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Fri 10/26
4:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center : The Western
The Man With the Iron Fists — RZA — 2012 — 95 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Block Cinema Film and the Bauhaus
• Lightplay: Black White Gray — László Moholy-Nagy — 1926 — 6 min — 16mm from MoMA
• Rythmus 21 — Hans Richter — 1921 — 3 min — 16mm from MoMA
• Rythmus 23 — Hans Richter — 1923 — 3 min — 16mm from MoMA
• Filmstudie — Hans Richter — 1926 — 7 min — 16mm from MoMA
Part of a longer shorts program
7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Doc Films : The Films of Miloš Forman
Taking Off — Miloš Forman — 1971 — 93 min
35mm from Universal
7:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
American Revolution 2 — The Film Group — 1969 — 77 min
35mm from Chicago Film Archives
New preservation print
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow cast (Midnight Madness)
Sat 10/27
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Chicago Film Archives and Chicago Film Society present (at The Chicago History Museum)
Home Movie Day
Screening in…16mm, 8mm and/or Super 8mm. You decide!
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre : Universal Horror Matinees
The Mummy — Karl Freund — 1932 — 73 min
35mm from Universal
Pre-screening introduction by DePaul University faculty
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow cast (Midnight Madness)
Sun 10/28
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre : Universal Horror Matinees
The Mummy — Karl Freund — 1932 — 73 min
35mm from Universal
Pre-screening introduction by DePaul University faculty
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Dinner Parties of the Idle Rich
L’avventura — Michelangelo Antonioni — 1960 — 145 min
35mm from Janus Films
10:00 PM
Doc Films : The Films of Miloš Forman
Taking Off — Miloš Forman — 1971 — 93 min
35mm from Universal
Mon 10/29
Tues 10/30
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center : The Western
The Man With the Iron Fists — RZA — 2012 — 95 min
35mm
Preceded by a lecture and followed by a discussion with professor Jon Cates
7:00 PM
Doc Films : The Films of Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai
The Mission — Johnnie To — 1999 — 89 min
35mm
8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow cast (Midnight Madness)
9:30 PM
Doc Films : Special Event
Let the Right One In — Tomas Alfredson — 2008 — 115 min
35mm
Wed 10/31
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Night of the Demon — Jacques Tourneur — 1957 — 95 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Preceded by “1950s Horror Trailer Reel”
11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow cast (Midnight Madness)
Thur 11/1
7:00 PM
Doc Films : Female Sexuality and the Male Gaze
Belle de Jour — Luis Buñuel — 1967 — 106 min
35mm
9:30 PM
Doc Films : Enter the Labyrinth
Inferno — Dario Argento — 1980 — 120 min
35mm