Friday, Friday, April 3 – Friday, April 10

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 4/3

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – Joseph Sargent – 1974 – 104 min
35mm from Park Circus
Introduced by Bob Odenkirk

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
Normal – Ben Wheatley – 2025 – 90 min
New 35mm print from Magnolia Pictures
Featuring a post-film Q&A with Actor Bob Odenkirk and Writer Derek Kolstad

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Pyschodynamic Cinema
Nostalghia – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1983 – 124 min
35mm


Saturday 4/4

11:00 AM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
The Kid with the Golden Arm – Chang Cheh – 1979 – 86 min
35mm from private collections
Introduced by RZA

1:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 – Shun’ya Itô – 1972 – 90 min
35mm from Vitagraph Films
Meiko Kaji in person, part of a double feature with Lady Snowblood (DCP)

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Pyschodynamic Cinema
Nostalghia – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1983 – 124 min
35mm

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
One Spoon of Chocolate – RZA – 2025 – 112 min
New 35mm print from Variance Films
RZA in person


Sunday 4/5

2:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
Exorcist II: Heretic – John Boorman – 1977 – 117 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
Palinode – Robert Beavers – 21 min
Diminished Frame – Robert Beavers – 24 min
Still Light – Robert Beavers – 24 min
16mm

8:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Beyond Chicago
Faces of Death – Daniel Goldhaber – 2026 – 100 min
New 35mm print from IFC
Director and writer in person


Monday 4/6

6:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Reds – Warren Beatty – 1981 – 194 min + intermission
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Willie Howard & Al Kelly in “Come the Revolution” (1941) – 3 min – 16mm from the Chicago Film Society collection

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Painting with Light: The Cinematography of James Wong Howe
Peter Pan – Herbert Brenon – 1924 – 101 min
35mm from Kino Lorber


Tuesday 4/7

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Jacques Rivette’s Late Style
The Story of Marie and Julien – Jacques Rivette – 2003 – 150 min
35mm


Thursday 4/9

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Prison Break
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen – 2000 – 107 min
35mm from Disney
Music Box Members only screenings

8:00 PM
Siskel Film Center
Onion City Opening Night: Useful Fantasy
Asparagus – Suzan Pitt – 1979 – 18 min – 35mm from the Academy Film Archive
Outer Space – Peter Tscherkassky – 1999 – 10 min – 35mm from Canyon Cinema
part of a longer shorts program


Friday 4/10

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Pyschodynamic Cinema
Slaughterhouse-Five – George Roy Hill – 1972 – 100 min
35mm