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JANUARY 2024

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Monday 1/1

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: January Giallo
House of Psychotic Women – Carlos Aured – 1973 – 89 min
35mm from Private collections

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Thursday 1/4

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mirroring
The Prestige – Christopher Nolan – 2006 – 130 min
35mm

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Friday 1/5

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Con Air – Simon West – 1997 – 115 min
35mm from Disney

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Saturday 1/6

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Charade – Stanley Donen – 1963 – 113 min
35mm from Universal

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Con Air – Simon West – 1997 – 115 min
35mm from Disney

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Sunday 1/7

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Charade – Stanley Donen – 1963 – 113 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Mirroring
The Prestige – Christopher Nolan – 2006 – 130 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
All That Jazz – Bob Fosse – 1979 – 123 min
35mm
Now screening digitally

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Wed 1/10

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Tabu – F.W. Murnau – 1931 – 81 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: “Finding His Voice” (Fleischer Studios, 1929) – 11 min – 35mm

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Thu 1/11

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Jawbreaker – Darren Stein – 1999 – 86 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

10:00 PM
Doc Films: Computer Vision
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within – Hironobu Sakaguchi and Motonori Sakakibara
– 2001 – 106 min
35mm

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Friday 1/12

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Osama – Siddiq Barmak – 2003 – 83 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Now screening Friday, January 19

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Edgar Wright – 2010 – 112 min
35mm from Universal

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Saturday 1/13

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Edgar Wright – 2010 – 112 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 1/14

4:00 PM
Doc Films: George Sherman
Larceny – George Sherman – 1948 – 89 min
35mm

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Tuesday 1/16

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Aelita, Queen of Mars – Yakov Protazanov – 1924 – 110 min
35mm from the Walker Arts Center
Preceded by: “Trip to Mars” (Fleischer Studios, 1924) – 7 min – 16mm
live musical accompaniment by Maxx Mcgathey

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Thursday 1/18

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Computer Vision
The Rescuers Down Under – Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel – 1990 – 77 min
35mm

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Friday 1/19

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Osama – Siddiq Barmak – 2003 – 83 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Saturday 1/20

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
The Game – David Fincher – 1997 – 129 min
35mm from Universal

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Dinosaurs Plus!
One Million Years BC – Don Chaffey – 1966 – 92 min
35mm
now screening on DCP

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 1/21

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
The Game – David Fincher – 1997 – 129 min
35mm from Universal

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
Labyrinth – Jim Henson – 1986 – 101 min
35mm

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Monday 1/22

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Last Things – Deborah Stratman – 2023 – 50 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: George Sherman
The Sleeping City – George Sherman – 1950 – 86 min
35mm

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Tuesday 1/23

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Last Things – Deborah Stratman – 2023 – 50 min
35mm

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Wednesday 1/24

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Woman on the Beach – Jean Renoir – 1947 – 71 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: Schlitz Playhouse: “Bitter Parting” (Paul Henreid & James Neilson, 1957)
– 30 min – 35mm

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Saturday 1/27

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese – 2010 – 138 min
35mm from Paramount

5:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers
Added Lessons – Tom Palazzolo – 1991 – 73 min
16mm from the filmmaker
Presented by Chicago Film Archives and Doc Chicago

7:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers
Tom Palazzolo’s Short Takes
O (1967)
The Tattooed Lady of Riverview (1968)
Campaign (1968)
Rita on the Ropes (2002)
Hey Girls (1990)
Gay for a Day (1976)
All screening in 16mm, additional shorts screening digitally
Presented by Chicago Film Archives and Doc Chicago

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Sunday 1/28

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Hitchcock and Friends
Shutter Island – Martin Scorsese – 2010 – 138 min
35mm from Paramount

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Tom Palazzolo’s Short Takes
The Bride Stripped Bare (1967)
Love It/Leave It (1973)
Jerry’s Deli (1976)
All screening in 16mm, additional shorts screening digitally
Presented by Chicago Film Archives and Doc Chicago

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Monday 1/29

7:00 PM
Doc Films: George Sherman
The Golden Horde – George Sherman – 1951 – 77 min
35mm

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Tuesday 1/30

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cli-fi
Elysium – Neil Blomkamp – 2013 – 109 min
35mm from Sony

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Wednesday 1/31

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Cutter’s Way – Ivan Passer – 1981 – 109 min
35mm from the Park Circus
Preceded by: “Uncommon Valor” (Kendrick W. Williams, 1955) – 10 min – 35mm

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FEBRUARY 2024

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Thursday 2/1

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Computer Vision
Timecode – Mike Figgis – 2000 – 97 min
35mm

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Friday 2/2

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mommy Issues
Incendies – Dennis Villeneuve – 2010 – 131 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Resident Evil: Extinction – Russell Mulcahy – 2007 – 94 min
35mm from Sony

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Saturday 2/3

1:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Melanin, Roots, and Culture
Malcolm X – Spike Lee – 1992 – 202 min
35mm from Park Circus

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Resident Evil: Extinction – Russell Mulcahy – 2007 – 94 min
35mm from Sony

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Sunday 2/4

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
The Muppet Movie – James Frawley – 1979 – 95 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Joan the Woman – Cecil B. DeMille – 1916 – 148 min
35mm from the George Eastman Museum
Preceded by: “The Pillar of Fire” (George Méliès, 1899) – 1 min – 35mm
Live musical accompaniment by Jay Warren!

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Monday 2/5

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of George Sherman
The Raging Tide – George Sherman – 1951 – 93 min
35mm

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Tuesday 2/6

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cli-Fi
Red Desert – Michelangelo Antonioni – 1964 – 117 min
35mm

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Wednesday 2/7

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
An American Tragedy – Josef von Sternberg – 1932 – 96 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “The Runt Page” (Ray Nazarro, 1932) – 10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 2/8

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Computer Vision
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – Kerry Conrad – 2004 – 106 min
35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
The Wiz – Sidney Lumet – 1978 – 134 min
35mm from Universal
Presented by Rated Q and Ramona Slick

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Friday 2/9

1:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

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Saturday 2/10

1:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

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Sunday 2/11

11:00 AM
Music Box Theatre
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
– Andrew Dominik – 2007 – 160 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Roger Deakins in person
Presented by DePaul University

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
All That Jazz – Bob Fosse – 1979 – 123 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
Earth Girls Are Easy – Julien Temple – 1988 – 100 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

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Monday 2/12

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of George Sherman
Against All Flags – George Sherman – 1952 – 84 min
35mm

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Tuesday 2/13

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cli-Fi
Take Shelter – Jeff Nichols – 2011 – 120 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
The Host – Bong Joon-ho – 2006 – 120 min
35mm from Magnolia Pictures

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

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Wednesday 2/14

3:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Viridiana – Luis Buñuel – 1962 – 90 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: The Sound of Music Trailer (1965) – 35mm

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Thursday 2/15

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Computer Vision
Dick Tracy – Warren Beatty – 1990 – 105 min
35mm

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – 141 min
35mm
Preceded by:
Wall of Eyes & Friend of a Friend – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2023 – 10 min – 35mm

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Friday 2/16

8:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hot and Heavy
Crash – David Cronenberg – 1996 – 100 min
35mm

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

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Saturday 2/17

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hot and Heavy
Secretary – Steven Shainberg – 2002 – 107 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Last Things – Deborah Stratman – 2023 – 50 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 2/18

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hot and Heavy
Weekend – Andrew Haigh – 2011 – 97 min
35mm

4:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hot and Heavy
Lust Caution – Ang Lee – 2007 – 157 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
True Stories – David Byrne – 1986 – 89 min
35mm

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Monday 2/19

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of George Sherman
Border River – George Sherman – 1954 – 80 min
35mm

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Tuesday 2/20

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Melanin, Roots, and Culture
Barbershop – Tim Story – 2002 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 2/21

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Hot and Heavy
Belle De Jour – Luis Bunuel – 1967 – 100 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of Werner Herzog
Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog – 2005 – 103 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Kid Galahad — Phil Karlson – 1962 – 96 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Elvis trailer reel – 10 min – 35mm

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Saturday 2/24

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center (Logan Center for the Arts)
Tigre Real – Giovanni Pastrone – 1916 – 80 min
35mm from Museo Nazionale del Cinema
with live musical accompaniment

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Sunday 2/25

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 7:00 PM
AMC River East
Tenet – Christopher Nolan – 2020 – 156 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Revising the Musical
Repo! The Genetic Opera – Darren Lynn Bousman – 2008 – 98 min
35mm

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Monday 2/26

3:00 PM, 7:00 PM
AMC River East
Tenet – Christopher Nolan – 2020 – 156 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Messiah of Evil – Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz – 1974 – 90 min
35mm from American Genre Film Archive
Preceded by: “Outer Space” (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999) – 10 min – 35mm from Canyon Cinema

7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Films of George Sherman
Hell Bent for Leather – George Sherman – 1960 – 82 min
35mm

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Tuesday 2/27

3:00 PM, 7:00 PM
AMC River East
Tenet – Christopher Nolan – 2020 – 156 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Super Fly – Gordon Parks Jr. – 1972 – 91 min
35mm from Park Circus
Introduced by film critic Odie Henderson

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Wednesday 2/28

3:00 PM, 7:00 PM
AMC River East
Tenet – Christopher Nolan – 2020 – 156 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Thursday 2/29

6:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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MARCH 2024

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Friday 3/1

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:45 PM, 10:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mommy Issues
The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke – 2001 – 131 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Dreams of Passion: The Short Films of Aarin Burch
Dreams of Passion – 1989 – 5 min – 16mm
Spin Cycle – 1991 – 5 min – 16mm
Part of a longer shorts program

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Saturday 3/2

12:15 PM, 3:45 PM, 7:15 PM, 10:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

6:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Chicago European Union Festival
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
– Chantal Akerman – 1975 – 201 min
35mm from Janus

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Sunday 3/3

11:00 AM, 2:30 PM, 6:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

1:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Chicago European Union Festival
Man Bites Dog – Remy Belvaux – 1992 – 95 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Mommy Issues
The Piano Teacher – Michael Haneke – 2001 – 131 min
35mm

6:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema (3036 W Chicago Ave)
The Films of Shirley Erchbacher – 1965-1972
8mm

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Monday 3/4

3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Tuesday 3/5

3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Wednesday 3/6

3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Pumping Iron II: The Women – George Butler – 1985 – 107 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Preceded by: “Catherine Deneuve Chanel Commercial Reel” – 5 min – 35mm

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Thursday 3/7

3:00 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Friday 3/8

3:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Saturday 3/9

11:15 AM, 2:45 PM, 6:30 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Punch Drunk Love – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2002 – 95 min
35mm

