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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 – Cinema Reinvented: Four Films by Andy Warhol
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)
[further reading]
October 20 – January 26
running continuously during museum hours
The Art Institute of Chicago – Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
Elvis at Ferus — 1963 — 4 min
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 10/25
6:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Fringe Benefits
Cat People — Paul Schrader — 1982 — 118 min
35mm from Universal
7:00 PM
Doc Films: From the Pen of Tonino Guerra
Zabriskie Point — Michelangelo Antonioni — 1970 — 113 min
35mm
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm from 20th Century Fox
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
Saturday 10/26
11:00 AM
Music Box Theatre: Silent Cinema (co-presented by Chicago Film Society)
The Sideshow — Erle C. Kenton — 1928 — 67 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Preceded by: “Felix the Cat Trumps the Ace” (Otto Mesmer, 1926) – 8 min – 16mm
Live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
4:00 PM
Logan Center for the Arts: A Celebration of Tom Gunning
Wait – Ernie Gehr – 1968 – 7 mins – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
Razzle Dazzle – Jodie Mack – 2014 – 7 min – 16mm from the filmmaker
Part of a longer shorts program
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
Sunday 10/27
1:30 PM
Doc Films: From the Pen of Tonino Guerra
Zabriskie Point — Michelangelo Antonioni — 1970 — 113 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mirror — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1975 — 105 min
35mm
Monday 10/28
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Programmer Picks
The Sixth Sense — M. Night Shyamalan — 1999 — 107 min
35mm
Tuesday 10/29
Wednesday 10/30
7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Doc Films: A Preston Sturges Retrospective
The Lady Eve — Preston Sturges — 1941 — 94 min
35mm from Universal
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Ghost Catchers — Edward F. Cline — 1944 — 68 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: Andy Clyde in “Spook to Me” (Harry Edwards, 1945) – 17 min – 35mm
10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm from 20th Century Fox
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
Thursday 10/31
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Perspectives on Horror
I Walked With a Zombie — Jacques Tourneur — 1943 — 69 min — 35mm from the Library of Congress
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Hollywood Pop Music Soundtrack
Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson — 1997 — 155 min
35mm
8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Fringe Benefits
Cat People — Paul Schrader — 1982 — 118 min
35mm from Universal
10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm from 20th Century Fox
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
10:00 PM
Doc Films: The Evolution of the Vampire Movie
From Dusk til Dawn — Robert Rodriguez — 1996 — 108 min
35mm