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Friday 1/24
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Modernity in Indian Cinema
A Night with the Shabistan Film Archive
Rare 35mm reels from the collection of the Shabistan Film Archive, presented by executive director David Farris and operations director David Boyk
7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts
Fragment of an Empire — Fridrikh Ermler — 1928 — 109 min
35mm from SFSFF Collection, Library of Congress
Introduced by curator Peter Bagrov, live accompaniment by Donald Sosin
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Room — Tommy Wiseau — 2003 — 99 min
35mm from Wiseau-Films
Saturday 1/25
4:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Cinema of Juraj Herz
Caught by Night — Juraj Herz — 1985 — 130 min
35mm from the Czech National Film Archive
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
Rocky Horror Picture Show — Jim Sharman — 1975 — 100 min
35mm from 20th Century Fox
Live shadow-cast by Midnight Madness
Sunday 1/26
2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb) : Classic Film Series
Casablanca — Michael Curtiz — 1942 — 102 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Monday 1/27
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Portrait of Jennie — William Dieterle — 1948 — 86 min
35mm from Disney
Preceded by: “Closed Mondays” (Bob Gardiner, Will Vinton, 1974) – 8 min – 35mm
Tuesday 1/28
7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre: Time, Space, and Memory on the Road
Wendy and Lucy — Kelly Reichardt — 2008 — 80 min
35mm
Co-presented by DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts
Wednesday 1/29
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Freud — John Huston — 1962 — 140 min
35mm from Universal
Preceded by: “Sh-h-h-h-h” (Tex Avery, 1955) – 6 min – 16mm
Thursday 1/30
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: The Cinema of Juraj Herz
Caught by Night — Juraj Herz — 1985 — 130 min
35mm from the Czech National Film Archive
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Movies and Media Madness
They Live — John Carpenter — 1988 — 94 min
35mm from Universal
Friday 1/31
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Hidden Figures
Twice as Nice — Jesse Maple — 1989 — 70 min
16mm from the Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University
filmmaker in person
7:00 PM
Doc Films: A Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
The Hole — Tsai Ming-liang— 1998 — 95 min
35mm
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Overachievers – Musicians in Film
Cry Baby — John Waters — 1990 — 85 min
35mm
Saturday 2/1
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Studio Ghibli Matinees
Whisper of the Heart — Yoshifumi Kondo — 1995 — 111 min
35mm from GKIDS
3:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Love & Basketball — Gina Prince-Bythewood — 2000 — 124 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Overachievers – Musicians in Film
Cry Baby — John Waters — 1990 — 85 min
35mm
Sunday 2/2
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Studio Ghibli Matinees
Whisper of the Heart — Yoshifumi Kondo — 1995 — 111 min
35mm from GKIDS
1:30 PM
Doc Films: A Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
The Hole — Tsai Ming-liang— 1998 — 95 min
35mm
Monday 2/3
Tuesday 2/4
Wednesday 2/5
8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Love & Basketball — Gina Prince-Bythewood — 2000 — 124 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Thursday 2/6
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Movies as Birth Control
The Bad Seed — Mervyn LeRoy — 1956 — 129 min
35mm
Friday 2/7
2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Ninotchka — Ernst Lubitsch — 1939 — 110 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Swing Time — George Stevens — 1936 — 103 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
7:00 PM
Doc Films: A Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
What Time is it There? — Tsai Ming-liang— 2001 — 116 min
35mm from the Yale Film Archive
7:00 PM
Film Studies Center at the Logan Center for the Arts: Devotional Form: Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
Hours for Jerome — Nathaniel Dorsky — 1982
Alaya — Nathaniel Dorsky — 1987
Triste — Nathaniel Dorsky — 1996
16m from Canyon Cinema
8:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Fringe Benefits
Hi, Mom! — Brian De Palma — 1970 — 87 min
35mm from Park Circus
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Overachievers – Musicians in Film
Mars Attacks — Tim Burton — 1996 — 106 min
35mm
Saturday 2/8
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Studio Ghibli Matinees
The Cat Returns — Hiroyuki Morita — 2002 — 75 min
35mm from GKIDS
3:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Ninotchka — Ernst Lubitsch — 1939 — 110 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
5:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Swing Time — George Stevens — 1936 — 103 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Overachievers – Musicians in Film
Mars Attacks — Tim Burton — 1996 — 106 min
35mm
Sunday 2/9
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Studio Ghibli Matinees
The Cat Returns — Hiroyuki Morita — 2002 — 75 min
35mm from GKIDS
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Uzi’s Party — Lyra Hill — 2017 — 30 min
16mm from Lyra Hill
Film screening is part of the event “An Evening of Music and Film with Spektral Quartet, Alex Temple, & Julia Holter” More info here.
