People have ✨thoughts✨ about our Top 10 Chicago Movies
People have ✨thoughts✨ about our Top 10 Chicago Movies
Plus: While You Were Sleeping, High Fidelity, and more!
Hey all,
Hop on the L and meet us at the Sears Tower—it’s Chicago Month at Cinema Sugar, youse guys! In honor of our two-year anniversary, we’re dedicating September to the world-class movie city that also happens to be our hometown.
You can see our Top 10 below, but what’s your favorite Chicago movie?
— Speak No Cinema Sugar Evil
🎬 Our Latest
Top 10 Chicago Movies
Chicago is second to none for welcoming the most colorful movie characters, including the fugitive doctors, future presidents, and truant teenagers that fill out our list. (See below for the movie that people were big mad we didn’t include.)
Top 5 ‘High Fidelity’ Top 5 Lists
The Chicago-set John Cusack dramedy High Fidelity is full of Top 5 lists about all kinds of things. Here are the 5 best.
‘While You Were Sleeping’ Captures the Workaday Magic of Chicago
Vicki Rakowski on the classic 1995 romcom, which is simultaneously a Christmas movie, love story, comedy of manners, and a sweetly specific Chicago movie.
🎸 The ‘Blues Brothers’ Blues
Here’s a little peak behind the curtain: once we decide on a monthly theme, our core team of Kevin, Chad, Natalie 1, and Natalie 2 each toss our personal top 5 movies along that theme into our group chat. From there we start condensing them into a collective top 10, arranging and rearranging and haggling for (or against) certain titles until we finally land on a final 10 we’re happy (enough) with. That’s how it’s gone for all of our top 10s, including the latest for Chicago movies.
One movie that did not make our cut this month was The Blues Brothers—surely a Chicago-centric movie, but not one that was important enough to any of us to make our shortlists or the final group.
When the film bros of Threads discovered this, they were most displeased. “Where’s Blues Brothers???” they crowed.
And hey, we get it. Complaining about omissions is part of the list-making and list-sharing experience. But what the chorus of cantankerous caterwaulers didn’t understand is that when putting together our lists, we aren’t interested in the canon or Criterion Collection or Highest Average Rating on Letterboxd—we’re interested in the movies within that theme that mean the most to us. Period. Putting The Blues Brothers on our list out of obligation or to appease grumpy strangers on the internet would have been disingenuous, not to mention antithetical to our mission of sharing the movies that make our lives sweeter.
If you disagree, great! Listing well is the best revenge. Make your own list on the theme, and only include the movies that matter to you. Then send it to us so we can admire a piece of your heart.
📽 Letterboxd of Chocolates
Here’s what we’ve been logging lately on Letterboxd, the social network for cinephiles:
Chad:
