Friday, November 14 – Friday, November 21

Always check for last-minute changes. Our information comes from exhibitor websites, printed programs, programmers, and projectionists. We strive for accuracy, but things can move fast in filmland!


Friday 11/14

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Reel Politik
Putney Swope – Robert Downey Sr. – 1969 – 84 min
35mm from private collections
Cartoonist Nathan Gelgud will appear for a discussion and audience Q&A

1:45 PM, 6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

11:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Fuck My Son! – Todd Rohal – 2025 – 94 min
New 35mm print from Cartuna


Saturday 11/15

1:45 PM, 6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

6:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers
Picture Restart: Mean Streets
Danger is My Business – Sally Kellman – 1982 – 4 min
Voyage – Caroline Heyward – 1977 – 5 min
My Friend – Gus Van Sant – 1983 – 3 min
Glass Gardens – Lisa Crafts – 1982 – 5 min
Honky-Tonk – Bud Scott Laster – 1985 – 12 min
Murder in a Mist – Lisa Gottlieb – 1980 – 30 min
16mm from Chicago Filmmakers

11:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Fuck My Son! – Todd Rohal – 2025 – 94 min
New 35mm print from Cartuna


Sunday 11/16

11:30 AM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Every-Night Dreams – Mikio Naruse – 1933 – 65 min
35mm from the National Film Archive of Japan
Preceded by: “Up and Down the Waterfront” (Rudy Burckhart, 1946) – 8 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
Live musical accompaniment by the MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble

3:00 PM
Doc Films: Marta Mateus – Carte Blanche
The Strange Case of Angelica – Manoel de Oliveira – 2010 – 97 min
35mm
Preceded by: The Traveler (1974) 73 min screening digitally followed by 15 min intermission

1:45 PM, 6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Infinite Cinema – The Films of Hollis Frampton
Autumnal Equinox [Solariumagelani 3] – Hollis Frampton – 1974 – 27 min
Winter Solistice [Solariumagelani 4] – Hollis Frampton – 1974 – 33 min
Straits of Magellan: Drafts and Fragments [Panopticons] – Hollis Frampton – 1974 – 51 min
16mm from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative


Monday 11/17

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix


Tuesday 11/18

3:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Konrad Wolf on the Centennial
Ich war neunzehn – Konrad Wolf – 1968 – 115 min
35mm


Wednesday 11/19

3:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix


Thursday 11/20

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley – 2025 – 102 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Ethical Vampire
Let the Right One In – Tomas Alfredson – 2008 – 115 min
35mm from Magnolia Pictures

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Celluloid Is Out – Queer Freedom and Subculture of the 1970s
The Place Between Our Bodies – Michael Wallin – 1975 – 33 min
As the Wheel Turns – Michael Wallin – 1973 – 24 min
Sleepwalk – Michael Wallin – 1973 – 11 min
Kali’s Revue – Michael Wallin – 1972 – 8 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
The Matrix – Lana & Lilly Wachowski – 1999 – 136 min
35mm from private collections


Friday 11/21

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Jay Kelly – Noah Baumbach – 2025 – 132 min
New 35mm from Netflix

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Solo Sunny – Konrad Wolf – 1980 – 104 min
35mm from DEFA Film Library

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center Screening Room 201)
A.K. Dewdney – Discontinuous Film
Four Girls – A.K. Dewdney – 1967 – 3 min
Scissors – A.K. Dewdney – 1967 – 5 min
Malanga – A.K. Dewdney – 1967 – 3 min
The Maltese-Cross Movement – A.K. Dewdney – 1967 – 8 min
The Wildwood Flower – A.K. Dewdney – 1971 – 4 min
Adebar – Peter Kubelka – 1957 – 3 min
Ray Gun Virus – Paul Sharits 1966 – 14 min
Poemfield No. 7 – Stan VanDerBeek – 1967 – 4 min
Straight and Narrow – Beverly and Tony Conrad – 1970 – 10 min

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Merciless Mayhem
Fong Sai Yuk – Corey Yuen – 1993 – 106 min
35mm from AGFA