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Sunday 3/10

11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Monday 3/11

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Tuesday 3/12

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cli-Fi
Frogs – George McCowan – 1972 – 91 min
35mm

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Wednesday 3/13

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

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Thursday 3/14

4:00 PM, 7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Video Data Bank Presents: Roundabout
Ultramint – Hirose Tadashi – 1980 – 10 min
16mm
additional shorts screening digitally

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Friday 3/15

12:45 PM, 4:15 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

6:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
The Boy with the Green Hair – Joseph Losey – 1948 – 82 min
35mm from private collections

8:15 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
Cleopatra Jones – Jack Starrett – 1973 – 89 min
35mm from private collections

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Saturday 3/16

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

2:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
Technicolor Shorts Program  
Aprox. 90 min
35mm from the Chicago Film Society

4:15 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
Has Anybody Seen My Gal – Douglas Sirk – 1952 – 89 min
35mm from the Chicago Film Society

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
Apocalypse Now Redux – Francis Ford Coppola – 1979 – 202 min
35mm from private collections

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Sunday 3/17

1:45 PM, 5:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Dune: Part Two – Dennis Villeneuve – 2024 – 166 min
70mm from Warner Brothers

2:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
The Nutty Professor – Jerry Lewis – 1963 – 103 min
35mm from private collections

5:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Gene Siskel Film Center
*Technicolor Weekend*
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Richard Fleischer – 1954 – 127 min
35mm from the Chicago Film Society collection
at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center

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Tuesday 3/19

7:00 PM
Doc Films: An American in Paris
Charade – Stanley Donen – 1963 – 113 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
O.C. & Stiggs – Robert Altman – 1987 – 109 min
35mm from Park Circus
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They Live – John Carpenter – 1988 – 94 min
35mm from Universal
screening as a double feature

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Wednesday 3/20

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Programmer’s Picks
Brazil – Terry Gilliam – 1985 – 143 min
35mm

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Thursday 3/21

6:45 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Mission to Mars – Brian De Palma – 2000 – 114 min
35mm from Disney
Preceded by: “Our Lady of the Sphere” (Lawrence Jordan, 1969) – 10 min
35mm from Canyon Cinema
Part of “Cinema Morricone”

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Inside Outsider Cinema
Pink Flamingos – John Waters – 1972 – 93 min
35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Drop Dead Gorgeous – Michael Patrick Jann – 1999 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday 3/22

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Untouchables – Brian De Palma – 1987 – 119 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Days of Heaven – Terrence Malick – 1978 – 94 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Fight Club – David Fincher – 1999 – 139 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Once Upon A Time in America – Sergio Leone – 1984 – 229 min
35mm from Disney

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Thing – John Carpenter – 1982 – 109 min
35mm from Universal Pictures

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Saturday 3/23

11:00 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Kid Flix
Where the Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze – 2009 – 104 min – 35mm

8:45 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! – Pedro Almodóvar – 1989 – 101 min
35mm from UNCSA Moving Image Archive

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Brazil – Terry Gilliam – 1985 – 143 min
35mm

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Sunday 03/24

11:00 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Kid Flix
Where the Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze – 2009 – 104 min
35mm

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre : Chicago Film Society Presents
The Boy Friend – Fred Guiol – 1928 – 20 min
Humoresque – Frank Borzage – 1920 – 75 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive

4:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Fight Club – David Fincher – 1999 – 139 min
35mm

4:45 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo – 1966 – 121 min
35mm from Rialto Pictures

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
Landscape Suicide – James Benning – 1986 – 95 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 03/25

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Apparitions: An Assemblage of Black Independent Films
Eve’s Bayou – Kasi Lemmons – 1997 – 109 min – 35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Machine Gun McCain – Giuliano Montaldo – 1969 – 96 min
35mm from Chicago Cinema Society

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Mercenary – Sergio Corbucci – 1968 – 111 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 3/26

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Mercenary – Sergio Corbucci – 1968 – 111 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
The Untouchables – Brian De Palma – 1987 – 119 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Red Sonja – Richard Fleischer – 1985 – 89 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 3/27

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Red Sonja – Richard Fleischer – 1985 – 89 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Come and See – Elem Klimov – 1985 – 142 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Cinema Morricone
Days of Heaven – Terrence Malick – 1978 – 94 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Tokyo Pop – Fran Rubel Kuzui – 1988 – 91 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society
Preceded by: Juke-Bar – Martin Barry – 1990 – 10 min
35mm

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre : Cinema Morricone
The Thing – John Carpenter – 1982 – 109 min
35mm from Universal Pictures

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Thursday 3/28

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Conversations at the Edge
Regrouping – Lizzie Borden – 1976 – 80 min
16mm

7:00 PM
Block Cinema – Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture
Clown – Luther Price – 1990-2002 – 13 min – Super 8mm
Jellyfish Sandwich – Luther Price – 1994 – 17 min – Super 8mm
Screening with handmade 35mm slide projections

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Conversations at the Edge
Born in Flames – Lizzie Borden – 1983 – 80 min
35mm from Anthology Film Archives

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Excited Turkeys – Willard Maas – 1966 – 12 min
16mm
Screening before a digital feature

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Friday 3/29

7:00 PM
Block Cinema
Silent Running – Douglas Trumbull – 1972 – 89 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center – The Speculative Archive: Ja’Tovia Gary and Cauleen Smith
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) – Cauleen Smith – 1992 – 7 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program

10:15 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Pink Flamingos – John Waters – 1972 – 93 min
35mm

10:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Beetlejuice – Tim Burton – 1988 – 92 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 3/30

4:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Come and See – Elem Klimov – 1985 – 142 min
35mm

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Sunday 03/31

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
Deseret – James Benning – 1996 – 82 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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April 2024

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Monday 4/01

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Film Society Presents
Seconds – John Frankenheimer – 1966 – 106 min
35mm from private collections
Preceded by: By the Sea – Pat O’Neill – 1963 – 10 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Wednesday 4/03

07:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Funny Games – Michael Haneke – 1997 – 108 min – 35mm
Now screening digitally

9:00 PM
Doc Films
Cache – Michael Haneke – 2005 – 117 min
35mm

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Thursday 4/04

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
LSD Wall – John H. Hawkins – 1965 – 7 min
16mm
Screening before a digital feature

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Friday 4/5

8:30 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Cabaret – Bob Fosse – 1972 – 124 min
35mm

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Saturday 4/6

7:00 PM
Onion City Film Festival at Chicago Filmmakers – Left Handed Memories: The Films of Shellie Fleming
Left Handed Memories – Shellie Fleming – 1989 – 15 min
Private Property (Public Domain) – Shellie Fleming – 1991 – 12 min
Ornithology – Shellie Fleming – 1995 – 21 min
Life/Expectancy – Shellie Fleming – 1999 – 30 min
All 16mm
Presented by Chicago Film Society in partnership with the John M. Flaxman Library at SAIC

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Cabaret – Bob Fosse – 1972 – 124 min
35mm

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Sunday 4/7

1:00 PM
Doc Films
Cache – Michael Haneke – 2005 – 117 min
35mm

4:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Funny Games – Michael Haneke – 1997 – 108 min – 35mm
Now screening digitally

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
El Valley Centro – James Benning – 1999 – 87 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 4/9

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Cli-Fi
Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron – 2006 – 109 min
35mm

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Wednesday 4/10

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa – 1980 – 180 min
35mm

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Thursday 4/11

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur
Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi – 1953 – 97 min
16mm from private collections

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome – Kenneth Anger – 1954 – 38 min
16mm
Blood Feast – Herschell Gordon Lewis – 1963 – 67 min
35mm

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Friday 4/12

10:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Blood Feast – Herschell Gordon Lewis – 1963 – 67 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Midnight Movies
Panic Room – David Fincher – 2002 – 112 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Saturday 4/13

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Film Society Presents
Padlocked – Allan Dwan – 1926 – 80 min
35mm from San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Preceded by: Flaming Flappers [Fragment] – Fred Guiol – 1925 – 9 min
35mm from Library of Congress

7:00 PM
Doc Films – New Releases (+ More)
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis – Daïchi Saïto – 2009 – 10 min
earthearthearth – Daïchi Saïto – 2021 – 30 min
35mm

8:30 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa – 1980 – 180 min
35mm
Rescheduled

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Midnight Movies
Panic Room – David Fincher – 2002 – 112 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Sunday 4/14

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Crossing Delancey – Joan Micklin Silver – 1988 – 97 min
35mm from Park Circus
Presented by Open Books

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
Los – James Benning – 2001 – 86 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 4/16

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Highs & Lows
Organized Crime and Triad Bureau – Kirk Wong – 1994 – 88 min
35mm from American Genre Film Archive
Screens second as part of a double feature
Presented by Oscarbate

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Wednesday 4/17

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier – 1996 – 158 min
35mm

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Friday 4/19

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Pop Music as Prismatic Utopia
Petit Mal – Betzy Bromberg – 1977 – 18 min
Angel Blue Sweet Wings – Chick Strand – 1966 – 4
Olivia’s Place – Thom Anderson – 1974 – 6 min
All My Life – Bruce Baillie – 1966 – 3 min
Friendly Witness – Warren Sonbert – 1989 – 32 min
all 16mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Midnight Movies
Rush Hour – Brett Ratner – 1998 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 4/20

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
Limelight – Charlie Chaplin – 1952 – 138 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Breaking the Waves – Lars von Trier – 1996 – 158 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Special Events
Reefer Madness – Louis J. Gasnier – 1936 – 68 min
16mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Midnight Movies
Rush Hour – Brett Ratner – 1998 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 4/21

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
Limelight – Charlie Chaplin – 1952 – 138 min
35mm from Janus Films

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
Sogobi – James Benning – 2002 – 90 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 4/22

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Who Gives An ‘F’
Killing Them Softly – Andrew Dominik – 2012 – 97 min
35mm from Lionsgate

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Tuesday 4/23

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Tommy Boy – Peter Segal – 1995 – 97 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures
Presented by Second City Film School

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Wednesday 4/24

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Electrical Gaza – Rosalind Nashashibi – 2015 – 18 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu – 1953 – 136 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: “Harry and Tonto” trailer (1974) – 35mm

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Thursday 4/25

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Lupe – José Rodriguez-Soltero – 1966 – 43 min
Flaming Creatures – Jack Smith – 1963 – 42 min
both 16mm

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Friday 4/26

6:00 PM
Block Cinema – Radiant Shadows: The Films of Pedro Costa
Sicilia! – Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet – 1999 – 66 min – 35mm
Pedro Costa in person

9:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmers’ Picks
Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa – 1980 – 180 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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Saturday 4/27

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
A King in New York – Charlie Chaplin – 1957 – 110 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Sunday 4/28

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
A King in New York – Charlie Chaplin – 1957 – 110 min
35mm from Janus Films

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
11 x 14 – James Benning – 1977 – 81 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 4/30

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Sweet East – Sean Price Williams – 2023 – 104 min
35mm from Utopia

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May 2024

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Wednesday 5/01

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Bad Education – Pedro Almodovar – 2004 – 106 min
35mm

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Thursday 5/02

6:45 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir – 2003 – 138 min
35mm from private collections
Preceded by: Voiliers et Coquelicots (Sailboats & Poppies) – Rose Lowder – 2001 – 2 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Scape-mates – Ed Emshwiller – 1972 – 29 min – 16mm
She Was a Visitor – Donna Deitch – 1970 – 3 min – 16mm
Eye Music in Red Major – Marie Menken – 1961 – 6 min – 16mm
Bleu Shut – Robert Nelson – 1971 – 33 min – 16mm

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Friday 5/03

7:00 PM
Cobb Hall (Film Studies Center) – CMS Graduate Student Conference
The Boy Who Liked Deer – Barbara Loden – 1975 – 18 min
16mm from the Chicago Film Society
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Selena – Gregory Nava – 1997 – 127 min – 35mm

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Saturday 5/04

4:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Selena – Gregory Nava – 1997 – 127 min – 35mm

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Bad Education – Pedro Almodovar – 2004 – 106 min – 35mm

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Sunday 5/05

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Critics Film Festival
Little Women – 1994 – Gillian Armstrong – 115 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
American Dreams: Lost and Found – James Benning – 1984 – 55 min
O Panama – James Benning – 1985 – 27 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 5/07

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Critics Film Festival
Bringing Out the Dead – Martin Scorsese – 1999 – 121 min
35mm from Paramount

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Americans in Paris: After the Dance
Trouble Every Day – Claire Denis – 2001 – 101 min – 35mm

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Wednesday 5/08

6:30 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theater)
Chicago Film Archives presents: The World is Watching – Stories From the Front Line
The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference – 1969 –  9 min
Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave. – 1969 – 11 min
Law and Order vs Dissent – 1969 – 11 min
Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March – 1969 – 7 min
Films by The Film Group
All 16mm from the Chicago Film Archives

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Rocco and His Brothers – Luchino Visconti – 1960 – 178 min – 35mm

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Thursday 5/09

7:00 PM
Block Cinema – Films of Botanical Motion
Spring Blossoms (John Ott, 1948, 18 min)
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1 -3 (Charlotte Pryce, 2007, 4 min)
I Began to Wish (Julie Murray, 2003, 6 min)
Les Tournesols Colorés (Rose Lowder, 1982, 3 min)
Wasteland 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5 min)
all 16mm
Part of a longer shorts program

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center – Film Talks: A Touring Program of Experimental Cinema
Candle – Neil Henderson – 2018 – 3 min – 16mm
Arm, Flexion, Extension – Bea Haut – 2011 – 3 min – 16mm
Inflated (Double) Struggle – Jenny Baines – 2018 – 3 min – 16mm
Babbler, Fairy and Thrush – Karel Doing – 2022 – 4 min – 16mm
Four Diamonds – Ute Aurand – 2016 – 5 min – 16mm
Dark Garden – Nick Collins – 2011 – 9 min – 16mm
Yali – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 2 min – 16mm
Evening Twinkling – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 1 min – 16mm
Afternoon Light – Helga Fanderl – 2013 – 1 min – 16mm
Persimmon Tree III – Helga Fanderl – 2011 – 3 min – 16mm
Big Waters – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 3 min – 16mm
Gasometers 3 – Nick Hamlyn – 2015 – 13 min – 16mm
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Cosmic Ray – Bruce Conner – 1962 – 4 min – 16mm
Fritz the Cat – Ralph Bakshi – 1972 – 78 min – 35mm

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Friday 5/10

7:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers – POETIC MOVEMENTS: Selected Films from Adele Friedman & Jean Sousa
[Adele Friedman]
Tony (1979) – 7 Mins
Untitled II (1983) – 7 Mins
Robert’s Place (2004) – 6 Mins
Christian and Michael (2006) – 8 Mins
François: A Place of Time (2015) – 12 Mins
Red Cloud (2016) – 5 Mins
all 16mm
[Jean Sousa]
Pattern Impulse (1979) – 3 Mins
Today is Sunday (1987) – 18 Mins
all 16mm, with additional shorts screening digitally

7:00 PM
Block Cinema – Film Talks – A Touring Program of Experimental Cinema (Program 2)
Not (A) Part – Vicky Smith – 2020 – 6 min – 16mm
Cornish and Faroese Knitting Pattern Series – Jennifer Nightingale – 2016-2017 – 3 min – 16mm
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Midnights
The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky – 1973 – 114 min
35mm from ABKCO

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Saturday 5/11

11:30 AM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Ship of Lost Men – Maurice Tourneur – 1929 – 122 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Felix Braves the Briny” (Otto Mesmer, 1926) – 7 min – 16mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Rocco and His Brothers – Luchino Visconti – 1960 – 178 min – 35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Midnights
The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky – 1973 – 114 min
35mm from ABKCO

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Sunday 5/12

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Roman Holiday – William Wyler – 1953 – 118
35mm from Paramount
Presented by Filmspotting

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
Four Corners – James Benning – 1997 – 80 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 5/13

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Highs and Lows
The Bridges of Madison County – Clint Eastwood – 1995 – 135 min
35mm from Park Circus
Presented by Oscarbate
Part of a double feature with “Gloria” (screening digitally)

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Wednesday 5/15

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Frankenstein – James Whale – 1931 – 71 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: Nocturne (Peter Tscherkassky, 2006) – 9 min – 35mm from Canyon Cinema

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Opening Night – John Cassavetes – 1977 – 144 min – 35mm

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Thursday 5/16

9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Black Chariot – Robert Goodwin – 1971 – 90 min – 35mm

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Friday 5/17

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2007 – 158 min – 35mm

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema – Elemental Meditations (Presented by Tone Glow)
Matrix – James Cagle – 1973 – 8 min
Excavation – James Cagle – 1974 – 5 min
Metonic Cylces – James Cagle – 1974 – 12 min
Waterwork – James Cagle – 1973 – 11 min
3rd Degree – Paul Sharits – 1982 – 24 min
Ray Gun Virus – Paul Sharits – 1966 – 14 min
All 16mm

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Saturday 5/18

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Liz & Monty Matinees
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks – 1958 – 108 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 5/19

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Liz & Monty Matinees
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Richard Brooks – 1958 – 108 min
35mm from Park Circus

8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
North on Evers – James Benning – 1992 – 87 min – 16mm

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Friday 5/24

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

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Saturday 5/25

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz & Monty Matinees
From Here to Eternity – Fred Zinnemann – 1953 – 118 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Sunday 5/26

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz & Monty Matinees
From Here to Eternity – Fred Zinnemann – 1953 – 118 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Tuesday 5/28

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Spirit of the Beehive – Victor Erice – 1973 – 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: Selected cartoon

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Thursday 5/30

6:30 PM
Block Cinema: Avant-Garde Apocalypse
The End – Christopher Maclaine – 1953 – 35 min
16mm from Fred Camper
23rd Psalm Branch – Stan Brakhage – 1967 – 69 min
8mm from the Austrian Film Museum

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
High Fidelity – Stephen Frears – 2000 – 113 min
35mm from Disney

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JUNE 2024

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Saturday, 6/1

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle – McG – 2003 – 98 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Preshow DJ set by Gaudy God

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Wednesday 6/5

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Children of the Beehive – Hiroshi Shimizu – 1948 – 86 min
35mm from the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute
Preceded by: “Boobs in the Woods” (Robert McKimson, 1950) – 7 min – 35mm

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Saturday 6/8

Noon
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla – Ishirô Honda – 1954 – 96 min
35mm from Toho International
Part of the 24-hour Godzilla Show-era Marathon

3:20 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
King Kong vs. Godzilla – Ishirô Honda, Tom Montgomery – 1963 – 91 min
35mm from Universal
Part of the 24-hour Godzilla Show-era Marathon

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Pawnbroker – Sidney Lumet – 1964 – 116 min
16mm

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Sunday 6/9

5:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla (1998) – Roland Emmerich – 1998 – 138 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
I.B. Technicolor

8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla 2000 – Takao Okawara – 1999 – 99 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society presents
Roving in Reversal w/ Jimmy Schaus
a 16mm and 8mm shorts program
RSVP required

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Tuesday 6/11

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla – Ishirô Honda – 1954 – 96 min
35mm from Toho International

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Wednesday 6/12

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Mothra – Ishirô Honda – 1961 – 101 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Pawnbroker – Sidney Lumet – 1964 – 116 min
16mm

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Comfort Station
Stooges in the Park
The Three Stooges on 16mm!

9:20 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack
– Shûsuke Kaneko – 2001 – 105 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Thursday 6/13

9:00 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Rise and Shine
The River – Jean Renoir – 1951 – 99 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Godzilla vs. Music Box
Godzilla (2014) – Gareth Edwards – 2014 – 123 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday 6/14

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Cruising – William Friedkin – 1980 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 6/15

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz & Monty Matinees
Wild River – Elia Kazan – 1960 – 110 min
35mm from Disney

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Hill – Sidney Lumet – 1965 – 123 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Cruising – William Friedkin – 1980 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 6/16

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz & Monty Matinees
Wild River – Elia Kazan – 1960 – 110 min
35mm from Disney

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Wednesday 6/19

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Hill – Sidney Lumet – 1965 – 123 min
35mm

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Thursday 6/20

9:00 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Rise and Shine
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One – William Greaves – 1968 – 75 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers: Counter Weights
Society of Motion – Andrew Kim – 2015 – 3 min
– 16mm
Sea 404 (Material Immaterial #2) – Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu – 2019 – 3 min
– 16mm
Water, Clock – Zack Parrinella – 2021 – 8 min
– 16mm
Gathering Moss – Erin Espelie – 2018 – 5 min
– 16mm
Tape Moderne – Sylvain Chaussee – 2018 – 3 min
– 16mm
The Order of Revelation: Surah An-Najm – Anna Kipervaser – 2017-2021 – 7 min
– 16mm
Color Prism Suite #1: Of Life and Farce – Zack Parrinella – 2016 3 min
– 16mm
Color Prism Suite #2: Withering Ends – Zack Parrinella – 2021 – 4 min
– 16mm
Plane Wave – Daniel Kelly – 2016 – 9 min
– 16mm
Particular Matter – Zack Parrinella – 2019-2023 – 15 min
– 3 x 16mm projector performance
Program total running time: 77 min. Program includes digital shorts (not listed)
Co-presented by Nightingale Projects

