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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 Feb 25, 2020
Chicago Movie Journal: History and mystery

Marco Bellocchio’s films remind us that cinema is an adventure.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Marco Bellocchio, Fists in the Pocket, China Is Near, Good Morning, Night, Vincere, The Conviction, Devil in the Flesh, The Traitor, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, The Wayward Cloud, Vitalina Varela, Tsai Ming-liang, Pedro Costa

Film, Movie Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Movie Tuesday: Happy 90th anniversary, Music Box Theatre

Five films that put theaters at the center of the action.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Tuesday, Music Box Theatre, Music Box Films, Pawel Pawlikowski, Terence Davies, Jacques Nolot, Buster Keaton, Giuseppe Tornatore, Joe Dante, Tsai Ming-liang, Brillante Mendoza, Music Box

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2015
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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gwynedd Stuart, Aloha Cameron Crowe, Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Entourage movie, Aloft movie, Claudia Llosa, The Milk of Sorrow, Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Hard to Be a God, The Icing, Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down, Love & Mercy, Paul Dano, Brian Wilson, John Cusack, The Nightmare, Rodney Ascher, Room 237, Spy Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Bridesmaids, Tonnerre, A Wolf at the Door, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Music Box Chicago, Tsai Ming-liang, Rebels of the Neon God, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Cameron, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Frank Tashlin, Who’s Minding the Store?, Jerry Lewis, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Group 312 Films 2014 Annual Report, Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College Chicago, Retour de Flamme, Serge Bromberg, The Russian Woodpecker, Docs at the Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2014
Stranger by the Lake, Porn Theatre, and the influence of cruising on film narrative

Revisiting Jacques Nolot's 2002 drama in light of Alain Guiraudie's thematically similar thriller, which returns to Chicago this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, On Video, Moviegoing, LGBT, Film, Porn Theatre, Jacques Nolot, Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, cruising, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang

Film, Movie Feature Dec 24, 2013
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Year in review: 2013 at the movies

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Year in Review 2013, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Haneke, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Jia Zhang-ke, Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Jason Osder, Wilson Goode, Jeremy Scahill, Rithy Panh, David O. Russell, Frederick Wiseman, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise trilogy, Edward Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler, Andrew Bujalski, Pedro Almodovar, Tsai Ming-liang, Miguel Gomes, Johnnie To, Alfonso Cuaron, Alain Resnais, Video

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 Oct 14, 2013
Can one appreciate Tsai Ming-liang's latest (and possibly last) film outside of a movie theater?

Goodbye, Stray Dogs (don't stay away long)
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Moviegoing, Film, Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Lee Kang-sheng, moviegoing, Chicago International Film Festival, River East, Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, big screen, gallery installations, image

Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2013
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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, James Gray, Two Lovers, We Own the Night, Chicago Theater, Joaquin Phoenix, The Immigrant, Dario Argento, John McNaughton, Tsai Ming-liang, The Massacre, Patio Theater Chicago, A.C.O.D., Adam Scott, Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks, Ghost Anthology: A History of Argentine Experimental Film, The Summit, We Are What We Are, When Comedy Went to School, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean Renoir, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind, Buster Keaton, The General, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Music Box Chicago, Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Darren Aronofsky Pi, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Malman, John Ford: Poet in the Desert, John Ford Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Audio, Video

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2013
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Our guide to the 49th Chicago International Film Festival

Reviews of all the highlights from the festival's first week, plus spotlights of four directors whose films shouldn't be missed
- By Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg, Ben Sachs, Brianna Wellen, Dave Kehr, and Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Feature, CIFF, Chicago International Film Festival, Djamila Sahraoui, Parvis Shahbazi, Dario Argento, James Gray, John McNaughton, Tsai Ming-liang, Frederick Wiseman, Federico Fellini, Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, João Viana, Yu Liu, Abdellatif Kechiche, Amy Morton, Louisa Krause, John Slattery, Emily Meade, Margo Martindale, Adam Driver, Jody Lee LipesLance Edmands, Licia Maglietta, Silvio Soldini, Bruno Ganz, Lonesome Solo, Marlon Moreno, Robert Flores Prieto, Penny Vozniak, Jennifer Lynch, Adrian Sitaru, Rutger Hauer, Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento, Tomasz Wasilewski, Mateusz Banasiuk, Bartosz Gelner, Brianna Zepeda, John RangelRodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, David Grann, Justin Webster, Paulina Garcia, Valentina Muhr, Moisés Sepúlveda, Joel Karekezi, Khaled Jarrar, Bernard Attal, Stefan Zweig, Gregory Nava, Diego Quemada-Diez, Jacek Borcuch, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge, Ilya Isayev, Nestor Guzzini, Denis Shvedov, Alain Guiraudie, Yuri Bykov, Pierre Deladonchamps, Haskell Wexler, Rodrigo Reyes, Verna Bloom, Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Peter Bonerz, Saleh Bakri, Carlos Lechuga, Chung Mong-Hong, Peter Plaugborg, Jimmy Wang Yu, Sonja Richter, Simon Staho, Rithy Panh, Alex de la Iglesia, Michael Noer, Marie Bäumer, Mark Waschke, Denis Dercourt, Saskia Rosendahl, Sophie Rois, Santiago Loza, Video

