A Man Called Adam
Sammy Davis, Jr. like you’ve never seen him before! Sammy plays Adam, the cornetist whose prodigious talent is dwarfed only by his penchant for self-d... Read more
The Crimson Canary
The Crimson Canary boasts two things that make B-movies so much fun: a great premise and a short runtime. A trumpet player gets locked up after the le... Read more
All Night Long
All Night Long redresses William Shakespeare’s Othello for pulp audiences. Patrick McGoohan is an ambitious drummer who tries to coax a famous singer... Read more
Mysterious Skin
Adapted from Scott Heim’s acclaimed novel, MYSTERIOUS SKIN is an intensely powerful chronicle of childhood innocence lost, featuring starmaking turns... Read more
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Since the beginning of time ‘twas written in the stones that one day a band would come. And come they shall. When a dragon-hearted dreamer with vision... Read more
Bloody Tennis
Sophie joins a prestigious tennis academy where the brutality of competitive sports is taken to its extreme and only the hungriest survive.BLOODY TENN... Read more
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks... Read more
Beethoven
Barely escaping from nefarious dog-nappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family—and promptly grows up into 185 pou... Read more
Swordsman III: The East Is Red
Jet Li and Chin Siu-ho are two young Shaolin monks unjustly kicked out of the monastery and forced to adapt to live in the secular world. The power-hu... Read more
Welcome to the Show
Welcome to the Show is a live, traveling talk show that highlights Chicago-based artists, entertainers, and public figures from all walks of life. Sin... Read more
Sparrows
At age 33, Mary Pickford had reigned for a decade as Hollywood's most popular and powerful actress, enjoying unprecedented control over her production... Read more
DEVO: Restorations and Revelations - Collected Film Works 1976-1984
Formed in the wreckage of the Kent State shootings in 1973, where co-founders Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were students during the massacre... Read more
La bola negra
From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — popularly known as Los Javis — LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men across... Read more
Barbara Forever
BARBARA FOREVER is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer – a pioneering artis... Read more
Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2
Not a marathon but a voyage through time. Between episodes, Knox’s newly assembled “commercial break” segments bring together deleted scenes, outtakes... Read more
Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time
TWIN PEAKS: Moving Through Time is a five-day journey through the complete original run of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking series, ending... Read more
If I Go Will They Miss Me
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Lil Ant sees the world and his father the way all children should -- full of myth, wonder, a... Read more
Crucemos al Otro Lado
This September, join us for the third edition of "Crucemos al Otro Lado”, a film series that embraces stories made by Latin American filmmakers, films... Read more
In the Dark
Apathetic librarian Jane (Kim Garrett) is bored with the mundanity of her day to day life. That is, until a stranger leaves her an envelope containing... Read more
Mafalda: La Pelicula
Quino Lavado’s charming comic strip, Mafalda, comes to life in this delightful animated film. Mafalda is a headstrong little girl with a unique outloo... Read more
Chicago, Alli, y Mas
Filmmakers in person for post-film Q&A.SHORTS FEATURED IN THIS PROGRAMMe Gustas Cuando Callas - Dir. Duncan Analco, 8 minDepicting the intimacies of l... Read more
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television... Read more
Twin Peaks in Japan + Scott Ryan's The Double R Dream
A screening featuring rare Japan-centric footage and The Double R Dream, followed by an in-person appearance by director Scott Ryan. Pie and coffee wi... Read more
Twin Peaks: The Pilot
The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a rive... Read more
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
A feature-length compilation of deleted and alternate takes from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the... Read more
Labyrinth
David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems! Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend... Read more
The History of Concrete
Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York... Read more
Evilspeak
In Evilspeak, Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard) is a military academy cadet who’s bullied for being an orphan and an oddball. While on punishment det... Read more
Nacho Libre
Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery, can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he deci... Read more
Dread Beat an Blood
“The regal dub poet” (Anderson Tepper, The New York Times) Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) is a living legend. Born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in r... Read more
Lovers Rock
One of the greatest party films in recent memory, Lovers Rock teleports spectators onto the sweaty dancefloor of a 1980 all-nighter in Ladbroke Grove,... Read more
From The Heartbeat: Roots, Reggae & Resistance
In celebration of the beautiful new restoration of DREAD BEAT AN BLOOD, Franco Rosso’s portrait of dub poet and living legend Linton Kwesi Johnson, th... Read more
Pete's Dragon
In this classic Maine-set musical adventure, follow Pete (Sean Marshall), an orphan, as he flees the terrible Gogan family (with parents played by the... Read more
Chris + Heather's 16mm Big Screen Blowout #3
Heather McAdams has been projecting and collecting 16mm film since she was a kid. Many 16mm folks look for feature films or cartoons, and trade prints... Read more
Reggae Sunsplash
Experience REGGAE SUNSPLASH as you never have, with a brand new 4K restoration of this iconic 70's music documentary. Set against the backdrop of Jama... Read more
The Harder They Come
WITH A PIECE IN HIS HAND, HE TAKES ON THE MAN! The epochal cultural moment that first brought reggae to the international stage, made Jimmy Cliff a st... Read more
976-EVIL
In 976-EVIL, Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys) is a teenage nerd with a blustering Bible-thumping mother (Sandy Dennis) and a horde of bullies who dunk his hea... Read more
Brailled It
Every year, the top under-18 Braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challe... Read more
Babylon (1980)
Never-before released in the U.S., Franco Rosso’s Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but the New York Film Festival deemed it “too contr... Read more
Rockers
In what is probably the best reggae movie ever made, drummer Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace stars as himself, a hustling musician who buys a motorbike in... Read more
The Spirit of the Beehive
In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein an... Read more
Burning an Illusion
Out of the racially volatile climate of 1980s Thatcherite England, a period rent by police brutality and the criminal neglect of Afro-Caribbean and Af... Read more
Stepping Razor: Red X
This documentary explores the life of the late Peter Tosh, reggae artist, Jamaican folk hero, prophet and radical political activist. Based on his per... Read more
Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
Playing with Fire is a heartfelt, mythopoetic documentary born from the ashes of a massive, devastating forest fire. Long time lovers, Beth and Annie... Read more
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the true tale of ecosexual lovers, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco t... Read more
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.... Read more
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of th... Read more
The Incomer
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy spend their days hunting seabirds and retelling the stories of their ancestors. They follow the str... Read more
Master of the Flying Guillotine
After becoming the face of the martial-arts sword-fighting movie (wuxia pian) craze with his legendary performance in Chang Cheh’s The One Armed Boxer... Read more
Unzipped
Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with... Read more
Ken Russell's The Devils
An enduring masterpiece of cinema, starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obs... Read more
Fjord
From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, clos... Read more
Music Box of Horrors 2026
24 Hours of Movie Madness!This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24 hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featu... Read more
Fatherland
FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika - actress, writer and rally driver. I... Read more
The Docks of New York
"You left all that slush in the river, baby. All you need is a good time." If only life were so simple! Bill Roberts (the strapping George Bancroft) w... Read more
Boom!
Hollywood's favorite pair of mismatched lovers, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, made eleven films together, and Boom! counts among the kookiest.... Read more
Gangs of New York
Ostensibly "suggested" by Herbert Asbury's 1928 historical chronicle of New York's 19th century underworld, Martin Scorsese's American epic bore littl... Read more