The Logan Square Movie Quest
- WEEK #1: Good Night And Good Luck (1/4; LT)
- WEEK #2: Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (1/12; LT)
- WEEK #3: The Matador (1/16; CN), Chicken Little (1/19; LT), Zathura (1/19; LT)
- WEEK #4: Tristan & Isolde (1/24; CN)
- WEEK #5: King Kong (2/2; LT)
- WEEK #6: Underworld: Evolution (2/7; CN), Munich (2/9; LT)
- WEEK #7: Glory Road (2/15; RE), Hostel (2/16; CN)
- WEEK #8: Brokeback Mountain (2/22; ES), Final Destination 3 (2/23; CN)
- WEEK #9: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (3/1; LT)
- WEEK #10: Freedomland (3/7; CN), Fun With Dick And Jane (3/9; LT), [Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story (3/12; PA)]
- WEEK #11: Capote (3/14; LT), Walk The Line (3/15; LT)
- WEEK #12: CSA: The Confederate States Of America (3/22; VT), Memoirs Of A Geisha (3/23; LT)
- WEEK #13: V For Vendetta (3/29; WP), Syriana (3/30; LT)
- WEEK #14: Thank You For Smoking (4/4; RE), Eight Below (4/6; LT)
- WEEK #15: Hoodwinked (4/13; LT)
- WEEK #16: The Pink Panther (4/20; LT)
- WEEK #17: Lucky Number Slevin (4/26; WP), Firewall (4/27; LT)
- WEEK #18: Failure To Launch (5/2; LT)
- WEEK #19: Inside Man (5/8; LT), 16 Blocks (5/11; LT), [Goal! (5/13; CN)]
- WEEK #20: Scary Movie 4 (5/16; LT), Brick (5/17; ES), [The DaVinci Code (5/21; CN)]
- WEEK #21: Poseidon (5/24; NM), United 93 (5/25; LT)
- WEEK #22: X-Men: The Last Stand (5/29; CN), Take The Lead (5/31; LT)
- WEEK #23: Ice Age: The Meltdown (6/7; LT), The Wild (6/7; LT)
- WEEK #24: Art School Confidential (6/14; PA), Akeelah And The Bee (6/15; LT)
- WEEK #25: Friends With Money (6/21; ES), Mission: Impossible III (6/22; LT)
- WEEK #26: A Prarie Home Companion (6/28; RE), The Sentinel (6/29; LT)
- WEEK #27: Over The Hedge (7/6; LT)
- WEEK #28: The Break-Up (7/13; LT)
- WEEK #29: The Devil Wears Prada (7/19; WP), Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (7/20; CN), Clerks II (7/21; WP)
- WEEK #30: The Road To Guantanamo (7/26; PA), The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (7/27; LT)
- WEEK #31: Nacho Libre (8/1; LT)
- WEEK #32: Click (8/10; LT)
- WEEK #33: Scoop (8/16; PA), The Lake House (8/17; LT)
- WEEK #34: You, Me, And Dupree (8/24; LT)
- WEEK #35: Zoom (8/31; LT)
- WEEK #36: Little Miss Sunshine (9/4; RE), Snakes On A Plane (9/7; CN)
- WEEK #37: Accepted (9/14; LT)
- WEEK #38: Lady In The Water (9/20; LT)
- WEEK #39: World Trade Center (9/28; LT)
- WEEK #40: Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (10/5; LT)
- WEEK #41: Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (10/12; LT)
- WEEK #42: Gridiron Gang (10/19; LT)
- WEEK #43: The Illusionist (10/26; LT)
- WEEK #44: The Guardian (11/2; LT)
- WEEK #45: Marie Antoinette (11/8; CN)
- WEEK #46: Man Of The Year (11/16; LT)
- WEEK #47: The Prestige (11/22; LT)
- WEEK #48: Open Season (11/30; LT)
- WEEK #49: Stranger Than Fiction (12/7; CN)
- WEEK #50: Flags Of Our Fathers (12/14; LT)
- WEEK #51: Volver (12/19; CS), The Queen (12/21; LT)
- WEEK #52: Flushed Away (12/28; LT)
My new year's resolution was to see at least one movie a week in the two movie theaters in my neighborhood, Logan Square, in Chicago - the Logan Theater (a second run house specializing in family films) and the AMC City North 14 (the main theater of the northwest side showing blockbusters) between Monday and Thursday.
Also included are movies I saw in other theaters.
Movies seen on the weekend are in [brackets].
Theater Key:
LOGAN SQUARE KEY:
CN = Kersotes City North 14 (AMC until July 1)
LT = Logan Theater
OTHER THEATER KEY:
CS = Century Cinema - Chicago multi-week, multi-screen art house. The really obscure ones go to the Music Box but only show for a week.
ES = AMC Esquire 6 - the big mainstream arthouse downtown (ex. it's the only theater to show all five best picture Oscar nominees in Chicago)
NM = AMC 600 North Michigan 9 - The touristy cinema right off the Magnificent Mile.
PA = AMC Pipers Alley 4 - The upper crusty theater downstairs from Second City in Old Town
RE = AMC River East 21 - the AMC flagship in Chicago by Lake Michigan
VT = Village Art Theater - The Gold Coast's Logan Theater but showing new movies
WP = Kersotes Webster Place 11 - Where the Lincoln Park High Schoolers go to party (AMC until July 1).
I'm not a shill for AMC, I just have a moviewatcher card so if given the choice, I see all of my movies at AMC (a fact made easier since they just bought out Chicago's other major theater owner Loews).
Pllppph. That's exactly what an AMC shill would say.
I am a West Suburbanite, and apprently, bitter about it.
The suburbs have two 30 screeners. I can only imagine those movie palaces. Makes our little 21 screener in the city feel like an art house. :)
Can't say I've ever been to the 30-screeners (only those tiny ones with 16 and 21 screens), but now that AMC is providing AMC Select (indies and specialty films) at suburban locations, I might cut them some slack. However, it all depends on what indie or specialty means to AMC, doesn't it?
It's kind of funny. As far as the city goes, the AMC Select selections were already playing at their theaters before the designation was put in place. For example the Esquire, which was already pretty much AMC arthouse has nearly completely AMC Select. Though the theater by my house actually has one which is shocking. "Big Momma's House 2" is arty for the AMC City North. :)