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JANUARY 2023

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Sunday 1/1

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
The Apartment – Billy Wilder – 1960 – 125 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 1/3

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: January Giallo
All the Colors of the Dark – Sergio Martino – 1972 – 95 min
35mm from UNCSA

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Thursday 1/5

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Black Women Behind the Lens:
Editing Exercises – Hortense Beveridge – 1955 – 3 min
16mm from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Guest – Pearl Bowser – 1977 – 5 min
16mm from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Screening as part of a longer shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow up my Video
The Blair Witch Project – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez – 1999 – 81 min
35mm

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Friday 1/6

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman – 2008 – 123 min
35mm

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Saturday 1/7

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ninotchka – Ernst Lubitsch – 1939 – 110 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 1/8

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ninotchka – Ernst Lubitsch – 1939 – 110 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Facing Life, Meeting Death
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa – 1952 – 143 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Monday 1/9

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Barbara Stanwyck
Ladies of Leisure – Frank Capra – 1930 – 99 min
35mm

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Thursday 1/12

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Tribute Paid to Womanist Mentors and Other Artists I :
Four Women – Julie Dash – 1975 – 16mm from UCLA
Screening as part of a longer shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow up my Video
Bamboozled – Spike Lee – 2000 – 135 min
35mm

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Friday 1/13

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1999 – 183 min
35mm
Screening digitally

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Saturday 1/14

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ball of Fire – Howard Hawks – 1941 – 111 min
35mm from Park Circus

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Jack Sholder – 1985 – 35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 1/15

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ball of Fire – Howard Hawks – 1941 – 111 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 1/18

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – F.W Murnau – 1927 – 95 min
35mm from Criterion Pictures, USA

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Thursday 1/19

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow up my Video
Forest for the Trees – Maren Ade – 2003 – 81 min
35mm

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Friday 1/20

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Love Liza – Todd Louiso – 2002 – 90 min
35mm

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Saturday 1/21

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder – 1944 – 107 min
35mm from Universal

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 1/22

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder – 1944 – 107 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 1/23

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Faster Pussycat! Kill, Kill! – Russ Meyer – 1965 – 83 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963 ) – 28 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Barbara Stanwyck
Baby Face – Alfred E. Green – 1933 – 76 min
35mm

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Tuesday 1/24

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: January Giallo
Tightrope – Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood – 1984 – 114 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Thursday 1/26

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
A Sense of Place
A Minor Altercation – Jackie Shearer – 1977 – 30 min
16mm from the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the NYPL
Part of a longer shorts program

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Friday 1/27

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Araya – Margot Benacerraf – 1959 – 90 min
35mm from Milestone Films

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
They Live – John Carpenter – 1988 – 93 min
35mm from Universal

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Saturday 1/28

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder – 1950 – 110 min
35mm from Paramount

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
They Live – John Carpenter – 1988 – 93 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 1/29

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder – 1950 – 110 min
35mm from Paramount

4:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2021 – 136 min
35mm from Neon

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Bye Jean!
The Great Dictator – Charlie Chaplin – 1940 – 125 min
35mm

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Monday 1/30

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas – King Vidor – 1937 – 106 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

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Tuesday 1/31

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: January Giallo
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin – Lucio Fulci – 1971 – 104 min
Imported 35mm print
presented with digital soft-titles

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February 2023

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Wednesday 2/1

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Weekend – Jean-Luc Godard – 1967 – 104 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: “Faces in Crashes”  (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 1982) – 10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 2/2

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Local Hero – Bill Forsyth – 1983 – 111 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Adaptation and Beyond
The Diary of an African Nun – Julie Dash – 1977 – 13 min
16mm from UCLA Film and Television Archive
Othello – Liz Shearer White – 1966 – 115 min
16mm from NYPL Reserve Film and Video Collection

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Friday 2/3

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder – 1951 – 111 min
35mm from Paramount

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Scent of a Woman – Martin Brest – 1992 – 157 min
35mm

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Saturday 2/4

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder – 1951 – 111 min
35mm from Paramount

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Saturday 2/5

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder – 1951 – 111 min
35mm from Paramount

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Death Takes a Holiday – Mitchell Leisen – 1934 – 79 min
35mm

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Monday 2/6

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Barbara Stanwyck
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers – Lewis Milestone – 1946 – 116 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

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Wednesday 2/8

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Forbidden Paradise – Ernst Lubitsch – 1924 – 80 min
35mm from MoMA
Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin

7:00 PM
Doc Films
La Bete Humaine – Jean Renoir – 1938 – 100 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow Up My Video
Boardinghouse – John Wintergate – 1982 – 88 min
35mm
re-scheduled screening from 2/2

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Thursday 2/9

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow Up My Video
Dancer in the Dark – Lars von Trier – 2000 – 140 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Expanded Practices:
Tiger and the Big Wind – Carol Munday Lawrence – 1972 – 8 min
Mudope and the Flood – Carol Munday Lawrence – 1975 – 5 min
Finding the Green Stone – Carol Munday Lawrence – 1980 5 min
all 16mm from Chicago Film Archives
Water Ritual #1 – Barbara McCullough – 1979 – 4 min
35mm from Third World Newsreel

Friday 2/10

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
The Savages – Tamara Jenkins – 2007 – 113 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Inner and Outer Space
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes – Roger Corman – 1963 – 83 min
35mm

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Saturday 2/11

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder – 1959 – 120 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 2/12

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder – 1959 – 120 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Monday 2/13

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Zabriskie Point – Michelangelo Antonioni – 1970 – 110 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance
(Les Blank, 1968) – 20 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Barbara Stanwyck
Sorry, Wrong Number – Anatole Litvak – 1948 – 89 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

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Thursday 2/16

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge
Tierra en Trance – Colectivo Los Ingrávidos – 2022 – 38 min
35mm
part of a longer shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow Up My Video
28 Days Later – Danny Boyle – 2002 – 113 min
35mm from Disney

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Friday 2/17

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson – 2012 – 137 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Room — Tommy Wiseau — 2003 — 99 min
35mm from Wiseau-Films

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Saturday 2/18

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
One, Two, Three – Billy Wilder – 1961 – 104 min
35mm from Park Circus

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 2/19

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
One, Two, Three – Billy Wilder – 1961 – 104 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Facing Life, Meeting Death
The Ballad of Narayama – Keisuke Kinoshita – 1958 – 98 min
35mm from the Japan Foundation

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Wednesday 2/22

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Black Cat — Edgar G. Ulmer — 1934 — 66 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “The Hypo-Chondri-Cat” (Chuck Jones, 1950) – 35mm

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Thursday 2/23

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Social Engagement:
Brick by Brick – Shirikiana Aina – 1982 – 36 min
16mm from UCLA
Your Children Come Back to You – Alile Sharon Larkin – 1979 – 27 min
16mm from UCLA
part of a longer shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow Up My Video
Jackass: The Movie – Jeff Tremaine – 2002 – 85 min
35mm

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Friday 2/24

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Philip Seymour Hoffman
25th Hour – Spike Lee – 2002 – 135 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Charlies Angels – McG – 2000 – 98 min
35mm from Sony
all vinyl preshow DJ set by Gaudy God

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Saturday 2/25

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes – Billy Wilder – 1970 – 125 min
35mm from Park Circus

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Charlies Angels – McG – 2000 – 98 min
35mm from Sony
all vinyl preshow DJ set by Gaudy God

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Sunday 2/26

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes – Billy Wilder – 1970 – 125 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 2/28

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Asian American Media
Terminal USA – Jon Moritsugu – 1994 – 54 min
16mm

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MARCH 2023

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Wednesday 3/1

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Jean Renoir
Swamp Water – Jean Renoir – 1941 – 88 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Horizons – Larry Gottheim – 1973 – 77 min
Fogline – Larry Gottheim – 1970 – 11 min
Both 16mm from the New York Public Library Reserve Film and Video Collection
post-film Q&A with filmmaker Larry Gottheim

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Thursday 3/2

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy – 1964 – 91 min
35mm
Preceded by: Giuseppina (James Hill, 1960) – 32 min – 16mm

