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In Reply to: My 35mm home theater posted by Dave on September 24, 2002 at 07:52:31:
Cool!In the 70's, I was a student at the Art Institue of Chicago. Not only did I take Stan Brakhage's film history course for 3 years, I also hung out with the 'toot film buffs in the Film Society. We had access to everything in the Art Institute's library. One or more evenings a week consisted of us watching movies til the wee hours in a spare room of the school, which at that time, while the new school was under construction, was almost entirely underground. (See the film "Mahogany", which was filmed at the School of the Art Institute - we had yellow arrows painted on the floors to help us navigate the labrynthine subterrenean reaches of the basements.)
During those years in Chicago, "repertory cinema" was still a functional concept. The Playboy Theater, on the near north, ran a double feature at midnight every Friday and Saturday - classic, cult, foreign, independent, avante garde, Hammer horror, sci-fi - you name it. There were a couple other theaters that programmed rep sporadically too. Where else could you see a double bill of Top Hat & The Boy Friend, Blow Up and Performance, Putney Swope & Blow Out, The Fearless Vampire Killers & Bride of Frankenstein, A Hard Days Night and Yellow Submarine????
Ahhh...those were the pre ome video days.
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Double Cool!I cut my teeth on Hong Kong cinema at the Art Institute... Chinese vampire films were a particular favorite. Saw my first Jackie Chan film there too.... and the director's cut of Blade Runner when it was re-released.
Lazy afternoons hanging out at Oak Street Beach.... bicycling along the lakefront.... those were the days!
DOC films at University of Chicago, Facets Multimedia and the Chicago Film Festival. Saw the original Solaris at CFF long, long ago...Delicatessen more recently. I'm a bit worried about Soderbergh's remake of Solaris..In the early seventies, the Chaplin films were all being re-released to the big screen in new prints. Saw all those Chaplin films at Oak Street Cinema, which is now long gone.
The Art Institute maintains a great public film series. I atill have friends and relatives in Chicago, so I try to catch whatever's being shown when I'm in town. I wish I'd been able to see more of the Hong Kong series, I only got to see 2 or 3. I also enjoyed their film noir series.
I wish Indianapolis had the quality of programming Chi-town enjoys with the Music Box. Indy is a wonderful location for classical music...less so for film...although it's getting better. Thank goodness for DVDs.
Facets, the Chicago Film Festival, and the Parkway theatre, I think it was. French films, a double feature of "Loulou" and "Going Places" with Depardieu. And Dave Kehr's reviews in the Chicago Reader. Home video has made things more convenient, but I do miss those experiences!
I was so terrified, terrorized when I viewed that film....and enjoyed every minute of it !
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