After a week hiatus, This Weekend’s Film Festival is back. The latest lineup was inspired by CHICAGO 10, which hit DVD this week. Considering it deals with the 1968 Democratic National Convention, it seemed like an even more obvious choice with the DNC taking place this week. The four other films this week are all documentaries that deal with sensational front-page news stories. We have a four-hour epic on Hurricane Katrina. A sickening look at the Enron scandal. And the final two films deal with child abuse — one from a priest and one from a family man whose pedophilia affects his family in unthinkable ways. It’s a thoughtful and gripping group of films for the long Labor Day weekend.

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