WHAT: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, DCP) WHEN: August 23, 2023 1 PM & 7:30 PM WHERE: Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, IL WHAT ELSE: Organist Jay Warren performs pre-show music at 7 PM! HOW MUCH: $12/$10 advance or $10 for the…
Our “unofficial” kick-off to our tenth season will take place on August 23, 2023. Consider this more of a “pop-up” event for kids. To commemorate the end of summer (and the return to school), we thought we’d screen one of…
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) is the last link to the summer blockbusters I grew up with as a child of the 1980s. I was in a theatre to experience the original Star Wars movies and the…
Thank you to everyone who came out on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, for our season-ending screening of Jaws (1975) at the Pickwick Theatre. We had 753 patrons in attendance for the day with 650 in the evening. This was the…
WHAT: Jaws (1975, DCP) Season Finale! WHEN: June 14, 2023 1 PM & 7:30 PM WHERE: Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, IL WHAT ELSE: Organist Jay Warren performs pre-show music at 7:00 PM! HOW MUCH: $12/$10 advance or $10 for the…
We had a respectable turnout of 48 patrons for our screening of Heaven Can Wait (1943) on May 25, 2023. This was our final show in our series “The Lubitsch Touch,” which was an eleven film retrospective on director Ernst…
Thank you to the 374 patrons who came out to see From Russia With Love (1963) at the Pickwick Theatre on May 17, 2023. We would like to thank author and film historian Raymond Benson for being our special guest…
WHAT: From Russia With Love (1963) 60th Anniversary Event WHEN: May 17, 2023 1 PM & 7:30 PM WHERE: Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, IL WHAT ELSE: James Bond author/historian Raymond Benson returns to introduce FRWL at 7:30 PM; FRWL movie…
On April 15-16, 2023, program host Matthew Hoffman was a guest on “Steve and Johnnie” on WGN Radio. He discussed the current status of the Pickwick Theatre as well as the upcoming films in the classic film series. To hear…
“Let my fate be a warning to every man. Any man who can dance through life with hundreds of women, and is willing to waltz through life with one, should be hanged.” ~Count Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice…