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FACETS CINÉMATHÈQUE
March - April 2005
The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.The 5th Annual
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
March 30 - April 5
"Ambitious and bountiful...Indispensable!"
-Chicago Reader
"Pick a big issue: from globalization to Abu Ghraib. Television can trivialize it, but film can weigh it. The Chicago International Documentary Festival finds work from around the world that helps us make sense of our time."
-Chicago Sun-Times
"Ambitious and bountiful...Indispensable!"
-Chicago Reader
"Pick a big issue: from globalization to Abu Ghraib. Television can trivialize it, but film can weigh it. The Chicago International Documentary Festival finds work from around the world that helps us make sense of our time."
-Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago International Documentary Festival is a premier festival of documentary films in the U.S. The thought-provoking 10-day film event established in 2003 is dedicated to the celebration and cultivation of the documentary film. Our eclectic programming is designed to extend appreciation of the art of documentary film and its unique power to inspire and communicate a world of ideas and cultures. Each edition presents an array of extraordinary programs, showcasing the work of brilliant filmmakers and providing a venue for established and emerging artists of film as well as doc film buffs to see the most interesting international selections.
Official site New City Chicago
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
HIS BIG WHITE SELF
"A timely report on a domestic terror campaign"
-Chicago Sun-Times
Directed by Nick Broomfield, UK, 2006.
Director site Variety
Showtime:
5 pm
HOT HOUSE
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WINNER Special Jury Prize Sundance Film Fest |
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"Chilling...insightful"
-Variety
"This insightful inquiry shows a symbiosis of opponents."
-Chicago Sun-Times
Recommended! "Extraordinary"
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Shimon Dotan, Israel, 2006.
Variety
Showtime:
7 pm
638 WAYS TO KILL CASTRO
Directed by Dollan Cannell, UK, 2006.
Official site Director interview
Showtime:
8:30 pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 31
CHILDREN OF DARFUR
Directed by Camille Nielsson, Denmark, 2006
with:
ON A TIGHTROPE
"A rare and moving slice of contemporary life in one of the world's most remote places"
-Sundance Film Fest
Directed by Petr Lom, Norway/Canada, 2006.
Showtime:
3 pm
DREAM HAVANA
Director Gary Marks in person!
"Stirring...a provocative look at Cuba in the eras before and after the fall of the Soviet Union"
-Chicago Tribune
"Stirring...a provocative look at Cuba in the eras before and after the fall of the Soviet Union"
-Chicago Tribune
Directed by Gary Marks, Cuba/Mexico/USA, 2006
Official site
Showtime:
5 pm
THE MONASTERY - MR. VIG & THE NUN
Director Pernille Rose Gronkjaer in person!
"Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists"
-Variety
"Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists"
-Variety
Directed by Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, Denmark, 2006
Official site Film Threat Variety
Showtime:
7 pm
HIGH SCHOOL II
"Mr. Wiseman is now a master of the epic documentary...High School II is absorbing and optimistic"
-New York Times
Recommended! "The interactions between students, teachers, and parents mostly seem like models of intelligent and enlightened behavior."
-Chicago Reader
-New York Times
Recommended! "The interactions between students, teachers, and parents mostly seem like models of intelligent and enlightened behavior."
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1994.
Official site New York Times
Showtime:
9 pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 1
JOSH'S TREES
"Bracingly intimate"
-Variety
Directed by Peter Entell, Switzerland, 2005.
Variety
Showtime:
1 pm
CIVIL STATUS
(GRAJDANSKOE SOSTOIANIE)
Directed by Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia, 2006.
with:
MY HUSBAND ANDREI SAKHAROV
Directed by Inara Kolmane, Latvia/France, 2006
Official site About Andrei Sakharov
Showtime:
3 pm
WORLD WAR IV
Director Don Craven in person!
Directed by Don Craven, USA, 2006.
Official site
Showtime:
5 pm
TITICUT FOLLIES
½-Roger Ebert
"Calm, cool and ultimately horrifying...an extraordinarily candid picture of
a modern Bedlam"
-New York Times
"Time has not diminished its emotional impact."
-Film Threat
Recommended! "A masterpiece of muckraking"
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1967.
