Join us this fall for a season of cinema unlike any other! This season’s moving, riotous and thought-provoking offerings include an extensive program of Iranian films presented in conjunction with the museum’s Salaam Cinema! 50 Years of Iranian Movie Posters exhibition. The fall program will also feature two screenings with NFL star, 1970s action-hero and NU alumnus Fred Williamson, the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, and a recently-restored short film portrait of Hairy Who artist Karl Wirsum!
KEEP THE SHADOW
Listen to This: Videos by Tom Rubnitz
Thursday, September 29, 7PM
KEEP THE SHADOW
Blue
Friday, September 30, 7 PM
(Derek Jarman, 1993, UK/Japan, 35mm, 79 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Golden Quill: A Retrospective of FIlms By Noureddin Zarrinkelk
with Zarrinkelk in person
Thursday, October 6, 7PM, FREE
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Qaisar
introduced by Salaam Cinema! curator Hamid Naficy
Friday, October 7, 5PM, FREE
(Masoud Kimai, 1969, 100 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
The Cow
introduced by Salaam Cinema! curator Hamid Naficy
Friday, October 7, 7PM, FREE
(Gav, Dariush Mehrjui, 1969, Iran, DCP, 100 min.)
Three The Hard Way
with Fred Williamson in person
Thursday, October 13, 7PM, FREE
(Gordon Parks, Jr., 1974, USA, 16mm, 105 min.)
Chicago Reader’s “Ten Best Best for Fall Movies” (September 7, 2016)
Bucktown
with Fred Williamson in person
Friday, October 14, 7PM, FREE
(Arthur Marks, 1975, USA, 35mm, 94 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Downpour
Thursday, October 20, 7PM
(Ragbar, Bahram Beyzaie, 1971, Iran, DCP, 122 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Close-Up
Friday, October 21, 7PM
(Nema-ye Nazdik, Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, Iran, 35mm, 97 min.)
Followed by Do You Know Mr. Kiarostami? (Shoma Aqa-ye Kiarostami ra Mishenasid, Reza Haeri, 1998, Iran, 30 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Still Life
Thursday, October 27, 7PM
(Tabi’at-e Bijan, Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974, Iran, 35mm, 93 min.)
Followed by Saless: Far From Home (Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, 1998, USA, 16 min.) with Saeed-Vafa in person
Summer of Goliath
with Nicolás Pereda in person
Friday, October 28 7PM
(Nicolás Pereda, 2010, Canada/Mexico/Netherlands, 35mm, 76 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Salaam Cinema
Thursday, November 3, 7PM
(Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995, Iran, 35mm, 75 min.)
Karl Wirsum
Friday, November 4, 7PM FREE
(Suzanne Simpson, 1973, USA, digital, 14 min.)
Screening & panel discussion with Karl Wirsum, Suzanne Simpson, Alex Inglizian, Marc Riordan
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Seven Blind Women Filmmakers
Thursday, November 10 7PM
(7 Filmsaz-e Zan-E Nabina, Mohammad Shirvani, 2004 – 2008, Iran, digital file, 116 min.)
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
Habfürdő
Friday, November 11 7pm
(György Kovásznay, 1979, Hungary, DCP, 75 min.)
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
Shorts Program 1
Saturday, November 12, 1PM
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
Shorts Program 2
Saturday, November 12, 3:30PM
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Mr. Haji, The Movie Actor
Thursday, November 17, 5PM, FREE
(Haji Aqa, Aktor-e Sinema, Ovanes Ohanians, 1933, 60 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
Tales
filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad in person
Thursday, November 17, 7PM, FREE
(Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, 2014, 91 min.)
IRANIAN CINEPHILIA
A Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami
Friday, November 18, 4:30PM, FREE
Block Cinema Admissions
- $4.00 for Northwestern University faculty, staff and students with valid WildCARD; students from other schools with valid college/university ID; seniors 60 and older
- $6.00 for the general public
- $20.00 for a quarterly pass
Doors open thirty minutes prior to showtime. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early to purchase your tickets.
Block Cinema films are screened in the Block Museum’s Pick-Laudati Auditorium. See Directions and Parking for information on how to get to the Musuem. Parking is free in the lot south of the Block after 4 p.m. weekdays and all day on weekends.
