Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (Venue Partner)
40 Arts Circle Drive
Northwestern University
847 491 4000
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Shirley Clarke, 1964, USA, B/W, 16mm, 105 minutes
- When
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Friday Feb 19, 2010 (7pm)
- Where
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Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
- Price
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$6-4
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Pioneering independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke casts a documentarian’s eye for verisimilitude on this gritty tale of teenage gang life in 1960’s Harlem. Shot on location with a largely nonprofessional cast, The Cool World follows Duke (Hampton Clanton), an ambitious young tough eager to rise to the top of his gang, The Pythons. In order to earn the fear and respect of both his neighbors and rivals as a “real cold killer,” Duke hits the streets in search of a then-rare prize for a kid with delusions of gangster grandeur: a gun.
