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!

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

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.

I wrote about @chicagofilmsociety.org’s most recent screening of Corn’s-A-Poppin’

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...

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...

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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!

🎞️ @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
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CFS open house is this Sunday! Come see us!

Chicago Home Movie Day 2025 - Chicago Film Archives

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!

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 !

🎞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

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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.

Thank you Jeff! ♥️

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.

Well, that was a hoot! Here’s Heather McAdams and Chris Ligon introducing their extravaganza.

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.

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...

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

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🎶

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

🎞️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!

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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

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.

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.

…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.

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…