Golub: The Late Works are the Catastrophies
	Northwest Premier
80 minutes, 2004 16mm/DVCAM, USA/N. Ireland By Jerry Blumenthal & Gordon Quinn

Golub: Late Works Are The Catastrophes, captures the work and times of the great American artist Leon Golub. In the wake of Abu Grhaib, his nightmarish scenes of interrogations and torture remain prophetic, even as they give way to the darkly humorous erotica and meditations on mortality of his later work.

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Hoop Dreams
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176 minutes, 1994 Beta SP, USA By Steve James, Frederick Marx & Peter Gilbert

Hoop Dreams is the remarkable true story of two American dreamers; an intimate reflection of contemporary American inner-city culture, following two ordinary young men on the courts of the game they love. Plucked from the streets and given the opportunity to attend a "white" prep school and play for a legendary high school coach, William Gates and Arthur Agee both soon discover that their dreams of NBA glory become obscured amid the intense pressures of academics, family life, economics and athletic competitiveness. But most importantly, both boys remain focused on their dream, no matter how hard tragedy strikes or how desperate their situation becomes. It is their faith in the game that unites their family and gives each person hope. And it is this faith that ultimately allows them to build upon their failures as well as their triumphs and make for themselves a potentially better life.

“One of the greatest movie going experiences of my lifetime.”
  - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

George Foster Peabody Award, 1995

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Now We Live on Clifton
26 minutes, 1974 16mm, USA By Jerry Blumenthal, Alphonse Blumenthal, Susan Delson, Sharon Karp, Peter Kuttner, Gordon Quinn & Richard Schmiechen

Now We live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.

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Refrigerator Mothers
57 minutes, 2002 Beta SP, USA By David E. Simpson

It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame." Once isolated and unheard, these mothers have emerged with strong, resilient voices to share the details of their personal journeys. Through their poignant stories, Refrigerator Mothers puts a human face on what can happen when authority goes unquestioned and humanity is removed from the search for scientific answers.

“A heartbreaking account of the terrifying descent into autism and the culture of blame that left a gaping hole in so many lives. It is also a cautionary tale underscoring the harm wrought by arrogance.”
 - Boston Herald

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