The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival has been showing classic films in Chicago's Grant Park for 10 years. For seven consecutive evenings in the summer people gather around a gigantic screen and enjoy classic American films. 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the film festival which begins on July 14th. The festival was not run in 2010 because of budgetary reasons.

The line up for the 2009 Chicago Outdoor Film Festival:

• Sunset Blvd.
  Sunset Boulevard (film)
  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett...
  
   (July 14)
• Duck Soup (July 21)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe...
  
   (July 28)
• Born Yesterday
  Born Yesterday (1950 film)
  Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
  
   (Aug. 4)
• Psycho
  Psycho (1960 film)
  Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...
  
   (Aug. 11)
• Young Mr. Lincoln
  Young Mr. Lincoln
  Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 partly fictionalized biography about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted takes for fear the studio...
  
   (Aug. 18)
• Tootsie
  Tootsie
  Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, with a supporting cast that includes Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman,...
  
  (Aug. 25)

Films began at sunset in Grant Park at Butler Field and admission was free every night.

External links

• http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/special_events/mose/chicago_outdoor_film.html