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• ZARDOZ in 35mm
  :: May 22, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  Admission $5
  
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  "Probably John Boorman's most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings" - Jonathan Rosenbaum
  
  "A genuinely quirky movie" - Roger Ebert
  
  ZARDOZ
  Directed by John Boorman • 1974
  The poster promised a mind-blowing, adults-only science fiction experience—Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death. Audiences got all that and sinewy Sean Connery in a post-Bond bender, sporting a ponytail and a loincloth as monosyllabic killing machine Zed. Appointed with an endless supply of guns from a talking stone head hovering in the sky, Zed keeps the peace by slaughtering the unwashed hordes—until he learns to read and discovers a world beyond his brutal plain. Skeptically adopted by a commune of entitled immortals led by Charlotte Rampling and Sara Kestelman, Zed single-handedly upends the balance of life on Earth. Gratuitously ridiculed upon its release (in all fairness, the original prints looked like dishwater), Zardoz remains an ambitious and sincere statement from Point Blank director John Boorman—and the final word on the disintegration of Flower Power idealism. (KW)
  105 min • 20th Century Fox • 35mm vault print from 20th Century Fox
  
  Preceded by: TBA

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• Universal Monster Classics
  :: May 25, 2013 @ 11:59 AM
  

  Doors open at 11 AM
  Admission: $10 for all four films!
  
  noon - Abbot & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
  1:40 - House of Frankenstein
  3:15 - House of Dracula
  4:45 - Blacula
  
  Kids! Draw a colored picture of Frankenstein for prizes!
  
  Vintage toys and collectibles on sale in the lobby
  
  Call (773) 875 7582 or email timetoys@rcn.com for more information

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• ALL I DESIRE - Barbara Stanwyck in 35mm
  :: May 27, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  ALL I DESIRE
  Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1953
  Barbara Stanwyck returns to Riverdale, Wisconsin, ten years after abandoning her family for a career on the stage. Hoping not to disappoint her daughter Lily (Lori Nelson), who invited her to come see her stage debut in a high school play, Stanwyck convinces her bitter ex-husband (Richard Carlson) and daughter Joyce (Marcia Henderson) that her failed career is a success. Buried love affairs resurface and the whole cast is either emotionally wounded or confused, but the poisonously curious, prying small town is the nastiest character of them all. Bridging a gap between his trilogy of Technicolor Americana musicals and his career-defining melodramas, All I Desire is an honest, forgiving, and sometimes painful examination of small town life at the turn of the century. It’s also melodrama at its most delicious: in a scene only Sirk could have directed, Stanwyck confronts Joyce, who’s never forgiven her for leaving: “We’re a big disappointment to each other, aren’t we? You’ve got a mother with no principles; I’ve got a daughter with no guts.” (JA)
  79 min • Universal-International • 35mm from Universal
  
  Preceded by: “Betty Boop’s Prize Show” (Fleischer Studios, 1934) – 16mm – 7 min

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• PORTRAIT OF JASON - 35mm Chicago Premiere!
  :: May 29, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Chicago Restoration Premiere co-presented with Reeling and Black Cinema House.
  
  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  Admission $5
  
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  "The most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life is certainly Portrait of Jason… It is absolutely fascinating." - Ingmar Bergman (1967)

  "One of the greatest cinematic salvations of all time" - Richard Brody, The New Yorker
  

  PORTRAIT OF JASON
  Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1967
  Armed with an Éclair 16mm camera and the most basic sound and lighting equipment, Shirley Clarke and her small crew holed up in her Chelsea Hotel apartment for twelve hours with hustler, cabaret mainstay, and seasoned raconteur Jason Holliday. They emerged with some kind of masterpiece. Before the camera, Holliday (né Aaron Payne of Trenton, New Jersey) spins the most rambunctious autobiography imaginable. Mixing treasured routines, dirty jokes, guilt-free confessions, and bullshit revelations, Holliday lies through his teeth to create the performance of a lifetime. Newly restored by Milestone Films and the Academy Film Archive after an exhaustive search for the best surviving materials and a highly publicized Kickstarter campaign, Portrait of Jason remains an essential document of one queer, black man’s adventures in crazy, pre-Stonewall America. (KW)
  105 min • Filmmakers’ Distribution Center • 35mm from Milestone Films

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• High Treason - 35mm
  :: June 5, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  HIGH TREASON
  Directed by Maurice Elvey • 1929
  
  Official film history records Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail as the first British talkie—a classic right out of the gate. Had the release of Blackmail been delayed, the trailblazing would’ve been left to High Treason, an eccentric Metropolis rip-off that alternates hectoring pacifism with lingerie peekaboo. Set in a futuristic 1940, High Treason envisions an imminent war between the world’s reigning superpowers, the United States of Europe and the Empire States of the Atlantic. Only the extralegal (and none too peaceful) maneuvering of the Peace League can save a world brought to the brink by scheming munitions manufacturers. Described by the New York Times as “a farrago of nonsense” that nevertheless offered American technicians much to learn, High Treason has been difficult to reevaluate in the intervening eight decades. Originally released in silent and sound versions, only the former was thought to survive until the Library of Congress restored the talkie version in partnership with the Film Foundation, Chace Audio, and the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association. (KW)
  
