- Jodorowsky’s Dune
Lord Thing, screening next Thursday at Gene Siskel Film Center as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival, is a 1970 documentary about the Chicago street gang the Conservative Vice Lords, whose late-60s campaign to reinvent themselves as a positive social force in the city’s blighted Lawndale neighborhood was derailed by the first Mayor Daley. Chicago Film Archives has recently restored Lord Thing, as well as Robert Ford’s The Corner (1963), another documentary about life on the city’s west side; they screen on the same bill, along with a panel discussion to include Lance Williams of Northeastern Illinois University, Cynthia Kobel of Second Chance Initiative, and Benneth Lee of the National Alliance for the Empowerment of the Formerly Incarcerated. Check out our review of Lord Thing here.