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Friday 6/21

9:00 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Rise and Shine
Good Morning – Yasujiro Ozu – 1959 – 99 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Saturday 6/22

11:30 AM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Japanese Girls at the Harbor – Hiroshi Shimizu – 1933 – 77 min
35mm from National Film Archive of Japan
Live musical accompaniment by MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble
Preceded by: “Battle of the Monkey and the Crab” (Yasuji Murato, 1927) – 4 min – 16mm

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Anderson Tapes – Sidney Lumet – 1971 – 99 min
35mm

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Sunday 6/23

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz & Monty Matinees
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols – 1966 – 132 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 6/25

7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Lust, Caution – Ang Lee – 2007 – 155 min
35mm from Universal
Director Ang Lee in Attendance for a Pre-Show Introduction and Post-Film Q&A

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Wednesday 6/26

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Anderson Tapes – Sidney Lumet – 1971 – 99 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Yankee Doodle Dandy – Michael Curtiz – 1942 – 126 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Trouble in Paradise – Ernst Lubitsch – 1932 – 83 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “The Pharmacist” (Arthur Ripley, 1933) – 19 min – 35mm
This screening has been cancelled

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Thursday 6/27

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from Neon

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Friday 6/28

1:00 PM, 4:30 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

5:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Yankee Doodle Dandy – Michael Curtiz – 1942 – 126 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 1: “The Subconscious Storehouse: From Stan Brakhage to Phil Solomon”
I Take These Truths – 1995 – 18 min
We Hold These – 1995 – 12 min
I… – 1995 – 27 min
Concrescence – 1996 – 3 min

9:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 2: “Tortured Dust”
Hymn to Her – 1974 – 2 min
Jane – 1985 – 13 min
Tortured Dust – 1984 – 88 min
all 16mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Repo Man – Alex Cox – 1984 – 92 min
35mm from Universal

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Saturday 6/29

12:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

2:00 PM
Cafe Mustache
Mrs William Horsley’s Vexations – Matthew Thurber – 2021-23 – 45 min
16mm film with live mixed sound and multiple projections
RSVP Required

2:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 3: “Closed-Eye Visions: The Roman, Egyptian, and Babylon Series”
Roman Numeral I – 1979 – 5 min
Roman Numeral II – 1979 – 7 min
Roman Numeral III – 1980 – 2 min
Roman Numeral IV – 1980 – 2 min
Roman Numeral V – 1980 – 2 min
Roman Numeral VI – 1980 – 9 min
Roman Numeral VII – 1980 – 4 min
Roman Numeral VIII – 1980 – 3 min
Roman Numeral IX – 1980 – 2 min
Egyptian Series – 1984 – 18 min
Babylon Series #1 – 1989 – 5 min
Babylon Series #2 – 1990 – 2 min
Babylon Series #3 – 1990 – 5 min
all 16mm

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Serpico – Sidney Lumet – 1973 – 130 min
35mm

4:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 4: “Brakhage and the Composers of the Avant-Garde”
Loud Visual Noises –1987 – 2 min
Christ Mass Sex Dance – 1991 – 4 min
Matins – 1988 – 2 min
Passage Through: A Ritual – 1990 – 49 min
all 16mm

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society
Mrs William Horsley’s Vexations – Matthew Thurber – 2021-23 – 45 min
16mm film with live mixed sound and multiple projections
RSVP Required

8:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 5: “Peculiar Laws: The Faust Films”
Faustfilm: An Opera – 1987 – 43 min
Faust’s Other: An Idyll – 1988 – 40 min
Faust 3: Candida Albacore – 1988 – 25 min
Faust IV – 1989 – 38 min
all 16mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Repo Man – Alex Cox – 1984 – 92 min
35mm from Universal

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Sunday 6/30

11:30 AM, 3:30 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

2:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 6: “The Vancouver Island Quartet, Part 1”
A Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea –1991 – 71 min
The Mammals of Victoria – 1994 – 34 min
all 16mm

4:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 7: “The Vancouver Island Quartet, Part 2”
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him – 2000 – 48 min
Panels for the Walls of Heaven – 2002 – 35 min
all 16mm

8:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
– Inventing Eternity: The Undersung Films of Late-Era Stan Brakhage
Program 8: “Death is a Meaningless Word: An Assortment of Brakhage’s Final Films”
Max – 2002 – 4 min
Worm and Web Love – 1999 – 4 min
Birds of Paradise – 1999 – 2 min
The Earthsong of the Cricket – 1999 – 2 min
Cricket Requiem – 1999 – 3 min
The Lion and The Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels – 1999 – 6 min
Cloud Chamber – 1999 – 3 min
Stately Mansions Did Decree – 1999 – 6 min
Micro Garden – 2001 – 3 min
Rounds – 2001 – 14 min
Occam’s Thread – 2001 – 7 min
The Jesus Trilogy and Coda – 2000 – 20 min
Resurrectus Est – 2002 – 8 min
Divertimento – 1997 – 2 min
Dark Night of the Soul – 2002 – 3 min
Ascension – 2002 – 2 min
Commingled Containers – 1996 – 3 min
Self Song/Death Song – 1997 – 4 min
Chinese Series – 2003 – 2 min
all 16mm

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JULY 2024

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Monday 7/1

1:45 PM, 5:30 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

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Tuesday 7/2

1:45 PM, 5:30 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

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Wednesday 7/3

1:45 PM, 5:30 PM, 8:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Serpico – Sidney Lumet – 1973 – 130 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
The Day I Became a Woman – Marzieh Meshkini – 2000 – 78 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: “Vau Vau” (Boris Kolar, 1964) – 9 min – 35mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Smart Money – Alfred E. Green – 1931 – 81 min
35mm

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Thursday 7/4

1:00 PM, 4:15 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Kinds of Kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2014 – 165 min
35mm from Searchlight Pictures

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Friday 7/5

2:00 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

5:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Smart Money – Alfred E. Green – 1931 – 81 min
35mm
Friday features will be presented with 35mm trailers curated and introduced by Enjoy the Film

8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
School Daze – Spike Lee – 1988 – 121 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Saturday 7/6

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz and Monty Matinees
A Place in the Sun – George Stevens – 1951 – 122 min
35mm from Paramount

2:15 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet – 1975 – 125 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Cabaret – Bob Fosse – 1972 – 124 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Animation Adventures
Fantastic Planet – René Laloux – 1973 – 72 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Sunday 7/7

Noon
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1972 – 167 min
35mm

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Liz and Monty Matinees
A Place in the Sun – George Stevens – 1951 – 122 min
35mm from Paramount

2:15 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Monday 7/8

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Pickpocket – Robert Bresson – 1959 – 76 min
35mm

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Tuesday 7/9

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
The Breaking Point – Michael Curtiz – 1950 – 97 min
35mm

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Wednesday 7/10

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet – 1975 – 125 min
35mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from Neon

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Thursday 7/11

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder – 1950 – 110 min
35mm from Paramount

7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Footlight Parade – Lloyd Bacon – 1933 – 104 min

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Friday 7/12

2:00 PM, 4:15 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

5:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
Footlight Parade – Lloyd Bacon – 1933 – 104 min
Friday features will be presented with 35mm trailers curated and introduced by Enjoy the Film

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Gamer – Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor – 2009 – 95 min
35mm from Lionsgate
Programmed and Presented by The Front Row, Olivia Hunter Willke, and Mages Guild

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Saturday 7/13

11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Looney Tunes on 35mm
Stupor Duck – Robert McKimson – 1956
For Scent-imental Reasons – Chuck Jones – 1949
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! – Chuck Jones – 1953
Devil May Hare – Robert McKimson – 1954
Rabbit of Seville – Chuck Jones – 1950
Wearing of the Grin – Chuck Jones – 1951
Ali Baba Bunny – Chuck Jones – 1957
Rabbit Hood – Chuck Jones – 1949
Robin Hoody Daffy – Chuck Jones – 1958
Holiday for Drumsticks – Arthur Davis – 1949
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century – Chuck Jones – 1953
Operation Rabbit – Chuck Jones – 1952
Bedevilled Rabbit – Robert McKimson – 1957
Greedy for Tweety – Friz Freleng – 1957
The Fastest with the Mostest – Chuck Jones – 1960
Whoa, Be-Gone! – Chuck Jones – 1958
Ready, Set, Zoom! – Chuck Jones – 1955
Little Boy Boo – Robert McKimson – 1954
The Foghorn Leghorn – Robert McKimson – 1948
Bill of Hare – Mel Blanc – 1962
Rabbit Fire – Chuck Jones – 1951
Duck Amuck – Chuck Jones – 1953
A Star is Bored – Friz Freleng – 1956
The Ducksters – Chuck Jones – 1950
All 35mm from Park Circus
This program is free. Toons not necessarily presented in the order listed.

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Network – Sidney Lumet – 1976 – 121 min
35mm

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM, 11:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
School Daze – Spike Lee – 1988 – 121 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Sunday 7/14

11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Looney Tunes on 35mm
Stupor Duck – Robert McKimson – 1956
For Scent-imental Reasons – Chuck Jones – 1949
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! – Chuck Jones – 1953
Devil May Hare – Robert McKimson – 1954
Rabbit of Seville – Chuck Jones – 1950
Wearing of the Grin – Chuck Jones – 1951
Ali Baba Bunny – Chuck Jones – 1957
Rabbit Hood – Chuck Jones – 1949
Robin Hoody Daffy – Chuck Jones – 1958
Holiday for Drumsticks – Arthur Davis – 1949
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century – Chuck Jones – 1953
Operation Rabbit – Chuck Jones – 1952
Bedevilled Rabbit – Robert McKimson – 1957
Greedy for Tweety – Friz Freleng – 1957
The Fastest with the Mostest – Chuck Jones – 1960
Whoa, Be-Gone! – Chuck Jones – 1958
Ready, Set, Zoom! – Chuck Jones – 1955
Little Boy Boo – Robert McKimson – 1954
The Foghorn Leghorn – Robert McKimson – 1948
Bill of Hare – Mel Blanc – 1962
Rabbit Fire – Chuck Jones – 1951
Duck Amuck – Chuck Jones – 1953
A Star is Bored – Friz Freleng – 1956
The Ducksters – Chuck Jones – 1950
All 35mm from Park Circus
This program is free. Toons not necessarily presented in the order listed.

