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In Reply to: Sounds like Movie Heaven posted by Harmonia on September 24, 2002 at 10:10:36:
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!
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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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