With over a hundred years of the moving image at their disposal, these creative people appear at a loss how to proceed. It’s a very familiar feeling.
Tag: Olivier Assayas
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Non-Fiction and The Souvenir question how well their characters really know one another—and themselves
In two new films, Olivier Assayas and Joanna Hogg withhold information to poke and provoke viewers.
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The Chicago International Film Festival returns, this time with more experiments and work by female directors
It lacks some of the buzzier movies from the international festival circuit, but there’s still plenty worth seeing. Our critics weigh in on 24 offerings.
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The low-budget mystery Gemini is an honest but failed study in upper-class malaise
The latest from indie writer-director Aaron Katz establishes a mood but does little else.
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After 20 years the European Union Film Festival is still going strong
More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres at the festival’s 20th edition.
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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My favorite films of 2014, runners-up and caveats
Given how many superb movies play Chicago every year, it’s a struggle to limit a list of favorites to just ten—or even 30.
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What the band the Walkmen taught me about watching movies
On the rock album as film-appreciation course
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A year off of the music machine, minus an impulsive top ten list
A year in the life of someone pulled out of the churn of the music business, plus ten albums not appearing on many year-end lists.
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Lessons of random double features
Pairing films from very different points in film history might lead to novel insights about cinema on the whole.
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Doc Films announce two changes to their Olivier Assayas series
The French director’s 1997 TV documentary about Hou Hsiao-Hsien will replace the previously announced screening of Paris at Dawn.
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M Is for Mimicry, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Urban bombing, third-trimester abortion, the scourge of slavery, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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At CIFF: Suzanne and the slow, steady progress of director Katell Quillévéré
Thoughts on the French director’s second feature, playing in this year’s Chicago International Film Festival
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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