Limelight
Part of: To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Cal... Read more
A King in New York
Part of: To Avoid Any Misunderstanding: The Other Charles Chaplin
When King Igor Shahdov (Charles Chaplin) flees the revolutionaries of Estonia, he arrives in New York City with almost nothing. With a theater backgro... Read more
Little Women (1994)
Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. Starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.
Sun, May 5
The Ship of Lost Men
Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents
A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length... Read more
Sat, May 11
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (El... Read more
From Here to Eternity
Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift... Read more
The Misfits
Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable)... Read more