Dann & Raymond discuss the 14 greatest movie opening scenes

Posted October 27, 2017 1:00 pm

Dann Gire

Join me and film historian/novelist Raymond Benson when Dann and Raymond's Movie Club counts down the top all-time greatest opening movie scenes starting with ... wait. I can't tell you that.

See if your fave opening sequence makes the cut at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2, at the Schaumburg Township Library, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg. Free admission. schaumburglibrary.org

'Anne Frank' movie screens at Oakton

George Stevens' Oscar-winning 1959 drama "The Diary of Anne Frank" will be shown at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in Room 1604 at Oakton College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. Author and Northwestern University lecturer Phyllis Lassner will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterward. Go to jewishstudies@oakton.edu.

• Dann Gire's column runs Friday in Time out! Follow him on Twitter at @DannGireDHFilm.

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