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Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb

The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, History, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Fall Arts Preview, Blacklight Cinema, Playboy Theater, Sandburg Theater, Faces of Women, Desire Ecare, Return of Blacklight Cinema, Community Film Workshop of Chicago, Truck Turner, black cinema, National Film Theatre, South Shore High School, Black Filmmakers Collective, Warrington Hudlin, Black Expo, blaxploitation, The Murder of Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Englewood, Hugh Robinson, Midnight Cowboy, Richard Peña, School of the Art Institute, South Shore Film Festival, Omar Kaihatsu, Fine Arts Theater, World Playhouse, DuSable Museum, Facets Multimedia, Soft Sheen Products, Ed Gardner, St. Clair Bourne, Harold Washington, Fred Fine, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago City Arts Council, Gordon Parks, Christopher St. John, Berlin Film Festival, Ganja and Hess, Bill Gunn, Fanfare Studios, Cannes Film Festival, Kristoff St. John, Chicago Filmmakers

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2009
Video
The Murder of Fred Hampton

"The Murder of Fred Hampton" screens Wednesday 12/2 as part of "The Black Panther Party in Retrospect" conference at the University of Chicago.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Visual Art, Politics, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Clout City, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Bobby Rush, Deborah Johnson, Black Panther, Akua Njeri, Emory Douglas, Willie Calvin, Jeff Haas, Jane Rhodes, Ahmad Rahman, International House, University of Chicago, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, The Murder of Fred Hampton, Video

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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