In 1997, the Chicago Underground Film Festival held its fourth annual edition on August 13-17 at the Theatre Building at 1225 W. Belmont Avenue. One way the festival promoted itself that year was it published a four-page pull-out section in the Chicago-based political magazine Lumpen, vol. 6 no. 4.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
- 12/10/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
"Privacy is an outdated concept," Wallace Shawn quips in Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner. If he only knew! Shawn's comment comes after realizing he's being filmed, but it could serve as a rejoinder to this documentary itself, an often too-intimate portrait of theater director Andre Gregory by his wife, Cindy Kleine. While watching scenes as mundane as Gregory applying a Spider-Man bandage to his cut finger or being recognized by a cashier in a grocery store, you may wonder: Would this film exist in a pre-Kardashian universe? Rooted in restlessness, the doc cycles through a myriad of subjects with a desultory air. It's alternately a love letter from Kleine to Gregory about their May-December romance; a behind-the-scenes look at Gregory's production of Ibsen's The Master...
- 4/3/2013
- Village Voice
Family Portrait: Kleine’ Uses Husband as Subject for Light Documentary
Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director Cindy Kleine’s documentary about her husband, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, which gives us a rare glimpse of the artist in his personal environment. While he’s perhaps best known to the general movie going public for odd supporting turns in several main stream motion pictures, Gregory is first and foremost an accomplished theater director, and he infamously rehearses one piece for years at a time. Those familiar with the film Vanya on 42nd Street should know exactly what his process entails. Unfortunately, those unfamiliar with Gregory and his work will most likely find Kleine’s documentary aggravating and without any type of thrust beyond a compilation of shared familial memories.
Introduced to the cinema in Louis Malle’s 1981 adaptation of his work,...
Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director Cindy Kleine’s documentary about her husband, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, which gives us a rare glimpse of the artist in his personal environment. While he’s perhaps best known to the general movie going public for odd supporting turns in several main stream motion pictures, Gregory is first and foremost an accomplished theater director, and he infamously rehearses one piece for years at a time. Those familiar with the film Vanya on 42nd Street should know exactly what his process entails. Unfortunately, those unfamiliar with Gregory and his work will most likely find Kleine’s documentary aggravating and without any type of thrust beyond a compilation of shared familial memories.
Introduced to the cinema in Louis Malle’s 1981 adaptation of his work,...
- 4/2/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Indiewire has your exclusive first look at the trailer for Cindy Kleine's documentary, "Andre Gregory: Before & After Dinner." The film is a personal project for Kleine (it took her three years to complete) as it centers around her husband, the groundbreaking director, writer, actor and artist Andre Gregory ("My Dinner With Andre"). Described as "a film about memory, family, storytelling, mystery, truth, art, life, passion and marriage", Kleine's relationship with Andre allows for an intimate look into the life of a man revered by many. Take a look at the trailer below. The film opens on Wednesday, April 3rd at New York's Film Forum. Go here for more information.
- 3/15/2013
- by Cristina A. Gonzalez
- Indiewire
The Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Cindy Kleine's documentary "Before and After Dinner: The Life and Work of André Gregory," a portrait of the actor who most famously starred in Louis Malle's "My Dinner with André." Gregory's body of work extends vastly beyond screen acting, as Kleine depicts in her film: He is also a writer, director, teacher, painter and "master storyteller." Indeed, Gregory's absorbing raconteur abilities are the centerpiece of the talky Malles classic. Kleine's previous film is 2008's "Phyllis and Harold," a sort of "Capturing the Friedmans"-esque account of her mother and father's dysfunctional relationship. "Before and After Dinner" will open theatrically in spring of 2013. Below is the trailer from Kleine's Kickstarter page.
- 10/23/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Our conversation with filmmaker Cindy Kleine on her new documentary about the life and marriage of her parents.
By Terry Keefe
In all honesty, Phyllis and Harold is one of the best examinations, fiction or non, of the subject of marriage that I have ever seen. Filmmaker Cindy Kleine started interviewing her elderly parents, Phyllis and Harold Kleine, about their marriage and lives for a project that became first a short film entitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part, which was structured as a series of talking head spots with both parents, and then broadened that project into this larger, more visually expansive feature over a 12-year period. Driving the film is a question Cindy Kleine poses at the beginning about her parents: “Who are these people?”
For starters, Phyllis and Harold are an upper middle class Jewish couple, living in suburban Long Island. They came of age during World War II and they married young,...
By Terry Keefe
In all honesty, Phyllis and Harold is one of the best examinations, fiction or non, of the subject of marriage that I have ever seen. Filmmaker Cindy Kleine started interviewing her elderly parents, Phyllis and Harold Kleine, about their marriage and lives for a project that became first a short film entitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part, which was structured as a series of talking head spots with both parents, and then broadened that project into this larger, more visually expansive feature over a 12-year period. Driving the film is a question Cindy Kleine poses at the beginning about her parents: “Who are these people?”
For starters, Phyllis and Harold are an upper middle class Jewish couple, living in suburban Long Island. They came of age during World War II and they married young,...
- 4/11/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Everything you wanted to know about a marriage and probably a few things you could have done without Cindy Kleine.s momentous journey into the most private parts of her parent.s marriage strikes a balance between the mundane and the sensational. On the one hand, it is the intensively photographed marriage of her mother and father over about sixty years. On the other hand, it is a marriage of ups and downs, goods and bads. Amazing that such a story could be assembled but don.t expect a pile of gold at the end of the rainbow. The end of their rainbow was the same as many others. This is a film where the making of the movie is more amazing...
- 3/1/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
To say that director Cindy Kleine spins her search for truth into an art form only begins to describe the new film, Phyllis and Harold, documenting the bewildering marriage of her parents. While father Harold remains a dark and shadowy figure, mother Phyllis is eventually painstakingly and fully fleshed out. The deeper focus and graphic details, which reveal the subtle and sometimes secret aspects of her mother's life, could not be revealed until Harold passed away in 2003. And, I won't spoil the accruing dramatic suspense by being too specific here. Suffice it to say, its impact is powerful and poignant. The feelings the film evokes remind one of a first reading of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in which essential aspects of one's own mother or grandmother were given credence and revealed as never before. ...
- 2/19/2010
- by Penelope Andrew
- Huffington Post
Fans of Ewan McGregor, Kristen Stewart and James Van Der Beek (!) will be seeing double this spring, as arthouses and multiplexes host an array of indie films ranging from the travails of septuagenarian New Yorkers looking for love ("The Last New Yorker") to 13-year-old assassins on the hunt for their first kill ("Kick-Ass"). If real life is more your speed, there are new documentaries about reviving animation strips (the Disney doc "Waking Sleeping Beauty") and stripping down (the burlesque history "Behind the Burly Q"), while foreign wonders like the French crime epics "A Prophet" and "Mesrine" mix with Korean treasures "Mother" and "The Good, The Bad and The Weird."
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
- 2/16/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Phyllis and Harold is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59 year old marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive. Phyllis and Harold delves into the mystery of time passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love. But it is also a loving, funny expose on the sins of suburbia. Imagine Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage seen the prism of I Love Lucy. Director Cindy Kleine's Notes: When I first had the idea to make a film about my parents I conceived of it as a work of fiction. Though we have all...
- 2/11/2010
- by Cindy Kleine
- Huffington Post
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