Noon
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
35mm from Park Circus

4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Mantrap – Victor Fleming – 1926 – 71 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Alice in the Wooly West” (Walt Disney, 1926) – 8 min – 16mm
Live musical accompaniment by David Drazin!

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Monday 7/15

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Tuesday 7/16

4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Wednesday 7/17

4:00 PM, 6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Minnie and Moskowitz – John Cassavetes – 1971 – 114 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “D’ Fightin’ Ones” (Friz Freleng, 1961) – 7 min – 35mm

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
Network – Sidney Lumet – 1976 – 121 min
35mm

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Thursday 7/18

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

5:00 PM
Doc Films: Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray – 1950 – 94 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt – 1935 – 143 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

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Friday 7/19

2:15 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM, 11:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

5:00 PM
Doc Films: Cagney on Film
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt – 1935 – 143 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Friday features will be presented with 35mm trailers curated and introduced by Enjoy the Film

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Pickpocket – Robert Bresson – 1959 – 76 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray – 1950 – 94 min
35mm

8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Cabaret – Bob Fosse – 1972 – 124 min
35mm

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Saturday 7/20

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa – 1963 – 143 min
35mm from Janus Films

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Wiz – Sidney Lumet – 1978 – 134 min
35mm from Universal

7:15 PM, 9:30 PM, 11:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

12:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
The Breaking Point – Michael Curtiz – 1950 – 97 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray – 1950 – 94 min
35mm

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Sunday 7/21

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa – 1963 – 143 min
35mm from Janus Films

6:45 PM, 9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Monday 7/22

4:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 10:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick – 1980 – 144 min
35mm from Park Circus
Music Box Members only screening

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 7/23

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky – 1972 – 167 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Clean Plate Club
Mystic Pizza – Donald Petrie – 1988 – 104
35mm from Park Circus

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Wednesday 7/24

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Sidney Lumet Centennial
The Wiz – Sidney Lumet – 1978 – 134 min
35mm from Universal

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Jackie Robinson Story – Alfred E. Green – 1950 – 77 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Sports Parade: Daredevils on Wheels” (Charles L. Tedford, 1949) – 10 min – 35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

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Thursday 7/25

8:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Last Shot
Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder – 1950 – 110 min
35mm from Paramount

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Friday 7/26

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

8:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
Bigger Than Life – Nicholas Ray – 1956 – 95 min – 35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

midnight
Music Box Theatre
Deep Blue Sea – Renny Harlin – 1999 – 105 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 7/27

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
The Third Man – Carol Reed – 1949 – 93 min
35mm from Rialto Pictures

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Sidney Lumet Centennial
Prince of the City – Sidney Lumet – 1981 – 196 min
16mm from Film Society of Montreal

4:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
MaXXXine – Ti West – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from A24

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
Bigger Than Life – Nicholas Ray – 1956 – 95 min – 35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre – Midnight Movies
The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Jim Sharman – 1975 – 100 min – 35mm
Presented by Midnight Madness

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Sunday 7/28

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
The Third Man – Carol Reed – 1949 – 93 min
35mm from Rialto Pictures

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Monday 7/29

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – The Chicago Film Society Presents
Medium Cool – Haskell Wexler – 1969 – 111 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society
Preceded by: The People’s Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters – The Film Group – 1969 – 14 min 16mm from Chicago Film Archives

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Tuesday 7/30

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Clean Plate Club
Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese – 1990 – 145 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 7/31

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Sidney Lumet Centennial
Prince of the City – Sidney Lumet – 1981 – 196 min
16mm from Film Society of Montreal

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Highs & Lows
Ms. 45 – Abel Ferrara – 1981 – 80 min
35mm from private collections
First title in a double feature with Coffy (Hill, 1973) screening on DCP.
Presented by Oscarbate

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August 2024

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Thursday 8/1

5:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray – 1955 – 111 min
35mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films – Public Enemy: Cagney on Film
The Roaring Twenties – Raoul Walsh – 1939 – 107 min
35mm

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

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Friday 8/2

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

5:00 PM
Doc Films – Public Enemy: Cagney on Film
The Roaring Twenties – Raoul Walsh – 1939 – 107 min
35mm
Preceded by a 35mm trailer pack from Enjoy the Film

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

8:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray – 1955 – 111 min
35mm
Preceded by a 35mm trailer pack from Enjoy the Film

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Warriors – Walter Hill – 1979 – 92 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

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Saturday 8/3

2:00 PM
Harold Washington Library
(Video Theatre, lower level)
Flickering Frolic: Slides and Movies with Heather McAdams
35mm slideshow presentation and selection of short films from Chicago cartoonist, filmmaker, and DIY delights legend Heather McAdams.
The films will include recent 16mm preservation prints courtesy of the Chicago Film Society

2:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

7:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray – 1955 – 111 min
35mm

midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Warriors – Walter Hill – 1979 – 92 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

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Sunday 8/4

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles – 1941 – 119 min
35mm

2:00 PM, 6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

4:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
F for Fake – Orson Welles – 1973 – 89 min
35mm

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Monday 8/5

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Cuckoo – Tilman Singer – 2024 – 102 min
35mm from NEON

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Tuesday 8/6

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Before They Were Big
Who’s That Knocking at My Door – Martin Scorsese – 1967 – 90 min
35mm
Presented by Chicago International Film Festival

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Cuckoo – Tilman Singer – 2024 – 102 min
35mm from NEON

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Wednesday 8/7

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Beauty and the Beast – Jean Cocteau – 1946 – 93 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: Beasts in Cinema trailer reel – 35mm – 10 min

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

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Thursday 8/8

5:00 PM
Doc Films – Nicolas Ray’s Heyday
On Dangerous Ground – Nicholas Ray – 1951 – 82 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
70mm from Park Circus

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Longlegs – Oz Perkins – 2024 – 101 min
35mm from NEON

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Friday 8/9

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock – 1959 – 139 min
70mm from Park Circus

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
Playtime – Jacques Tati – 1967 – 124 min
70mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema – Experimental Excess: Tony Conrad’s Flicker Films
The Flicker – Tony Conrad – 1966 – 30 min
Straight and Narrow – Tony Conrad – 1970 – 10 min
Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals – Tony Conrad – 1975 – 10 min
The Eye of Count Flickerstein – Tony Conrad – 1967 – 7 min
Film Feedback – Tony Conrad – 1974 – 15 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
Streets of Fire – Walter Hill – 1984 – 93 min
70mm from Universal Pictures

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Saturday 8/10

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
Playtime – Jacques Tati – 1967 – 124 min
70mm from Janus Films

1:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema – Experimental Excess
La Région Centrale – Michael Snow – 1971 – 180 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Sidney Lumet Centennial
Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet – 1988 – 116 min – 35mm

4:45 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
70mm from Park Circus

8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock – 1959 – 139 min
70mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 8/11

1:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock – 1959 – 139 min
70mm from Park Circus

5:15 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
The Searchers – John Ford – 1956 – 119 min
70mm from Park Circus

3:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
The Stranger – Satyajit Ray – 1991 – 97 min – 35mm

8:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – Summer of 70mm
Streets of Fire – Walter Hill – 1984 – 93 min
70mm from Universal Pictures

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Tuesday 8/13

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Before They Were Big
Maborosi – Hirokazu Kore-eda – 1995 – 110 min – 35mm
Presented by Chicago International Film Festival

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Wednesday 8/14

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Sidney Lumet Centennial
Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet – 1988 – 116 min – 35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
There’s Always Tomorrow – Douglas Sirk – 1956 – 84 min
35mm from Universal Pictures
Preceded by: World’s Most Beautiful Girls – Jesse Hibbs – 1952 – 20 min – 35mm

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Thursday 8/15

5:00 PM
Doc Films – Miscellaneous Summer Screenings
The Hawks and the Sparrows – Pier Paolo Pasolini – 1966 – 85 min – 16mm

8:00 PM
Doc Films – Public Enemy: Cagney on Film
White Heat – Raoul Walsh – 1949 – 114 min – 35mm

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Friday 8/16

5:00 PM
Doc Films – Public Enemy: Cagney on Film
White Heat – Raoul Walsh – 1949 – 114 min – 35mm
Preceded by a 35mm trailer pack from Enjoy the Film

8:00 PM
Doc Films – Miscellaneous Summer Screenings
The Hawks and the Sparrows – Pier Paolo Pasolini – 1966 – 85 min – 16mm
Now screening digitally
Preceded by a 35mm trailer pack from Enjoy the Film

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Saturday 08/17

11:45 AM
Gene Siskel Film Center – MUBI Fest Chicago
The Last Days of Disco – Whit Stillman – 1998 – 113 min – 35mm

4:30 PM
Music Box Theatre – MUBI Fest Chicago
All That Jazz – Bob Fosse – 1979 – 123 min – 35mm
Now screening as a DCP

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre – MUBI Fest Chicago
Mo’ Better Blues – Spike Lee – 1990 – 127 min – 35mm
Now screening as a DCP

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Monday 08/19

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
The 400 Blows – François Truffaut – 1959 – 99 min – 35mm

8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
Confidentially Yours – François Truffaut – 1983 – 110 min – 35mm

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Saturday 8/24

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center – Entrances and Exits
Targets – Peter Bogdanovich – 1968 – 90 min – 35mm

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Sunday 8/25

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
You’re Dancing This Dance All Wrong – Cameron Worden – 2021 – 68 min
35mm from filmmaker
Preceded by: Leaves for a reel – Cameron Worden – 2022 – 18 min
and other selected shorts by the filmmaker including: Frontage Rd, Sheebop! Shebopp! SHEEBOPP!, Today
Presented by Chicago Film Society

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Wednesday 8/28

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Coca-Cola Kid – Dušan Makavejev – 1985 – 98 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Vintage soda advertisements – 35mm – approx. 10 min

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September 2024

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Sunday 9/1

3:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
Tiger on Beat – Chia-Liang Liu – 1988 – 93 min
35mm

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Monday 9/2

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock – 1963 – 119 min
35mm from Universal

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Tuesday 9/3

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Propaganda & Counterculture Lecture Series
Ninotchka – Ernst Lubitsch – 1939 – 110 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday 9/6

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
I Was Born, But… – Yasujiro Ozu – 1932 – 90 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
The Postman Always Rings Twice – Tay Garnett – 1946 – 113 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 9/7

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Stanley Donen – 1954 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
His Girl Friday – Howard Hawks – 1940 – 92 min
35mm

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
The Window – Ted Tetzlaff – 1949 – 73 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Sunday 9/8

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Stanley Donen – 1954 – 102 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
Mon Oncle – Jacques Tati – 1958 – 116 min
35mm from Janus Films

4:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Remembering David Bordwell
Street of Shame – Kenji Mizoguchi – 1956 – 85 min
35mm from Janus Films

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
This Gun for Hire – Frank Tuttle – 1942 – 81 min
35mm from Universal

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Monday 9/9

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Mystery Movie Monday
We cannot reveal the film but we CAN tell you it’s on 35mm!

