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Quinn and Temaner's fourth collaboration was produced for about $ 16,000 ($ 110,005 US in 2016) for Chicago's Catholic Adult Education Center which never suggested any changes or requested a single edit. Both Sisters Marie Arne (now named Kathleen Westling) and Mary Campion (now named Catherine Rock)
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served at the St. Denis Parish in Chicago's Southwest Side at the time of the filming. They subsequently left the sisterhood within a few years after the film's release, the former eventually becoming a family counselor in the Chicago suburbs and the latter a school superintendent in
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locales to ask people the question, "Are you happy?" They meet a variety of individuals ranging from hippie musicians to intellectuals, whose responses are everything from the mundane to the spiritual. The film was directly influenced by Jean Rouch's
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In 2018, Kartemquin received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation for a new restoration of the original 16mm print, and collaborated with Argot Pictures on a 50th Anniversary release of the film in US theaters.
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Phillips, Michael. "Two nuns, one microphone and a question for Chicago: 'Are you happy?'"
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an 'A' and applauded the film's "reaffirmation of the virtue of conventional wisdom."
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An Official Selection of the 1968 Chicago International Film Festival,
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who showed a few of his publicity shots and stated that he was happy.
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Borrelli, Christopher. "A loaded question for you: Are you happy?"
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Nuns, Stepin Fetchit & Philip Glass (TCM Movie Morlocks on
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Terra Incognita: The Perils and Promise of Stem Cell Research
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Documentary films about Christianity in the United States
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features Sisters Marie Arne and Mary Campion, two young
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features music by the then relatively unknown composer
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Gordon Quinn
Philip Glass
Kartemquin Films
Kartemquin Films
Gordon Quinn
documentary film
Catholic
nuns
Chicago
Chronique d'un été
Doc Films
undergraduates
University of Chicago
Florida
Stepin Fetchit
Philip Glass
Truman Show
The Fog of War
List of American films of 1968
Gronvall, Andrea. "Inquiring Nuns" (synopsis), Chicago Reader.
Inquiring Nuns :: Kartemquin Films



Borrelli, Christopher. "A loaded question for you: Are you happy?" Chicago Tribune, Friday, March 1, 2013.
Phillips, Michael. "Two nuns, one microphone and a question for Chicago: 'Are you happy?'" Chicago Tribune, Thursday, November 29, 2018.
"Inquiring Nuns" (1968).
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Inquiring Nuns

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