A new Criterion Collection box set encompasses the filmmaker’s work—and reminds of her time spent in Chicago.
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This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani
Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Being There: Still funny, but newly grim and topical
Hal Ashby’s 1979 comedy has received a superb new Blu-Ray release from the Criterion Collection.
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My way or the Hemingway, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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It’s a noir, noir, noir, noir world at the Music Box
Noir City: Chicago 6 brings a week of international film noir rarities to the Music Box.
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The lost Chicago of Medium Cool
With Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic Convention.
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Best Film Retrospective
The series on this forgotten French comedian was eye-opening.
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This weekend’s must-see revival: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie on 35-millimeter
John Cassavetes’s personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.
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A new life for Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese remember The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a British masterpiece.
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Pasolini’s Salo: A film that bleeds onto other films
How the 1975 film has affected my enjoyment of everything I’ve seen since
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Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear, made with real eggs
Criteron Collection releases a digital restoration of the 1944 wartime thriller
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Weekly Top Five: Science fiction, the art of extrapolation
Weekly Top Five: sci-films
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What’s new again: Claude Chabrol’s Les Cousins
Revisiting Claude Chabrol’s second film in light of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel
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A resolution for 2012: Watch more Indian movies
One American film critic vows to watch more Indian movies