Joyce Chopra co-founded what is now Cambridge's Club Passim more than 60 years ago. The filmmaker returns to Harvard Square this weekend for a mini-retrospective featuring two of her most seminal works.
Chopra apprenticed under Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker at the start of the cinema verité movement, before striking out on her own with vivid female portraiture shorts for public television.
Just 18 at the time of shooting and in her first leading role, Laura Dern has a way of looking 11 years old in one shot and 25 in the next, her languorously long limbs split-second shuttling between Connie’s coltish confidence and childlike trepidation to such uncanny, evocative extent that Oates later wrote: “Dern is so right as ‘my’ Connie that I may come to think I modeled the fictitious girl on her, in the way that writers frequently delude themselves about notions of causality.
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