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Personal Vs. Political
Le Petit Soldat — Jean-Luc Godard — 1963 — 88 min
35mm
Monday 2/10
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Swing Time — George Stevens — 1936 — 103 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Lost Chicago
The Spook Who Sat by the Door — Ivan Dixon — 1973 — 102 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Disco Godfather — J. Robert Wagoner — 1979 — 93 min
35mm from University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Preceded by: Blaxploitation trailer reel – 35mm
Co-presented by CHIRP 107.1 FM
Tuesday 2/11
Wednesday 2/12
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Ninotchka — Ernst Lubitsch — 1939 — 110 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Selections from the Golestan Film Workshop
Wave, Coral, and Rock — Ebrahim Golestan — 1961 — 40 min
16mm from the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago
Part of a longer shorts program
7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Doc Films: Lupino-palooza
Outrage — Ida Lupino — 1950 — 75 min
35mm
Thursday 2/13
6:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Fringe Benefits
Hi, Mom! — Brian De Palma — 1970 — 87 min
35mm from Park Circus
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Approaches to Film Sound
Electro-Pythagoras (A Portrait of Martin Barlett) — Luke Fowler — 2017
40 min — 35mm from Lux
In Person: Sound designer Ernst Karel
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Movies as Birth Control
The Brood — David Cronenberg — 1979 — 92 min
35mm
Friday 2/14
3:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: From Asia with Love
Lady Vengeance — Park Chan-wook — 2005 — 115 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Before Sunrise — Richard Linklater — 1995 — 101 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
7:00 PM
Doc Films: A Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
The Wayward Cloud — Tsai Ming-liang— 2005 — 116 min
35mm
Saturday 2/15
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Silent Cinema (programmed and co-presented by Chicago Film Society)
Bare Knees — Erle C. Kenton — 1928 — 61 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Ginger Snaps” (Charles Lamont, 1929) – 20 min – 16mm
Live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
4:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Before Sunrise — Richard Linklater — 1995 — 101 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Sunday 2/16
1:30 PM
Doc Films: A Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
The Wayward Cloud — Tsai Ming-liang— 2005 — 116 min
35mm
2:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Casablanca — Michael Curtiz — 1942 — 102 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Preceded by a pre-show sing-a-long
Monday 2/17
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Lost Chicago
Medium Cool — Haskell Wexler — 1969 — 111 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
Tuesday 2/18
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: From Asia with Love
Lady Vengeance — Park Chan-wook — 2005 — 115 min
35mm from Kino Lorber
Wednesday 2/19
7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Doc Films: Lupino-palooza
Private Hell 36 — Don Siegel — 1954 — 81 min
35mm
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Angel Face — Otto Preminger — 1953 — 91 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Preceded by: “Sniffy Escapes Poisoning” (Barry Duncan, 1967) – 6 min – 16mm
Thursday 2/20
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Movies and Media Madness
Being There — Hal Ashby — 1979 — 130 min
35mm
8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
Before Sunrise — Richard Linklater — 1995 — 101 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
9:30 PM
Doc Films: Movies as Birth Control
The Orphanage — J.A. Bayona — 2007 — 105 min
35mm
Friday 2/21
2:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: From Asia with Love
Mother — Bong Joon-ho — 2009 — 129 min
35mm from Magnolia Pictures
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán — 2010 — 90 min
35mm from Icarus Films
Saturday 2/22
2:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán — 2010 — 90 min
35mm from Icarus Films
4:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
I Know Where I’m Going! — Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945 — 91 min
35mm from Park Circus
9:30 PM
Doc Films
An Angel at My Table — Jane Campion — 1990 — 158 min
35mm from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Sunday 2/23
2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb): Classic Film Series
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves — David Hand — 1938 — 83 min
35mm
2:00 PM
Beverly Arts Center
The Goonies — Richard Donner — 1985 — 116 min
35mm
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The Personal Vs. Political
Paradise Now — Hany Abu-Assad — 2005 — 93 min
35mm
Monday 2/24
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: A Fine Romance
