Chicago Film Society
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Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011
R.W. Fassbinder’s FEAR OF FEAR on 35mm, this Tuesday 11/25 at 6pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center!
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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!
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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 !
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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/
September 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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...
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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
August 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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!
Live musical accompaniment by Whine Cave (who also accompanied our screening of THE UNKNOWN this past winter). Not to be missed!
July 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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!
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
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
June 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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
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
Tourneur 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.
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tourneur 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.
Tourneur's films were complete aesthetic experiences using all of the tools of an increasingly popular art, inclusive of their color tints and their intertitles. Many are lost, and several that do survive today provide, at best, only a frail approximation of the full impact they had when new.
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tourneur's films were complete aesthetic experiences using all of the tools of an increasingly popular art, inclusive of their color tints and their intertitles. Many are lost, and several that do survive today provide, at best, only a frail approximation of the full impact they had when new.
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.
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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…
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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…
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
May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
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.
May 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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.
DAISIES on 35mm - Wednesday 4/30 at 7:00 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Preceded by a tonally-related cartoon!
Preceded by a tonally-related cartoon!
April 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
DAISIES on 35mm - Wednesday 4/30 at 7:00 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Preceded by a tonally-related cartoon!
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!
April 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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!
March 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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 3/17 at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Both screening in pristine 35mm prints!
March 15, 2025 at 9:46 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 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
March 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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
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!
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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!
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!
February 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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!
February 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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 💋
February 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Alan Rudolph’s CHOOSE ME in 35mm this Wednesday night at 7:30 PM at NEIU 💋