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Hardly a Criminal – Hugo Fregonese – 1949 – 88 min
35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Tuesday 9/10

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Noir City
Black Tuesday – Hugo Fregonese – 1954 – 80 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Wednesday 9/11

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Practically Yours – Mitchell Leisen – 1944 – 88 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “The Atom Goes to Sea” (True Boardman, 1954) – 12 min – 35mm

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Saturday 9/14

2:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

5:00 PM
Chicago Underground Film Festival at the Harper Theater
Shorts 10
Manifesto – Jesse Lerner – 2023 – 11 min
a shifting pattern – Isaac Sherman – 2023 – 6 min
Vintage Wisdom from the Ether – Bernd Lützeler – 2023 – 8 min
The Concrete River – Nora Sweeney – 2023 – 15 min
Immaculate Generations no. 1 – Vito A. Rowlands – 2023 – 11 min
Zero Woods of the Wild Place – Josh Weissbach – 2023 – 12 min
all 16mm

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: You Wouldn’t Steal a Movie
Programmed by Tone Glow
At the Academy – Guy Sherwin – 1974 – 5 min
If You Stand with Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water – Julie Murray – 1997 – 18 min
Deutschland Spiegel – Sharon Couzin – 1980 – 12 min
Mutiny – Abigail Child – 1983 – 11 min
Retrospectroscope – Kerry Laitala – 1997 – 5 min
By Halves – Amy Halpern – 2012 – 7 min
Poetry and Truth – Peter Kubelka – 2003 – 13 min
Nocturne – Phil Solomon – 1980 – 10 min
Raindance – Standish Lawder – 1972 – 16 min
all 16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Sunday 9/15

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Crucemos al Otro Lado
Los Olvidados – Luis Buñuel – 1950 – 80 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
Programmed by Salvador Salazar

2:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

5:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2012 – 138 min
70mm from Lionsgate

8:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

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Monday 9/16

4:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2012 – 138 min
70mm from Lionsgate

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Tuesday 9/17

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2012 – 138 min
70mm from Lionsgate

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Chris + Heather’s 16mm Big Screen Blowout
16mm treasures from the collection of Chris Ligon and Heather McAdams, plus new 16mm restorations of McAdams’s All Fucked Up and The Scratchman
Runtime: Aprox 90 mins

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

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Wednesday 9/18

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The League of Women Voters Presents Democracy at Risk
All the President’s Men – Alan J. Pakula – 1976 – 138 min
35mm

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Thursday 9/19

3:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock – 1958 – 128 min
New 70mm print from Universal

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2012 – 138 min
70mm from Lionsgate

Friday 9/20

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 9/21

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Big Art Films
Diva – Jean-Jacques Beineix – 1981 – 117 min
35mm from Rialto Pictures

2:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Peripheries Festival
time – Ben Creech – 2019 – 2 min
16mm from the filmmaker
part of a multiformat shorts program

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 9/22

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Big Art Films
The Piano – Jane Campion – 1993 – 120 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

2:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Peripheries Festival
Labores en curso – Bruno Delgado – 2024 – 30 min
Super 8 from the filmmaker
part of a multiformat shorts program

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Tuesday 9/24

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Chicago Film Archives 20th Anniversary Variety Show
Chicago: City to See in ’63 – Joe Domin & Donna Johnson – 1963 – 13 min – 16mm
Rock Sox Disco Sux – Bill Stamets – 1979 – 12 min – 16mm
Disintegration Line #2 – Larry Janiak – 1970 – 12 min – 16mm
Chocolate Cake – JoAnn Elam – 1973 – 3 min – 16mm
Variety Show at Peoria’s Palace Theatre Irvine – Pepper Siegal – 1934 – 10 min – 35mm
The Saga of the First and Last – Margaret Conneely – 1954 – 3 min – 35mm
Nightsong – Don Klugman – 1964 – 22 min – 16mm
Preservation prints from the Chicago Film Archives

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Wednesday 9/25

6:30 PM
Block Cinema : Films by Women/Chicago ’74
Chow Fun – Sally Cruikshank – 1972 – 4 min – 16mm
Women and Children at Large – Freude – 1983 – 7 min – 16mm from the Pacific Film Archive
part of a multiformat shorts program

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Fresh Kill – Shu Lea Cheang – 1994 – 80 min
35mm from the filmmaker
Featuring a Post-Film Q&A with Director Shu Lea Cheang

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Thursday 9/26

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
Daughter Rite – Michelle Citron – 1978 – 53 min
16mm

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Selena – Gregory Nava – 1997 – 127 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Friday 9/27

5:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Peripheries Festival
A Message from Humboldt – Matt Feldman – 2024 – 7 min
16mm from the filmmaker
part of a multiformat shorts program

6:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
The Cool World – Shirley Clarke – 1963 – 105 min
35mm from the Library of Congress

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Animation Adventures
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie – Stephen Hillenburg & Mark Osborne – 2004 – 87 min
35mm from Paramount

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Saturday 9/28

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Big Art Films
Punch-Drunk Love – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2002 – 117 min
35mm from Park Circus

12:30 PM
Block Cinema: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
Craig’s Wife – Dorothy Arzner – 1936 – 73 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: Want I Want – Sharon Hennessy – 1973 – 16mm from the filmmaker

3:00 PM
Block Cinema: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
Dance, Girl, Dance – Dorothy Arzner – 1940 – 90 min
16mm from MCM Archive at Brown University
Preceded by: Take-Off – Gunvor Nelson – 1972 – 10 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

6:00 PM
Doc Films: Franz Kafka: A Man of His and Our Time
A Character in Need of Support – Pavel Juráček and Jan Schmidt – 1963 – 38 min
16mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Party Monster – Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato – 2003 – 98 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
Preshow DJ set by Gaudy God

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Sunday 9/29

5:30 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival
Glass – Leighton Pierce – 1998 – 7 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Hey Sweet Pea – Alee Peoples – 2023 – 11 min
16mm from the filmmaker

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut – Tinto Brass – 1980/2023 – 178 min
New 35mm print from Drafthouse Films

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Monday 9/30

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the ’70s
California Split – Robert Altman – 1974 – 108 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut – Tinto Brass – 1980/2023 – 178 min
New 35mm print from Drafthouse Films

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October 2024

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Tuesday 10/1

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Propaganda & Counterculture Lecture Series
The Great Dictator – Charles Chaplin – 1940 – 128 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Wednesday 10/2

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mexican Romance
Like Water for Chocolate – Alfonso Arau – 1992 – 105 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at Northeastern Illinois University
Vagabond – Agnès Varda – 1985 – 105 min
35mm from Janus Films
Preceded by: “The Dingles” (Les Drew, 1988) – 8 min – 35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
Noroi: The Curse – Koji Shirashi – 2005 – 115 min
Imported 35mm print from Kadokawa

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Thursday 10/3

9:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
Trouble Every Day – Claire Denis – 2001 – 101 min
35mm from The Film Desk

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Friday 10/4

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
I Am Somebody – Madeline Anderson – 1970 – 28 min
Attica – Cinda Firestone – 1974 – 80 min
16mm from the NYPL Reserve Film and Video Collections

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia: Cassandras and Conspiracies
Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski – 1968 – 138 min
35mm

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
The Descent – Neil Marshall – 2005 – 99 min
35mm from Lionsgate

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Saturday 10/5

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
The Bad Seed – Mervyn LeRoy – 1956 – 129 min
35mm from Park Circus

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the ’70s
California Split – Robert Altman – 1974 – 108 min
35mm

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

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Sunday 10/6

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
The Exorcist III – William Peter Blatty – 1990 – 110 min
35mm from private collections

2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino – 1994 – 154 min
New 35mm print from Paramount Pictures

5:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cinema Unbound – The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
The Elusive Pimpernel – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – 1950 – 109 min
35mm from the British Film Institute

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Ingreen – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1964 – 12 min
A Fall Trip Home – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1966 – 11 min
Summerwind – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1965 – 14 min
Babtelle II – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2016 – 16 min
In the Stone House – Jerome Hiler – 2012 – 35 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Tuesday 10/8

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino – 1994 – 154 min
New 35mm print from Paramount Pictures

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors
Sssssss – Bernard L. Kowalski – 1973 – 99 min
35mm from Universal

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Wednesday 10/9

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Special Effects – Larry Cohen – 1984 – 106 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: “Ghostbusters Promo Reel” (1984) – 13 min – 35mm

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Thursday 10/10

6:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino – 1994 – 154 min
New 35mm print from Paramount Pictures

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Friday 10/11

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
20 Years of Chicago Film Archives
Chicago in Black-and-White – Helen Morrison – circa 1939 – 2 min
Camera on Chicago – Warren E. Thompson – 1940-1983 – 34 min
Carmen – unknown filmmaker – circa – 1926 – 4 min
Hands Across the City – John H. Matthews – 1935 – 15 min
Beauty and the Beast – JoAnn Elam – circa 1973 – 12 min
Disintegration Line #1 – Larry Janiak – 1960 – 9 min
The City – Maurice Bailen – circa 1961 – 17 min
16mm and 35mm from the Chicago Film Archives

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Saturday 10/12

11:30 AM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The King of Marvin Gardens – Bob Rafelson – 1972 – 111 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Preceded by: “Organ Grinders Swing” (Fleischer Studios, 1937) – 7 min – 16mm
Note: This print has visible color fading. This screening is FREE

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Ninja III: The Domination – Sam Firstenberg – 1984 – 92 min
35mm from private collections
Presented by The Brewed

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Sunday 10/13

2:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
On the Move: Avant-Garde Dance Film & Road Movies
Seated Figures – Michael Snow – 1988 – 42 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Presented by Tone Glow

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Hours for Jerome – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1982 – 45 min
Ariel – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1983 – 16 min
New Shores – Jerome Hiler – 2014 – 35 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 10/14

7:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema
On the Move: Avant-Garde Dance Film & Road Movies
Highway Landscape – J.J. Murphy – 1972 – 7 min
Sound of One – Scott Bartlett – 1976 – 11 min
Hot Leatherette – Robert Nelson – 1967 – 5 min
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio – Jonas Mekas – 1965/1983 – 23 min
Dozer – Anna Geyer – 1999 – 15 min
Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street – Rudy Burckhardt – 1986 – 15 min
Light Years Expanding – Gunvor Nelson – 1988 – 25 min
Roseblood – Sharon Couzin – 1974 – 7 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Presented by Tone Glow

