The Sound of Music
Aug. 28, 8:01 p.m.
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Confession: The songs in "The Sound of Music" are not some of our fav-o-rite things. But the Julie Andrews fans and von Trapp kids-wannabes who show up for this three-hour Oscar-winning musical from 1965 are probably going to know them all by heart. And so what if the rolling fields of Grant Park are just a bit flatter than the Austrian hills? We're betting an inpsired audience singalong will bring them to life all the same.

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Sweet Smell of Success
Aug. 21, 8:13 p.m.
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Anyone who watches "Entourage" knows there's a thin line between charm and sleaze in the world of publicists and agents. The same dog-eat-dog attitude prevails in the 1957 drama "Sweet Smell of Success," starring Tony Curtis as a hungry press agent and Burt Lancaster as a nationally syndicated columnist with "the morals of a guinea pig and the scruples of a gangster." As the pair conspires to break up the relationship of the columnist's sister, they discover how empty success can be when there's no one to share it with.

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Aug. 14, 8:24 p.m.
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Movie stars don't get much cooler than Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and two-man teams don't get any better than amiable outlaws Cassidy (Newman) and Sundance (Redford). We're not sure what we like best about this 1969 Western-comedy: the scene where Newman and Katherine Ross ride a bicycle to the tune of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," or the moment Newman wins a knife fight by saying he wants to talk about the rules and then delivering a swift kick to the groin.

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

The Awful Truth
Aug. 8, 8:34 p.m.
Add the Chicago Movies in the Park to your iCalendar (.ics file)Cary Grant and Irene Dunne prove that it ain't over till it's over as a husband and wife who sabotage each other's new relationships while they wait for their divorce to be finalized. This 1937 screwball comedy is fluffy, fun and loaded with lighthearted romantic appeal.

Check out the complete guide to Movies in the Park at: http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/3029_0_3_0_C/

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Written on the Wind
July 31, 8:42 p.m.
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Rock Hudson's in a pickle: His best bud's sister (Dorothy Malone) loves him, but he loves his friend's wife (Lauren Bacall). And the alcoholic pal (Robert Stack) isn't pleasing any of them. Wealth, betrayal, sex and booze are recipe for fistfights and fallings out in Douglas Sirk's deliciously over-the-top 1956 melodrama, which drives home the old adage that money can't buy happiness.

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Double Indemnity
July 24, 8:50 p.m.
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Love makes people do crazy things, as insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) learns the hard way when he and expert manipulator Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stan-wyck) plot to kill her husband and collect on his policy in this 1944 noir. It's one of the all-time great stories of a murder plot gone awry, driven by a brilliant script from Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler--the Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen of screenwriting teams if ever there was one.

Check out the complete guide to Movies in the Park at: http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/3029_0_3_0_C/

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Young Frankenstein
July 17, 8:56 p.m.
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Dr. Frankenstein's grandson (Gene Wilder) retraces his grandpa's steps to bring to life another monster (Peter Boyle) in this 1974 Mel Brooks film. It's silly and pure in the way that comedy used to be. With memorably eccentric characters--including Teri Garr as a German bombshell and Gene Hackman as a lonely guy who thinks the creature has been sent to him for companionship--it sweetly and hilariously touches on the father-son bond between a mad scientist and his creation.

Check out the complete guide to Movies in the Park at: http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/3029_0_3_0_C/

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The City of Chicago presents the 8th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 17 through August 28, presented by The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 7:59pm
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Writer/Director John Hughes has created a visual homage to the city of Chicago as the wise beyond his years Ferris charms his way out of school for the day and takes along his girl and his best pal. The famous parade sequence, which features Broderick's lip synching to "Danke Shan", is a recreation of the Von Steuben Day Parade.
Some material may be inappropriate for Children under 13.
1986 (102 minutes)

The City of Chicago presents the 7th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 18 through August 29, presented by ComEd, An Exelon Company, The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset (see show times below) in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

A special thanks to our sponsors, the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago Magazine, WNUA - 95.5, and the Chicago Transit Authority.

The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival honors the work of film critic Gene Siskel.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 8:11pm
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On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint
Brando is the former prizefighter Terry Malloy, who famously "coulda been a contenda" but is instead a longshoreman. He has a chance to be a hero, and speak out against dockside corruption in this award-winning drama that was rewarded with eight Academy Awards including Brando's first Best Actor trophy, as well as Best Director for Elia Kazan.
1954 (108 minutes)

The City of Chicago presents the 7th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. View seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday evening beginning July 18 through August 29, presented by ComEd, An Exelon Company, The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District.

Now considered a Chicago tradition, this one-of-a-kind outdoor theater experience includes a gigantic screen (50' x 34') and a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset (see show times below) in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free, thanks to the generosity of sponsors.

For Your Convenience
Cyclists can beat the traffic by biking! The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor's Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets.

Sorry, no dogs are allowed at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival because crowds are stressful to animals, even the most peaceful pup can become aggressive under these conditions. Love your pets by leaving them at home!

A special thanks to our sponsors, the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago Magazine, WNUA - 95.5, and the Chicago Transit Authority.

The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival honors the work of film critic Gene Siskel.