Chicago Film Society
Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011
- New CFS Season starts in a few weeks with a Lubitsch silent w/ live piano on 2/12 & our 15th anniversary screening of WRITTEN ON THE WIND on 2/17! Full schedule: www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...
- R.W. Fassbinder’s FEAR OF FEAR on 35mm, this Tuesday 11/25 at 6pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center!
- Mikio Naruse’s EVERY-NIGHT DREAMS screens Sunday at 11:30 AM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ! Imported 35mm print from Japan! Live musical accompaniment by MIYUMI project!
- CFS open house is this Sunday! Come see us!
- Our spooky season screening of Bob Balaban’s PARENTS on 35mm + Heather McAdams’s FETAL PIG ANATOMY on 16mm, is tonight at 8:45 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social !
- Celluloid Now 2025 program just announced! celluloidnow.org/2025-program/
- New CFS season is bookended by villains Erich von Stroheim on September 14 and Lon Chaney on December 16, with some good guys in between: www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...
- Alexander Dovzhenko‘s EARTH on 35mm w/ live accompaniment by Whine Cave. Tonight at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
- Don’t miss a rare 35mm screening of Alexander Dovzhenko’s EARTH this Sunday at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Live musical accompaniment by Whine Cave (who also accompanied our screening of THE UNKNOWN this past winter). Not to be missed!
- Mikio Naruse’s WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS this Tuesday at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Rare imported 35mm print from the Japan Foundation! “Mikio Naruse’s style is like a great river with a calm surface, and a raging current in its depths.” - Akira Kurosawa
- Our monthly silent series is a mix of established classics, new restorations, and titles ripe for rediscovery. Sunday's feature at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social , Alias Jimmy Valentine, is one of the latter, but you shouldn't sleep on it. One of the key works of Maurice Tourneur…
- …the French director who made his mark during a formative period of American silent cinema. While other filmmakers were working out the narrative grammar that we still recognize today, Tourneur was aiming for something more ethereal and delicate--a glorious, unhurried private world.
- This is a pioneering gangster film, but it's a wispy and lyrical one. Indeed, Jimmy's great criminal specialty is not his trigger finger, but his sensitivity to the world around him.
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View full threadTourneur made films to be savored and get lost in, and the gorgeous tinted 35mm print of Alias Jimmy Valentine from the Library of Congress shows Tourneur's art in full flower.
- John Ford’s MY DARLING CLEMENTINE screens in a pristine 35mm print we spent nearly a year trying to confirm - Saturday at 2pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
- CORN'S-A-POPPIN' This Wed at NEIU (our penultimate show there)! From the creative mind that brought you Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park comes everyone’s favorite musical about popcorn, hog-calling, and corporate sabotage.
- The first film restored by CFS, Corn’s-A-Poppin’ returns to the big screen after a decade in the vault. Not available on disc or streaming!
- DAISIES on 35mm - Wednesday 4/30 at 7:00 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Preceded by a tonally-related cartoon!
- SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT screening in a rare original 35mm print courtesy of the byNWR Collection at the Academy Film Archive. Wednesday 4/9 at 7:30 PM at NEIU. Not to be missed!
- Frank Borzage’s HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT on 35mm this Wednesday 3/26 at Northeastern Illinois University at 7:30 PM!
- THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT + ROUTEMASTER - THEATER OF THE MOTOR This Monday 3/17 at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Both screening in pristine 35mm prints!
- This Monday Night: Oscar Micheaux’s THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED with live accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb Jr. Trio. 35mm restoration from MoMA! 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
- R.I.P “Jay Warren”. A true showman and a wonderful friend to CFS over the years. chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
- Paul Schrader’s LIGHT OF DAY screens this Wednesday at 7:30 PM at NEIU. 35mm print! Starring Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands, Michael J. Fox, and the Chicago suburbs!
- Guy Maddin discusses THE UNKNOWN, his “favorite film of all time, also the most romantically sadomasochistic film of all time”. See it this Sunday at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ! silentfilm.org/25-years-int...
- We’re presenting Tod Browning’s THE UNKNOWN in a newly restored 35mm print with live original score performed by Whine Cave. This Sunday at 7:15 PM at the Music Box Theatre!
- This gorgeous 35mm print of CHOOSE ME screens tonight at 7:30 PM at NEIU. See you there!
- Alan Rudolph’s CHOOSE ME in 35mm this Wednesday night at 7:30 PM at NEIU 💋
- Join us TONITE (1/29) @7:30 for Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG. Screening in a 35mm print from our own collection!
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