Senses of Cinema New York Times Roger Ebert Chicago Reader
Showtime:
7 pm
WELFARE
"His masterpiece...mind-boggling and eye-opening"
-The Guardian
Recommended! "One of Frederick Wiseman's strongest documentaries"
-Chicago Reader
-The Guardian
Recommended! "One of Frederick Wiseman's strongest documentaries"
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1975
Official site The Guardian Chicago Reader
Showtime:
8:30 pm
MONDAY, APRIL 2
GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
"There has never been anything quite like Asger Leth's film; it's amazing it even exists and that the director is still alive."
-Variety
Directed by Asger Leth, Denmark, 2006.
Official site Variety
Showtime:
7 pm
BALLET
"Ballet, in its characteristic unadorned, unsentimentalized manner, remains unique, and its portrait of ballet dancers at work has no parallel.
-Washington Post
"Ballet is an eloquent statement about the crucial role of art in bringing extra dimensions
to our lives"
-New York Times
"Young editors could learn from his cinematic equivalent of choreography."
-Chicago Sun-Times
Recommended!
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1995.
Official site
Showtime:
8:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 3
THE WEST LUSAKA MAN
Walter Stokman, Netherlands, 2006.
Showtime:
5 pm
BUDDHA'S LOST CHILDREN
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WINNER Grand Jury Prize Los Angeles AFI Fest |
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"Fittingly meditative, beautifully filmed"
-LA Weekly
Directed by Mark Verkerk, Netherlands/France/Thailand, 2006
Official site;
Showtime:
6:30 pm
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
"One of Frederick Wiseman's greatest films...Domestic Violence is dense with unforgettable images, passages and vignettes"
-Film Comment
"10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away."
-New York Times
"The most compelling Wiseman epic of recent years"
-Village Voice
Recommended! "One wouldn't expect a documentary by Frederick Wiseman about domestic violence to be anything less than powerful, but it's his subtle, low-key approach to such an emotionally charged subject -- one too often presented in luridly melodramatic terms -- that makes this 2001 film so devastating."
-Chicago Reader
Frederick Wiseman, USA, 2001.
Official site Director interview New York Times Village Voice Chicago Reader
Showtime:
8:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
TRELEW
"An excellent film. The Argentine film industry had never dared to it."
-Rolling Stone
Directed by Mariana Arruti, USA, 2004.
Official site
Showtime:
5 pm
THE MONASTERY - MR. VIG & THE NUN
Director Pernille Rose Gronkjaer in person!
"Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists"
-Variety
"Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists"
-Variety
Directed by Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, Denmark, 2006
Official site Film Threat Variety
Showtime:
7 pm
THE STORE
"[Wiseman] has delved deeply and wisely into seemingly superficial subject matter and come up with a subtly informative - and incidentally entertaining - tract that will likely be of sociological importance for generations to come."
-Christian Science Monitor
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1983.
Official site;
Showtime:
8:30 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
WAR DANCE
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WINNER Doc Directing Award Sundance Film Fest |
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Directed by Andrea Nix Fine & Sean Fine, USA, 2007
Showtime:
5 pm
THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON
Director Mike Gray in person!
"A disturbingly somber illustration of some of the ills that beset us
and our social system."
-New York Times
"A disturbingly somber illustration of some of the ills that beset us
and our social system."
-New York Times
Directed by Mike Gray & Howard Alk, USA, 1971
Hampton's FBI files New York Times
Showtime:
7 pm
BASIC TRAINING
"Wiseman makes documentaries better than Napoleon made war"
-Boston Globe
"A gripping experience"
-Variety
"A fascinating snapshot of a time and place at a defining moment in American history."
-Senses of Cinema
"It's notable for Wiseman's careful observation of the process and his fleet, economical editing; beneath its prosaic surfaces roil the issues of racism and the ongoing debacle in Vietnam."
-Chicago Reader
Directed by Frederick Wiseman, USA, 1971.
Official site Senses of Cinema
Showtime:
9 pm
Tickets:
$9 general admission
FREE for Facets Members!
For all Cinémathèque inquiries, contact Charles Coleman at 773.281.9075 or charles@facets.org
FREE for Facets Members!
For all Cinémathèque inquiries, contact Charles Coleman at 773.281.9075 or charles@facets.org