Always check for last-minute changes. Our information comes from exhibitor websites, printed programs, programmers, and projectionists. We strive for accuracy, but things can move fast in filmland!
Friday 9/27
7:00 PM
filmfront: The Gate Theatre Festival 1966/2019
Moddle Toddle — Bob Cowan — 1967 — 5 min
The Secret World of Wendel Sampson — Mike Kuchar — 1966 — 33 min
Corruption of the Damned — George Kuchar — 1965 — 45 min
16mm prints from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Metal Movie Nights
In the Mouth of Madness — John Carpenter — 1994 — 94 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Saturday 9/28
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: The Inimitable Doris Day
The Man Who Knew Too Much — Alfred Hitchcock — 1956 — 120 min
35mm from Universal
7:00 PM
filmfront: The Gate Theatre Festival 1966/2019
Black Plus-X — Aldo Tambellini — 1966 — 8.5 min
Time of the Locust — Peter Gessner — 1966 — 12 min
Let it Shine — Abbe Borov — 1968 — 22 min
Quixote — Bruce Baillie — 1965 — 45 min
16mm prints from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, except for “Black Plus-X” from Harvard Film Archive
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Metal Movie Nights
In the Mouth of Madness — John Carpenter — 1994 — 94 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Sunday 9/29
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: The Inimitable Doris Day
The Man Who Knew Too Much — Alfred Hitchcock — 1956 — 120 min
35mm from Universal
7:00 PM
filmfront: The Gate Theatre Festival 1966/2019
Nothing Happened This Morning — David Bienstock — 1965 — 21 min
Rosebud — Mark Sadan — 1966 — 5 min
Anma/ The Masseur — Takahiko Iimura — 1965 — 13 min
Spherical Space no. 1 — Stan VanDerBeek — 1967 — 5 min
Totem — Ed Emshwiller — 1963 — 16 min
16mm prints from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
Monday 9/30
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Miracle Mile — Steve De Jarnatt — 1988 — 87 min
35mm print from Park Circus
Preceded by: Journey to Tomorrow: Communication (Fern Field, 1983) – 18 min – 16mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
7:00 PM
filmfront: The Gate Theatre Festival 1966/2019
Hurry! Hurry! — Marie Menken — 1957 — 3 min
Musashino — Yoichi Takabayashi — 1965 — 15 min
Peyote Queen — Storm De Hirsch — 1965 — 9 min
Black Is — Aldo Tambellini — 1965 — 4 min
Le Parc — Jud Yalkut — 1966 — 4 min
The Very Eye of Night — Maya Deren — 1958 — 16 min
16mm prints from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, except for “Black Is” from Harvard Film Archive
Tuesday 10/1
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Fairytales Revisited
Beauty and the Beast — Jean Cocteau — 1946 — 93 min
35mm from Janus Films
Wednesday 10/2
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Hell to Eternity — Phil Karlson — 1960 — 131 min
35mm print from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: Frank Sinatra in “The House I Live In” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1945) – 11 min – 16mm from private collections
Thursday 10/3
4:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 11:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Joker — Todd Phillips — 2019 — 122 min
70mm from Warner Brothers
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Ism Ism Ism: Dialogues with Che
Diálogo con el Che (Dialogue with Che) — José Rodriguez Soltero — 1968 — 53 min — Dual 16mm Projection
part of a longer shorts program, 16mm print from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Hollywood Pop Music Soundtrack
American Graffiti — George Lucas — 1973 — 110 min
35mm from Universal
9:30 PM
Doc Films: The Evolution of the Vampire Movie
Vampyr — Carl Theodor Dreyer — 1932 — 75 min
35mm