50 best space movies of all time
Compiling reviews from IMDb and Metacritic, Stacker composed a list of the 50 best space movies of all time, from classic hits to new releases. Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/
What will it take to lure audiences back to movies and plays? We talked to Chicago theater operators.
In recent conversations with four Chicago area film and theater workers, one word kept popping up, like a buoy, regarding the secret ingredient in getting to the other side. That word: “trust.” How do we define it? When can we … Continued
Want to save movie theaters? Don’t give in to the couch!
Weekend moviegoers who get to their seats a bit early at Lakeview’s Music Box Theatre in normal times know the delicious lagniappe that awaits. On the left side of the movie screen, house organist Dennis Scott delights on a refurbished 1929 Kimball … Continued
Film programmer Barbara Scharres to retire, after nearly 50 years with Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center
Barbara Scharres, longtime programming director of the Gene Siskel Film Center, announced her retirement Monday, effective Dec. 31. Her affiliation with the Film Center, a public program of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, goes back nearly a half-century. … Continued
Chicago’s cinematic history, one video tour at a time
Last month film scholar Kelli Marshall was ready to launch her new business Chicago Movie Tours. “I had a tour lined up for April 5 at the Old Joliet Prison and it was actually sold out,” she said. “But then the … Continued
March at the Music Box: The 70MM Film Festival opens wide and says, ‘Aaaaaaaahhh!’
“The Music Box 70MM Film Festival 2020″ will feature a dozen films spanning nine decades of widescreen cinema history. Some titles you know: The Music Box’s own 70 mm print of the 1968 Stanley Kubrick riddle “2001: A Space Odyssey” … Continued