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Mike King, who began programming the CFS in 2003, departed in May to take a job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s cinematheque, but Michael Phillips (not the Chicago Tribune critic), who came on as a projectionist in 2004 and became coprogrammer two years later, is staying on. (His film-related writing can be found at Goatdog.)
I’m always glad for the chance to see titles like these screened in a theater, but the real value of the series has always been its esoterica. Among the rare titles being screened through the end of 2008 are John Frankenheimer’s 1965 thriller The Train, with Burt Lancaster (7/12), Rouben Mamoulian’s 1936 bandito adventure The Gay Desperado (9/27), Terence Young’s 1948 costume drama Corridor of Mirrors (10/18), and Val Guest’s 1959 satire of the British teen-idol racket, Expresso Bongo (11/8).
