Digging Deeper into Movies with Nick Davis
Join the Chicago International Film Festival and Nick Davis, Northwestern Professor and film critic, for this series of free interactive lectures exploring recent releases and festival films from around the world with a focus on the nuances of imagery, editing, and sound that complicate story and theme.
Admission is free and open to the public with registration.
The Digging Deeper into Movies Lecture Series is made possible with the support of the Robert & Penelope Steiner Family Foundation.
Upcoming Digging Deeper Events
Sat, Sept 27 @ 11:30am
Voices that Carry: The Quiet Power of Kelly Reichardt
It’s a miracle for any U.S. independent filmmaker, especially a woman, to build a ten-feature body of globally lauded work. A Competition veteran of the Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Chicago festivals, Kelly Reichardt receives this year a retrospective at CIFF—including her new, period-set heist dramedy The Mastermind.
Sat, Oct 11 @ 11:00am
Iranian Masters: Jafar Panahi and Shahram Mokri
One of only two directors to win Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Chicago, Jafar Panahi trained under Iranian legend Abbas Kiarostami and joined him in bringing that country’s cinema to world awareness. Before the latest films by both men play at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival, we will examine Panahi’s and Mokri’s distinct ways of blending the poetic, the political, and the metacinematic.
Sun, Oct 19 @ 10:30am
Paris, Texas: Richard Linklater and Nouvelle Vague
As preface to the 61st Festival’s double feature of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a fact-inspired fable about the creation of that film, we will chart some Godardian resonances in Linklater’s best- and least-known features.
212 W Van Buren St., Suite 400
