Chicago is not a great movie town, but there is an undisputed handful of great, first-rate venues. The Film Center is all by itself, though.
Personal example -- (just checked. it's really five years?) One time we went out to see a movie. Suzy's taste is strongly oriented to mainstream escapism, and so we saw Barbershop (excellent. I was startled later that her son had also spotted Cosby in his cameo.). But a couple of generations ago, there was an entire segregated parallel movie industry making "race movies. Several years ago, someone discovered half a barnful (literally) of old movies from, I guess, mostly the Forties, and some of them have been restored. I saw a few at the Film Center. So here we were, almost the only whites in the audience (d'oh! not like it's a problem, just I hadn't really thought about it) and I know more about the roots of this movie about roots than almost anyone else in the theater. odd
But not as odd as Dixieland Daimyo. If you can find it, grab it. It's not a pinnacle of the cinematic art, but you _will_ remember it, and talk about it.
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Re: Dixieland Daimyo
Date: 2007-02-24 11:53 pm (UTC)They're w*a*y out there.
Chicago is not a great movie town, but there is an undisputed handful of great, first-rate venues. The Film Center is all by itself, though.
Personal example -- (just checked. it's really five years?) One time we went out to see a movie. Suzy's taste is strongly oriented to mainstream escapism, and so we saw Barbershop (excellent. I was startled later that her son had also spotted Cosby in his cameo.).
But
a couple of generations ago, there was an entire segregated parallel movie industry making "race movies. Several years ago, someone discovered half a barnful (literally) of old movies from, I guess, mostly the Forties, and some of them have been restored. I saw a few at the Film Center.
So here we were, almost the only whites in the audience (d'oh! not like it's a problem, just I hadn't really thought about it) and I know more about the roots of this movie about roots than almost anyone else in the theater.
odd
But not as odd as Dixieland Daimyo. If you can find it, grab it. It's not a pinnacle of the cinematic art, but you _will_ remember it, and talk about it.