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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).
Film Review: ‘A Teacher’ Explores Torrid Student Obsession with Unexplained Adult Regression
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on August 26, 2013 - 2:08am
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“A Teacher” stars Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, Jennifer Prediger, Julie Dell Phillips, Jonny Mars and Chris Doubek from writer and director Hannah Fidell. The 75-minute film is available now On Demand, at iTunes and in limited theatres on Sept. 6, 2013. In Chicago, “A Teacher” opens on Sept. 13, 2013 at Facets Cinémathèque. The 75-minute movie is distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Continue for Adam Fendelman’s full “A Teacher” review.
Lindsay Burdge and Will Brittain in “A Teacher”.
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CHICAGO – We often go to the movies to suspend real life and explore what we think about doing but won’t or would do but can’t. Have you ever fallen for a much younger man or woman? Have you ever had a secret affair with someone at work? Have you ever obsessed over someone you shouldn’t?
 Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
New filmmaker Hannah Fidell explores these burning questions in her feature debut “A Teacher” about an inappropriate student/teacher “relationship”. The film was an official selection at 2013’s SXSW and Sundance Film Festival. Hannah Fidell’s short 75-minute feature won SXSW’s Emergent Narrative Woman Director award. She has also been named one of the “25 new faces of independent film”.
| Read Adam Fendelman’s full review of “A Teacher”. |
I found her new film On Demand and decided to give it a chance to see if you should. “A Teacher” is now live On Demand and at iTunes and will appear in limited theatres on Sept. 6, 2013. In Chicago, the film opens on Sept. 13, 2013 at Facets Cinémathèque.
We’re a fly on the wall in the secret life of Diana Watts – played very promisingly by an established independent actress who you’ve likely never heard of named Lindsay Burdge. An adult acting like a teenager, she’s a teacher who has a forbidden and torrid love affair with her student, Eric Tull (played by the very new actor Will Brittain). He’s a kid who never evolves into anything more.
What we discover throughout is something that got halfway there and could have been so much more. The premise is attractive, but the execution is unfinished.
Continue for Adam Fendelman’s full “A Teacher” review.Image credit: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Continue for Adam Fendelman’s full “A Teacher” review.
