Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:52 pm
Sad news from Chicago: one of its most unusual film venues, a bank building auditorium, will close at the end of the year:
They talk about finding another venue, but I'd be fairly amazed if the number one candidate weren't the Portage just a couple of blocks away, a vintage cinema run by the Silent Film Society of Chicago.
We’ve been hearing the warning signals from Bank of America Cinema programmer Mike Phillips (no relation to the Chicago Tribune film critic) for a while now. Ever since Bank of America absorbed LaSalle Bank, there have been questions about whether the new management would support the cinema, an odd little curiosity carved out of the second floor of a regular bank building. From Phillips’ email, it appears the Bank of America is closing the whole building. Not a big shock, since they have another full banking center building just a few blocks away.
They talk about finding another venue, but I'd be fairly amazed if the number one candidate weren't the Portage just a couple of blocks away, a vintage cinema run by the Silent Film Society of Chicago.
We should respect the other fellow's religion, but only to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is attractive and his children intelligent. —H.L. Mencken