Friday, November 6 – Friday, November 13

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 11/6

3:30 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
La Bola Negra – Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo – 2026 – 155 min
New 35mm print from Netflix

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Cry Baby – John Waters – 1990 – 85 min
35mm from Universal


Saturday 11/7

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Chicago History Museum
Chicago 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.
Presented by Chicago Film Archives and Chicago Film Society
Live accompaniment by David Drazin

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy – Rene Cardona – 1970 – 78 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
presented with digital soft-titles

3:30 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
La Bola Negra – Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo – 2026 – 155 min
New 35mm print from Netflix


Sunday 11/8

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
The General – Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman – 1926 – 79 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott

4:45 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
La Bola Negra – Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo – 2026 – 155 min
New 35mm print from Netflix


Thursday 11/12

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Boom! – Joseph Losey – 1968 – 113 min
35mm from Universal
Karina Longworth in person

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Block Cinema at 25
L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson – 1997 – 138 min
35mm from Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research


Friday 11/13

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Behind the Mask
Desperately Seeking Susan – Susan Seidelman – 1985 – 104 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Block Cinema
Dreams that Money Can Buy – Hans Richter – 1947 – 84 min
16mm from MoMA