event Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Music Box’s tribute to the late John Hughes concludes with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which ranks alongside The Blues Brothers as the movie most associated with Chicago. Whether it’s any good is another question. Some take it as the greatest school-skipping fantasy ever conceived, with Matthew Broderick’s unflappable Ferris as the ideal tour guide; others might be inclined to agree with South Park’s Eric Cartman, who cleverly appropriated one of the film’s pieces of voiceover philosophy. (“Life goes pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while and do whatever you want all the time, you could miss it.”) At this point, you probably know which camp you belong to, but it’s worth revisiting the film for Hughes’ sharp staging and its CinemaScope images of the city at its most fetching.

Music Box’s tribute to the late John Hughes concludes with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which ranks alongside The Blues Brothers as the movie most associated with Chicago. Whether it’s any good is another question. Some take it as the greatest school-skipping fantasy ever conceived, with Matthew Broderick’s unflappable Ferris as the ideal tour guide; others might be inclined to agree with South Park’s Eric Cartman, who cleverly appropriated one of the film’s pieces of voiceover philosophy. (“Life goes pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while and do whatever you want all the time, you could miss it.”) At this point, you probably know which camp you belong to, but it’s worth revisiting the film for Hughes’ sharp staging and its CinemaScope images of the city at its most fetching.