Sorry To Bother You (Art House Theater Day)
Thursday, July 30
Celebrate Art House Theater Day with one of the most inventive, audacious, and essential American films of the 21st century. Free for FACETS Members!
Careful (4K Restoration)
August 9-20
Taking its cues from silent era aesthetics, Careful, the third feature film from singular Winnipegger Guy Maddin, is a hilarious satire that sends up both Canadian timidity and sexual repression.
The Invite
August 8-20
As uproarious as it is rueful, Olivia Wilde's sex comedy of manners The Invite features a fearless foursome — Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penélope Cruz — whose one night together may very well change the trajectory of their whole lives.
Blue Film
August 8-16
Shot on a shoe-string budget over two weeks in a rented house in Los Angeles, Blue Film follows a single night in the life of dom camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore), who accepts $50,000 to spend the night with one of his fans, Hank (Reed Birney), only to realize the two have a shared past.
Tokyo Story
Wednesday, August 5
Few films have captured the quiet joys and heartbreaks of family life with the grace and clarity of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953), presented as part of our ESSENTIALS series and free for FACETS members.
alterotics Presents: A Night of Annie Sprinkle
Saturday, August 8
alterotics is proud to present two films by Annie Sprinkle: Linda/Les & Annie (1989) and Sluts & Goddesses (1992). The screening will open with the premiere of a new alterotics documentary short film.
Revisiting Desire: A Beth B Retrospective
Friday, August 14
Optical Noise is honored to present this retrospective of the early film and video work of Beth B.
Fucktoys
Saturday, August 15
Special advance screening of Annapurna Sriram's audacious debut feature Fucktoys, with post-show Q&As moderated by Chicago International Film Festival programmer Sophie Gordon.
Nymphomaniac Vol I & II (Director's Cut)
Friday, August 21
Cold Sweat presents a rare screening of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Vol I & II Extended Director’s Cut, a portion of the proceeds will go to the Chicago Abortion Fund.
My First Movies + Make and Play
Sunday, August 23
a temple of great cinema
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A film screening to an empty cinema is high parody.
An ironic stab at humanity’s ultimate populist artform.
Cinema needs an audience to live.
A community to sustain itself.
Drawing power from our collective witnessing.
Our collective processing.
Bringing new life into being.
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