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s
Interior Lives:
Cycles – Zeinabu Irene Davis – 1989 – 17 min
16mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Killing Time – Fronza Woods – 1979 – 9 min
16mm from the Academy Film Archive
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (By Kelly Gabron) – Cauleen Smith – 1992 – 6 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
part of a longer shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Blow Up My Video
Trash Humpers – Harmony Korine – 2009 – 78 min
35mm from Drag City

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Friday 3/3

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Philip Seymour Hoffman
A Most Wanted Man – Anton Corbijn – 2014 – 122 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Constellation
Short Threads with Larry Gottheim:
Barn Rushes – 1971
Harmonica – 1971
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses – 1986
The Red Thread – 1987
Approx run time 80 mins
all 16mm from the filmmaker

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Metropolis – Rintarô – 2001 – 108 min
35mm from Sony

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Saturday 3/4

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
The Virgin Suicides – Sofia Coppola – 1999 – 97 min
35mm from Paramount

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Irreversible – Gaspar Noé – 2002 – 97 min
NEW 35mm print from Altered Innocence

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Metropolis – Rintarô – 2001 – 108 min
35mm from Sony

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Sunday 3/5

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
The Virgin Suicides – Sofia Coppola – 1999 – 97 min
35mm from Paramount

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Monday 3/6

7:00 PM
Chicago FIlm Society at the Music Box Theatre
Tokyo Drifter – Seijun Suzuki – 1966 – 82 min
35mm from the Japan Foundation
Introduced by William Carroll, author of the new book
“Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema”

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Tuesday 3/7

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Return of the Living Dead – Dan O’Bannon – 1985 – 91 min
35mm from Park Circus
burlesque preshow presented by The Abhorrent Cinema

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Thursday 3/9

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Irreversible – Gaspar Noé – 2002 – 97 min
NEW 35mm print from Altered Innocence

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Friday 3/10

1:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger – 2022 – 148 min
35mm from Netflix

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Working, Weaving, Filming
Hand Eye Coordination – Naomi Uman – 2002 – 10 min
Leche – Naomi Uman – 1998 – 30 min
both 16mm
part of a longer shorts program

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
48 Hrs. – Walter Hill – 1982 – 96 min
35mm from Paramount

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Saturday 3/11

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola – 2003 – 102 min
35mm from Universal

6:20 PM
Music Box Theatre
All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger – 2022 – 148 min
35mm from Netflix

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
48 Hrs. – Walter Hill – 1982 – 96 min
35mm from Paramount

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Sunday 3/12

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola – 2003 – 102 min
35mm from Universal

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger – 2022 – 148 min
35mm from Netflix

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Monday 3/13

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Clean Plate Club
Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki – 2001 – 125 min
35mm from GKids
subtitled, not dubbed

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Tuesday 3/14

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Clean Plate Club
Eat Drink Man Woman – Ang Lee – 1994 – 124 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday 3/17

6:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
The Wizard of Oz – Victor Fleming – 1939 – 101 min
35mm from private collections

8:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
Bulworth – Warren Beatty – 1998 – 109 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Saturday 3/18

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
Somewhere – Sofia Coppola – 2010 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

3:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
Technicolor shorts program
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

5:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
Gunman’s Walk – Phil Karlson – 1958 – 98 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Peter R. Hunt – 1969 – 142 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 3/19

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
Somewhere – Sofia Coppola – 2010 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

3:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
Interlude – Douglas Sirk – 1957 – 90 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

5:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Technicolor Weekend
Artists and Models – Frank Tashlin – 1955 – 102 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Monday 3/20

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Scored by John Williams
Family Plot – Alfred Hitchcock – 1976 – 129 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 3/21

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Blues Brothers – John Landis – 1980 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 3/22

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Scored by John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg – 1977 – 138 min
35mm from Sony

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Friday 3/24

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola – 1972 – 175 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick – 1980 – 144 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 3/25

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
The Bling Ring – Sofia Coppola – 2013 – 90 min
35mm from A24

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Scored by John Williams
Superman: The Movie – Richard Donner – 1978 – 143 min
35mm from Park Circus

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick – 1980 – 144 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 3/26

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sofia Coppola Matinees
The Bling Ring – Sofia Coppola – 2013 – 90 min
35mm from A24

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola – 1972 – 175 min
35mm

5:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Rex Ingram – 1921 – 135 min
35mm from Park Circus
Live musical accompaniment by Maxx McGathey

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Scored by John Williams
Dracula – John Badham – 1979 – 109 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 3/31

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Clean Plate Club
Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory – Mel Stuart – 1971 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Thursday 3/30

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón – 2006 – 109 min
35mm

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Friday 3/31

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Queer in Color
Desert Fury – Lewis Allen – 1947 – 96 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949)
16mm from Canyon Cinema

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – F.W Murnau – 1927 – 95 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
White Chicks – Keenen Ivory Wayans – 2004 – 109 min
35mm from Sony

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April 2023

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Saturday 4/1

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: 3 x Carole Lombard
Twentieth Century – Howard Hawks – 1934 – 91 min
35mm from Sony

8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Night on Earth – Jim Jarmusch – 1991 – 129 min
35mm from Janus Films

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
White Chicks – Keenen Ivory Wayans – 2004 – 109 min
35mm from Sony

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Sunday 4/2

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: 3 x Carole Lombard
Twentieth Century – Howard Hawks – 1934 – 91 min
35mm from Sony

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet – 1975 – 125 min
35mm from Park Circus

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Photographers Turned Filmmakers
Fear and Desire – Stanley Kubrick – 1951 – 72 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: Day of the Fight (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) – 16min
35mm from the Library of Congress

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Monday 4/3

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick – 1964 – 95 min
35mm from Sony

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Wednesday 4/5

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Night on Earth – Jim Jarmusch – 1991 – 129 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Thing – John Carpenter – 1982 – 109 min
35mm from Universal
Presented by the Abhorrent Cinema

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
25th Hour – Spike Lee – 2002 – 135 min
35mm

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Thursday 4/6

6:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro – 2006 – 119 min
35mm from Swank

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet – 1975 – 125 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday, 4/7

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer – 1998 – 80 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen – 1953 – 115 min
35mm from Swank

7:00 PM
Films Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Aliens – James Cameron – 1986 – 137 min
35mm
Preceded by 35mm trailers from Enjoy the Film

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Tomorrow’s Promises: The Restored Films of Edward Owens
Autre Fois J’ai Aimé Une Femme – 1966 – 24 min
Tommorrow’s Promises – 1967 – 42 min
Remembrance: A Portrait Study – 1967 – 6 min
Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts – 1968-70 – 9 min
Newly Restored 16mm prints

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Room — Tommy Wiseau — 2003 — 99 min
35mm from Wiseau-Films

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Saturday 4/8

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
25th Hour – Spike Lee – 2002 – 135 min
35mm

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
My Dinner with Andre – Louis Malle – 1981 – 110 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer – 1998 – 80 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 4/9

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick – 1964 – 95 min
35mm from Sony

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen – 1953 – 115 min
35mm from Swank

4:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: All in a Day’s Work
My Dinner with Andre – Louis Malle – 1981 – 110 min
35mm

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Tuesday 4/11

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
High Fidelity – Stephen Frears – 2000 – 113 min
35mm from Disney
Presented by Second City Film School

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Thursday 4/13

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Urania and the Asclepiades:
A Magic Lantern performance by Artemis Willis

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu – 2010 – 148 min
35mm from Swank

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Flight – Robert Zemeckis – 2012 – 138 min
35mm from Paramount

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Death Becomes Her – Robert Zemeckis – 1992 – 104 min
35mm from Universal

10:00 PM
Doc Films: David Cronenberg Retrospective
The Dead Zone – David Cronenberg – 1983 – 103 min
35mm from Swank
Now screening on DCP

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Friday 4/14

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
What Lies Beneath – Robert Zemeckis – 2000 – 130 min
35mm from Paramount

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Used Cars – Robert Zemeckis – 1980 – 113 min
35mm from Sony

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Mana Contemporary
Open House – Lyra Hill
35mm slide projection, overhead projection

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Romancing the Stone – Robert Zemeckis – 1984 – 106 min
35mm from Disney

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Beowulf – Robert Zemeckis – 2007 – 114 min
35mm from Paramount

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** Field Trip **

Saturday 4/15 at 3:00 PM
UW Cinematheque (Madison, Wisconsin): Wisconsin Film Festival
Dunston Checks In – Ken Kwapis – 1996 – 88 min
35mm
Ken Kwapis in person!

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Saturday 4/15

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
The Polar Express – Robert Zemeckis – 2004 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Kentucky Pride – John Ford – 1925 – 78 min
35mm from the Museum of Modern Art
Live musical accompaniment by Jay Warren

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
The Frighteners – Peter Jackson – 1996 – 110 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 4/16

11:15 AM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Romancing the Stone – Robert Zemeckis – 1984 – 106 min
35mm from Disney

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis – 1985 – 116 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro – 2006 – 119 min
35mm

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future II – Robert Zemeckis – 1989 – 108 min
35mm from Universal

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future III – Robert Zemeckis – 1990 – 118 min
35mm from Universal

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
What Lies Beneath – Robert Zemeckis – 2000 – 130 min
35mm from Paramount

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Monday 4/17

6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Contact – Robert Zemeckis – 1997 – 150 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 4/18

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Death Becomes Her – Robert Zemeckis – 1992 – 104 min
35mm from Universal

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – Robert Zemeckis – 1978 – 98 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 4/19

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump – Robert Zemeckis – 1994 – 142 min
35mm from Paramount

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Working Girls – Lizzie Borden – 1986 – 93 min
35mm from private collections
Preceded by: Trailer for “Working Girl” (Mike Nichols, 1988) – 35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Used Cars – Robert Zemeckis – 1980 – 113 min
35mm from Sony

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Thursday 4/20

9:30 PM
Doc Films
The Fly – David Cronenberg – 1986 – 96 min
35mm from Criterion Pictures, USA

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Saturday 4/22

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Carole Lombard x 3
My Man Godfrey – Gregory La Cava – 1936 – 94 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 4/23

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Carole Lombard x 3
My Man Godfrey – Gregory La Cava – 1936 – 94 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 4/24

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Runaway Train – Andrei Konchalovsky – 1985 – 112 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Andy Clyde in “Spook to Me” (Harry Edwards, 1945) – 17 min – 35mm

6:00 PM
Block Cinema
Tropical Malady – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2004 – 118 min
35mm
filmmaker in person

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Tuesday 4/25

6:00 PM
Block Cinema
The Anthem – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2006 – 5 min
35mm from LUX
filmmaker in person, part of a longer shorts program

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Wednesday 4/26

8:00 PM
Comfort Station
The Hart of London – Jack and Olga Chambers – 1970 – 80 min
16mm

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Thursday 4/27

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: CATE
Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2021 – 136 min
35mm from Neon
filmmaker in person

8:00 PM
Agitator Gallery: Night School
Short films by Kioto Aoki
16mm

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Friday 4/28

6:30 PM
Block Cinema
Syndromes and a Century – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2006 – 105 min
35mm
filmmaker in person

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Cause/Effect: An Assortment of Shorts
Colour Flight – Len Lye – 1938
16mm from Light Cone
Take Off – Gunvor Nelson – 1972
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Part of a multi-format shorts program

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MAY 2023

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Monday 5/1

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Friends with Money – Nicole Holofcenter – 2006 – 88 min
35mm

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Tuesday 5/2

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Safe – Todd Haynes – 1995 – 119 min
35mm from Sony

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
Clueless – Amy Heckerling – 1995 – 97 min
35mm from Paramount
Screens first as part of a double feature with Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986) – DCP

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Wednesday 5/3

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Enough Said – Nicole Holofcenter – 2013 – 93 min
35mm

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Thursday 5/4

6:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Amores Perros – Alejandro González Iñárritu – 2000 – 153 min
35mm from Swank

9:30 PM
Doc Films
Naked Lunch – David Cronenberg – 1991 – 115 min
35mm

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Friday 5/5

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Chicago Critics Film Festival
Dark City – Alex Proyas – 1998 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 5/7

4:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Amores Perros – Alejandro González Iñárritu – 2000 – 153 min
35mm from Swank

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Monday 5/8

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Chicago Critics Film Festival
The Right Stuff – Phillip Kaufman – 1983 – 193 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Thursday 5/11

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Three Amigos of Cinema
Y Tu Mamá También – Alfonso Cuarón – 2001 – 106 min
35mm from IFC

9:30 PM
Doc Films
Spider – David Cronenberg – 2002 – 98 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Classics

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Friday 5/12

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Adwa: An African Story – Haile Gerima – 1999 – 96 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles – 1941 – 119 min
35mm from Swank

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Sunday 5/14

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles – 1941 – 119 min
35mm from Swank

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Monday 5/15

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Eating Raoul – Paul Bartel – 1982 – 90 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
Preceded by: Kathleen Trailer (for Underground Cinema 12)” and “Weiners and Buns Musical” (Curt McDowell, 1972) – 16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Wednesday 5/17

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Delphine Seyrig
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia – Ulrike Ottinger – 1989 – 165 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

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Thursday 5/18

9:30 PM
Doc Films
A History of Violence – David Cronenberg – 2005 – 96 min
35mm from Swank

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Friday 5/19

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
35mm from Universal

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 5/21

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Sight and Sound
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 5/22

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Wayne’s World – Penelope Spheeris – 1992 – 94 min
35mm from Paramount

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Wednesday 5/24

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Man’s Castle — Frank Borzage – 1933 – 66 min
35mm from Sony
Preceded by: “Paying the Piper” (1936) – 1 min
“Variety Show at Peoria’s Palace Theatre” (Irvine Pepper Siegel, 1934) – 10 min
both 35mm from the Chicago Film Archives

8:00 PM
The Comfort Station
Impressions and Ruminations
Films by Edgar Jorge Baralt & Christina C Nguyen
Mixed media, digital and 16mm

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Friday 5/26

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Coyote Ugly – David McNally – 2000 – 107 min
35mm from Disney
preshow all-vinyl DJ set by Gaudy God

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Saturday 5/27

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Coyote Ugly – David McNally – 2000 – 107 min
35mm from Disney
preshow all-vinyl DJ set by Gaudy God

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Sunday 5/28

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Metal Movie Night
Conan the Barbarian – John Milius – 1982 – 129 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 5/31

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Cranes Are Flying – Mikhail Kalatozov – 1957 – 97 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: 1957 trailer reel ~10 min – 35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

8:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
Mr. Vampire II – Ricky Lau – 1986 – 91 min
+
Mr. Vampire III – Ricky Lau – 1987 – 94 min
both 35mm from AGFA

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JUNE 2023

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Thursday 6/1

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Sun-Ra – A Joyful Noise + 16mm shorts
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise – Robert Mugge – 1980 – 60 min
Spaceways – Edward English – 1968 – 18 min
The Forbidden Playground – Maxine Haleff – 1966 – 10 min
all 16mm

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Saturday 6/3

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
The Man Who Fell To Earth – Nicolas Roeg – 1976 – 138 min
35mm from Rialto

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Sunday 6/4

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
The Man Who Fell To Earth – Nicolas Roeg – 1976 – 138 min
35mm from Rialto

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Tuesday 6/6

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
The Mask – Chuck Russell – 1994 – 97 min
35mm from Park Circus
+
The Face of Another – Hiroshi Teshigahara – 1966 – 124 min
35mm from Janus films
double feature

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Wednesday 6/7

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Science on Screen
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa – 1952 – 143 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
How Green Was My Valley – John Ford – 1941 – 118 min
35mm from from Criterion Pictures, USA
Preceded by: Preceded by: “Busybody Bear” (Dick Lundy, 1952) – 7 min – 35mm

7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
House on Haunted Hill – William Castle – 1959 – 79 min
35mm from Park Circus
witness the return of EMERGO!

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Thursday 6/8

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
House on Haunted Hill – William Castle – 1959 – 79 min
35mm from Park Circus
witness the return of EMERGO!

