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CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
Podtalk: Quin Mathews JFK/Dallas Doc at the Dallas International Film Fest, Apr 25-May 2, 2024
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 23, 2024 - 9:22am
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Director Quin Mathews (inset) Will Appear on Behalf of His Documentary
Photo credit: DallasFilm.org
The Dallas International Film Festival takes place April 25th through May 2nd, 2024. “City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination 60 Years Later” will screen April 26th. For more information and tickets, click here.
© 2023 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com
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CHICAGO – The Dallas International Film Festival Opens on Thursday, April 25th and runs through May 2nd, 2024. On April 26th, director Quin Mathews will screen his documentary “City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination 60 Years Later.” For more tickets and more information about the Dallas International Film Fest, click DIFF.
The doc “City of Hate” is not about Dallas now, but the reputation it had several years before and immediately after November 22nd, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade parade through the city. It is directed by former Dallas TV journalist Quin Mathews, who as a 13-year-old was there to greet JFK at Love Field, as Air Force One touched down. By a stroke of luck, the president acknowledged Mathews in the enthusiastic throng, as he was perched eight feet away from the fateful open air limousine. “City of Hate” is part history, part reflection and Dallas-centric, a personal edition to the pantheon of 11/22/63 films.
Director Quin Mathews (inset) Will Appear on Behalf of His Documentary
Photo credit: DallasFilm.org
After a 22 year career in journalism, Quin Mathews left WFAA-TV in Dallas in the early 1990s to pursue a career in documentary filmmaking, reporting on subjects as varied as artists in China and solar power in Africa. With his radio program, “Art Matters,” he interviewed thousands of people in the arts over 25 years. It was Bart Weiss, a University of Texas film professor and festival director, who encouraged Mathews to rework his 50th Anniversary JFK doc from 2013 to the more personal reflections on the 60th.
In Podtalk interview by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Quin Mathews talks about the background and circumstances surrounding “City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination 60 Years Later” …
The 18th Dallas International Film Festival is a signature presentation of DIFF (Dallas Film Society, Inc.) and was established in 2006. It describes its festival as a global adventure that features premiere screenings, nightly red carpets, eye-opening documentaries, intriguing short films, filmmaker panels, award presentations, and a Festival Lounge where filmmakers, screenwriters, film industry leaders, celebrities, sponsors, and our audience can all come together to discuss film.
 | By PATRICK McDONALD |
