Inquiring Nuns
Inquiring Nuns | |
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Directed by |
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Starring |
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Cinematography | Gordon Quinn |
Edited by | Gordon Quinn |
Music by | Philip Glass |
Distributed by | Kartemquin Films |
Release date | 1968 |
Running time | 66 min. |
Country | US |
Language | English |
Inquiring Nuns is a 1968
Quinn and Temaner's fourth collaboration was produced for about $16,000 ($110,005 US in 2016) for Chicago's Catholic Adult Education Center which never suggested any changes or requested a single edit. Both Sisters Marie Arne (now named Kathleen Westling) and Mary Campion (now named Catherine Rock)[4] served at the St. Denis Parish in Chicago's Southwest Side at the time of the filming. They subsequently left the sisterhood within a few years after the film's release, the former eventually becoming a family counselor in the Chicago suburbs and the latter a school superintendent in Florida. One of the random people they encountered in the film was Stepin Fetchit who showed a few of his publicity shots and stated that he was happy.[3]
An Official Selection of the 1968 Chicago International Film Festival, Inquiring Nuns features music by the then relatively unknown composer Philip Glass (Truman Show, The Fog of War) who was paid $100 ($688 US in 2016) for earning his first film credit.[3][5]
Entertainment Weekly graded Inquiring Nuns an 'A' and applauded the film's "reaffirmation of the virtue of conventional wisdom."[6]
In 2018, Kartemquin received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation for a new restoration of the original 16mm print, and collaborated with Argot Pictures on a 50th Anniversary release of the film in US theaters.
See also
References
- ^ Gronvall, Andrea. "Inquiring Nuns" (synopsis), Chicago Reader.
- ^ Inquiring Nuns :: Kartemquin Films
- ^ a b c Borrelli, Christopher. "A loaded question for you: Are you happy?" Chicago Tribune, Friday, March 1, 2013.
- ^ Phillips, Michael. "Two nuns, one microphone and a question for Chicago: 'Are you happy?'" Chicago Tribune, Thursday, November 29, 2018.
- ^ "Inquiring Nuns" (1968). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 Jan. 2011.
- ^ Video Review Catchpole, Terry. "Inquiring Nuns". Entertainment Weekly. 21 May 1993. Retrieved 26 Jan. 2011.