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Friday 6/9

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Pitch Black – David Twohy – 2000 – 104 min
35mm from Universal

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Saturday 6/10

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
Crooklyn – Spike Lee –1994 – 115 min
35mm from Universal

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Science on Screen
The Magician – Ingmar Bergman – 1958 – 101 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Pitch Black – David Twohy – 2000 – 104 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 6/12

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Wild Things – John McNaughton – 1998 – 108 min
35mm from the filmmaker
Preceded by: “Pools” (Barbara Hammer, 1981) – 8 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
Director John McNaughton in person

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Tuesday 6/13

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Science on Screen
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa – 1952 – 143 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Wednesday 6/14

8:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Comfort Station
The Films of Maya Deren
Meshes of the Afternoon – 1943 – 14 min
At Land – 1944 – 15 min
A Study in Choreography for the Camera – 1945 – 3 min
Ritual in Transfigured Time – 1946 – 15 min
The Private Life of a Cat – 1946 – 22 min
The Very Eye of Night – 1959 – 15 min
all 16mm. The Private Life of a Cat was preserved by Anthology Film Archives

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Friday 6/16

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Moon Garden – Ryan Stevens Harris – 2022 – 93 min
35mm from Oscilloscope

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica – 1948 – 89 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson – 2001 – 110 min
35mm from Disney

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Killer Klowns from Outer Space – Stephen Chiodo – 1988 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 6/17

1:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
Paper Moon – Peter Bogdanovich – 1973 – 102 min
35mm

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Moon Garden – Ryan Stevens Harris – 2022 – 93 min
35mm from Oscilloscope

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson – 2012 – 94 min
35mm from Universal

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1986 – 149 min
35mm from Kino Lorber

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
Rushmore – Wes Anderson – 1998 – 93 min
35mm from Disney

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson – 2014 – 99 min
35mm from Disney

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 6/18

1:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson – 2012 – 94 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson – 2014 – 99 min
35mm from Disney

6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
Rushmore – Wes Anderson – 1998 – 93 min
35mm from Disney

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Monday 6/19

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Pour Don Carlos – Musidora, Jacques Lasseyne – 1921 – 80 min
35mm from the San Francisco Silent Film Society
Live musical accompaniment by Tatsu Aoki!

9:20 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
Rushmore – Wes Anderson – 1998 – 93 min
35mm from Disney

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Tuesday 6/20

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Lion King – Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff – 1994 – 88 min
35mm from Disney

9:20 PM
Music Box Theatre: 4 by Wes
The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson – 2001 – 110 min
35mm from Disney

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Wednesday 6/21

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Science on Screen
12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet – 1957 – 96 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Moon Garden – Ryan Stevens Harris – 2022 – 93 min
35mm from Oscilloscope

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Thursday 6/22

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Mosquito Coast – Peter Weir – 1986 – 117 min
35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Bound – Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski – 1996 – 108 min
35mm
preshow drag performances before the film

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** Ongoing Exhibit **

February 25 – July 24
The Art Institute of Chicago
Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For
35mm slide projection

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Friday 6/23

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Lion King – Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff – 1994 – 88 min
35mm from Disney

6:30 PM
Doc Films
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky – 1969 – 105 min
35mm from Swank

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
Paper Moon – Peter Bogdanovich – 1973 – 102 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Wicker Man – Neil LaBute – 2006 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 6/24

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
Planet of the Apes – Franklin J. Schaffner – 1968 – 112 min
35mm from Disney

12:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica – 1948 – 89 min
35mm

8:30 PM
Doc Films
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky – 1969 – 105 min
35mm from Swank

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Wicker Man – Neil LaBute – 2006 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 6/25

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
Planet of the Apes – Franklin J. Schaffner – 1968 – 112 min
35mm from Disney

5:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1986 – 149 min
35mm from Kino Lorber

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Wednesday 6/28

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Daddy Issues
The Mosquito Coast – Peter Weir – 1986 – 117 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Red River – Howard Hawks – 1948 – 133 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Howard Hawks trailer reel – ~10 min – 35mm from CFS Collections

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Friday 6/30

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Car Wash – Michael Schultz – 1976 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Mana Contemporary
“Safety Shapes” – Lyra Hill
Live performance, 35mm slides

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JULY 2023

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Saturday 7/1

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
Babe: Pig in the City – George Miller – 1998 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Car Wash – Michael Schultz – 1976 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 7/2

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Stranger in a Strange Land
Babe: Pig in the City – George Miller – 1998 – 97 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 7/3

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Lost in America – Albert Brooks – 1985 – 92 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 7/5

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi – 1953 – 97 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: 1953 Trailer Reel – 35mm

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Thursday 7/6

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Mars Attacks! – Tim Burton – 1996 – 106 min
35mm from Park Circus
preshow drag performances before the film

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Friday 7/7

4:00 PM
Doc Films
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 7/8

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Looney Tunes – Aprox. 2.5 hours of cartoons, including:

• The Foghorn Leghorn — Robert McKimson — 1948 — 7 min
• Bill Of Hare — Robert McKimson — 1962 — 7 min
• For Scent-imental Reasons — Chuck Jones — 1949 — 7 min
• Rabbit Fire — Chuck Jones — 1951 — 7 min
• Ali Baba Bunny — Chuck Jones — 1957 — 7 min
• Duck Amuck — Chuck Jones — 1953 — 7 min
• Wearing Of The Grin — Chuck Jones — 1951 — 7 min
• Ready, Set, Zoom! — Chuck Jones — 1955 — 7 min
• Little Boy Boo — Robert McKimson — 1954 — 7 min
• Greedy For Tweety — Friz Freleng — 1957 — 7 min
• Fastest With The Mostest — Chuck Jones — 1960 — 7 min
• Whoa Be-Gone! — Chuck Jones — 1958 — 7 min
• Beanstalk Bunny — Chuck Jones — 1955 — 7 min
• The Bee-Deviled Bruin — Chuck Jones — 1949 — 7 min
• Kit For Kat — Friz Freleng — 1948 — 7 min
• Bugs Bunny Rides Again — Friz Freleng — 1948 — 7 min
• Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide — Friz Freleng — 1954 — 7 min
• Knights Must Fall — Friz Freleng — 1949 — 7 min
• Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century — Chuck Jones — 1953 — 7 min
• My Bunny Lies Over The Sea — Chuck Jones — 1948 — 7 min
• Bugsy And Mugsy — Friz Freleng — 1957 — 7 min
• Forward March Hare — Chuck Jones — 1952 — 7 min
• Hare Lift — Friz Freleng — 1952 — 7 min

All 35mm from Park Circus
This is a free screening

7:00 PM
Doc Films
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 7/9

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Looney Tunes – Aprox. 2.5 hours of cartoons, including:

• The Foghorn Leghorn — Robert McKimson — 1948 — 7 min
• Bill Of Hare — Robert McKimson — 1962 — 7 min
• For Scent-imental Reasons — Chuck Jones — 1949 — 7 min
• Rabbit Fire — Chuck Jones — 1951 — 7 min
• Ali Baba Bunny — Chuck Jones — 1957 — 7 min
• Duck Amuck — Chuck Jones — 1953 — 7 min
• Wearing Of The Grin — Chuck Jones — 1951 — 7 min
• Ready, Set, Zoom! — Chuck Jones — 1955 — 7 min
• Little Boy Boo — Robert McKimson — 1954 — 7 min
• Greedy For Tweety — Friz Freleng — 1957 — 7 min
• Fastest With The Mostest — Chuck Jones — 1960 — 7 min
• Whoa Be-Gone! — Chuck Jones — 1958 — 7 min
• Beanstalk Bunny — Chuck Jones — 1955 — 7 min
• The Bee-Deviled Bruin — Chuck Jones — 1949 — 7 min
• Kit For Kat — Friz Freleng — 1948 — 7 min
• Bugs Bunny Rides Again — Friz Freleng — 1948 — 7 min
• Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide — Friz Freleng — 1954 — 7 min
• Knights Must Fall — Friz Freleng — 1949 — 7 min
• Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century — Chuck Jones — 1953 — 7 min
• My Bunny Lies Over The Sea — Chuck Jones — 1948 — 7 min
• Bugsy And Mugsy — Friz Freleng — 1957 — 7 min
• Forward March Hare — Chuck Jones — 1952 — 7 min
• Hare Lift — Friz Freleng — 1952 — 7 min

All 35mm from Park Circus
This is a free screening

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Monday 7/10

6:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Turin Horse – Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky – 2011 – 146 min
35mm from Cinema Guild
Preceded by: “My Name is Oona” (Gunvor Nelson, 1969) – 10 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 7/11

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
Can’t Hardly Wait – Deborah Kaplan – 1998 – 95 min
35mm

