The first in a multipart series on notable movies to first appear in Chicago this past year
Tag: documentary films
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Chicago Public Library presents free documentary screenings for Women’s History Month
Noting the monthlong citywide program
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Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one
Talking with some of Chicago’s most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
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Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series
Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale
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William Friedkin’s Chicago Years
Working at Facets the past few years has helped me see something specific about [William] Friedkin’s documentary style that I had not noticed previously. The film’s down-and-dirty style derives from a short-lived Chicago-based documentary movement from the 1960s—now long gone and unchronicled in most documentary history books. A version of cinema verite, the visual style […]
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Kartemquin Films documentary on the aged
The Kartemquin Films documentary Home for Life screens at Evanston Public Library tonight, with the filmmakers in attendance.