Friday, May 1 – Friday, May 8

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 5/1

6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Chicago Critics Film Festival
The Invite – Olivia Wilde – 2026 – 106 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
Horse Feathers – Norman Z. McLeod – 1932 – 68 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “Guido Deiro, The World’s Foremost Piano-Accordionist”
(Doc Saloman, 1929) – 6 min – 35mm from Library of Congress

9:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
Ladies Must Love – E.A. Dupont – 1933 – 70 min
35mm from Universal

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Black Girlhood
Crooklyn – Spike Lee – 1994 – 114 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Chicago Critics Film Festival
The Fly – David Cronenberg – 1986 – 96 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society


Saturday 5/2

3:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
The Letter – Jean de Limur – 1929 – 64 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: Dangerous Females (William Watson, 1929) – 21 min – 16mm

5:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
The Wiser Sex – Berthold Viertel – 1932 – 76 min
35mm from Universal

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
Wild Boys of the Road – William Wellman – 1933 – 68 min
35mm from Library of Congress
Preceded by: Their First Mistake (George Marshall, 1932) – 21 min – 35mm

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Board Picks
24 Hour Party People – Michael Winterbottom – 2002 – 117 min
35mm


Sunday 5/3

1:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
His Wife’s Lover – Sidney M. Goldin – 1931 – 80 min
35mm from the National Center for Jewish Film

3:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
Caravan – Erik Charell – 1934 – 101 min
35mm from MoMA

5:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Pre-Code Picture Party
Anybody’s Woman Dorothy Arzner 1930 80 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Preceded by: “The Golf Specialist” (Monte Brice, 1930) – 20 min – 35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
The Hedge Theater – Robert Beavers – 1986-90/2002 – 19 min
The Stoas – Robert Beavers – 1991-97 – 22 min
The Ground – Robert Beavers – 1993-2001  – 20 min
35mm

8:30 PM
Doc Films: Arthouse Vulgarity
What’s On – Martha Colburn – 1997 – 2 min
Lift Off – Martha Colburn – 1998 – 3 min
The Color of Love – Peggy Awesh – 1994 – 10 min
Fuses – Carolee Schneemann – 1967 – 29 min
16mm from Film-maker’s Cooperative
Part of a longer shorts program

8:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Chicago Critics Film Festival
A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Steven Spielberg – 2001 – 146 min
35mm from Park Circus


Monday 5/4

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Painting with Light: The Cinematography of James Wong Howe
Hud – Martin Ritt – 1963 – 112 min
35mm


Wednesday 5/6

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Chicago Critics Film Festival
Something Wild – Jonathan Demme – 1986 – 113 min
35mm from Park Circus


Friday 5/8

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Rapturous: Tatsu Aoki, a Chicago Asian-American Avant-Garde
3725 – Tatsu Aoki – 1980 – 11 min
Local Color – Tatsu Aoki – 1987/1990/2000 – 10 min
Harmony – Tatsu Aoki – 1991 – 9 min
Rapturous – Tatsu Aoki – 1983 – 6 min
Dreamworks – Tatsu Aoki – 1983 – 11 min
Puzzle – Tatsu Aoki – 2000 – 20 min
All 16mm from Chicago Film Society