Block Cinema

Block Cinema screens classic and contemporary films and is dedicated to providing the Northwestern campus, the North Shore and Chicago with a quality venue for repertory cinema. Block Cinema is sponsored in part by a generous gift from James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati.

Current Series

I'm Almost Not Crazy: Outsider Cinema by Hollywood Insiders

01/13/2012–03/02/2012

This series celebrates Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles and other Hollywood “insiders” from the 1960s and beyond who made daring, complex and often deeply personal “outsider” films without regard for convention, box office potential, or whether anyone might think their makers have gone crazy.

Hot Saturdays: Gems from Pre-Code Hollywood

01/21/2012–03/03/2012

Warm up this winter with several rare and risqué Hollywood films from the early 1930s. Included are masterworks like Scarface—Howard Hawks’ daring depiction of a demented Chicago gangster, and rarities starring Clara Bow (Call Her Savage), Fay Wray (The Woman I Stole), Miriam Hopkins (Dancers in the Dark) and more.

All programs will be screened on Saturday afternoons at 2 pm.

Special Programs

02/02/2012-02/23/2012

Join us on three Thursday evenings this February for free screenings of avant-garde films (Radical Light: Stories Untold), a romantic classic (Casablanca), and an eye-opening new documentary (Paul Goodman Changed My Life).

Admission

Unless otherwise noted:

$4.00 for Block members; University faculty, staff and students with valid WildCARD; students from other schools with valid college/university ID; seniors 65 and older
$6.00 for the general public
$20.00 for a quarterly pass

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.