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Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
 In a season when biographical and semi-biographical films about politicians and wrestlers are making headlines, another biopic film-this one about an assassinated rap artist-has made a few waves of its own. The film, Notorious, is about rapper Christopher Wallace (also known as Biggie Smalls), who was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting in 1997. Film critics have been particularly harsh regarding the film. A.O. Scott writes in the New York Times: "The movie may not be an authorized biography, but it is if anything less critical, less ambivalent, than some of Biggie's own semi-autobiographical lyrics."
Start: 7:00 pm
The Chicago Film Archives is producing the first ever retrospective of the life, work and times of late Chicago Filmmaker, Howard Alk. This program will include a screening of Search for the Lost Self, a film about new educational techniques in the treatment of children with autism and schizophrenia, and Cry of Jazz, a film that compares the musical jazz form to the African American experience. Filmmaker Ed Bland, and WBEZ's Alison Cuddy will lead a discussion about the films. | ||
