Peter Bart Puts Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Chicago 7’ On Trial & Contrasts It With Last Yippie Film, Haskell Wexler’s ‘Medium Cool’

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Francisco Film has selected filmmakers Aaron Sorkin and Chloe Zhao for honors at its annual San Francisco Film Awards ceremonies, due to be livestreamed on Dec. 9.Sorkin, whose “Trial of the Chicago 7” is streaming on Netflix, will receive the Kanbar award for storytelling.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“I don’t see how we could have made the film now had we not shot in Chicago,” writer and director Aaron Sorkin says of his new film “Trial of the Chicago 7,” now streaming on Netflix.Five decades after it took place, Aaron Sorkin tells the story of the seven defendants who were charged by the federal government with conspiracy after protests broke out at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

(This post contains SPOILERS for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” on Netflix)Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” is loaded with moments that will make you laugh, cheer or be outraged.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThere is a very good mix of theatrical, digital, VOD and hybrid releases this weekend starting with The Kid Detective from Stage 6 Films starring Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse.Written and directed by Evan Morgan, the movie is about exactly what the title suggests: a kid detective. Brody plays a once-celebrated kid detective who is now 31 and isn’t exactly bathing in fame.

(This post contains SPOILERS for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” on Netflix and directed by Aaron Sorkin)The first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s rousing and inspiring courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” features a rallying cry that seems tailor-made for the protests that have engulfed the 2020 election and the Black Lives Matter protests around the globe: “The whole world is watching.”The phrase repeats several times in the trailer and during the film as we see protestors clashing with

Also Read: 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' Film Review: Aaron Sorkin's Vital Drama Delivers Both Talk and ActionSorkin wrote and directed the film.See below for five facts about the making of the film.Sorkin combed through 21,000 pages of court documents — after all, the trial went on for almost five months. But what he couldn’t find in those documents were certain personality traits and relationship characteristics about individual people.

Aaron Sorkin is known for certain trademarks: the walk-and-talk, the breathless dialogue, crescendos of feeling. You know the drill: Martin Sheen quotes the bible, an orchestra swells and then we cry.But the writer hasn’t given us that ultra-satisfying, sweeping Sorkin package much since “The West Wing” ended.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 has just been released – check it out exclusively below.The song, written by Daniel Pemberton, scores the new Netflix drama about the real-life trial against a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.Pemberton told NME that the score was entirely composed remotely, his only interaction with the Chicago 7 team being a one-hour meeting with Sorkin in Los Angeles months ago.“He had already mapped the

Lesley McKenzie Managing EditorTie-dye? Check. Fringed leather? Check.

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (L to R) KELVIN HARRISON JR. as Fred Hampton, YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II as Bobby Seale, MARK RYLANCE as William Kuntsler in THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7. Cr. NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIX © 2020

Also Read: 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' New Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Will Give His Life for the Revolution (Video)“Sure, his dialogue has been visceral and urgent in movies from ‘A Few Good Men’ to ‘The Social Network’ to ‘Steve Jobs.’ But in ‘Chicago 7’ — only his second film as a director, after 2017’s ‘Molly’s Game’ — he emerges as an assured filmmaker whose style can be as propulsive as his words,” TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote in his review.“Sorkin takes a rather dense, complicated court

trial of the Chicago 7. The first few minutes provide a whirlwind introduction to all the characters as activists make plans to head for Chicago for the convention — but before they get there, and before the city unleashes its heavily armed police force to stop the peaceful demonstrations, the film suddenly jumps forward to five months after the convention.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIt’s a curious thing that in the movie culture of the last 50 years, you can count on one hand (or maybe one middle finger) the good dramas that have been made about the political counterculture of the 1960s. The turbulence of that era has never stopped casting a shadow over our own.

Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), Tommy Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), John Froines (Daniel Flaherty), and Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins) were the Chicago 7.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticA column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit.No sooner had the Emmys ended with a disappointing night Sunday for Netflix after a record-breaking 160 nominations (and 21 wins), the streamer is turning its sights bigly to Oscar season.

Kaleem Aftab At the San Sebastian Film Festival, American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin talked about the making of his upcoming Netflix original film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” how he always sees himself first and foremost as a playwright and why he is just like a puppy.Speaking via a video link in the Conversations section of the Basque festival’s industry program, Sorkin called himself, “A playwright faking my way through screenplays and teleplays.”He argues that his background

It's protesters versus the police in the trailer for Aaron Sorkin'sThe Trial of the Chicago 7.

Already building buzz, the first trailer for Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin’s real-life legal drama “The Trial Of The Chicago 7” has arrived online.

Sacha Baron Cohen says he would give his life for the revolution in the new trailer for The Trial Of The Chicago 7.