Chicago Heights (film)

Chicago Heights
Directed byDaniel Nearing
Written byDaniel Nearing & Rudy Thauberger
Based onWinesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
Produced bySanghoon Lee
StarringAndre Truss, Keisha Dyson, Jay Johnson, Benny Stewart
Narrated byBenny Stewart
Music byRaymond Dunlap
Distributed byRogue Arts Films / Vanguard Cinema
Release date
  • October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13) (Pusan International Film Festival)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chicago Heights (alternate title: The Last Soul on a Summer Night) is a 2009 film written and directed by Daniel Nearing. This experimental, non-linear film is an ambitious adaptation of Sherwood Anderson’s short story cycle, Winesburg, Ohio. Noted film critic Roger Ebert included Chicago Heights in his list of the Top Art Films of 2010.[1]

  1. ^ Ebert, Roger. "The Best Art Films of 2010". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 5 October 2013.