Com­ing via Chicago Film Fes­ti­val:

THE DARK KNIGHT GALA
A NIGHT HONORING FILMMAKER CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Wednes­day, July 16, 2008
IMAX The­atre | 600 E. Grand Avenue

You are cor­dially invited to a once-in-a-lifetime Gala evening hon­or­ing film­maker Christo­pher Nolan!

Cinema/Chicago, the 44th Chicago Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val and Warner Bros. Pic­tures proudly present the first Chicago show­ing of THE DARK KNIGHT, the follow-up to the action hit Bat­man Begins. THE DARK KNIGHT reunites film­maker Christo­pher Nolan and star Chris­t­ian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his con­tin­u­ing war on crime. The City of Chicago is promi­nently show­cased in the film, with shots of the old Chicago Post Office, the State of Illi­nois Cen­ter, the IBM Build­ing, Upper and Lower Wacker Drive, and LaSalle Street, among other locations.

The evening will include a trib­ute to film­maker Christo­pher Nolan fol­lowed by a screen­ing of THE DARK KNIGHT in IMAX®, which fea­tures six sequences shot with IMAX® cam­eras. “Nolan’s work has cap­ti­vated both crit­ics and audi­ences alike. Memento remains one of the great direc­to­r­ial and writ­ing achieve­ments in cin­ema. He is a mod­ern writer/director who approaches all aspects of his work with a style and sophis­ti­ca­tion seen only amongst the most élite tier of film­mak­ers,” remarks Fes­ti­val Founder and Artis­tic Direc­tor Michael Kutza.

A din­ner recep­tion will fol­low the trib­ute and screen­ing in the stun­ning Crys­tal Gar­dens at Navy Pier, lit up by a spec­tac­u­lar fire­works dis­play. The Gala will ben­e­fit Cinema/Chicago, its year-round edu­ca­tional pro­grams, and the 44th Chicago Inter­na­tional Film Festival.

Warner Bros. Pic­tures presents, in asso­ci­a­tion with Leg­endary Pic­tures, a Syn­copy Pro­duc­tion, a Christo­pher Nolan film, THE DARK KNIGHT. Nolan directed the film from a screen­play writ­ten by Jonathan Nolan and Christo­pher Nolan, story by Christo­pher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christo­pher Nolan are the pro­duc­ers, with Ben­jamin Mel­niker, Michael E.Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serv­ing as exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers. THE DARK KNIGHT is based upon char­ac­ters appear­ing in comic books pub­lished by DC Comics. Bat­man was cre­ated by Bob Kane.

Evening Pro­gram:

5:30PM Red Car­pet Arrivals
6:30PM Trib­ute and Award Pre­sen­ta­tion to film­maker Christo­pher Nolan
7:00PM Gala screen­ing of The Dark Knight
9:30PM — 11:30PM Din­ner Recep­tion at The Crys­tal Gardens

TICKET PRICE:

Advance ticket price: $150/ticket if pur­chased by June 1
After June 1: $175/ticket

TICKETS ON SALE AT 9:00AM ON FRIDAY, MAY 16! LIMIT 4 PER PERSON.

PRESALE tick­ets avail­able to Cinema/Chicago mem­bers May 12–15.

To pur­chase tick­ets, please call 312–683-0121 x154, or click here.