{"id":164,"date":"2013-08-30T15:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2013-09-07T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:51:15","slug":"tribunes-phillips-looks-to-the-future-on-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/08\/30\/tribunes-phillips-looks-to-the-future-on-tcm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribune's Phillips looks to the future on TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, who co-hosted the final season of \"At the Movies\" in syndication, is returning to national television.<\/p>\n

Starting Sept. 6, Phillips will host \"Friday Night Spotlight: Future Shock,\" a monthlong series for Turner Classic Movies examining \"visions of the future as depicted on film.\" The 16 films in the series span 75 years \u2014 from Fritz Lang's 1927 \"Metropolis\" to Steven Spielberg's 2002 \"Minority Report.\"<\/p>\n

It's a return engagement for Phillips, who filled in for TCM prime-time host Robert Osborne in September 2011. He taped the latest series at TCM studios in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\"It was gratifying to be asked back, and to work with such good, un-neurotic pros once again,\" Phillips told me. \"None of this means anything, of course, if you don\u2019t think much of TCM\u2019s programming or quality. But I\u2019m still looking for someone who fits that description.\"<\/p>\n

Phillips became familiar to national viewers when he filled in frequently for Roger Ebert alongside Richard Roeper on \"Ebert & Roeper.\" In the final season of the Chicago-based movie-review show (retitled \"At the Movies\"), he co-hosted with A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Phillips joined the Tribune as theatre critic in 2001 and was named film critic in 2006.<\/p>\n

Here is the lineup for \"Friday Night Spotlight: Future Shock\" on TCM:<\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 6
\n7 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 Metropolis (1927)
\n9:45 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 Things to Come (1936)
\n11:30 p.m. \u2013 Escape from New York (1981)
\n1:15 a.m. \u2013 Brazil (1985)<\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 13
\n7 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 Soylent Green (1973)
\n8:45 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 Minority Report (2002)
\n11:15 p.m. \u2013 Logan's Run (1976)
\n1:30 a.m. \u2013 Mad Max (1979)<\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 20
\n7 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 La jet\u00e9e (1962)
\n7:45 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 Rollerball (1975)
\n10 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
\n12:45 a.m. \u2013 Total Recall (1990)<\/p>\n

Friday, Sept. 27
\n7 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 The Time Machine (1960)
\n9 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 World Without End (1956)
\n10:30 p.m. \u2013 \u2013 The Omega Man (1971)
\n12:30 a.m. \u2013 A Boy and His Dog (1974)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, who co-hosted the final season of \"At the Movies\" in syndication, is returning to national television. Starting Sept. 6, Phillips will host \"Friday Night Spotlight: Future Shock,\" a monthlong series for Turner Classic Movies examining \"visions of the future as depicted on film.\" The 16 films in the series... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}