  95 min • Gaumont British Pictures Corp. • 35mm from the Library of Congress
  
  Preceded by: King of the Kongo, Ch. 5: “Danger in the Dark” (Richard Thorpe, 1929) -  16mm – 16 min

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• Billy Wilder's ACE IN THE HOLE - 35mm
  :: June 10, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  "Here is, half a century out of the past, a movie so acidly au courant it stings: a lurid pulp indictment of exploitation, opportunism, doctored intelligence, torture for profit, insatiable greed, and shady journalism." - Nathan Lee, Village Voice
  
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  ACE IN THE HOLE
  Directed by Billy Wilder • 1951
  After being fired from his last eleven jobs, Kirk Douglas takes that left turn in Albuquerque and convinces the local newspaper editor to hire him on the spot. When he leaves town to cover a rattlesnake competition, Douglas discovers a bigger headline in an abandoned silver mine: the owner of a nearby trading post has been pinned down by fallen timbers. The reporter makes the news, keeping his victim in the mine for days while he creates a media frenzy and charges the public twenty-five cents to get into the surrounding area. Billy Wilder’s gritty, twisted, and menacing follow-up to Sunset Blvd. was hardly what American audiences wanted or expected. (A panicked Paramount withdrew the film and reissued it under the new title The Big Carnival with little success.) Wilder could make you laugh or cry as well as anyone, but Ace in the Hole is a firm kick in the gut. (JA)
  111 min • Paramount Pictures • 35mm from Paramount
  
  Preceded by: Selected Cartoon – 16mm – 7 min

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• Chicano Love Is Forever - 35mm
  :: June 12, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  CHICANO LOVE IS FOREVER
  AMOR CHICANO ES PARA SIEMPRE
  Directed by Efraín Gutiérrez • 1977
  When Efraín Gutiérrez began making films in San Antonio, he had no technical experience, only a conviction that Hollywood stereotypes demanded an answer from the Chicano community. He boasted of never shooting more than three takes of any given scene and endorsed one writer’s suggestion that he was “a Chicano Ed Wood with a political conscience.” His first film, Please Don’t Bury Me Alive, earned $300,000 on the Spanish-language theater circuit, besting the exploitation pictures turned out by Mexican outfits and clearing the way for a genuinely regional independent cinema. Gutiérrez poured the proceeds into Chicano Love is Forever, a hard-hitting drama about the pressures facing a young married couple struggling through college and low-wage work. (Gutiérrez also plays the husband.) Presumed lost for almost twenty years until rediscovered by scholar Chon Noriega and restored by UCLA, Chicano Love is Forever is a vital landmark of bilingual social cinema. Preservation funded by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States. (KW)
  In English and unsubtitled Spanish. Co-presented with portoluz – Old/New Dreams
  103 min • Chicano Arts Film Enterprises • 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
  
  Preceded by: “The Chicano Wave” (La Onda Chicana) (Efrain Gutierrez, 1976) – 35mm – 17 min
  
  Preservation of “The Chicano Wave” funded by the Ahmanson Foundation in association with the Sundance Institute and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the US. Courtesy UCLA.

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• The Crimson Kimono - 35mm
  :: June 19, 2013 @ 7:30 PM
  

  Projected by the Northwest Chicago Film Society
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  THE CRIMSON KIMONO
  Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1959
  
  In downtown Los Angeles, a stripper is gunned down in the middle of the road, but what starts off as a terse, gritty thriller quickly becomes Sam Fuller’s most romantic effort, a melodrama wrapped in wolf’s clothing. Emotions run high in the grungy side streets of LA: Charlie (Glenn Corbett) and Joe (James Shigeta) are two inseparable LAPD detectives assigned to the murder case, but end up falling in love with the same key witness (Victoria Shaw) and nearly destroy their friendship. Despite being released with downright idiotic poster taglines like “Why Does She Choose a Japanese Lover?” The Crimson Kimono is also one of the most progressive movies of the ’50s. Charlie is white and Joe is Japanese American, but Fuller aggressively avoids a preachy commentary on race relations while making a film of unmatched emotional honesty. (JA)
  82 min • Globe Enterprises • 35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
  
  Preceded by: Walter Catlett in “You’re Next” (Del Lord, 1940) – 16mm – 18 min

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• Voice of a Child
  :: June 20, 2013 @ 5:00 PM
  

  1 year anniversary!
  Hosted by Effie Rolfe.
  
  R&J Productions Presents "Voice Of A Child"
  Written, Directed, and Produced By Richard Gallion
  Executive Producer Joe Boateng
   
  R&J Productions, Inc. invite you to their latest theatrical piece where you will experience laughter, tears, unbelief, joy and... triumph amongst a group of friends. This riveting tale takes place in a foster home where a teenager is forced to take refuge after the unthinkable occurs. In the midst of his misfortune, see what happens when others are forced to deal with their own truths.
   
  Ticket Info. WWW.RICHARDGALLION.COM OR CALL 773.653.7424

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• Dead in 5 Heartbeats: The Movie
  :: June 21, 2013 @ 8:00 PM
  

  more information at www.deadin5heartbeats.com
  
  Watch trailers here.

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