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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

November 2006

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 IFP/CHICAGO FACETS FILM SERIES PRESENTS:

HOME GROWN SHORTS

Celebrating the contributions to cinema by local artists, this program offers eight exciting films that range from thought-provoking experimental works to tension-driven dramas by homegrown talents from Chicago and Illinois. Total running time: 91 mins.

Screen Magazine        


In the stylish Zoetrope (U.S.A.., Joe Fournier, 6 min.), made in art deco-style animation set to jazz, a worker drone delivers himself from the tedium of the everyday with a handful of office supplies and a bit of imagination. Chicago Internaltional Film Fest Hugo Award winner Forgetting Betty (U.S.A.., Robert Postrozny and James Anderson, 10 min.) weighs the joys of living life against the fears of aging when a 96-year-old widow spends a fleeting day with her grandson. Psychosis may offer the only salvation in Middle, Life (U.S.A.., Chris Nelson, 9 min.). An Open Door (U.S.A.., Sean Jourdan, 19 min.) tells the story of a failing marriage and a fading mind, in which recovery lies in the acknowledgement of an unspeakable secret. Merci (U.S.A., Raul Cales, 13 min.) evokes the small and large ties that bind as a French WW-II survivor unexpectedly encounters a man from her past on busy Chicago street. In Drive Radio (U.S.A., Justin Hayward, 9 min.) a late-night radio talk show host is faced with an ethical dilemma that can only be resolved by the imperative that the show must go on. A quirky critique of the excessive demands of Church and State, Cranium Theater (U.S.A.., Jason Sandri, 7 min.) presents a brain farmer who thrives in spite of the pillaging of the fruits of his labor. Kubuku Rides (This is It) (U.S.A.., Terry Kinney, 18 min.) affords an unblinking view of a household breaking down under the ravages of alcoholism, as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy.

Forgetting Betty     Sean Jourdan/An Open Door     Raul Cales/Merci

Drive Radio: YouTube Trailer    Cranium Theater: director interview        

Showtime:
Wed., Nov. 15 at 7 pm

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