For years the whereabouts of Allen Ross were a mystery—and then the mystery was solved
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Aimee Levitt
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February 7, 2018 at 9:00AM
Ross was one of the founders of Chicago Filmmakers and a documentarian with his own distinctive style. He was best known for The Grandfather Trilogy (1981), in which he spends time with his grandfather in rural South Carolina and then, in the third film, chronicles his funeral. "His stare was always a bit askew," wrote the Reader's longtime art critic Fred Camper, "which rescues and even ennobles imagery that might otherwise be mundane or sentimental; as far as I know, he has no successor, which makes that peculiar gaze his real legacy."