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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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...

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 Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

CFS open house is this Sunday! Come see us!

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 Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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.

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

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🎶 Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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

🎞️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...

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

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

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.

CELLULOID CHICAGO Listing of film-on-film screenings in and around Chicago 😻 Thank you @chicagofilmsociety.org www.celluloidchicago.org

DAISIES on 35mm - Wednesday 4/30 at 7:00 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social 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!

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 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

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...

Northwest Siders are mourning the loss of Dennis Wolkowicz, the founder of the Silent Film Society of Chicago and one of the city’s last remaining photoplay organists. He was 74.

R.I.P “Jay Warren”. A true showman and a wonderful friend to CFS over the years. chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...

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!

Guy Maddin discusses THE UNKNOWN, his “favorite film of all time, also the most romantically sadomasochistic film of all time”. See it this Sunday at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social ! silentfilm.org/25-years-int...

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!

Alan Rudolph’s CHOOSE ME in 35mm this Wednesday night at 7:30 PM at NEIU 💋

Join us TONITE (1/29) @7:30 for Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG. Screening in a 35mm print from our own collection!

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