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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963

Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Film, Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Al Raby, Don Rose, Robert Lucas, Benjamin Willis, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films, closing schools, Chicago Public Schools, 63 Boycott

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2013
Fifty years ago: A basketball title and a school boycott for Chicago

In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Books, Arts, Education, Segregation, Film, Sports, News, Jerry Harkness, Vic Rouse, Jack Egan, NCAA Championship, Loyola University, University of Cincinnati, Freedom Hall, Mike Lenehan, Ramblers, George Ireland, Chicago Reader, segregation, integration, George Wilson, Marshall High School, Benjamin Willis, Chicago Public Schools, Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, '63 Boycott

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2013
Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part three

The concluding segment of an interview with two noted Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Judy Hoffman, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films, ethnography, anthropology, Kwakwaka'wakw Indians, Margaret Mead, Sony Portapak, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean Rouch, Box of Treasures, Jerry Temaner, Charles Benton, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jim Morissette, Musee de l'Homme, Maxwell Street, Cinematheque de la Danse

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2013
Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part two

The second part of an interview with two Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, Chronicle of a Summer, Maitres Fous, direct cinema, cinema verite, provocation, Hoop Dreams, Home for Life, ethnography, Trick Bag

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2013
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
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, documentary films, anthropology, ethnography, The Mad Masters, Les Maitres Fous, Chronicle of a Summer, The Lion Hunters, Moi un Noir, cinema verite, direct cinema, hauka religion, provocation, Wise Fool's Pub, Margaret Mead, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cahiers du cinema, Edgar Morin, Bix Beiderbecke, Mike Shea, Maxwell Street, ...And This Is Free, Jerry Tamener, Stan Karter, Niger, handheld camerawork

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 17, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Mon 12/17: Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Kartemquin directors, and Bret Slater

What's on the Agenda for Monday, December 17, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Jim Baker, Steve Hunt, Brian Sandstrom, Mars Williams, Beat Kitchen, Bill Meyer, Greater Grand Crossing Branch, Chicago Public Library, Steve Bogria, Kartemquin, Gordon Quinn, Peter Kuttner, UE/Wells, Winnie Wright, Age 11, Trick Bag, Bret Slater, Thomas Robertello Gallery, An Amulet That Matters

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2012
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A model integrated community for Chicago to study

In Hope Meadows, a common purpose for residents—caring for each other—leads to real integration
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Segregation, News, integration, segregation, Beverly, Hyde Park, Hope Meadows, Rantoul, foster care, adoption, mixed-income housing, Brenda Krause Eheart, University of Illinois, Children and Youth Services Review, Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Heinz Family Foundation, Generations of Hope, Treehouse, Bridge Meadows, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, juvenile justice, Kartemquin Films, Black Cinema House, Chicago Public Schools, school boycott, Gordon Quinn, Peter Kuttner

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 11, 2012
Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series

Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Sundown in K-Town, documentary films, Kartemquin Films, Better Boys Foundation, Facets Multimedia, Gordon Quinn, Tom Palazzolo, The Chicago Maternity Center Story, American Revolution 2, And This Is Free, Young Lords, Black Panthers

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 2011
Hercules and Quinn's A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, on PBS tonight

A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, a documentary on the artistic process from Chicago directors Gordon Quinn and Bob Hercules, airs tonight on PBS.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Film, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, A Good Man: Bill T. Jones, Abraham Lincoln, WTTW, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Bob Hercules, Media Process Group, Ravinia Festival, Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray, PBS

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 21, 2011
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, William Colby, Steve Bogira, The Man Nobody Knew, Phoenix Program, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Margin Call, Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski, Pieter Bruegel, The Way to Calgary, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Texas Killing Fields, The Three Musketeers, With or Without Love, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, Woody Allen, Bananas, University of Chicago Doc Films, Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Golub movie, The Last Pullman Car, Pullman State Historic Site, Jules Dassin, Rififi, Roman Polanski, The Tenant, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Beverly Arts Center, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, Universal Horror!, Cinema Borealis, Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 21, 2010
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A Good Man

Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn screen an excerpt from their forthcoming Bill T. Jones dance documentary "A Good Man," in a retrospective of films by Hercules and his Media Process Group tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Dance, Bill T. Jones, dance, Ravinia, Abraham Lincoln, Bicentennial, Obama, Kartemquin, Gordon Quinn, Bob Hercules, Good Man, Media Process Group, Bill Veeck, Studs Terkel, Baseball's Heirlooms, Eva Kor, Forgiving Dr. Mengele, Senator Obama Goes to Africa, Michael Pfleger, Radical Disciple, Gene Siskel, Film Center, Saul Alinsky, community organizer, Democratic Promise, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 24, 2010
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Evening Art: Picasso, Golub, Basquiat

Three notable documentary profiles of painters screen this week.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Visual Art, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jean-Michael Basquiat The Radiant Child, Gene Siskel Film Center, Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Mystery of Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Leon Golub, painters, visual art, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2009
Alk of the town

Chicago Film Archives presents a series on Chicago filmmaker Howard Alk.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Sun Ra, Chicago Blues, Movies, Second City, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Police Department, Murray Lerner, Bob Dylan, Gordon Quinn, Facets Cinematheque, Maxwell Street, Chicago Film Archives, Paul Sills, Toronto, Black Panthers, Howard Alk, music movies, Janis Joplin, Renaldo and Clara, Eat the Document, Bob Lee, Black Panther Party, A Portrait of Howard Alk, Bernie Sahlins, Bernard Sahlins, Albert Grossman, Ed Bland, The Cry of Jazz, Mike Shea, And This Is Free, Newport folk festival, Rolling Thunder Revue, American Revolution 2, 1968 Democratic convention, The Murder of Fred Hampton, The Seasons Change, Luxman Baul's Movie, Jones Cullinan, Mike Gray, David Rothberg, My Friend Vince, political documentaries, filmmakers

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2008
Kartemquin Films documentary on the aged

The Kartemquin Films documentary Home for Life screens at Evanston Public Library tonight, with the filmmakers in attendance.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Gerald Temaner, Home for Life, documentary films, Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum

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