Film, Movie Feature Oct 9, 2013
CIFF Director Spotlight: Tsai Ming-liang

Stray Dogs follows in the tradition of Chaplin and Ozu.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Tsai Ming-liang, slow cinema, Stray Dogs, Vive L'Amour, The River, Lisandro Alonso, Corneliu Porumboiu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lee Kang-sheng

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Brighton Rock, Boulting brothers, Roy Boulting, John Boulting, Graham Greene, Gene Siskel Film Center, Facets Multimedia, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Preacher movie, Daniel Kraus, Sheriff movie, Musician movie, Professor movie, The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, John Corbett, Peter Margasak, Disco and Atomic War, Dallas TV show, Soviet Union, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth, Earthwork movie, Stan Herd, Farmageddon, Kiss and Tell, Monga movie, The Mysterious Lady, Greta Garbo, Silent Summer Film Festival, Ode movie, Ode to Billy Joe, Kelly Reichradt, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, One Day movie, Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd, Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D, Robert Rodriguez, Don Siegel, Charley Varrick, Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon, White Mane, Music Box, film festivals, movies, Video

Film, Movie Feature Oct 8, 2009
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The Reader's Guide to the 45th Chicago International Film Festival: Week One

Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15
- By J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, and Joshua Katzman
- Tags: Movie Feature, CIFF, Chicago International Film Festival, Wit Hotel, Katherine Dieckmann, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Jean-Marc Vallee, The Young Victoria, Animation Nations, Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain, Antichrist, Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Breaking the Waves, Andrei Tarkovsky, Backyard, Carlos Carrera, Berlin '36, Kaspar Heidelbach, Chicago Overcoat, Cropsey, Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Andre Rand, Willowbrook State School, Daniel and Ana, Eccentricities of a Blond Girl, Michel Franco, Manoel de Oliveira, Face, Tsai Ming-Liang, The Girl on the Train, Andre Techine, Hipsters, Valery Todorovsky, The Last Days of Emma Blank, Looking for Eric, Ken Loach, The Maid, The Messenger, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi, Bong Joon-ho, Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Red Cliff, John Woo, Ricky, Alexandra Demy, Melusine Mayance, Vincere, Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Crivelli, Wit Hotel, River East 21, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2007
Floating worlds

Themes of immigration and exile in Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door.
- By Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Tsai Ming-liang, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, Emanuele Crialese, Golden Door, Otar Iosseliani, Giambattista Piranesi, Walt Whitman

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What to stream as part of the 56th annual CIFF

Chicago Movie Journal: History and mystery

Marco Bellocchio’s films remind us that cinema is an adventure.

Movie Tuesday: Happy 90th anniversary, Music Box Theatre

Five films that put theaters at the center of the action.

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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Stranger by the Lake, Porn Theatre, and the influence of cruising on film narrative

Revisiting Jacques Nolot's 2002 drama in light of Alain Guiraudie's thematically similar thriller, which returns to Chicago this week

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Year in review: 2013 at the movies

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.

My favorite films of 2013

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013

Can one appreciate Tsai Ming-liang's latest (and possibly last) film outside of a movie theater?

Goodbye, Stray Dogs (don't stay away long)

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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Our guide to the 49th Chicago International Film Festival

Reviews of all the highlights from the festival's first week, plus spotlights of four directors whose films shouldn't be missed

CIFF Director Spotlight: Tsai Ming-liang

Stray Dogs follows in the tradition of Chaplin and Ozu.

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

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The Reader's Guide to the 45th Chicago International Film Festival: Week One

Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15

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Themes of immigration and exile in Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door.

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What to stream as part of the 56th annual CIFF

Marco Bellocchio’s films remind us that cinema is an adventure.

Five films that put theaters at the center of the action.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Revisiting Jacques Nolot's 2002 drama in light of Alain Guiraudie's thematically similar thriller, which returns to Chicago this week

J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013

Goodbye, Stray Dogs (don't stay away long)

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Reviews of all the highlights from the festival's first week, plus spotlights of four directors whose films shouldn't be missed

Stray Dogs follows in the tradition of Chaplin and Ozu.

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

Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15

Themes of immigration and exile in Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door.

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