Academy Award-Winning Director István Szabó to Speak on Friday in Chicago

Around the same time as the John Cusack red-carpet event on Friday, the Chicago International Film Festival will have an evening with Academy Award-winning director István Szabó at 6:45 p.m. at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema.

He will speak on the intimacy and insight that can be achieved with the use of the close-up in film.

Szabó says film has “one singular quality that no other art form can supply. The moving picture is capable of showing us a living human face in close-up. This ability is the source of its special energy.”

Szabó uses close-ups to convey what he has called “life’s beautiful changes: the constant movements of the human expression in the most intimate moment – in the moment of its birth.”

Szabó received an Academy Award for best foreign-language film for “Mephisto,” which is one in a trilogy that includes “Colonel Redl” and “Hanussen”. Other directorial credits include “Sunshine” and “Being Julia”.