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Thursday 7/13

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1997 – 155 min
70mm from Park Circus

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Friday 7/14

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hong Kong Summer
Rumble in the Bronx – Stanley Tong – 1995 – 97 min
35mm

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Inception – Christopher Nolan – 2010 – 162 min
70mm from Park Circus

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Nope – Jordan Peele – 2022 – 130 min
70mm from Universal

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Saturday 7/15

3:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Nope – Jordan Peele – 2022 – 130 min
70mm from Universal

6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1997 – 155 min
70mm from Park Circus

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hong Kong Summer
Rumble in the Bronx – Stanley Tong – 1995 – 97 min
35mm

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Inception – Christopher Nolan – 2010 – 162 min
70mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 7/16

1:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Babylon – Damien Chazelle – 2022 – 189 min
70mm from Park Circus

5:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Inception – Christopher Nolan – 2010 – 162 min
70mm from Park Circus

8:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1997 – 155 min
70mm from Park Circus

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Monday 7/17

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson – 1997 – 155 min
70mm from Park Circus

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Inception – Christopher Nolan – 2010 – 162 min
70mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 7/18

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Inception – Christopher Nolan – 2010 – 162 min
70mm from Park Circus

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Nope – Jordan Peele – 2022 – 130 min
70mm from Universal

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Wednesday 7/19

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Nope – Jordan Peele – 2022 – 130 min
70mm from Universal

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: New Adventures in 70mm
Babylon – Damien Chazelle – 2022 – 189 min
70mm from Park Circus

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Monsieur Verdoux – Charles Chaplin – 1947 – 124 min
35mm from the Film Desk
Preceded by: “Born to Peck” (Walter Lantz, 1952) – 7 min – 35mm

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Thursday 7/20

5:00 PM, 8:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

5:00 PM, 8:45 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

5:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
AMC River East
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Friday 7/21

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

11:15 AM, 3:15 PM, 7:15 PM, 11:15 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Meet Me in St Louis – Vincente Minnelli – 1944 – 113 min
35mm

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Saturday 7/22

11:00 AM, 3:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:15 AM, 3:15 PM, 7:15 PM, 11:15 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Meet Me in St Louis – Vincente Minnelli – 1944 – 113 min
35mm

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Sunday 7/23

10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

10:00 AM, 1:45 PM, 5:45 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Monday 7/24

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

12:30 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Tuesday 7/25

10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Wednesday 7/26

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

12:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 8:30 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Quince Tree Sun – Víctor Erice – 1992 – 136 min
35mm from Facets

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Thursday 7/27

12:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 8:30 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Friday 7/28

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

10:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:30 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

5:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

12:45 PM, 4:15 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films
The Flaming Forest – Reginald Barker – 1926 – 70 min
35mm from Library of Congress

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Play It As It Lays – Frank Perry – 1972 – 99 min
35mm

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Saturday 7/29

10:15 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

10:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:30 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

1:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Play It As It Lays – Frank Perry – 1972 – 99 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films
The Flaming Forest – Reginald Barker – 1926 – 70 min
35mm from Library of Congress

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Sunday 7/30

10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

10:00 AM, 1:45 PM, 5:45 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

1:30 PM, 5:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Monday 7/31

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:20 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

3:45 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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AUGUST 2023

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Tuesday 8/1

10:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:30 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

3:45 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hong Kong Summer
The Blade – Tsui Hark – 1990 – 100 min
35mm
Cancelled

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Wednesday 8/2

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

2:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 10:00 PM
Showplace Icon
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

10:30, 2:20 PM, 6:15 PM, 10:10 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

3:45 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Thursday 8/3

10:30, 2:20 PM, 6:15 PM, 10:10 PM
AMC: River East 21
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
The Logan Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
35mm from Universal

3:45 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – 180 min
70mm from Universal

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Friday 8/4

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Clash of the Wolves – Noel M. Smith – 1925 – 74 min
35mm from Library of Congress

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Saturday 8/5

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Clash of the Wolves – Noel M. Smith – 1925 – 74 min
35mm from Library of Congress

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Monday 8/7

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hong Kong Summer
The Blade – Tsui Hark – 1990 – 100 min
35mm

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Wednesday 8/9

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Losing Ground – Kathleen Collins – 1982 – 86 min
35mm from Film Studies Center Chicago
Preceded by: “Sade: Smooth Operator” (Julien Temple, 1984) – 4 min – 35mm

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Friday 8/11

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Within the Law – Frank Lloyd – 1923 – 65 min
35mm from Library of Congress

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino – 2019 – 160 min
35mm

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Saturday 8/12

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Missing – Costa-Gavras – 1982 – 122 min
35mm

4:00 PM
Doc Films
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino – 2019 – 160 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Within the Law – Frank Lloyd – 1923 – 65 min
35mm from Library of Congress

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Monday 8/14

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick – 1968 – 164 min
70mm from the Music Box Theatre
Note: This screening is for Music Box Members only

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Wednesday 8/16

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick – 1968 – 164 min
70mm from the Music Box Theatre
Note: This screening is for Music Box Members only

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Thursday 8/17

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick – 1968 – 164 min
70mm from the Music Box Theatre
Note: This screening is for Music Box Members only

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Wednesday 8/23

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Titanic – James Cameron – 1997 – 194 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: “Sailboat” (Joyce Wieland, 1967) – 3 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Friday 8/25

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Key Largo – John Huston – 1948 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 8/26

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Muriel’s Wedding – P.J Hogan – 1994 – 116 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
The Spiritualist – Bernard Vorhaus – 1948 – 78 min
35mm from Sony

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Road House – Jean Negulesco – 1948 – 95 min
35mm from Disney

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Sunday 8/27

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Muriel’s Wedding – P.J Hogan – 1994 – 116 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
He Walked By Night – Alfred L. Werker – 1948 – 79 min
35mm from Park Circus

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
The Velvet Touch – Jack Gage – 1948 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
The Big Clock – John Farrow – 1948 – 95 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 8/29

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Chicago Deadline – Lewis Allen – 1948 – 86 min
35mm from Universal

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Larceny – George Sherman – 1948 – 89 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 8/30

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Blood on the Moon – Robert Wise – 1948 – 88 min
35mm from BFI

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Moonrise – Frank Borzage – 1948 – 90 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Thursday 8/31

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Cry of the City – Robert Siodmak – 1948 – 95 min
35mm from Disney

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Raw Deal – Anthony Mann – 1948 – 79 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

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SEPTEMBER 2023

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Friday, 9/1

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Wild Style – Charlie Ahearn – 1983 – 82 min
35mm from private collections
Director in person!

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Saturday 9/2

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Poetic Justice – John Singleton – 1993 – 109 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

7:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
The Last Temptation of Christ – Martin Scorsese – 1988 – 164 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 9/3

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Sabrina – Billy Wilder – 1954 – 113 min
35mm from Paramount

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
Promises…Promises! – King Donovan – 1963 – 90 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Beat Street – Stan Lathan – 1984 – 105 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Monday 9/4

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Sabrina – Billy Wilder – 1954 – 113 min
35mm from Paramount

8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Eight Mile – Curtis Hanson – 2002 – 111 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 9/5

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Archive and the Image
Rose Hobart – Joseph Cornell – 1936 – 19 min
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland – Bruce Conner – 1976 – 6 min
Valse Triste – Bruce Conner – 1977 – 5 min
Displaced Person – Daniel Eisenberg – 1981 – 10 min
all 16mm prints

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Age of Innocence – Martin Scorsese – 1993 – 133 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
presented and introduced by Open Books

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Wednesday 9/6

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Crime Wave – Andre de Toth – 1954 – 73 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “By Word of Mouse” (Friz Freleng, 1954) – 7 min – 35mm

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
Pink Flamingos – John Waters – 1972 – 93 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Thursday 9/7

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge
Sink or Swim – Su Friedrich – 1990 – 48 min
Rules of the Road – Su Friedrich – 1993 – 31 min
both on 16mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors presents
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – Tobe Hooper – 1986 – 101 min
35mm from Park Circus
Caroline Williams in person!

