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Screening this week:

$7 tickets, theater opens 30 minutes before the screening.

7:00PM Tuesday, March 28th

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert · 139m · DCP

Back on the big screen! Everything Everywhere All at Once is a whimsical, sci-fi, comedy-drama following Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) as her marriage to Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) begin to implode. EEAAO swept the awards season, being nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning Yeoh a Golden Globe for best actress.

Co-presented with the Society of Women in Physics. All proceeds to go to Girls 4 Science, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing girls in Chicago, ages 10–18 years old, to STEM.

Tickets can be bought here.

7:00PM Wednesday, March 29th; 4:00PM Sunday, April 2nd

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Chantal Akerman · 201m · DCP

The film that changed everything. Delphine Seyrig gave her greatest contribution to cinema in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman as a widowed housewife who spends her days peeling potatoes for her son's meals and trying to make ends meet. The film’s brilliance lies in its attentiveness towards its subject, the textural duration and repetition of Jeanne’s daily tasks, and the eventual disruption that occurs. Quietly harrowing, exhilarating, and triumphant.

March 29th tickets can be bought here.

April 2nd tickets can be bought here.

7:00PM Thursday, March 30th

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Children of Men (2006)

Alfonso Cuarón · 109m · 35mm

In a dystopian future where society is on the brink of collapse and mankind’s existence is threatened by infertility, Children of Men follows a disillusioned, former-activist bureaucrat (Clive Owen) in Britain—now a xenophobic police state—as he works to transport a miraculously pregnant woman to sanctuary. Aided by the work of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Cuarón has created a timeless visual masterpiece filled with themes that still resonate today.

Tickets can be bought here.

9:30PM Thursday, March 30th

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Videodrome (1983)

David Cronenberg · 87m · DCP

A film of near apocalyptic proportions squeezed down into the horrific city of Toronto, Videodrome follows the president of a nearly-pornographic television station as he becomes enraptured in a mysterious, foreign TV show full of blood, sex, and murder. Enthralled as he seeks out the show's source, reality begins to collapse around him as the worlds of sex, biology, and technology coalesce into one rapturous mess. LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH.

Tickets can be bought here.

7:00PM Friday, March 31st

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

F. W. Murnau · 94m · 35mm

The best German expressionist film ever made outside of Germany, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans delivers on the promise of its title. A glorious, melodic wave of emotion, Murnau’s opus is a testament to what the medium of silent film could offer in its final days. Sunrise would go on to win the only once awarded Oscar for “Unique and Artistic Picture." It's a gorgeous film not to be missed, and in Addison's opinion, the best film in this series.

Tickets can be bought here.

4:00PM Saturday, April 1st; 8:00PM Saturday, April 1st

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Babylon (2022)

Damien Chazelle · 189m · DCP

Damien Chazelle's Babylon follows an ensemble cast of Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva and more through the glitz, glamor, and corruption of late '20s Hollywood, in the transition from silent to sound movies. Divisive among critics upon its release, the film is both a condemnation of and a love letter to the world of movies and the Hollywood institution itself. You may love it, you may hate it, but regardless, you'll have a good time at the movies.

4:00PM tickets can be bought here.

8:00PM tickets can be bought here.

8:00PM Sunday, April 2nd

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Fear and Desire (1951) // Day of the Fight (1952)

Stanley Kubrick // Stanley Kubrick · 72m // 16m · 35mm // 16mm

Stanley Kubrick’s feature directorial debut, Fear and Desire was produced with a small crew of 15 people and an original shoestring budget of only $10,000, raised largely by Kubrick’s family. An anti-war film released under the context of the Korean War, Kubrick reportedly quit his job as a staff photographer for Look Magazine to make the film. Preceded by Day of the Fight a short documentary produced by Kubrick during his days with Look Magazine.

Preserved by the Library of Congress.

Tickets can be bought here.