With a public screening of “Jurassic Park” Friday guided by one of its top dinosaur scientists, the Field Museum is getting in on one of the city’s notable recent arts trends, the curated movie showing.
“Miracle,” for instance, the film about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, screened in February, accompanied by a sports and an arts writer from the Tribune.
“Sound Opinions,” the popular-music public radio show produced at WBEZ-FM 91.5, has hosted screenings of just about every rock-and-roll movie you can name in recent years.
And now the Field is trying it out, part of an effort to find new ways to reach an audience, said spokeswoman Emily Waldren.
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Also included in that effort was a recent specimen ID day, during which people could bring specimens in to have them identified by museum scientists.
The Cinema Science series, a partnership with the Music Box Theatre, will begin with Peter Makovicky, associate curator of dinosaurs, speaking before and answering questions after the “Jurassic Park” showing. That event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Friday (Oct. 10) at the Music Box, 3733 N. Southport Ave. Tickets are $10.
A “Raiders of the Lost Ark” matinee showing at noon on Sunday, Nov. 9, will feature Bill Parkinson, associate curator of Eurasian anthropology.
And a “Jaws” screening, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3, will be hosted by Kevin Feldheim, manager of the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution.
Tickets can be purchased online at musicboxtheatre.com.