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Friday 9/8

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
Promises…Promises! – King Donovan – 1963 – 90 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Spring Breakers – Harmony Korine – 2012 – 94 min
35mm from A24

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Saturday 9/9

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Witness for the Prosecution – Billy Wilder – 1957 – 116 min
35mm from Park Circus

3:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
The Last Temptation of Christ – Martin Scorsese – 1988 – 164 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
Pink Flamingos – John Waters – 1972 – 93 min
35mm from Park Circus

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Spring Breakers – Harmony Korine – 2012 – 94 min
35mm from A24

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Sunday 9/10

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Witness for the Prosecution – Billy Wilder – 1957 – 116 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Monday 9/11

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Belly – Hype Williams – 1998 – 98 min
35mm from Lionsgate
Introduced by MC Ang13

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Contra/Banned
Flaming Creatures – Jack Smith – 1963 – 43 min
16mm

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Tuesday 9/12

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Body and Soul – Oscar Micheaux – 1925 – 93 min
35mm from the George Eastman Museum
Preceded by: “Something Good – Negro Kiss” (1898) – 29 sec – 35mm
live accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb, Jr. Trio

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Wednesday 9/13

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Set It Off – F. Gary Gray – 1996 – 123 min
35mm from Park Circus
Introduced by Ayana Contreras

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Thursday 9/14

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge
Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts: Interior Lives
Dreams of Passion – Aarin Burch – 1989 – 4 min
Spin Cycle – Aarin Burch – 1991 – 6 min
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (By Kelly Gabron) – Cauleen Smith – 1992 – 6 min
Fannie’s Film – Fronza Woods – 1981 – 15 min
all 16mm prints

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Legally Blonde – Robert Luketic – 2001 – 96 min
35mm from Park Circus
hosted by Ramona Slick

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Friday 9/15

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sojourner Truth Festival
Losing Ground – Kathleen Collins – 1982 – 86 min
35mm from the Film Studies Center Chicago

5:00 PM
Chicago Underground Film Festival at the Harper Theater
Relict: A Phantasmagoria (2020/2023) & [Six Years]
[Six Years] – Paige Sarlin – 2023 – 30 min
16mm

7:00 PM
Chicago Underground Film Festival at the Harper Theater
Echoes of Nature
With The Tide, with the tide – Anna Kipervaser – 2022 – 3 min
Weaken the Water – Josh Mabe – 2022 – 10 min
This is How I Felt – Josh Weissbach – 2022 – 1 min
Music in the Air – Scott Stark – 2022 – 15 min
all 16mm. Part of a longer shorts program

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
New Jack City – Mario Van Peebles – 1991 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 9/16

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
New Jack City – Mario Van Peebles – 1991 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 9/30

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Midnight – Mitchell Leisen – 1939 – 94 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
Friday – F. Gary Gray – 1995 – 91 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 9/20

8:00 PM
Comfort Station: My Neighborhood – Chicago Films From The Center Cinema Co-Op
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum – John Guzaitis and Tom Deegan – 5 min
Carousel – Louie Grenier – 4 min
My Neighborhood – Kurt Hyl – 11 min
American Myth – Priscilla Humay – 9 min
Castaway – Charles Lyman and David Szabo – 9 min
Song – Ron Taylor – 4 min
Study in Leaders: Towards the 70s – Gerald Swatez and Kaye Miller – 4 min
Minions – John Heinz – 4 min
all 16mm

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Thursday 9/21

8:00 PM
Celluloid Now at Constellation
Film Party Part 1
Moon Cycle (I: bran stakhage’s moonlight; II: mercury retrograde) – Justine Lai – 2023
It Was A Good Day – Christopher Carver – 2022
With The Tide, with the tide – Anna Kipervaser – 2022
Frame of Mind – Kevin Roy – 2022
Mobile Phone Studies Nos. 1-25 – Barron Sherer – 2020
Skip Jumbo – Jorge Ravelo – 2016
A Picture for Parco – Ayanna Dozier – 2022
lovertits – Ayanna Dozier – 2022
An Exercise in Parting – Ayanna Dozier – 2022
Plastic Blag – Judith Wardwell – 1970
GUN – Mary Billyou – 2016
HAT – Mary Billyou – 2016
¡PíFIES! – Ignacio Tamarit – 2016
Pump – Charles Cadkin – 2022
All 16mm!

Film Party Part 2
A word from our sponsors…
Breastfeeding
One Roll in the Blackness – Chris Kennedy – 2011
Centre of the Cyclone – Heather Trawick – 2015
Ray’s Birds – Deborah Stratman – 2010
ascensions – arc – 2017-2020
Dude Asending a Staircase – Michael Walsh
The Bats – Jim Trainor – 1999
All 16mm!

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Friday 9/22

7:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Celluloid Now: Program 2 – 35mm: Only in Theaters
Ruptures in the Reel (2022, Peter Miller, 13 min.)
In Littleness (2022, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, 8 min.)
Color Me (2022, Robert C. Banks, 9 min.)
Going Out (2015, Ted Fendt, 8 min.)
Engram of Returning (2015, Daïchi Saïto, 19 min.)
[Part 2]
Transcript (2019, Erica Sheu, 3 min.)
The Orange Velvet Dream House (2022, Nolan Barry, 18 min.)*
*This print was commissioned by CFS expressly for Celluloid Now.
III. (2022, Alexandre Larose, 13 min.)
Digital Devil Saga (2023, Cameron Worden, 11 min.)
all 35mm

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero – 1968 – 96 min
35mm from Janus Films

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Saturday 9/23

Noon
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theater)
Celluloid Now: Program 3 – Light Signals
The Maltese Cross Movement (1967, Keewatin Dewdney, 8 min.)
For Bucky Fuller (2019, Kioto Aoki, 3 min.)
Light Signal (2022, Emily Chao, 11 min.)
Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, Tomonari Nishikawa, 10 min.)
P L U M E (2022, Mike Rollo, 8 min.)
La Source de La Loire (2021, Rose Lowder, 19 min.)
all 16mm

1:30 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theater)
Celluloid Now: Program 4 – The Forest for the Trees
Extended Presences (2023, Margaux Dauby, 12 min.)
Only If You Could See a View Above the Clouds (2022, Zhuoyun (Yun) Chen, 4 min.)
Light’s Return (2021, Kathleen Rugh, 3 min.)
This Must Be the Wood (2017, Anna Hogg, 8 min.)
Witch’s Butter (2022, Miriam Campos-Quinn, 3 min.)
Next Her Heart (2023, Anna Kipervaser, 12 min.)
M*U*S*H (2022, Jodie Mack, 8 min.)
all 16mm

5:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Buddy)
Celluloid Now: Program 5 – Casual Cinema
Fluxus of things (2023, Tetsuya Maruyama, 3 min.)
that this is (2023, Blanca Garcia, 3 min.)
Fuego Rápido (2022, Jimmy Schaus, 3 min.)
Pinhole Camera (2016, Sandy McLennan, 3 min.)
A contemporary knightess (2023, Luciana Lopez Schütz, 7 min.)
all Super 8

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero – 1968 – 96 min
35mm from Janus Films

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 9/24

Noon
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theatre)
Celluloid Now: Program 6 – Looking at Sound: An Adventure in Optical Tracks
Arnulf Rainer (1960, Peter Kubelka, 7 min.)
Impromptu (1989, Rose Lowder, 8 min.)
Six Seventy-Two Variations (2021, Tomonari Nishikawa, approx. 30 min.)
all 16mm

3:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theatre)
Celluloid Now: Program 7 – Midday Revelations and Destinations
pài-la̍k ē-poo (saturday afternoon) (2020, Erica Sheu, 2 min.)
Babbler, Fairy and Thrush (2022, Karel Doing, 4 min.)
38 River Road (2016, Josh Weissbach, 7 min.)
Ultimate form #003 Garden Portraits (2020, Victoria Oliver Farner, 3 min.)
The Watershow Extravaganza (2016, Sophie Michael, 11 min.)
Transhumance (2023, Elodie Ferré,, 5 min.)
breathing (2023, arc, 11 min.)
Traction (2023, Jenny Baines, 3 min.)
oh my homeland (2019, Stephanie Barber, 4 min.)
all 16mm

5:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theatre)
Celluloid Now: Program 8 – Chicago Cinema 16
Reflections (1955, Madeline Tourtelot, 5 min.)
James R. Thompson Center (2018, Ellery Chalmers, 6 min.)*
*This print was commissioned by CFS expressly for Celluloid Now.
Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967, Edward Owens, 6 min.)
Jerry’s Deli (1974, Tom Palazzolo, 9 min.)
Ellen on the Rope (1978, Jean Sousa, 6 min.)
Dream Works (1981, Tatsu Aoki, 14 min.)
Bouquet (1988, Sharon Couzin, 20 min.)
The Scratchman (1980, Heather McAdams, 3 min.)
all 16mm

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Night of the Living Dead – George Romero – 1968 – 96 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Wednesday 9/27

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
Prison on Fire – Ringo Lam – 1987 – 98 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
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Rollerball – John McTiernan – 2002 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Ang Lee – 2000 – 120 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Beware of a Holy Whore – R.W. Fassbinder – 1970 – 104 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: German safety commercials – ~5 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Thursday 9/28

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Luminous Encounters: Expanded Cinema of Emily Chao and arc
No land – Emily Chao – 2019 – 1 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
(sans) (image) – arc – 2023 – 8 min – 16mm
ascensions –  arc – 2017-2020 – 8 min – 16mm
breathing – arc – 2020 – 11 min – 16mm
allieurs –  arc – 2023 – 2 min – 16mm
field – arc and Emily Chao – 2023 – 10 min – dual 16mm projector performance

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Friday 9/29

5:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 7:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theatre)
Three Films by Gautum Valluri
Midnight Orange – Gautam Valluri – 2018 – 11 min
Durbaar – Gautam Valluri – 2019 – 9 min
ul-Umra – Gautam Valluri – 2022 – 8 min
all 16mm from the filmmaker
Presented by the Chicago Film Society

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Safety Last – Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor – 1923 – 74 min
35mm
live piano accompaniment by David Drazin

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
That Night’s Wife – Yasujiro Ozu – 1930 – 65 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Amour Fou
Harold and Maude – Hal Ashby – 1971 – 91 min
35mm

8:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: One and Done
True Stories – David Byrne – 1986 – 89 min
35mm

10:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
River’s Edge – Tim Hunter – 1986 – 99 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Presented by Metal Movie Nights

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Saturday 9/30

4:30 PM
Doc Films
Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese – 1976 – 114 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Fresh Films
CB4 – Tamra Davis – 1993 – 89 min
35mm from Universal

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OCTOBER 2023

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Sunday 10/1

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Billy Wilder Matinees
Five Graves to Cairo – Billy Wilder – 1943 – 96 min
35mm from Universal

5:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: One and Done
The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton – 1955 – 92 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese – 1976 – 114 min
35mm

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Tuesday 10/3

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
The Mothman Prophecies – Mark Pellington – 2002 – 119 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Wednesday 10/4

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee – 2005 – 134 min
35mm

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Thursday 10/5

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: One and Done
The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton – 1955 – 92 min
35mm from Park Circus

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Near Dark – Kathryn Bigelow – 1987 – 94 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Depths of the Grindhouse
The Driller Killer – Abel Ferrera – 1979 – 96 min
35mm

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Friday 10/6

2:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge
Marble Ass – Zelimir Zilnik – 1995 – 87 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Five Films by Fred Camper
Joan Goes to Misery – Fred Camper – 1967 – 8 min
A Sense of the Past – Fred Camper – 1967 – 4 min
Dan Potter – Fred Camper – 1968 – 39 min
Welcome to Come – Fred Camper – 1968 – 3 min
Bathroom – Fred Camper – 1969 – 25 min
16mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Saturday 10/7

2:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

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Sunday 10/8

Noon
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee – 2005 – 134 min
35mm

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

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Monday 10/9

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Angel Heart – Alan Parker – 1987 – 113 min
35mm from the Chicago Cinema Society

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Tuesday 10/10

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Persistence – Daniel Eisenberg – 1997 – 86 min
16mm

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Wednesday 10/11

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee – 1995 – 135 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Border Radio – Allison Anders – 1987 – 87 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: ’80s Indie trailer reel – ~10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 10/12

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Winter Kills – William Richert – 1979 – 97 min
35mm from Rialto

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: One and Done
True Stories – David Byrne – 1986 – 89 min
35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Bride of Chucky – Ronny Yu – 1998 – 89 min
35mm from Universal

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*Installation*
September 22 – October 19
Buddy at the Chicago Cultural Center (1st floor)
To Discipline a Rock – Jiayi Chen
looping 16mm

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Saturday, 10/14

11:00 AM
Music Box Theatre
Summer Stock – Charles Walters – 1950 – 109 min
35mm from Park Circus

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Aliens – James Cameron – 1986 – 137 min
35mm from private collections

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Monday 10/16

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
I Was Born But… – Yasujiro Ozu – 1932 – 90 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: “Doll Messengers of Friendship” (1927) – 9 min – 35mm from CFS
Live musical accompaniment by MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble

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Tuesday 10/17

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Through the Looking Glass – Jonas Middleton – 1976 – 91 min
35mm from American Genre Film Archive

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Wednesday 10/18

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Thirst – Park Chan-Wook – 2009 – 134 min
35mm from Universal

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Thursday 10/19

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Swimming Pool – François Ozon – 2003 – 102 min
35mm

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Friday 10/20

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Death Camp Sachsenhausen – Richard Brandt – 1947 – 37 min
35mm from Bundesarchiv

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
You’re Next – Adam Wingard – 2011 – 95 min
35mm from Lionsgate

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Saturday 10/21

Saturday at noon to Sunday at noon
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors 24-Hour Marathon
Burnt Offerings – Dan Curtis – 1976 – 116 min
35mm from private collections
The Convent – Mike Mendez – 2000 – 79 min
35mm from Multicom Entertainment
REC – Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero – 2007 – 78 min
35mm
Candyman – Bernard Rose – 1992 – 99 min
35mm from Universal
Demon Witch Child – Amando de Ossorio – 1975 – 90 min
35mm from American Genre Film Archive
Piranha II: The Spawning – James Cameron – 1981 – 94 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
Child’s Play 3 – Jack Bender – 1991 – 90 min
35mm from Universal
Frailty – Bill Paxton – 2001 – 100 min
35mm from Lionsgate
Casper – Brad Silberling – 1995 – 100 min
35mm from Universal
plus 35mm and 16mm trailers and cartoons!
additional films screening digitally

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Sunday 10/22

6:30 PM
Doc Films
Los Olvidados – Luis Bunuel – 1950 – 76 min
35mm

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
The Vampire Lovers – Roy Ward Baker – 1970 – 91 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Monday 10/23

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Proto-Noir
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang – Mervyn LeRoy – 1932 – 92 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Ravenous – Antonia Bird – 1999 – 101 min
35mm from Disney

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Tuesday 10/24

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Doctor X – Michael Curtiz – 1932 – 76 min
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Mystery of the Wax Museum – Michael Curtiz – 1933 – 77 min
both 35mm from the UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Wednesday 10/25

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
The Ice Storm – Ang Lee – 1996 – 112 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Anaconda – Luis Llosa – 1997 – 89 min
35mm from Sony Repertory
screens with Killer Crocodile (digital)

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Thursday 10/26

7:00 PM
Doc Films: In the Club
Irreversible – Gaspar Noe – 2002 – 97 min
35mm from Altered Innocence

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Friday 10/27

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Saturday 10/28

11 AM – 3 PM
Home Movie Day at the Chicago History Museum
You bring the films (16mm, 8mm and/or Super 8mm), and archivists and projectionists will inspect them, project them, and offer tips on storage, preservation, and digitization – all free of charge.
presented by Chicago Film Archives and Chicago Film Society

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Diabolique – Henri-Georges Clouzot – 1955 – 117 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts

4:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
The Ice Storm – Ang Lee – 1997 – 112 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Monday 10/30

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Proto-noir
Heat Lightning – Mervyn LeRoy – 1934 – 63 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Tuesday 10/31

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Bride of Music Box of Horrors
Ginger Snaps – John Fawcett – 2000 – 108 min
35mm from private collections

7:00 PM
Doc Films: False Preachers
Buck and the Preacher – Sidney Poitier – 1972 – 102 min
35mm
Format change to DCP

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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NOVEMBER 2023

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Wednesday 11/1

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Lust, Caution – Ang Lee – 2007 – 158 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Sergei Parajanov – 1965 – 97 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
Preceded by: “The Roaring Road” (1964) – 10 min – 35mm

