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Home » moviegoing

Tag: moviegoing

Posted inBlogs

Beyond the Lights is the most subversive American movie of the year

by Ben Sachs November 24, 2014August 18, 2021

But does that matter to audiences?

Posted inBlogs

Is Interstellar better when you’re stoned?

by Ben Sachs November 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic has a few things in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey, you say? Let’s put it to the test.

Posted inBlogs

I went to the movies and saw my grandmother get stabbed to death

by Ben Sachs November 3, 2014August 18, 2021

On how my grandmother acted in the Yiddish-language musical Kol Nidre

Posted inBlogs

The South American variation on Superbad that was an unexpected highlight of the Chicago International Film Festival

by Ben Sachs October 27, 2014August 18, 2021

On watching the Uruguayan drug comedy High Five while the rest of the world was at work

Posted inBlogs

How going to the movies is like going to the ballet

by Ben Sachs October 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Thoughts on Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary, National Gallery, and the fleeting nature of all art

Posted inBlogs

How David Fincher and Gyorgy Palfi, two different filmmakers, use digital video to uncanny effect

by Ben Sachs October 13, 2014August 18, 2021

Free Fall and Gone Girl: New adventures in hi-def

Posted inBlogs

In praise of movies that fail spectacularly

by Ben Sachs October 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Why have I seen Diary of a Shinjuku Thief so many times if I don’t like the film very much?

Posted inBlogs

Rocks in My Pockets and the challenge of representing mental illnesses onscreen

by Ben Sachs September 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Do people with mental illnesses want to see movies about people like themselves?

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There ought to be more film screenings in ballrooms

by Ben Sachs September 22, 2014August 18, 2021

The cancelation of a screening in the Drake Hotel ballroom inspires memories of similar film events.

Posted inBlogs

Finding The Long, Long Trailer and wide, wide seats at Webster Place

by Ben Sachs September 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Observations in and around the north-side multiplex, which recently installed recliners in some of its theaters

Posted inBlogs

Is it curtains for curtains in America’s movie theaters?

by Ben Sachs September 8, 2014August 18, 2021

A short lament for the vanishing convention of curtains in front of movie screens

Posted inBlogs

Ten recent movies that I wish had been directed by Lee Daniels

by Ben Sachs August 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Daniels’s exuberance and weird integrity could have benefitted a good number of recent movies.

Posted inBlogs

I spent the summer of 2000 in the dive bar of multiplexes

by Ben Sachs August 18, 2014August 18, 2021

I had great fun working at a theater that was going out of business, no matter how gross it could be at times.

Posted inBlogs

Do movies require interpersonal conflict to be fun?

by Ben Sachs August 11, 2014August 18, 2021

Considering how the games we play as children influence our tastes in entertainment as adults

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Learning to live with computer-generated imagery

by Ben Sachs August 4, 2014August 18, 2021

Personal reflections on the current state of effects-driven productions

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