June 4 is officially BUSY FOR YOU NOW
Friday, March 20th, 2009The whole calendar for the upcoming spring quarter at Doc Films will be available soon, and I will shortly detail in depth my series that will be late Thursday nights. But now, it is time to announce the most exciting thing to hit Chicago movie screens this year.
Last year, as part of my Cinemasaurus! series of dinosaur movies, we concluded the whole Doc weekday calendar for the year with an out-of-control screening of Jurassic Park. I put together an orchestra to play the movie's theme song before the film started. Then, unbelievably amazing celebrity paleontologist Paul Sereno answered questions from the crowd (he never stops finding dinosaurs!). The movie was more than sold out. Over 500 excited (and inebriated) people crammed into the auditorium, edging Deep Throat for the best attended screening in Doc history. It was a hot June day and the air conditioning didn't work, which I think enhanced the experience.
Remember, this was just days before graduation. It was one of the most joyous celebrations I've ever attended. It felt like I threw the biggest and best party I'll ever throw.
So how do you follow that up? Well, I don't expect to ever replicate anything that great... but I think we'll come pretty close with this June's screening of...
Like last year, it will also have special surprise pre-show entertainment. I'm not going to tell you what it is...but I will tell you that it will be EPIC. Perhaps the MOST EXTREME MOMENT IN CHICAGO REPERTORY HISTORY.
June 4, 2009 - 9:30 p.m.
Doc Films
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637