Chicago 10

Life imitating art and vice versa: no where is that more evident that in film. In the instance of documentaries life is art.

Opening this Friday in New York City, wider in the coming weeks is a new fresh look at events that took place 40 years ago in this country mirroring what we as 21st century citizens are facing again today.
Chicago 10 is filmmaker’s Brett Morgen’s (The Kid Stays in the Picture) exhaustive look at the events leading up to, during, immediately after the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago and the subsequent trial that arose from clashes outside a downtown hotel. Eight defendants and two attorneys made up the Chicago 10. The men on trial were leaders of various anti-war movements and the fall-guys for the violence that disturbed the streets of the Windy City. Read more

Watchmen

Director Zack Snyder (300) brings another graphic novel to the screen with Watchmen.

“Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. Read more