Raining in the Mountain
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
During the Ming Dynasty, a Buddhist abbot charged with protecting the sacred scroll of Tripitaka prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a g... Read more
Sat, Sep 14
Daughters of the Dust
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
A landmark in African American filmmaking, this magical realist tone poem—recently restored in 4K for its 25th anniversary—is a stunning cinematic ach... Read more
Sun, Sep 15
Diva
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
An international arthouse sensation that launched the “cinéma du look,” an explosion of visually stunning, punk-inspired, super-cool French movies in... Read more
Sat, Sep 21
The Piano
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
Nominated for eight Oscars (and winner of three), Jane Campion’s stirring and sumptuous tale of a mute woman and her daughter’s fight against patriarc... Read more
Sun, Sep 22
Punch-Drunk Love
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
Struggling with erratic anger issues, novelty toiletry salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and d... Read more
Sat, Sep 28
Lady Bird
Part of: Chicago International Film Festival Presents: BIG ART FILMS
Before Barbie, Greta Gerwig arrived as a bold new cinematic voice with her solo writing-directing debut Lady Bird. Set in the quaint, suburban ennui o... Read more
Sun, Sep 29
The Bad Seed
Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Dream Child
The original and arguably never bested Bad Kid movie, based on a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, stars 11-year-old Patty McCormack as Rhoda, a pigtail... Read more
Sat, Oct 5
The Exorcist III
Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Dream Child
Fifteen years after the events of THE EXORCIST (and completely ignoring the first sequel), the dynamite George C. Scott steps into the shoes of Lieute... Read more
Sun, Oct 6
The King of Marvin Gardens
Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents
After charting the course for a new kind of American art film amid the bowling alleys and oil fields of Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson and Jack Nichol... Read more
Sat, Oct 12
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Dream Child
Werner Herzog’s only horror film is as rich with artistry and tragedy as his most grounded, human work. It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept to... Read more