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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 12d

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!

Chicago Home Movie Day 2025 - Chicago Film Archives

www.chicagofilmarchives.org

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 15d

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 · 17d

🎞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 · 26d

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.

National Film Preservation Foundation @filmpreservation.bsky.social · 26d

The NFPF and @Film_Foundation are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Avant-Garde Masters Grants. Eight films by Heather McAdams, Michael Mideke's PHI TEXTURE plus 7 more, and Kathleen Laughlin's SUSAN THROUGH CORN.

Follow the link for more.
www.filmpreservation.org/blog/article...

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · 26d

Thank you Jeff! ♥️

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · Sep 24

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 · Sep 16

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 · Sep 15

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

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · Sep 12

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · Sep 11

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 · Aug 28

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 · Aug 3

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Chicago Film Society @chicagofilmsociety.org · Aug 3

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 · Aug 1

🎞️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 · Jul 31

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 · Jun 16

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 · Jun 6

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 · Jun 6

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 · Jun 6

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 · Jun 6

…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 · Jun 6

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 · May 30

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 · May 7

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 · May 7

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 · May 1

CELLULOID CHICAGO

Listing of film-on-film screenings in and around Chicago 😻

Thank you @chicagofilmsociety.org

www.celluloidchicago.org

Celluloid Chicago – Listing film-on-film screenings in Chicago

www.celluloidchicago.org

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