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Published: November 5, 2006
Believe it or not, Chicago is a film city! If there is a movie of your choice out there, there is a place to see that movie. Therefore, Chicago theaters are a great place to seek out your cinematic desires.
Facets' Cinematheque is the perfect place to see independent, international, classic and cult classic films.
This Chicago theater also offers memberships to patrons, promoting discounts on tickets and video rentals. Matching the rare diversity in film, Facets operates a video rental and sale store inside its facilities that keeps up with the mainstream scene as well as the bygone features, and everything in between. At the same time, Facets' newsletter is a wealth of information on industry events and updates.
On a more intellectual plane, the Gene Siskel Film Center gives people that mental rigor and stimulation through films often sought by more cerebral audiences. The Center is an extension of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which Siskel attended. The film center was founded in 1976. This Chicago theater is geared toward educational experience in film; art-house films not shown in the chain theaters are shown here. The Gene Siskel Film Center offers lectures, panel discussions, and courses on theory and criticism with the viewings. Siskel often praised the Film Center for the work it did. He died on February 20, 1999, and the Center was renamed in his honor in 2000.
Along the lines of Facets and Gene Siskel Film Center, the Music Box Theater offers those rare treats we seek outside of the shopping-mall movie theater. The Music Box Theater is one of the oldest Chicago theaters. Built in 1929, the main attraction of this particular Chicago theater is its history and architecture. It fell into poor management from 1977 to 1983, when it screened Spanish, pornographic and Arabic films. The management seemed to flounder on what kind of operation it wanted and couldn't commit to a specific market, which later proved unprofitable. The theater was fully restored by 1983 and opened as an independent, cult classic and novelty film venue. Business did so well that a second screen was added to the historic Chicago theater in 1991.
The Music Box's architecture is a namesake itself. This Chicago Theater features a neo-Renaissance Italian style edifice and interior, arch windows and doorways, round towers, dome ceilings with stars, and rich adornments and embellishments. The main screen was built without a stage, but with an orchestra pit and an organ chamber that is played before the opening of each feature.
What also adds to the charm of this Chicago theater is Whitey, the ghost of a former house manager who is rumored to haunt the facilities. Working as a manager from 1929 to 1977, Whitey is considered the longest working employee of the Music Box Theater, clocking in 48 years... and then some.
If moviegoers really want to 'take a walk on the [odd]-side,' then the Landmark Century Cinema is the Chicago theatre with the right selection. The selection at this Chicago theatre ranges from critically acclaimed mainstream films to obscure, off-beat independent comedies and dramas. There are two locations, one on North Clark and another in Highland Park. Landmark is a Chicago theatre with all the convenience of the megaplexes, but with the filmic tastes of small art-houses.
One last treat in Chicago theaters is the Brew & View. The Brew & View is a no-frills, down-to-earth neighborhood movie theater. Patrons can sit back, have a beer and enjoy a flick. No art-house, independent or foreign films can be found here, just good old-fashioned "popcorn" type movies - slashers, horror, goofy comedies and action blockbusters. Patrons must be 18 years old to enter and 21 years old to order alcohol. Occasionally, the theater hosts midnight showings.
Of course, there will always be the AMC, Cinemark, Marcus and Kerasotes Theaters, but those require less effort to seek out and mostly show the same movies amongst themselves. They aren't going anywhere. However, for an excursion from the ordinary into the esoteric, Chicago theaters offer a wide diversity of film to fit every taste. After all, aren't we all discerning critics ourselves? Chicago theaters are worthwhile and the effort.
Facets' Cinematheque is the perfect place to see independent, international, classic and cult classic films.
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On a more intellectual plane, the Gene Siskel Film Center gives people that mental rigor and stimulation through films often sought by more cerebral audiences. The Center is an extension of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which Siskel attended. The film center was founded in 1976. This Chicago theater is geared toward educational experience in film; art-house films not shown in the chain theaters are shown here. The Gene Siskel Film Center offers lectures, panel discussions, and courses on theory and criticism with the viewings. Siskel often praised the Film Center for the work it did. He died on February 20, 1999, and the Center was renamed in his honor in 2000.
Along the lines of Facets and Gene Siskel Film Center, the Music Box Theater offers those rare treats we seek outside of the shopping-mall movie theater. The Music Box Theater is one of the oldest Chicago theaters. Built in 1929, the main attraction of this particular Chicago theater is its history and architecture. It fell into poor management from 1977 to 1983, when it screened Spanish, pornographic and Arabic films. The management seemed to flounder on what kind of operation it wanted and couldn't commit to a specific market, which later proved unprofitable. The theater was fully restored by 1983 and opened as an independent, cult classic and novelty film venue. Business did so well that a second screen was added to the historic Chicago theater in 1991.
The Music Box's architecture is a namesake itself. This Chicago Theater features a neo-Renaissance Italian style edifice and interior, arch windows and doorways, round towers, dome ceilings with stars, and rich adornments and embellishments. The main screen was built without a stage, but with an orchestra pit and an organ chamber that is played before the opening of each feature.
What also adds to the charm of this Chicago theater is Whitey, the ghost of a former house manager who is rumored to haunt the facilities. Working as a manager from 1929 to 1977, Whitey is considered the longest working employee of the Music Box Theater, clocking in 48 years... and then some.
If moviegoers really want to 'take a walk on the [odd]-side,' then the Landmark Century Cinema is the Chicago theatre with the right selection. The selection at this Chicago theatre ranges from critically acclaimed mainstream films to obscure, off-beat independent comedies and dramas. There are two locations, one on North Clark and another in Highland Park. Landmark is a Chicago theatre with all the convenience of the megaplexes, but with the filmic tastes of small art-houses.
One last treat in Chicago theaters is the Brew & View. The Brew & View is a no-frills, down-to-earth neighborhood movie theater. Patrons can sit back, have a beer and enjoy a flick. No art-house, independent or foreign films can be found here, just good old-fashioned "popcorn" type movies - slashers, horror, goofy comedies and action blockbusters. Patrons must be 18 years old to enter and 21 years old to order alcohol. Occasionally, the theater hosts midnight showings.
Of course, there will always be the AMC, Cinemark, Marcus and Kerasotes Theaters, but those require less effort to seek out and mostly show the same movies amongst themselves. They aren't going anywhere. However, for an excursion from the ordinary into the esoteric, Chicago theaters offer a wide diversity of film to fit every taste. After all, aren't we all discerning critics ourselves? Chicago theaters are worthwhile and the effort.
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