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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 01/08/2026

I AM CUBA on 35mm - Sunday 8/2 at 5pm at the Siskel Film Center “They’re going to be carrying ravished film students out of the theaters on stretchers.” – Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 12/07/2026

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH + Bruce Baillie’s ALL MY LIFE. Join us for a life-affirming show this tonight at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Both on film.

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 24/06/2026

I MARRIED A WITCH this Thursday 6/25 at 6:00 PM at the Siskel Film Center! 35mm print introduced by Andrew Whitmore, Archives Technician at the Library of Congress.

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 03/06/2026

35mm frames from THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, presented by CFS this Sunday 6/7 at 11:30 AM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 31/05/2026

CFS summer booklets are here! Pick one up in person at one of our upcoming screenings. FLY AWAY HOME - This Sunday at the Siskel Film Center or THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - June 7 at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 20/05/2026

We’re breaking CFS’s very own 35mm print of BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA out of the vault for a 30th anniversary screening! Preceded by a rare 16mm print of Wes Archer’s JAC MAC AND RAD BOY GO!, a key influence on Mike Judge’s early career. Monday at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 13/05/2026

Salomé - Saturday 5/16 at 11:30 AM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ! Screening in an archival 35mm print with live accompaniment by the incredible MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble “a hothouse orchid of decadent passion… You have your warning: this is bizarre stuff”. - Photoplay

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 01/05/2026

Come squander your money at the theater with Pre-Code Picture Party this weekend! 8 spicy pre-Code films (and shorts!) all on 35mm, Friday May 1 - Sunday May 3 at the Logan Center for the Arts (Film Studies Center). www.chicagofilmsociety.org

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 28/04/2026

Pre-Code Picture Party is this Friday - Sunday at the Film Studies Center! Join us for a weekend of wise cracks, risque ripostes, obscure topical references, and unforgettable musical numbers, all on 35mm! www.chicagofilmsociety.org

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 17/04/2026

Albert Brooks’s REAL LIFE on 35mm, this Saturday 4/18 at 11:30 AM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social With special guest, film critic A.S. Hamrah!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 01/04/2026

Join us Monday April 6 at 6:30 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for a very special screening of REDS on 35mm!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 23/11/2025

R.W. Fassbinder’s FEAR OF FEAR on 35mm, this Tuesday 11/25 at 6pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 15/11/2025

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!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 08/11/2025

CFS open house is this Sunday! Come see us!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 19/10/2025

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 !

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 15/09/2025

Celluloid Now 2025 program just announced! celluloidnow.org/2025-program/

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 28/08/2025

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...

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 03/08/2025

Alexander Dovzhenko‘s EARTH on 35mm w/ live accompaniment by Whine Cave. Tonight at 7pm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 31/07/2025

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!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 16/06/2025

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

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 06/06/2025

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.

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 06/06/2025

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.

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 06/06/2025

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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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 06/06/2025

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…

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 30/05/2025

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

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 07/05/2025

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.

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 27/04/2025

DAISIES on 35mm - Wednesday 4/30 at 7:00 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social Preceded by a tonally-related cartoon!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 03/04/2025

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!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 25/03/2025

Frank Borzage’s HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT on 35mm this Wednesday 3/26 at Northeastern Illinois University at 7:30 PM!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 15/03/2025

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!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 09/03/2025

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

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 24/02/2025

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!

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 10/02/2025

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!