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Katyń (Polish pronunciation:) is a 2007 Polish historical drama film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards. [2]
The Woods Theatre was a movie palace at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Streets in the Chicago Loop. It opened in 1918 and was a popular entertainment destination for decades. Originally a venue for live theater, it was later converted to show movies. It closed in 1989 and was demolished in 1990.
1983: Tina Turner: Live in Chicago—broadcast of a 1983 concert by Tina Turner, as a part of the Soundstage series. 1985: Aretha Franklin: Live at Park West—broadcast of a 1985 concert by Aretha Franklin, as a part of the Soundstage series. 1985: I Have a Pony— comedy album by Steven Wright, recorded at Wolfgang's in San Francisco and Park ...
The Patio Theater is a music venue and movie theater located at 6008 W. Irving Park Road on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois in the Portage Park neighborhood. The building was built in 1927 as a movie theater. Chris Bauman took over the operations of Patio Theater in 2018 and became owner by the end of 2019.
Great American Movie Theaters, David Naylor, Preservation Press 1986 Entertainment Weekly, June 28, 1991 issue #72-3 [2] Chicago Tribune, Music Box Theatre by Paul Gapp, August.1983
Kerasotes on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was a movie theatre operator in the United States. Based in Chicago, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was the sixth-largest movie-theatre company in North America which had some 957 screens in 95 locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and ...
The Spencer Arms Hotel. Designed by William P. Doerr, it was built in 1924 and opened in 1925 as a vaudeville and movie theater. [2] [1] [3] The building also housed the Spencer Arms Hotel, a fifty-room hotel to the west of the theater, while the Jackson Park National Bank was located at the corner of 71st and Jeffery.
Today the historic Portage Theater is the home of the Silent Film Society of Chicago and hosts the Chicago Silent Film Festival as well as portions of the Chicago Polish Film Festival. In addition, the interior of the theater was utilized extensively in late May 2008 for filming of scenes for the film Public Enemies which is based on the life ...