I Know Where I’m Going! — Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945 — 91 min
35mm from Park Circus
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Lost Chicago
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer — John McNoughton — 1986 — 83 min
35mm
7:45 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán — 2010 — 90 min
35mm from Icarus Films
Tuesday 2/25
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: From Asia with Love
Mother — Bong Joon-ho — 2009 — 129 min
35mm from Magnolia Pictures
Wednesday 2/26
7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Doc Films: Lupino-palooza
On Dangerous Ground — Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray — 1951 — 96 min
35mm
Thursday 2/27
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Hidden Figures
Compensation — Zeinabu irene Davis — 1999 — 95 min
16mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Movies and Media Madness
No — Pablo Larraín — 2012 — 118 min
35mm
Friday 2/28
Saturday 2/29
Sunday 3/1
Monday 3/2
Tuesday 3/3
Wednesday 3/4
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul — 2010 — 113 min
35mm from Strand Releasing
Preceded by: “Blanket Statement #2: It’s All or Nothing” (Jodie Mack, 2013) – 4 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
Thursday 3/5
Friday 3/6
Saturday 3/7
Sunday 3/8
Monday 3/9
Tuesday 3/10
Wednesday 3/11
Thursday 3/12
Friday 3/13
Saturday 3/14
Sunday 3/15
Monday 3/16
Tuesday 3/17
Wednesday 3/18
Thursday 3/19
Friday 3/20
Saturday 3/21
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Silent Cinema (programmed and co-presented by Chicago Film Society)
Traffic in Souls — George Loane Tucker — 1913 — 81 min
35mm from the Library of Congress
Preceded by: “Love, Speed and Thrills” (Walter Wright, 1915) – 13 min – 16mm
Live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
Sunday 3/22
Monday 3/23
Tuesday 3/24
Wednesday 3/25
Thursday 3/26
Friday 3/27
Saturday 3/28
Sunday 3/29
2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb): Classic Film Series
Gone With the Wind — Victor Fleming — 1939 — 221 min
35mm
Monday 3/30
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
Shy People — Andrei Konchalovsky — 1987 — 118 min
35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Preceded by: “Kudzu” (Marjorie Anne Short, 1977) – 16 min – 16mm
Tuesday 3/31
Wednesday 4/1
Thursday 4/2
Friday 4/3
Saturday 4/4
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Silent Cinema (programmed and co-presented by Chicago Film Society)
In Spring — Mikhail Kaufman — 1929 — 60 min
35mm from Yale University Film Archive
Preceded by: “Felix Comes Back” (Otto Mesmer, 1922) – 7 min – 16mm
Live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
Sunday 4/5
2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb): Classic Film Series
The Sound of Music — Robert Wise — 1965 — 174 min
35mm
Monday 4/6
Tuesday 4/7
Wednesday 4/8
Thursday 4/9
Friday 4/10
Saturday 4/11
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Chicago Filmmakers: Six American Families
The Pasciak Family of Chicago — Mark Obenhaus — 1977 — 58 min
The Burkes of Georgia — Albert and David Maysles — 1978 — 55 min
16mm from Chicago Film Society Collections
Sunday 4/12
Monday 4/13
Tuesday 4/14
Wednesday 4/15
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
The Trial of Vivienne Ware — William K. Howard — 1932 — 56 min
New 35mm print from MoMA
Preceded by: The Three Stooges in “Microphonies” (Edward Bernds, 1945) – 17 – 16mm
Thursday 4/16
Friday 4/17
Saturday 4/18
Sunday 4/19
Monday 4/20
Tuesday 4/21
Wednesday 4/22
Thursday 4/23
Friday 4/24
Saturday 4/25
Sunday 4/26
Monday 4/27
7:00 PM
Chicago Film Society at Music Box Theatre
The Masque of the Red Death — Roger Corman — 1964 — 90 min
New 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive
Preceded by: “Bimbo’s Initiation” (Fleischer Studios, 1931) – 16mm – 7 min
Tuesday 4/28
Wednesday 4/29
Thursday 4/30
Friday 5/1
Saturday 5/2
Sunday 5/3
Monday 5/4
Tuesday 5/5
Wednesday 5/6
Thursday 5/7
Friday 5/8
Saturday 5/9
Sunday 5/10
Monday 5/11
Tuesday 5/12
Wednesday 5/13
Thursday 5/14
Friday 5/15
Saturday 5/16
Sunday 5/17
2:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre (Dekalb): Classic Film Series
Raiders of the Lost Ark — Steven Spielberg — 1981 — 115 min
35mm
Monday 5/18
Tuesday 5/19
Wednesday 5/20
Thursday 5/21
Friday 5/22
Saturday 5/23
Sunday 5/24
Monday 5/25
Tuesday 5/26
Wednesday 5/27
Thursday 5/28
Friday 5/29
Saturday 5/30
Sunday 5/31
Monday 6/1
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Wednesday 6/3
Thursday 6/4
Friday 6/5
Saturday 6/6
Sunday 6/7
Monday 6/8
Tuesday 6/9
Wednesday 6/10
Thursday 6/11
Friday 6/12
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Sunday 6/14
Monday 6/15
Tuesday 6/16
Wednesday 6/17
Thursday 6/18
Friday 6/19
Saturday 6/20
Sunday 6/21
Monday 6/22
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Wednesday 6/24
Thursday 6/25
Friday 6/26
Saturday 6/27
Sunday 6/28
Monday 6/29
Tuesday 6/30
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