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!
Exhibits
September 21 – December 8
Block Museum of Art: Pop América, 1965 – 1975
35mm photographic slides – Juan José Gurrola
October 20 – November 17
Every hour on the hour
The Art Institute of Chicago: Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
Outer and Inner Space – 1965 – 33 min – 16mm dual projection
On the first floor of the Modern Wing in the Stone Gallery (Gallery 186 – Film, Video, and New Media)
October 20 – January 26
running continuously during museum hours
The Art Institute of Chicago: Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
Jill and Freddy Dancing — 1963 — 4:30 min
Edie Sedgwick (Screen Test 308) — 1965 — 4:36 min
Ann Buchanan (Screen Test 33) — 1964 — 4:30 min
Penelope Palmer (Screen Test 255) — 1966 — 4:06 min
Bibbe Hansen (Screen Test 128) — 1965 — 4:30 min
Nico (Hershey) (Screen Test 246) — 1966 — 4:18 min
Me and Taylor — 1963 — 4:30 min
Mario Banana #1 — 1964 — 4:10 min
John Washing — 1963 — 4:30 min
Jack Smith (Screen Test 315) — 1964 — 4:30 min
Rufus Collins (Screen Test 61) — 1964 — 4:24 min
Billy Name (Linich) (Screen Test 194) — 1964 — 4:24 min
Marcel Duchamp (Screen Test 80) — 1966 — 4:24 min
Salvador Dali (Screen Test 67) — 1966 — 4:42 min
All films by Andy Warhol, 16mm prints from The Circulating Film Library, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art
On the second floor of the museum in Regenstein Hall — additional special exhibition admission fee required for entry
Friday 10/18
7:00 PM
Doc Films: From the Pen of Tonino Guerra
Red Desert — Michelangelo Antonioni — 1964 — 117 min
35mm
7:00 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Hex-a-long Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus — Kenny Ortega — 1993 — 96 min
35mm from Swank Motion Pictures
interactive screening hosted by Dick O’Day
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: ISM ISM ISM – Countercultures and Undergrounds
Ismism — Manuel DeLanda — 1979 — 6 min
16mm from Anthology Film Archives
part of a longer shorts program
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Programmer Picks
All About My Mother — Pedro Almodóvar — 1999 — 100 min
35mm
Note: rescheduled screening (previously Monday, 10/14)
Saturday 10/19
12:00 PM Saturday 10/19 – 12:00 PM Sunday 10/20
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors 2019
The Man Who Laughs — Paul Leni — 1928 — 110 mins — 35mm from Universal — live musical accompaniment by Maxx McGathey
Office Killer — Cindy Sherman — 1997 — 82 min — 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death — John Hancock — 1971 — 89 min — 16mm from private collections (director in person)
Demons 2 — Lamberto Bava — 1986 — 88 min — 35mm from AGFA
Dog Soldiers — Neil Marshall — 2002 — 105 min — 35mm
Event Horizon — Paul W.S. Anderson — 1997 — 96 min — 35mm from Paramount
Retribution — Guy Magar — 1987 — 107 min — 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Alligator — Lewis Teague — 1980 — 91 min — 35mm from UNCSA
Halloween II — Rick Rosenthal — 1981 — 92 min — 35mm from private collections
The Fly II — Chris Wala — 1989 — 105 min — 35mm from Fox Library Services
Note: Tickets cannot be purchased for individual films, marathon passes only
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Home Movie Day at the Chicago History Museum
Bring your 8mm, S8, or 16mm home movies and see them projected!
Presented by the Chicago Film Society and the Chicago Film Archives
3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Abbas Kiarostami
Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami — 2010 — 160 min
35mm from IFC Films
Sunday 10/20
11:00 AM
Doc Films: From the Pen of Tonino Guerra
Red Desert — Michelangelo Antonioni — 1964 — 117 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Andrei Tarkovsky
Solaris — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1972 — 167 min
35mm
Monday 10/21
2:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Stalker — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1979 — 162 min
35mm from Contemporary Films
Tuesday 10/22
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Jazz ’34: Remembrances of Kansas City Swing — Robert Altman — 1997
72 min — 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Preceded by: Betty Boop & Cab Calloway in “Minnie the Moocher” (Fleischer Studios, 1932) – 35mm – 8 min
9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Stalker — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1979 — 162 min
35mm from Contemporary Films
Wednesday 10/23
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Abbas Kiarostami
Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami — 2010 — 160 min
35mm from IFC Films
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Hidden Figures
One Way or Another — Sara Gómez — 1974/1977 — 78 min
16mm from MCM Archives at Brown University
7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Doc Films: A Preston Sturges Retrospective
The Great McGinty — Preston Sturges — 1940 — 82 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Blue Whiskey Festival at the Music Box Theatre
When the Clouds Roll By —Victor Fleming — 1919 — Approx 85 min
16mm from the Museum of Modern Art Circulating Library
7:30 PM
Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall
Within Our Gates — Oscar Micheaux — 1920 — 79 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Live musical accompaniment by DJ Rae Chardonnay. Presented in association with Loose Machinery: A Symposium on the Chicago Race Riot of 1919; post-screening discussion with professors Jacqueline Stewart and Allyson Nadia Field.
Thursday 10/24
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Hollywood Pop Music Soundtrack
Super Fly — Gordon Parks Jr. — 1972 — 91 min
35mm