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Moss Bresnahan, go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe President and CEO PATTERNS • JANUARY 2018 Twitter: @MossILMedia God save the queen january 2018 Volume XLV, Number 7 enna Coleman returns for a new season returning from last season are Rufus Sewell as the young queen who wants it all— as Lord Melbourne, Victoria’s first Prime Jromance, power, an heir, and personal Minister and intimate friend; Nell Hudson freedom—in Victoria, season 2, airing in as Nancy Skerrett, newly promoted to the 7 episodes created and scripted by bestselling queen’s chief dresser and whose secrets are novelist Daisy Goodwin, premiering at 8 pm yet to be revealed; and Ferdinand Kingsley Sunday, January 14. as Charles Francatelli, the royal chef whose love for Nancy was spurned at the end of More than 16.2 million viewers tuned in for Season 1. Victoria’s premiere season, making it the highest-rated drama on PBS in 20 years— The first season of Victoria, focusing on second only to Downton Abbey. the teenage queen’s audacious upstaging of her handlers to chart her own path, Joining the cast in the new season is delighted TV critics. The Hollywood Reporter legendary actress Dame Diana Rigg, who called Victoria “thoroughly enjoyable plays the Duchess of Buccleuch, the court’s and addictive.” “Royally entertaining,” new Mistress of the Robes—a fount of old- proclaimed The San Francisco Chronicle, and fashioned good sense for the queen, who is “a sparkling gem,” said The New York Post. now in the throes of motherhood. “Victoria is a victory,” declared The Tampa Tom Hughes returns as the queen’s Bay Times. smoldering consort, Prince Albert. Also Photos: Courtesy of ©ITVStudios2017 for MASTERPIECE PATTERNSPATTERNS • • JANUARY JANUARY 2018 201811 Independent Lens on Mondays The Untold Stories of Armistead Maupin 9:30 pm January 1 The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin examines the life and work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conserva- tive son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels have inspired millions to claim their own truth. Kroot’s documentary about Maupin, the author of 9 novels including Tales of the City, moves nimbly from playful to poignant to wildly funny. With help from his friends—including Neil Gaiman, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Sir Ian McKellen and Amy Tan—Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of 70s San Francisco to the frontlines of America’s ongoing culture war. Photo: Courtesy of KQED Photo: Courtesy of National Archives At a powder keg moment in American po- licing, The Force presents a mesmerizing cinema vérité look deep inside the long- troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive sex scandal. Filmmaker Peter Nicks embedded with the department over the course of two years to follow OPD’s serial efforts to recast itself. The film spotlights the new chief, hailed as a reformer, who is brought in to affect reform at the very moment the Black Lives Matter movement emerges to demand police accountability and racial justice both in Oakland and across the nation. The film also follows the journey of young cops in the Academy learning how to police in a Photo: Courtesy of Peter Nicks new era of transparency and accountability. The Force 8 pm January 22 2 PATTERNS • JANUARY 2018 Independent Lens on Mondays Filmmaker Jennifer Brea was a Harvard PhD student Unrest soon to be engaged when she was struck down by 9 pm January 8 a mysterious fever that left her bedridden. As her Photo: Courtesy of Jason Frank Rothenberg illness progressed she lost even the ability to sit in a wheelchair, yet her doctors insisted it was “all in her head.” Jennifer began a video diary on her phone that eventually became the powerful and intimate docu- mentary, Unrest. Once Jennifer was diagnosed with myalgic encepha- lomyelitis (ME), commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), she and her new husband, Omar, were left to grapple with how to shape a future togeth- er in the face of a lifelong illness. Jennifer embarks on an online voyage around the world where she finds a hidden community of millions who have disap- peared from their own lives, confined to their homes and bedrooms by ME. Using the internet, Skype, and Facebook, these disparate people connect with each other, finding a much-needed sanctuary of support and understanding. I Am Not Your Negro 8 pm January 15 In 1979 James Baldwin (far right) wrote a Now, in his incendiary documentary, master letter to his literary agent describing his filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James next project, to be called Remember This Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical House. The book was to be a revolutionary, examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s personal account of the lives and succes- original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson. sive assassinations of three of his close I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X (far history that connects the past of the Civil Rights left), and Martin Luther King, Jr (center). But movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter, at the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he in which Baldwin and Peck have produced a left behind only 30 completed pages of his work that challenges the very definition of what manuscript. America stands for. Photo: Courtesy of Michael Shade When 20-something Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang first came to America in 2011, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. Staying at a hostel on a break from her studies at New York University, she encounters Dylan, a blonde, charismatic, 22-year-old drifter who has left a comfortable home and loving family in Utah for a life of intentional homelessness and unfettered adventure. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society’s rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera, living with him on the streets. But while I Am Another You begins as a portrait of a uniquely American quest for freedom, it soon unfolds into a haunting and unforgettable story of family, illness, and love. I Am Another You 9 pm January 29 PATTERNS • JANUARY 2018 3 weekdays Tuesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra 6 am 1/2 Juraj Valcuha and Christian Tetzlaff NPR Morning Edition Haydn: Symphony No. 85 in B-flat Major Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, and David Greene R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier 1/9 Harry Bicket: Chamber Orchestra 9 am Poulenc: Concert champêtre for Harpsichord Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo and Orchestra Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord Join Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning! 1/16 A German Requiem Brahms: A German Requiem Christiane Karg, soprano 10 am Michael Nagy, baritone New Year’s Day From Vienna 2018 Chicago Symphony Chorus Jaap van Zweden, conductor On Monday, January 1, the Vienna Philharmonic pres- 1/23 Haitink Conducts An Alpine Symphony ents its ever popular annual New Year’s Day concert.