Facets Cinémathèque
1517 W Fullerton Ave
773.281.4114
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Bill Withers
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Friday Feb 12, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Saturday Feb 13, 2010 (3, 5, 7 & 9pm)
Sunday Feb 14, 2010 (3, 5, 7 & 9pm)
Monday Feb 15, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
Thursday Feb 18, 2010 (7 & 9pm)
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- Price
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$9
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After a string of soul classics such as "Grandma's Hands" and "Ain't No Sunshine," Bill Withers went a bit Salinger in 1985. Still Bill fills in some of that 25-year gap since his self-removal from public life. The new songs and studio/home footage are interesting from an archival, documentary perspective; and his recollection of childhood as an asthmatic, stutter-stricken outsider is affecting, but it's the portrait of the artist as an old man — at peace, yet still restlessly creative; private, yet engaged — that lingers in your mind. Like the 1972 smooth-soul masterpiece from which it takes its name, Still Bill welcomes its audience with a warmth and intimacy that belies its careful craftsmanship.
