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!
Listen to This: Videos by Tom Rubnitz
Thursday, September 29, 7PM
Blue
Friday, September 30, 7 PM
(Derek Jarman, 1993, UK/Japan, 35mm, 79 min.)
Golden Quill: A Retrospective of FIlms By Noureddin Zarrinkelk
with Zarrinkelk in person
Thursday, October 6, 7PM, FREE
Qaisar
introduced by Salaam Cinema! curator Hamid Naficy
Friday, October 7, 5PM, FREE
(Masoud Kimai, 1969, 100 min.)
The Cow
introduced by Salaam Cinema! curator Hamid Naficy
Friday, October 7, 7PM, FREE
(Gav, Dariush Mehrjui, 1969, Iran, DCP, 100 min.)
with Fred Williamson in person
Thursday, October 13, 7PM, FREE
(Gordon Parks, Jr., 1974, USA, 16mm, 105 min.)
with Fred Williamson in person
Friday, October 14, 7PM, FREE
(Arthur Marks, 1975, USA, 35mm, 94 min.)
Downpour
Thursday, October 20, 7PM
(Ragbar, Bahram Beyzaie, 1971, Iran, DCP, 122 min.)
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.)
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.)
Salaam Cinema
Thursday, November 3, 7PM
(Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995, Iran, 35mm, 75 min.)
Friday, November 4, 7PM FREE
(Suzanne Simpson, 1973, USA, digital, 14 min.)
Screening & panel discussion with Karl Wirsum, Suzanne Simpson, Alex Inglizian, Marc Riordan
Seven Blind Women Filmmakers
Thursday, November 10 7PM
(7 Filmsaz-e Zan-E Nabina, Mohammad Shirvani, 2004 – 2008, Iran, digital file, 116 min.)
Habfürdő
Friday, November 11 7pm
(György Kovásznay, 1979, Hungary, DCP, 75 min.)
Shorts Program 1
Saturday, November 12, 1PM
Shorts Program 2
Saturday, November 12, 3:30PM
Mr. Haji, The Movie Actor
Thursday, November 17, 5PM, FREE
(Haji Aqa, Aktor-e Sinema, Ovanes Ohanians, 1933, 60 min.)
Tales
filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad in person
Thursday, November 17, 7PM, FREE
(Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, 2014, 91 min.)
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.
