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Coming Soon
Oscar-Nominated Films
February 10 - 22
The 84th Annual Academy Awards will occur on February 26th 2012, and here is your chance to see some of the nominees on the big screen! This series will feature some of our favorites form 2011, some films that have not been seen at all in Chicago, and a SUPER SECRET SCREENING of a film that has not yet screened in Chicago!
Leap Year
opens Saturday, February 11
This 1921 comedy, filmed at the height of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s career, was completed just days before the scandal that ruined his career. This film was never released in this country and has only surfaced in film festivals in recent years.
Michelle L’amour’s “Big SEXY Show”
Saturday, February 11
THE HOTTEST NIGHT OF WINTER: For the 10th year in a row, Michelle L’amour brings Chicago the ultimate Valentine’s Date Show. This year Big SEXY Show promises to be another stunning and eclectic mix of burlesque and fantastical vaudeville. The Chicago Starlets, the World’s Best Burlesque Group (2010) lead the charge with sexy new acts and follies-style production numbers.
Declaration of War
opens Friday, February 17
“A JOY TO WATCH. Few viewers will fail to be moved and charmed… plays like something Jacques Demy and Francois Truffaut might have cooked up together.” —Screen International
Crazy Horse
opens Friday, February 24
No one under 18 admitted.
“Frederick Wiseman remains at the top of his game! A typically first-rate verité look at the famous Parisian cabaret club. The Crazy Horse, with its undulating bodies and gleaming fluorescent lights, offers a dazzling cinema experience.” —indieWIRE
The Kid With A Bike
opens Friday, March 23
“The Dardenne brothers are again at the peak of their powers in this impeccably observed drama. Few, if any, contemporary filmmakers can match the Dardennes for unstinting compassion, rigorous avoidance of sentimentality and unimpeachable emotional integrity.” —The Hollywood Reporter