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"Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River" is an independent documentary film that reviews the careers of movie makers indigenous to Chicago... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A Marvelous & Unique Journey into the Creative Heart more (7 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Louis Antonelli | ... | Himself |
 | D.P. Carlson | ... | Himself |
| Richard M. Daley | ... | Himself |
| Andrew Davis | ... | Himself |
 | Roger Ebert | ... | Himself |
| Dann Gire | ... | Himself |
| Stuart Gordon | ... | Himself |
| Steven A. Jones | ... | Himself |
 | John Landis | ... | Himself |
| Chris Ligon | ... | Himself |
| Katy Maguire | ... | Herself |
 | Michael Mann | ... | Himself |
| Heather McAdams | ... | Herself |
| John McNaughton | ... | Himself |
| Richard Moskal | ... | Himself |
| Tom Palazzolo | ... | Himself |
| Ray Pride | ... | Himself |
| Gordon Quinn | ... | Himself |
 | Harold Ramis | ... | Himself |
| Jim Sikora | ... | Himself |
 | Gene Siskel | ... | Himself |
| Loretta Smith | ... | Herself |
| Ayanna U'Dongo | ... | Herself |
 | Haskell Wexler | ... | Himself |
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'Chicago Filmmakers On The Chicago River' By the fine and gifted director D.P. Carlson is such a joy to behold, especially when one considers that listening to a bunch of movie directors talking has many times in the past
on screen turned into a crashing bore, or ego fest. I also feel calling this film a 'documentary' is a disservice to it. Like everything else in society, categories must be overtly stated, instead of a given work just
just being purely itself without imposition - 'Chicago Filmmakers' is a picture really in its own category. This film is a sweeping pictorial into what is very elusive to visually present; movies alive in the heart of the people who lived with them, loved them, sometimes hated them, but always were devoted to them - and in the main only on their terms. Carlson obviously made this film on his own terms, thank God - because what we get is a filmmaker's vision of the hearts of other filmmakers within a framework of Chicago (the original 'Hollywood') which is so vivid and pulsing, the movie feels alive as one absorbs it. This film, like all great works will never become dated, the reason for this to my mind is simple; when the filmmakers featured here are all lost to us by time, others will take their place with that longing heart, feeling and love to create cinema, just as those featured here were the next links for the visions that came before them; a lifeblood of continuing evolution. This work ranks with to other
indispensable tomes concerning the cinema; Wim Wenders' 'Lightnig Over Water', and the book 'Hitchcock/(by)Truffaut. Again - Timeless. Thank You Mr. Carlson!