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Wednesday 10/16

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Trouble in Paradise – Ernst Lubitsch – 1932 – 83 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “The Pharmacist” (Arthur Ripley, 1933) – 19 min – 35mm

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Thursday 10/17

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real: Four by Robert Bresson
Lancelot du Lac – Robert Bresson – 1974 – 84 min
35mm

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Cinema Unbound – The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
The Elusive Pimpernel – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – 1950 – 109 min
35mm from the British Film Institute

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Friday 10/18

5:00 PM
Block Cinema
Background Echoes: Mexicanness and the Production of Race in Hollywood
Lecture-screening, featuring a selection of eleven 35mm trailers from the Academy Film Archive along with a presentation by Laura Isabel Serna

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Safe – Todd Haynes – 1995 – 119 min
35mm

7:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: 60th Chicago International Film Festival’s Kore-eda Hirokazu Tribute and Retrospective
Nobody Knows – Kore-eda Hirokazu – 2004 – 141 min
35mm from IFC Films
Director Kore-eda in attendence

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II – Bruce Pittman – 1987 – 94 min
35mm from private collections

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Saturday 10/19

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Chicago History Museum
Home Movie Day
Archivists and projectionists will be on hand to inspect and project a selection of YOUR celluloid home movies in 16mm, 8mm, or Super 8
Co-presented by the Chicago Film Archives and Chicago Film Society

Saturday at Noon – Sunday at Noon
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors 24-hour Marathon
The Spiral Staircase – Robert Siodmak – 1946
35mm from Disney
The Crazies – George Romero – 1973
35mm from private collections
The Haunted Palace – Roger Corman – 1963
35mm from Park Circus
Jaws – Steven Spielberg – 1975
35mm from Universal
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie – John Harrison – 1990
35mm from Paramount
Nightmare aka Nightmares From a Damaged Brain – Romano Scavoloni – 1981
35mm from private collections
Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper – 1982
35mm from Park Circus
The Comedy of Terrors – Jacques Tourneur – 1963
35mm from private collections
Films screening digitally are not listed.

7:30 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real – Four by Robert Bresson
Lancelot du Lac – Robert Bresson – 1974 – 84 min
35mm from the Institut français

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Safe – Todd Haynes – 1995 – 119 min
35mm

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Sunday 10/20

5:00 PM
Pilsen Community Books
On Our Land: Two Documentaries About Palestinian Displacement, Community, and Resistance
Women Under Siege – Marilyn Gaunt – 1982 – 26 min – 16mm
On Our Land – Antonia Caccia – 1981 – 55 min – 16mm
Presented by Tone Glow

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Pneuma – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1983 – 28 min
17 Reasons Why – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1987 – 19 min
Words of Mercury – Jerome Hiler – 2011 – 25 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Faust – F.W. Murnau – 1926 – 107 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
Live accompaniment by Maxx McGathey

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Monday 10/21

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
I Know What You Did Last Summer – Jim Gillespie – 1997 – 101 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Tuesday 10/22

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Echoes of Films by Women/Chicago ’74
A Question of Silence – Marleen Gorris – 1982 – 92 min
35mm from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

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Wednesday 10/23

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Mexican Romance – Through the Heart of the Nation
El Crimen del Padre Amaro – Carlos Carrera – 2002 – 118 min
35mm

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Thursday 10/24

5:00 PM
Chicago International Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet – 2024 – 215 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real – Four by Robert Bresson
The Devil, Probably – Robert Bresson – 1977 – 94 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Psychomania – Don Sharp – 1973 – 85 min
35mm from private collections
co-presented by Motoblot

9:45 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Orlando – Sally Potter – 1992 – 90 min
35mm

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Friday 10/25

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
Bunny Lake is Missing – Otto Preminger – 1965 – 107 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Earth and Ashes – Atiq Rahimi – 2004 – 102 min
35mm from Playtime
post-show conversation with visiting scholar Fazel Ahad Ahadi

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Orlando – Sally Potter – 1992 – 90 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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Saturday 10/26

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Capturing the Real – Four by Robert Bresson
The Devil, Probably – Robert Bresson – 1977 – 94 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 10/27

11:00 AM, 2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

5:00 PM
Logan Center for the Arts: Renaissance Society
Nahla – Farouk Beloufa – 1979 – 111 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
with artist Neïl Beloufa in attendance

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Triste – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1996 – 19 min
Variations – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1998 – 24 min
Alaya – Nathaniel Dorsky – 1987 – 28 min
Love’s Refrain – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2001 – 23 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
Don’t Look Now – Nicolas Roeg – 1973 – 110 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts
This print has moderately faded color

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Monday 10/28

3:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Workers of the World, Unite!
Harlan County, U.S.A. – Barbara Kopple – 1976 – 103 min
35mm from Janus Films

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Tuesday 10/29

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

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Wednesday 10/30

3:00 PM, 6:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Films by Women/Chicago ’74
No Master Territories: Feminist Short Films
Schmeergunz – Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley – 1965 – 15 min
16mm
Introduction and Q&A with guest curator Erika Balsom
Other shorts are screening digitally

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness

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🎃 Thursday 10/31 🎃

3:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Music Box of Horrors – The Dream Child
The House of the Devil – Ti West – 2009 – 95 min
35mm from Dark Sky Films

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Workers of the World, Unite!
Harlan County, U.S.A. – Barbara Kopple – 1976 – 103 min
35mm Janus Films

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

10:30 PM
Doc Films
Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi – 1987 – 84 min
35mm

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November 2024

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Friday 11/1

1:15 PM, 4:15 PM, 7:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
The Gate – Tibor Takács – 1987 – 85 min
35mm from private collections
presented by Metal Movie Night

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Saturday 11/2

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Dangerous Business – Elaine May Matinees
A New Leaf – Elaine May – 1971 – 102 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

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 11/3

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Dangerous Business – Elaine May Matinees
A New Leaf – Elaine May – 1971 – 102 min
35mm from Paramount Pictures

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Song and Solitude – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2006 – 21 min
Arbor Vitae – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2000 – 28 min
The Visitation – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2004 – 18 min
Threnody – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2004 – 25 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

8:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Patsy – King Vidor – 1928 – 84 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: Felix the Cat in “Pedigreedy” (Otto Messmer, 1928) – 7 min – 16mm
Live accompaniment by Jay Warren

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Monday 11/4

3:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

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Tuesday 11/5

3:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated
all 11/5 screenings of ANORA now DCP

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Propaganda & Counterculture Lecture Series
Missing – Costa-Gavras – 1982 – 122 min
35mm

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Wednesday 11/6

3:30 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated
all 11/6 screenings of ANORA now DCP

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Simple Men – Hal Hartley – 1992 – 105 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: Hal Hartley trailer reel – 10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 11/7

3:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated
all 11/7 screenings of ANORA now DCP

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Shinjuku Boys – Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams – 1995 – 53 min
16mm from the Academy Film Archive

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Friday 11/8

2:00 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center of the Arts
Zuckerbaby – Percy Adlon – 1985 – 86 min
35mm from the University of Chicago Film Studies Center

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Men in Black – Barry Sonnenfeld – 1997 – 98 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Saturday 11/9

1:55 PM, 4:15 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:40 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Men in Black – Barry Sonnenfeld – 1997 – 98 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

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Sunday 11/10

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Anora – Sean Baker – 2024 – 139 min
New 35mm print from Neon Rated

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
The Arboretum Cycle – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2017-2018 – 137 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 11/11

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the 1970s
The Last Detail – Hal Ashby – 1975 – 104 min
35mm
Now screening on DCP

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Tuesday 11/12

4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Decoding Kafka – A Cinematic Interpretation
Class Relations – Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet – 1984 – 127 min
35mm

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Wednesday 11/13

4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Doc Films
Corn – Larry Gottheim – 1970 – 11 min
Mouches Volantes – Larry Gottheim – 1976 – 66 min
16mm from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Followed by a Q&A with Larry Gottheim

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Moonlight and Pretzels – Karl Freund – 1933 – 80 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “Jammin’ the Blues” (Gjon Mili, 1944) – 10 min – 35mm

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Thursday 11/14

3:45 PM, 6:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

9:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee – 2005 – 134 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preshow drag performances

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories – A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Fireworks – Kenneth Anger – 1947 – 14 min
Scorpio Rising – Kenneth Anger – 1963 – 28 min
16mm

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Friday 11/15

1:45 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses – Larry Gottheim – 1987 – 16 min
16mm from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Tree of Knowledge – Larry Gottheim – 1981 – 58 min
Followed by a Q&A with Larry Gottheim

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia – Cassandras and Conspiracies
The Stepford Wives – Bryan Forbes – 1975 – 117 min
35mm

7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Not By Magic: Animated Films by Women from Serious Business Company
Bird – Sharon Hennessey – 1971 – 1 min – 16mm from Pratt Institute Library
Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads – Josie [Ramstad] Winship – 1976 – 1 min – 16mm from Pacific Film Archive
I Change, I Am the Same Alice – Anne Parker [Severson] – 1969 – 1 min – 16mm from Pacific Film Archive
Tub Film – Mary Beames – 1972 – 2 min – 16mm from Pacific Film Archive
Desire Pie – Lisa Crafts – 1976 – 5 min – 16mm from the filmmaker
The Doodlers – Kathy Rose – 1975 – 5 min – 16mm from Academy Film Archive
Crocus – Susan Pitt – 1971 – 7 min – 16mm from Academy Film Archive
Moon Breath Beat – Lisze Bechtold – 1980 – 5 min – 35mm from Academy Film Archive
Quasi at the Quackadero – Sally Cruickshank – 1976 – 10 min – 35mm from Academy Film Archive
Opening/Closing – Kathleen Laughlin – 1972 – 5 min – 16mm from Walker Arts Center
Interview – Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul – 1979 – 13 min – 16mm from Harvard Film Archive

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Lady Terminator – H. Tjut Djalil – 1989 – 82 min
35mm from UNCSA Moving Image Archive

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Animation Adventures
Fantasia – James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, and Ford Beebe Jr. – 1940 – 125 min
35mm from Disney

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Saturday 11/16

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Animation Adventures
Fantasia – James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, and Ford Beebe Jr. – 1940 – 125 min
35mm from Disney

2:10 PM, 4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

2:45 PM
Block Cinema: Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series
Rockers – Ed Counts – 1990 – 4 min – 16mm
Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Suns – Jodie Mack – 2021 – 5 min – 16mm
Part of a longer shorts program

