side Effects and See You Next Tuesday reflect new trends in the movies' depiction of mental illness.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: It's Complicated, Film, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, Chicago Underground Film Festival, mental illness, You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Jones, Shine, As Good as It Gets, Lodge Kerrigan, Clean Shaven, Keane, Silver Linings Playbook, The Cobweb, Vincente Minnelli, The Seventh Veil, James Mason, DSM

Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Idea missing—the best of Steven Soderbergh

The top five Steven Soderbergh films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Steven Soderbergh, Side Effects, Magic Mike, Schizopolis, King of the Hill, Contagion, Che, The Limey, Out of Sight, The Informant!, The Underneath, Bubble, Haywire

Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Most anticipated films for 2013

Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Taste of Money, Side Effects, Mud, Frances Ha, Before Midnight, Im Sang-Soo, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Jeff Nichols, Richard Linklater, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2012
Getting by in four recent American comedies

Comparing Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Comedy, American comedy, year in review, best of 2012, Silver Linings Playbook, Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, recession, bipolar disorder, Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, community, Alex Pettyfer, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Variations on a Theme

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 31, 2012
Turning my office inside-out

Sifting trough 15 years of trash and treasure.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Moving Week, Film, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Seed of Chucky, Backstabbers, Ben Joravsky, Richard Lindberg. Paul Newey, Cook County State’s Attorney, Summerdale Scandal, American Type Founders, Art Jones, Linotype, Chicago Journal of Commerce, Wall Street Journal, Heinz, Kitry Krause, Pat Graham, Warner Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, The Informant, moving week, movies, Moving Week, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
Cinema studies to remain at Columbia College

Columbia president Warrick Carter reverses his earlier recommendation to cut Cinema Studies courses; students and faculty benefit
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Education, Film, Columbia College, Film and Video Department, Cinema Studies, Warrick Carter, Bruce Sheridan, Ron Falzone, Warren Chapman, film history, film theory, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Hal Ashby, Pierrot le Fou

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Video
A Burning Hot Summer screens, with air conditioning

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, Soderbergh, Che, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel, Devotional Cinema, Nathaniel Dorsky, Elena movie, Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return movie, How to Grow a Band, Chris Thile, The Jesus Trip, Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan Demme, Pom Poko, Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Savages movie, Oliver Stone, Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley, Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Samuel Fuller, House of Bamboo, Robert Ryan, Billy Wilder, Kiss Me Stupid, G.W. Pabst, Pandora's Box, Dennis Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, K-Town Film Festival, Better Boys' Foundation, American Revolution 2, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 11, 2012
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Stripping Steven Soderbergh

The new comedy Magic Mike peels a few layers from the enigmatic director
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum, male strippers, Red digital camera, film composition, documentary realism, Matthew McConaughey, service industry, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2012
What's new again: Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973)

Revisiting the New Hollywood classic in light of Steven Soderbergh's 70s homage Magic Mike
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, New Hollywood, Me Generation, Gilda Radner, antiauthoritarianism

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 Jul 3, 2012
What's new again: the films of Michael Ritchie

Revisiting the comedy-dramas of the New Hollywood director in light of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Michael Ritchie, The Bad News Bears, Prime Cut, Downhill Racer, Smile, Semi-Tough, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Hal Ashby, New Hollywood, 1970s cinema, Shampoo, The Last Detail, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Frederick Wiseman, cynicism, The Candidate, Bruce Dern

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