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Friday 11/3

1:30 PM, 4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Variations: Projector Performances by Madison Brookshire & Tomonari Nishikawa
Double or Nothing – Madison Brookshire – 2022 – 25 min
No. 1, 2022 – Madison Brookshire – 2022 – 12 min
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles) – Tomonari Nishikawa – 2023 ~30 min
All 16mm

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Saturday 11/4

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Cooley High – Michael Schultz – 1975 – 107 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:00 PM, 4:45 PM, 7:30 PM, 10:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 11/5

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Cooley High – Michael Schultz – 1975 – 107 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:00 PM, 5:15 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 11/6

3:45 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Bright Shawl – John S. Robertson – 1923 – 80 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Preceded by: [Cuba (Trip to the Caribbean 1941 – Reel 3)] – 10 min – 16mm
live piano accompaniment by David Drazin

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Proto-noir
Sabotage – Alfred Hitchcock – 1936 – 76 min
35mm

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Tuesday 11/7

4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Something More Than Night – Daniel Eisenberg – 2003 – 73 min
16mm

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Wednesday 11/8

4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Thursday 11/9

4:00 PM, 6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Doc Films: In the Club
Strange Days – Kathryn Bigelow – 1995 – 145 min
35mm

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Friday 11/10

12:30 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Gun Crazy – Joseph H. Lewis – 1950 – 87 min
35mm

8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Black Harvest Film Festival
Shaft – John Singleton – 2000 – 99 min
35mm

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Saturday 11/11

11:00 AM, 1:45 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:50 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Gun Crazy – Joseph H. Lewis – 1950 – 87 min
35mm

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Sunday 11/12

12:15 PM, 6:15 PM, 9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

3:00 PM
Doc Films: In the Club
Strange Days – Kathryn Bigelow – 1995 – 145 min
35mm

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Monday 11/13

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 11/14

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 11/15

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Plot Against Harry – Michael Roemer – 1969 – 81 min
35mm from The Film Desk
Preceded by: ”Goldman v. Silverman” (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2020) – 6 min – 35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Thursday 11/16

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Friday, 11/17

12:15 PM, 3:00 PM, 6:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

9:00 PM, 11:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Room — Tommy Wiseau — 2003 — 99 min
35mm from Wiseau-Films

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Saturday 11/18

11:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 5:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

12:30 PM
Block Cinema: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
No. 11, Mirror Animations – Harry Smith – 1956 – 4 min
16mm from Anthology Film Archives
The Wizard of Speed and Time – Mike Jittlov – 1979 – 3 min
16mm from the Academy Film Archive
Impasse – Caroline and Frank Mouris – 1978 – 10 min
16mm from the Yale Film Archive
screening as part of a longer digital shorts program

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Sunday 11/19

11:00 AM, 2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 11/20

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 11/21

4:15 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 11/22

4:15 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Paths of Glory – Stanley Kubrick – 1957 – 88 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Kirk Douglas trailer reel – 10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 11/23

4:30 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Holdovers – Alexander Payne – 2023 – 133 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 11/26

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: The Front Row Presents
35mm trailer reel
Precedes a DCP screening of ‘Anyone But My Husband’

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Monday 11/27

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Proto-noir
Piccadilly – E.A. Dupont – 1929 – 109 min
35mm

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Tuesday 11/28

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
Practical Magic – Griffin Dunne – 1998 – 104 min
35mm from Park Circus
Screening as part of a double feature with Vampyros Lesbos (digital)

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Wednesday 11/29

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Ang Lee
Hulk – Ang Lee – 2003 – 138 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The New World – Terrence Malick – 2005 – 150 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Terrence Malick trailer reel – 8 min – 35mm

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Thursday 11/30

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton – 1955 – 92 min
35mm from Park Circus
Introduced by Foster Hirsch

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Bad Day at Black Rock – John Sturges – 1955 – 81 min
35mm from Park Circus
Introduced by Foster Hirsch

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DECEMBER 2023

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Friday 12/1

10:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Metal Movie Night
Silent Night, Deadly Night – Charles E. Seiler, Jr. – 1984 – 82 min
35mm from UNCSA

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Saturday 12/2

2:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Stan Brakhage: Imagination and Perception
16mm and 35mm, details TBA

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick – 1987 – 116 min
35mm

7:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Sounds of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – Nagisa Ōshima – 1983 – 123 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 12/3

3:00 PM
Doc Films
Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick – 1987 – 116 min
35mm

6:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Exorcist – William Friedkin – 1973 –122 min
35mm from private collections

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Monday 12/4

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Sounds of Ryuichi Sakamoto
High Heels – Pedro Almodóvar – 1991 – 112 min
35mm
Now screening digitally

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Tuesday 12/5

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Who Gives an ‘F’
Bug – William Friedkin – 2006 – 102 min
35mm from Lionsgate

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Wednesday 12/6

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Night World – Hobart Henley – 1932 – 58 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “Rolling Along” (Albert Ray, 1932) – 20 min – 35mm

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Saturday 12/9

2:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Sounds of Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Sheltering Sky – Bernardo Bertolucci – 1990 – 138 min
35mm

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Monday 12/11

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
16mm Centennial Celebration

I Want a Clean Cinema (1999, 2 min)
Projecting Motion Pictures (1951, 11 min) – from Pacific Film Archive
See Yourself as Others See You (1928, 4 min) – from Chicago Film Archives
The Spider and the Fly (Harry and Lillian Fulscher, 1938, 12 min)
Bell & Howell (Julian Antos, 2018, 5 min)
Soundies Reel (circa 1940s, 6 min)
Mister E (Margaret Conneely, 1960, 12 min) – from Chicago Film Archives
Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer, 1957, 6 min) – from Canyon Cinema
Sears Sox (Chick Strand, Pat O’Neill, and Neon Park, 1968, 4 min) – from Academy Film Archive
Permutations (John Whitney, 1968, 8 min) – from Canyon Cinema

Intermission

Project Yourself (Julian Antos & Rebecca Lyon, 2021, 2.5 min)
Sat. Night Books and Records (1975, 1 min)
7362 (Pat O’Neill, 1967, 10 min) – from Canyon Cinema
Bondage Boy (Chris Langdon, 1973, 5 min)+
Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave (The Film Group, 1968, 11 min)
Hard Core Home Movies (Greta Snider, 1989, 5 min) – from Canyon Cinema
No No Nooky TV (Barbara Hammer, 1987, 12 min) – from Canyon Cinema
33 Yo-Yo Tricks (P. White, 1976, 8 min) – from Harvard Film Archive
Hey Girls (1990, 4 min) – from Chicago Film Archives
28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) (Christopher Harris, 2009, 3 min) – from Canyon Cinema
Travel Stop (Mike Gibisser, 2018, 16 min) – from the filmmaker
You (Heather McAdams, 1983, 3 min)

16mm prints from Chicago Film Society Collections unless otherwise noted

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Tuesday 12/12

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green – 2001 – 92 min
35mm from Disney

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Wednesday 12/13

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Alternative Christmas
Carol – Todd Haynes – 2015 – 118 min
35mm from Ed Lachman

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Thursday 12/14

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Alternative Christmas
Carol – Todd Haynes – 2015 – 118 min
35mm from Ed Lachman

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Saturday 12/16

2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, IL)
It’s A Wonderful Life – Frank Capra – 1946 – 130 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Fitzgerald’s Nightclub
Chris and Heather’s Country Calendar Show
16mm films of the legends featured in Heather’s Lil Country Calendar projected on the BIG SCREEN!

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Tuesday 12/19

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Girl Shy – Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor – 1924 – 77 min
35mm from Harold Lloyd Entertainment
Preceded by: “The Kid Reporter” (Alfred Goulding, 1923) – 21 min – 35mm from San Francisco Silent Film Festival

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Wednesday 12/20

4:00 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Alternative Christmas
Eyes Wide Shut – Stanley Kubrick – 1999 – 159 min
35mm from Park Circus

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December 8 – December 24
Music Box Theatre: Christmas Double Features
A “Snow Reel” will screen on 35mm before each show.
Check website for individual showtimes

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Saturday 12/30

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock – 1954 – 112 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 12/31

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock – 1954 – 112 min
35mm from Universal

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