Tom Palazzolo
Director
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Bartholomew Whoops and the Bad, Bad Ball
Aided by the kind of whimsical watercolors one last saw in kindergarten, Tom Palazzolo and host Turk Muller head to Wrigley Field to wind a children's fable about a young butterfingers named Bartholomew Whoops who cannot hold onto anything: not a bowl of batter, not a plate of...Watch Movie
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Down Clark Street
Tom Palazzolo's love of Chicago is undeniable. He has spent nearly fifty years documenting the city and the people who call it home. Originally from St. Louis, Palazzolo arrived in the Windy City in 1960 to attend the School of the Art Institute, moving to Clark Street in the...Watch Movie
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Enjoy Yourself
Tom Palazzolo keeps his lens close to his Chicago surroundings in ENJOY YOURSELF: IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK, a short film covering a senior citizens' picnic thrown by the Democratic Party (then-lieutenant governor Neil Hartigan appears). At turns sweet and deeply surreal (the world's least erotic...Watch Movie
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I Married a Munchkin
Chesterton, Indiana's annual WIZARD OF OZ parade (as well as their many Oz-themed festivities) provides the backdrop for I MARRIED A MUNCHKIN, Tom Palazzolo's study of the life and career of Mary Ellen St. Aubin. Self-described as "normal, but little," Mary Ellen details her...Watch Movie
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Jerry's Deli
JERRY'S DELI is a testament to a bygone era when shrieking lunatics could run successful (even popular) businesses. Shot on film-stock leftover from television cameramen, Tom Palazzolo's portrait of Jerry Meyer offsets sequences of the tyrannical deli owner (seen berating his employees and...Watch Movie
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Labor Day, East Chicago
LABOR DAY, EAST CHICAGO is, as one might expect, Tom Palazzolo's documentary of Labor Day festivities in the blue-collar East Side of Chicago. Organized by the East Side Lions Club, Labor Day's 1978 celebrations included amateur boxing, clowns and the crowning of Miss East...Watch Movie
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Lily's World of Wax
Lillie Santangelo had for most of the 20th century owned and operated a wax museum at New York's Coney Island. She leads us on a final tour, just before her museum is closed and her wax figures and exhibits are auctioned off. Old age and declining attendance have forced her to...Watch Movie
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Rita on the Ropes
"Experience is lessons you don't want to learn," Rita muses as she reflects on her brief, troubled life in Tom Palazzolo's RITA ON THE ROPES. Rita's narration (played over stark black-and-white footage of Palazzolo's daughter Amy) reveals a sensitive soul who, despite having...Watch Movie
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The Tattooed Lady of Riverview
The once teeming Riverview Park was shut down in 1967 (with Tom Palazzolo on hand to document the bitter end). THE TATTOOED LADY OF RIVERVIEW is a portrait of its final occupant, Jean Furella, the titular tattooed lady of Riverview's sideshow. Furella first tells how she used...Watch Movie
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Vivian Maier Photographer
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo turns his lens to film a very different portrait of Vivian Maier, the mysterious Chicago photographer whose work was only discovered posthumously. After her work (developed after years of storage) went viral in 2009, Maier has been the subject...Watch Movie
Writer
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Bartholomew Whoops and the Bad, Bad Ball
Aided by the kind of whimsical watercolors one last saw in kindergarten, Tom Palazzolo and host Turk Muller head to Wrigley Field to wind a children's fable about a young butterfingers named Bartholomew Whoops who cannot hold onto anything: not a bowl of batter, not a plate of...Watch Movie
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Rita on the Ropes
"Experience is lessons you don't want to learn," Rita muses as she reflects on her brief, troubled life in Tom Palazzolo's RITA ON THE ROPES. Rita's narration (played over stark black-and-white footage of Palazzolo's daughter Amy) reveals a sensitive soul who, despite having...Watch Movie
Cinematographer
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Down Clark Street
Tom Palazzolo's love of Chicago is undeniable. He has spent nearly fifty years documenting the city and the people who call it home. Originally from St. Louis, Palazzolo arrived in the Windy City in 1960 to attend the School of the Art Institute, moving to Clark Street in the...Watch Movie
Producer
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Down Clark Street
Tom Palazzolo's love of Chicago is undeniable. He has spent nearly fifty years documenting the city and the people who call it home. Originally from St. Louis, Palazzolo arrived in the Windy City in 1960 to attend the School of the Art Institute, moving to Clark Street in the...Watch Movie
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Lily's World of Wax
Lillie Santangelo had for most of the 20th century owned and operated a wax museum at New York's Coney Island. She leads us on a final tour, just before her museum is closed and her wax figures and exhibits are auctioned off. Old age and declining attendance have forced her to...Watch Movie
Actor
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I Married a Munchkin
Chesterton, Indiana's annual WIZARD OF OZ parade (as well as their many Oz-themed festivities) provides the backdrop for I MARRIED A MUNCHKIN, Tom Palazzolo's study of the life and career of Mary Ellen St. Aubin. Self-described as "normal, but little," Mary Ellen details her...Watch Movie