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Screening 35mm, 16mm, and the assorted larger and smaller -mms since 2011

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
From tomorrow through Sunday, @chicagofilmsociety.org presents Technicolor Weekend ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Good morning, good morning to Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly in Stanley Donen’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952).
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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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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wrote about @chicagofilmsociety.org’s most recent screening of Corn’s-A-Poppin’
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Best movie screening to help send off Chicago Film Society from its longtime home at Northeastern Illinois University's auditorium - Chicago Reader
In 2013, CFS received a National Film Preservation Foundation grant to restore Corn’s-A-Poppin’, which became the nonprofit’s first preservation project.
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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
with the new season just around the corner I finally updated the @chicagofilmsociety.org complete screening list. fyi this is an insane list of movies to marvel at and/or use as a guide to classic and overlooked gems... letterboxd.com/marshlandz/l...
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Chicago Film Society / Classic Film Series Complete List, 2011-present
A complete list of every film screened in the "Classic Film Series" by the Chicago Film Society, formerly known as the Northwest Chicago Film Society, from 2011-present. The list is in chronological s...
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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 28/01/2026
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...
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Current Season – Chicago Film Society
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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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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🎞️ @chicagofilmsociety.org presents Mikio Naruse's EVERY-NIGHT DREAMS, on a 35MM print imported from Japan. Featuring Live Musical Accompaniment by the MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble🎶 Sunday November 16th at 11:30am Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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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 Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 22/10/2025
Chicago Home Movie Day is coming up on Saturday, November 1 at the @chicagomuseum.bsky.social! Our staff archivists and projectionists from @chicagofilmsociety.org will be on hand to inspect and project a selection of YOUR celluloid home movies in 16mm, 8mm, or Super 8. More details here!
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Chicago Home Movie Day 2025 - Chicago Film Archives
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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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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🎞35MM Frames from Bob Balaban's PARENTS🎞 @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a rare screening of the late-80s suburban horror-comedy starring Randy Quaid! This Sunday October 19th at 8:45pm - Part of MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS: DEAD AND LOVING IT Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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Jeff Lambert @jefferylambert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Very excited that 8 more Heather McAdams films will be preserved by @chicagofilmsociety.org. If you caught the screenings of her previously preserved works earlier this year, you know we are in for a treat when these new 16mm gems emerge on the screen.
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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 08/10/2025
Thank you Jeff! ♥️
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Well, that was a hoot! Here’s Heather McAdams and Chris Ligon introducing their extravaganza.
Heather McAdams holds up a box labeled “What was your favorite film?”Chris Ligon reaches out to a reel of film held by Heather McAdams.Chris Ligon with movie film wrapped around his hands.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The @chicagofilmsociety.org's fall calendar booklet has a timely cover, promoting the 7 p.m. Nov. 11 screening of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. RIP Robert Redford. www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...
A photo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman sitting together on a horse appears on the Chicago Film Society's cover for September to December 2025.
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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 · 12/09/2025
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a 35MM screening of Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut BLIND HUSBANDS this Sunday at 11:30am! 🎶Live Musical Accompaniment by David Drazin🎶 Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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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
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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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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🎞️35MM Frames from Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1930 Soviet silent film EARTH🎞️ @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a special screening, featuring Live Musical Accompaniment by Whine Cave, this Sunday August 3rd at 7pm! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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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
…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.
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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
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!
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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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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
CELLULOID CHICAGO Listing of film-on-film screenings in and around Chicago 😻 Thank you @chicagofilmsociety.org www.celluloidchicago.org
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Celluloid Chicago – Listing film-on-film screenings in Chicago
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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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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Oscar Micheaux’s THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED (1920), with live musical accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb Jr Trio! Monday March 10th at 7pm -- Presented by @chicagofilmsociety.org in a 35mm print Get Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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