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Home » Abel Ferrara

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Posted inFilm

Zeros and Ones

by Max Maller November 17, 2021December 14, 2021

Rome has never looked so despairing.

Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe

by Ben Sachs September 24, 2019August 18, 2021

Five outstanding films about beings from outer space

Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: The director as public intellectual

by Ben Sachs June 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Five masterpieces from filmmakers whose work has pushed the cultural envelope

Posted inBest of Chicago

Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television

by Lee Bey June 22, 2017August 18, 2021

The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Abel Ferrara’s five best films

by Drew Hunt May 3, 2015August 18, 2021

Highlights from the filmography of Abel Ferrara

Posted inFilm

A London detective chases modern-day slavers in the UK thriller Hyena

by Ben Sachs April 30, 2015August 18, 2021

A dirty cop tries to save his soul in Gerard Johnson’s gritty film.

Posted inBlogs

Welcome to New York, the rest of our new movie reviews, and this week’s notable screenings

by J.R. Jones April 24, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inFilm

Abel Ferrara is back with a movie about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal

by Ben Sachs April 22, 2015August 18, 2021

Gérard Depardieu stars as a French politician accused of rape in Welcome to New York.

Blood Ties
Posted inFilm

Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

by Ben Sachs July 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema

Posted inBlogs

A heap of nonfiction and the rest of this week’s screenings

by Ben Sachs January 3, 2014August 18, 2021

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between 1/3 and 1/9

Posted inBlogs

The wolf, the leopard, the turkey, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones December 27, 2013August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Fri 12/27: Boobs of the Dead, Dark Wave Disco reunion, and Ms. 45

by Brianna Wellen December 27, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, December 27

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: Elmore Leonard adaptations

by Drew Hunt August 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Top five Elmore Leonard adaptations.

Posted inBlogs

This Thursday at Doc, it’s just one Swanberg after another

by Ben Sachs July 9, 2013August 19, 2021

Notes on Joe Swanberg’s Silver Bullets, playing this week as a double feature with Kris Swanberg’s Empire Builder.

Posted inBlogs

The Insect treatment: an interview with Nate Cunningham

by Ben Sachs December 6, 2012August 19, 2021

Talking with the longtime Siskel Film Center employee about the upcoming screenings he programmed, which will raise money for his experimental Lyme-disease treatment

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