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Lady Terminator – H. Tjut Djalil – 1989 – 82 min
35mm from UNCSA Moving Image Archive

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

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Sunday 11/17

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Dangerous Business – Elaine May Matinees
The Heartbreak Kid – Elaine May – 1972 – 106 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive

2:00 PM, 4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
August and After – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2012 – 19 min
Pastourelle – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2010 – 16 min
Intimations – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2015 – 18 min
Apricity – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2019 – 22 min
Colophon – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2018 – 14 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 11/18

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society: Two By Gottheim
Machete Gillette… Mama – Larry Gottheim – 1989 – 45 min
Your Television Traveler – Larry Gottheim – 1991/2024 – 18 min
16mm from the filmmaker
RSVP required, Larry Gottheim in person

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Little Murders – Alan Arkin – 1971 – 110 min
35mm from Disney
Post-film discussion with film historian/author Samm Deighan
Presented by Oscarbate

8:00 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the 1970s
Fat City – John Huston – 1972 100
35mm

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Tuesday 11/19

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

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Wednesday 11/20

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
All That Heaven Allows – Douglas Sirk – 1955 – 89 min
35mm from Universal Pictures
Preceded by: “Toccata for Toy Trains” (Charles & Ray Eames, 1957) – 14 min – 35mm from Library of Congress

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Thursday 11/21

4:15 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Heretic – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – 2024 – 110 min
New 35mm print from A24

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Friday 11/22

6:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
Batman – Tim Burton – 1989 – 126 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Headlines and Hearsay
Miss Jesus Fries on Grill – Dorothy Wiley – 1973 – 12 min
16mm from Light Cone
Part of a longer shorts program, other titles presented digitally

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
The People’s Joker – Vera Drew – 2022 – 95 min
35mm from Altered Innocence
Director in person for post-film Q&A

Midnight
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm – Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, & Frank Paur – 1993 – 76 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Saturday 11/23

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Dangerous Business – Elaine May Matinees
Ishtar – Elaine May – 1987 – 107 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

2:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
The People’s Joker – Vera Drew – 2022 – 95 min
35mm from Altered Innocence
Director in person for post-film Q&A

10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan – 2008 – 152 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Sunday 11/24

11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Dangerous Business – Elaine May Matinees
Ishtar – Elaine May – 1987 – 107 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

2:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm – Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, & Frank Paur – 1993 – 76 min
35mm from Park Circus

4:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
Batman – Tim Burton – 1989 – 126 min
35mm from Park Circus

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Sarabande – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2008 – 15 min
Compline – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2009 – 19 min
Aubade – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2010 – 12 min
Winter – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2008 – 22 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Monday 11/25

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Off Center – There Is Nowhere to Go But Here
Looking for Mushrooms – Bruce Conner – 1967 – 3 min
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G – Paul Sharits – 1969 – 12 min
Institutional Quality – Owen Land – 1969 – 5 min
Bleu Shut – Robert Nelson – 1971 – 33 min
This is It – James Broughton – 1971 – 10 min
16mm from the SAIC John M. Flaxman Library

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
Birth – Jonathan Glazer – 2004 – 100 min
35mm from Park Circus
Preceded by: Nicole Kidman trailer reel – 10 min – 35mm

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Tuesday 11/26

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Propaganda & Counterculture Lecture Series
The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo – 1966 – 121 min
35mm from Janus Films

7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities – A Celebration of Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Two Backed Beast, or The Critic Makes the Film – Peter Bull – 1978 – 45 min
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) – Michael Snow – 1976 – 15 min
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? – Owen Land – 1977 – 18 min
16mm from Jonathan Rosenbaum’s collection
Presented by Tone Glow

7:15 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan – 2008 – 152 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Thursday 11/27

7:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: I Am the Night
The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan – 2008 – 152 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections

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Friday 11/29

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Phantom of the Paradise – Brian DePalma – 1974 – 92 min
35mm from Disney

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Saturday 11/30

11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Phantom of the Paradise – Brian DePalma – 1974 – 92 min
35mm from Disney

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December 2024

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Sunday 12/1

Noon
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Meet Me in St. Louis – Vincente Minnelli – 1944 – 113 min
35mm from Park Circus

2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb)
It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra – 1946 – 140 min
35mm
presented with carbon arc projection

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Monday 12/2

7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at the Music Box Theatre
The Shop Around the Corner – Ernst Lubitsch – 1940 – 99 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Bargain Madness” (Dave O’Brien, 1951) – 9 min – 35mm

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the ’70s
Remember My Name – Alan Rudolph – 1978 – 94 min
35mm

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Tuesday 12/3

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Murder of Fred Hampton – Howard Alk – 1971 – 88 min
35mm from the Chicago Film Archives
new preservation

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Wednesday 12/4

6:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
The Music Man – Morton DaCosta – 1963 – 151 min
35mm from Park Circus

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Cooley High – Michael Schultz – 1975 – 107 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Thursday 12/5

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Subversive Histories: A Snapshot of Queer Cinema
Blue – Derek Jarman – 1993 – 79 min
35mm from Zeitgeist Films

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Friday 12/6

7:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia: Cassandras and Conspiracies
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock – 1940 – 130 min
35mm

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
American Movie – Chris Smith – 1999 – 107 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Classics

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Saturday 12/7

Noon
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
The Music Man – Morton DaCosta – 1963 – 151 min
35mm from Park Circus

3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
The Straight Story – David Lynch – 1999 – 112 min
35mm from Disney

4:00 PM
Doc Films: Women’s Paranoia: Cassandras and Conspiracies
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock – 1940 – 130 min
35mm

9:30 PM
Doc Films: Columbia Pictures in the ’70s
Remember My Name – Alan Rudolph – 1978 – 94 min
35mm

Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Gremlins – Joe Dante – 1984 – 106 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Sunday 12/8

Noon
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Nebraska – Alexander Payne – 2013 – 115 min
35mm from Paramount

1:00 PM
Sweet Void Cinema: Untraceable Pleasures: A Complete Will Hindle Retrospective
Pastorale D’Ete – 1958 – 9 min
Non Catholicam – 1963 – 10 min
FFFTCM – 1967 – 5 min
Billabong – 1969 – 9 min
Watersmith – 1969 – 32 min
29: Merci Merci – 1966 – 30 min
Chinese Firedrill – 1968 – 25 min
Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air – 1970 – 12 min
Later That Same Night – 1971 – 10 min
Pasteur 3 – 1976 – 22 min
Trekkerriff – 1985/1987 – 9 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Presented by Tone Glow

8:00 PM
Doc Films: The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Caracole (for Izcari) – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2023 – 18 min
Canticles – Nathaniel Dorsky – 2020 – 16 min
Ruling Star – Jerome Hiler – 2019 – 22 min
Marginalia – Jerome Hiler – 2015 – 23 min
Careless Passage – Jerome Hiler – 2024 – 20 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema

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Wednesday 12/11

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Meet Me in St. Louis – Vincente Minnelli – 1944 – 113 min
35mm from Park Circus

7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Curse of the Cat People – Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise – 1944 – 70 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “I Taw a Putty Tat” (Friz Freleng, 1948) – 7 min – 35m

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Nebraska – Alexander Payne – 2013 – 115 min
35mm from Paramount

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Thursday 12/12

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Video Data Bank Presents: Roundabout featuring Light Cone
Nipkow TV – Christian Hossner – 1998 – 7 min
Blind Light – Sarah Pucill – 2007 – 21 min
Quando l’occhio trema – Paolo Gioli – 1988 – 11 min
all 16mm from Light Cone
part of a longer shorts program

8:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
The Straight Story – David Lynch – 1999 – 112 min
35mm from Disney

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Saturday 12/14

4:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
American Movie – Chris Smith – 1999 – 107 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Classics

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Sunday 12/15

2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Heartland
Cooley High – Michael Schultz – 1975 – 107 min
35mm from Park Circus

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Tuesday 12/17

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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Thursday 12/19

4:00 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Alternative Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol – Brian Henson – 1992 – 85 min
35mm from Park Circus

9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Mystery screening!
We can’t tell you what it is, but we can tell you it’s on 35mm…
Programmed by The Front Row

9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Rated Q
Scooby Doo – Raja Gosnell – 2002 – 86 min
35mm from Park Circus
Presented by Rated Q and Ramona Slick, drag show before the film

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December 7 – 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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December 9 – December 21

**Exhibit**
Sound Bleeds (Peixuan Yang, 2024) – 16mm loop
Currently on view at Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL

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Saturday 12/21

8:00 PM
Fitzgerald’s Night Club
Chris and Heather’s Country Calendar Show
Live music + 16mm films from the collection of Heather McAdams and Chris Ligon
This event is SOLD OUT! Try again next year.

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Wednesday 12/25

3:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

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Thursday 12/26

12:30 PM, 3:40 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

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Friday 12/27

12:45 PM, 3:45 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:15 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

7:00 PM
Sweet Void: The End is Here – Modulating the Sublime
While Revolved – Vincent Grenier – 1976 – 9 min
Interieur Interiors (To A-K) – Vincent Grenier – 1978 – 15 min
Closer Outside – Vincent Grenier – 1981 – 9 min
World in Focus – Vincent Grenier – 1976 – 16 min
Time’s Wake (Once Removed) – Vincent Grenier – 1978 – 12 min
Tremors – Vincent Grenier – 1984 – 13 min
16mm from the Filmmakers’ Coop
Presented by Tone Glow

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Saturday 12/28

1:45 PM, 4:45 PM, 7:45 PM, 10:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

7:00 PM
Sweet Void: The End is Here: Seeing the Light
Berlin Horse – Malcolm Le Grice – 1970 – 7 min
Print Generation – J.J. Murphy – 1974 – 50 min
16mm
Presented by Tone Glow

8:30 PM
Sweet Void: The End is Here: Seeing the Light
The Shores of Pho: A Fable – Stan Brakhage – 1972 – 10 min
The Text of Light – Stan Brakhage – 1974 – 67 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Presented by Tone Glow

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Sunday 12/29

2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 8:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

7:00 PM
Sweet Void: The End is Here: Impermanent Tableau
Breakfast – Patrick Bokanowski – 1974 – 12 min
Déjeuner du matin – Patrick Bokanowski – 1974 – 12 min
L’Ange – Patrick Bokanowski – 1982 – 70 min
Presented by Tone Glow

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Monday 12/30

1:15 PM, 4:00 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Off Center
Uzi’s Party – Lark Lyra Lou Hill – 2015 – 31 min
16mm from the filmmaker
Presented with other shorts screened digitally, filmmaker in person

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Tuesday 12/31

1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers – 2024 – 132 min
New 35mm print from Focus Features

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