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Friday 10/18
5:00 PM
Block Cinema
Background Echoes: Mexicanness and the Production of Race in Hollywood
Lecture-screening, featuring a selection of eleven 35mm trailers from the Academy Film Archive along with a presentation by Laura Isabel Serna
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Safe – Todd Haynes – 1995 – 119 min
35mm
7:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: 60th Chicago International Film Festival’s Kore-eda Hirokazu Tribute and Retrospective
Nobody Knows – Kore-eda Hirokazu – 2004 – 141 min
35mm from IFC Films
Director Kore-eda in attendence
9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II – Bruce Pittman – 1987 – 94 min
35mm from private collections
Saturday 10/19
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Chicago History Museum
Home Movie Day
Archivists and projectionists will be on hand to inspect and project a selection of YOUR celluloid home movies in 16mm, 8mm, or Super 8
Co-presented by the Chicago Film Archives and Chicago Film Society
Saturday at Noon – Sunday at Noon
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors 24-hour Marathon
The Spiral Staircase – Robert Siodmak – 1946
35mm from Disney
The Crazies – George Romero – 1973
35mm from private collections
The Haunted Palace – Roger Corman – 1963
35mm from Park Circus
Jaws – Steven Spielberg – 1975
35mm from Universal
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie – John Harrison – 1990
35mm from Paramount
Nightmare aka Nightmares From a Damaged Brain – Romano Scavoloni – 1981
35mm from private collections
Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper – 1982
35mm from Park Circus
The Comedy of Terrors – Jacques Tourneur – 1963
35mm from private collections
Films screening digitally are not listed.
7:30 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real – Four by Robert Bresson
Lancelot du Lac – Robert Bresson – 1974 – 84 min
35mm from the Institut français
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Safe – Todd Haynes – 1995 – 119 min
35mm
Sunday 10/20
5:00 PM
Pilsen Community Books
On Our Land: Two Documentaries About Palestinian Displacement, Community, and Resistance
Women Under Siege – Marilyn Gaunt – 1982 – 26 min – 16mm
On Our Land – Antonia Caccia – 1981 – 55 min – 16mm
Presented by Tone Glow
8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Pneuma – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1983 – 28 min
17 Reasons Why – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1987 – 19 min
Words of Mercury – Jerome Hiler – 2011 – 25 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Faust – F.W. Murnau – 1926 – 107 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
Live accompaniment by Maxx McGathey
Monday 10/21
9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
I Know What You Did Last Summer – Jim Gillespie – 1997 – 101 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Tuesday 10/22
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Echoes of Films by Women/Chicago ’74
A Question of Silence – Marleen Gorris – 1982 – 92 min
35mm from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Wednesday 10/23
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mexican Romance – Through the Heart of the Nation
El Crimen del Padre Amaro – Carlos Carrera – 2002 – 118 min
35mm
Thursday 10/24
5:00 PM
Chicago International Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet – 2024 – 215 min
New 35mm print from A24
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real – Four by Robert Bresson
The Devil, Probably – Robert Bresson – 1977 – 94 min
35mm
9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Psychomania – Don Sharp – 1973 – 85 min
35mm from private collections
co-presented by Motoblot
9:45 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Orlando – Sally Potter – 1992 – 90 min
35mm
Friday 10/25
2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Bunny Lake is Missing – Otto Preminger – 1965 – 107 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Earth and Ashes – Atiq Rahimi – 2004 – 102 min
35mm from Playtime
post-show conversation with visiting scholar Fazel Ahad Ahadi
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Orlando – Sally Potter – 1992 – 90 min
35mm
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
