It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with Genevieve Koski and Tasha Robinson. Keith Phipps could not be here this week because he could feel the heat coming from around the corner.

Every week we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.

This week, we finally get to talk about Chicago, Illinois, our beloved hometown, where we're recording this podcast right now.

It's a wonderful city to visit.

We've got great restaurants and museums.

We have Lake Michigan and Wrigley Field, the Art Institute.

You can eat a deep dish pizza or see a show.

It's a glittering jewel of the Midwest, and it's high time. We get two cinematic valentines to our Fair City. Scott. What's that? I got some bad news for you. In one of these films, they blow up the green mill. What? Well, do they at least go to Wrigley? Sears Tower? The von Steuben Day Parade?

That's all from Ferris Fuelers Day off. Well, what are our movies then? Well, over the next two weeks, we're comparing and contrasting to heist movies set in Chicago. In the new thriller Widows, Director Steve McQueen's long-awaited follow-up to 12 years a slave, the city's notoriously dirty political system figures into a complicated heist in which the widows of some professional thieves unite for a $5 million score. Set heavily on

the south side, where the tonier neighborhoods of Hyde Park coexist with some of the poorest communities

in the city, widows uses an alderman race to expose systemic racial and class divides. The Chicago

Way also plays a part in Michael Mann's

1981 debut feature Thief, which stars James Kahn as a professional safecracker who can

drill through locks more easily than he can through the city's entrenched gangsterism and

corruption. Oh well, I guess Chicago is going to live down to its reputation once again. Still,

we've inspired great artists like Michael Mann and Steve McQueen, which is given a boost to our local economy. This week, we'll look at man's thief and all the distinct stylistic hallmarks that would find their way into later man works like Heat and Miami Vice. The next week we'll bring in McQueen's widows and its use of genre to make larger points about our social system. Now let's all take a Swigom-M-Lort and get down to it after the break.

Are you clear?

You've been putting down two, three scores a month.

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