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Tag: Criterion Collection

Posted inFilm

(Re)discover Agnès Varda

by Kat Sachs August 14, 2020August 18, 2021

A new Criterion Collection box set encompasses the filmmaker’s work—and reminds of her time spent in Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani

by Patrick Friel January 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Posted inBlogs

Being There: Still funny, but newly grim and topical

by Ben Sachs March 30, 2017August 18, 2021

Hal Ashby’s 1979 comedy has received a superb new Blu-Ray release from the Criterion Collection.

Posted inBlogs

My way or the Hemingway, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones July 31, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Lucia Bosè and Alberto Closas in Death of a Cyclist
Posted inFilm

It’s a noir, noir, noir, noir world at the Music Box

by J.R. Jones August 27, 2014August 18, 2021

Noir City: Chicago 6 brings a week of international film noir rarities to the Music Box.

Medium Cool
Posted inFilm

The lost Chicago of Medium Cool

by J.R. Jones July 10, 2013August 19, 2021

With Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic Convention.

Le Grand Amour
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Film Retrospective

by J.R. Jones June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

The series on this forgotten French comedian was eye-opening.

Posted inBlogs

This weekend’s must-see revival: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie on 35-millimeter

by Ben Sachs May 2, 2013August 19, 2021

John Cassavetes’s personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Posted inFilm

A new life for Colonel Blimp

by J.R. Jones April 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese remember The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a British masterpiece.

Posted inBlogs

Pasolini’s Salo: A film that bleeds onto other films

by Ben Sachs April 15, 2013August 19, 2021

How the 1975 film has affected my enjoyment of everything I’ve seen since

Posted inBlogs

Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear, made with real eggs

by J.R. Jones March 12, 2013August 19, 2021

Criteron Collection releases a digital restoration of the 1944 wartime thriller

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation

by Drew Hunt March 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Weekly Top Five: sci-films

Posted inBlogs

What’s new again: Claude Chabrol’s Les Cousins

by Ben Sachs July 31, 2012August 19, 2021

Revisiting Claude Chabrol’s second film in light of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel

Posted inBlogs

Coal play

by J.R. Jones January 25, 2012August 19, 2021

Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.

Posted inBlogs

A resolution for 2012: Watch more Indian movies

by Ben Sachs January 4, 2012August 19, 2021

One American film critic vows to watch more Indian movies

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