Northwest Chicago Film Society Summer Schedule

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Admission for all screenings will be $5

Monday, July 8 at 8:00 PM

BONJOUR TRISTESSE Otto Preminger 1958 94 min + 7 min cartoon

35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

Spoiled brat Jean Seberg schemes to ruin her playboy father David Niven's affair with Deborah Kerr. Like Clueless on the French

Riviera, and possibly Preminger's highest achievement. Screening with "Madeline" (Robert Cannon, 1952), an adaptation of the

classic children's book in 16mm.

Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 PM

AN AMERICAN ROMANCE King Vidor 1944 121 min + 18 min short

restored 35mm from George Eastman House

Learn about the majesty of the American Dream and the sparkling promise of Industry in this Technicolor immigrant's saga starring

Brian Donlevy. Screening with a 16mm Technicolor industrial short produced by the Ford Motor Company, "Steel on the River

Rouge" (1970).

Co-presented with portoluz (www.portoluz.org)


THE VIKINGS Richard Fleischer 1958 116 min + 7 min cartoon

35mm from Park Circus Films

Tony Curtis and one-eyed Kirk Douglas as the bawdiest brawlers of the eighth century in this violent widescreen epic beloved by

junior high schoolers everywhere. Co-starring Janet Leigh and Ernest Borgnine. Screening with a cartoon TBA.

Monday, July 22 at 7:30 PM

THE LINEUP Don Siegel 1958 86 min + 16 min short

35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory

Another sadistic thriller from NWCFS favorite Don Siegel, featuring a totally deranged performance from Eli Wallach. Shot entirely

on location in San Francisco, including an unforgettable scene at a skating rink. Screening with a 35mm print of "Caught on the

Bounce" (Jules White, 1952) starring sometime-Stooge Joe Besser.


THE MIRACLE MAN Norman Z. McLeod 1932 85 min + 21 min short

35mm from Universal Pictures

A film about gangsters, faith healers, shysters, and the transformative power of faithand money. Features an all-star cast including

Boris Karloff and Sylvia Sidney. A remake of Lon Chaney's now-lost breakthrough film. Not available on DVD! Screening with a

16mm print of "Dangerous Females" (William Watson, 1929), an early sound comedy about hucksters, murder, and traveling

evangelists starring the great Marie Dressler and Polly Moran.


THE LATE GEORGE APLEY Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1947 97 min + 7 min cartoon

35mm from the 20th Century Fox vaults

Charming comedy of manners from ultra-sophisticated auteur Mankiewicz about the fading of nineteenth-century Boston

aristocracy. Starring Ronald Colman in his last great performance and Peggy Cummins (Gun Crazy) in her American debut. Based

on John P. Marquand's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Screening with a cartoon TBA.

Monday, August 5 at 7:30 PM

DEAD MAN Jim Jarmusch 1995 121 min + 7 min cartoon

35mm from Park Circus Films

Jarmusch's hipster acid western with Johnny Depp and Robert Mitchum. "One of the ten best films of the 1990s" - Jonathan

Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. Screening with a cartoon TBA

Wednesday, August 7 at 7:30 PM

SWING HIGH, SWING LOW Mitchell Leisen 1937 92 min + 8 min cartoon

restored 35mm from the Library of Congress

Carole Lombard's apex in Leisen's unclassifiable comedy-drama-musical with an alcoholic backbeat. A public domain film usually

available only in very poor copiesexcept for this restored print from the Library of Congress. Screening with Popeye the Sailor in

"Kickin' the Conga 'Round" (Fleischer Studios, 1942).


THE INTRUDER Roger Corman 1962 84 min + 25 min short

35mm from the Academy Film Archive
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A pre-Star Trek William Shatner stars as a race-baiting demagogue unleashed upon the Deep South. Exploitation cinema at its most

personal and politically-incisive from grindhouse guignol specialist Corman. Screening with a 16mm print of Twilight Zone episode

"A Nice Place to Visit" (John Brahm, 1960).

Co-presented with portoluz (www.portoluz.org)

Monday, August 19 at 7:30 PM

ULZANA'S RAID Robert Aldrich 1972 103 min + 6 min cartoon

35mm from Universal PicturesBurt Lancaster anti-western exemplifying the adventurism exhaustion of the Vietnam era. Screening with a Technicolor 35mm print

of Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Fat in the Saddle" (Paul J. Smith, 1968), for levity.


DIAMOND JIM A. Edward Sutherland 1935 88 min + 8 min cartoon

Larger-than-life portrait of American philanthropist and and professional over-eater "Diamond" Jim Brady. Features an early script

from comedy master Preston Sturges and a dual performance from Jean Arthur. Not available on DVD! Screening with a cartoon

TBA.


DAY OF WRATH Carl Th. Dreyer 1943 97 min + 7 min cartoon

Medieval masterpiece made during the Nazi Occupation. A crucial influence on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and probably the only

witch-burning drama to be unambiguously pro-witch. In Danish with English subtitles. Screening with a cartoon TBA.
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