Block Cinema

Block Cinema Spring 2008 Schedule

Block Cinema, a collaboration of Northwestern University's School of Communication and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, screens classic and contemporary films. Block Cinema is dedicated to providing the Northwestern campus, the North Shore, and Chicago with a quality venue for repertory cinema.

Date Film Time Series

4/2 Romance 8:00pm Breillat
4/3 Vidas Secas 8:00pm Silence
4/4 Writing for the Screen and Stage 3:30pm Special Events
4/4 Paradise Drift and Divine Intervention 8:00pm Silence
4/9 Sex is Comedy 8:00pm Breillat
4/10 3-Iron 8:00pm Silence
4/11 Shadows 7:00pm Race
4/11 The Wedding Banquet 9:00pm Race
4/16 Fat Girl 8:00pm Breillat
4/17 Gerry 8:00pm Silence
4/18 Lone Star 8:00pm Race
4/23 The Birth of a Nation 8:00pm Race
4/24 Last Days 8:00pm Silence
4/25 The Children of Leningradsky 5:00pm Special Events
4/25 The Searchers 8:00pm Race
4/30 Rabbit-Proof Fence 8:00pm Race
5/1 Tropical Malady 8:00pm Silence
5/2 Planet Earth: From Pole to Pole and Moun... 8:00pm Nature
5/7 Ten More Good Years 7:30pm Reeltime
5/8 Elephant and Hukkle 8:00pm Silence
5/9 Bill Mills, cinematographer 7:00pm Nature
5/9 Planet Earth: Seasonal Forests and Fresh... 8:00pm Nature
5/10 Bicycle Double Feature: The Bicycle Thief... 1:00pm Special Events
5/14 Jump the Gun 8:00pm Race
5/15 Into Great Silence 8:00pm Silence
5/16 Planet Earth: Caves and Great Plains 8:00pm Nature
5/21 Black Girl 8:00pm Race
5/22 Sonic Celluloid 8:00pm Sonic Celluloid
5/23 NU Student Film Festival 8:00pm Student Filmmakers
5/28 Fear Eats the Soul 8:00pm Race
5/29 Mechina: A Preparation 5:00pm Special Events
5/29 Imitation of Life 8:00pm Race
5/30 Planet Earth: Shallow Seas and Ocean De... 8:00pm Nature
5/31 Planet Earth: Jungles 2:00pm Nature
6/1 Momentum - MFA in Film, Thesis Premiere 3:00pm Student Filmmakers
6/4 La Haine 8:00pm Race
6/5 Falling Down 8:00pm Race
6/6 Senior Directing Premiere 4:00pm Student Filmmakers
6/6 Goodbye, Dragon Inn 9:00pm Silence

Block Cinema is sponsored in part by generous gifts from the Louis Family Foundation, James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati, and David and Susan Gersh.