Weekend Matinees

Filth and Freedom
March 15

Filth and Freedom: Selections from the Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

In the late aughts, young Chicagoan and Odd Obsession video counter clerk Joe Rubin began amassing a huge collection of vintage adult films on 16mm an... Read more

90 min
35mm

Sun, Mar 15

11:30am

Blood Brothers
April 4

Blood Brothers (& Other Delights)

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"Infamous for his arrest, trial and conviction - in the 1990s for his self-published comic, artist Mike Diana also made a string of homemade films. St... Read more

Mike Diana
83 min
DCP

Sat, Apr 4

11:30am

Boorman and the Devil
April 5

Boorman and the Devil

Part of: Beyond Chicago

"In the wake of box-office titans POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, John Boorman was granted the opportunity of a lifetime: to direct the sequel to THE EXO... Read more

David Kittredge
112 min
DCP

Sun, Apr 5

11:30am

Cool Hand Luke
April 11

Cool Hand Luke

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

"Natural-born world-shaker" Luke Jackson (Paul Newman, in the first of four collaborations with director Stuart Rosenberg) joins the barracks of a Sou... Read more

Stuart Rosenberg
126 min
35mm

Sat, Apr 11

11:30am

Stir Crazy
April 12

Stir Crazy

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

"With Gene Wilder, it was no problem. We fell in love instantly." - Richard PryorWhen a case of mistaken identities lands two friends with big ambitio... Read more

Sidney Poitier
119 min
35mm

Sun, Apr 12

11:30am

Real Life
April 18

Real Life

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

"I shouldn't be allowed to do this! Why did I pick reality? I don't know anything about it!" Albert Brooks, one of cinema's greatest comic minds and d... Read more

Albert Brooks
99 min
35mm

Sat, Apr 18

11:30am

Holes
April 19

Holes

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

“HOLES jumps the rails, leaves all expectations behind, and tells a story that’s not funny ha-ha but funny peculiar.” - Roger EbertBased on Louis Sach... Read more

Andrew Davis
120 min
35mm

Sun, Apr 19

11:30am

A Man Escaped
April 24

A Man Escaped

Part of: Prison Break!: Films of Escape

With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.... Read more

Robert Bresson
103 min
35mm

Sat, Apr 25

11:30am

The Adventures of Prince Achmed movie still
April 26

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Part of: Animation Adventures

When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seven... Read more

Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
66 min
35mm

Sun, Apr 26

11:30am