Block Cinema is dedicated to encounter, exchange, and learning through the art of the moving image.
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Upcoming Screenings
Sep267 PM
THE FOREIGNER and ASCENDING/DESCENDING (Amos Poe/Sandra Binion, 1978)
A newly rediscovered 1978 film by avant-garde artist Sandra Binion precedes a rare screening of Amos Poe’s stylish, low-budget punk spy thriller.
Oct157 PM
WOLFEN (1981) in 35mm
This hybrid of supernatural horror and political thriller connects a rash of bizarre murders to America's bloody colonial legacies, against a backdrop of 1980s New York urban blight.
Oct167 PM
THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) in 35mm
Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's bone-chilling horror landmark, presented in archival 35mm, sees a border town beset by violence and fear following a leopard's escape.
Oct237 PM
TOBACCO EMBERS and SOMETHING LIKE A WAR with guest Deepa Dhanraj
Two powerful documentaries about movements for women's labor and reproductive rights in India, with acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj in attendance.
Oct247 PM
INVOKING JUSTICE (2011) with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj
Celebrated documentarian Deepa Dhanraj appears in person for a screening of her revelatory film about Muslim women transforming the legal system in Southern India.
"We’re very conscious of the valuable role that university cinemas like ours can play in the ecosystem of non-theatrical film. We look for opportunities to support and showcase the work of distributors who are expanding access to adventurous cinema, archives that are preserving endangered cinematic legacies and scholars and filmmakers who are promoting a more inclusive film culture.
We try to act as a conduit between that international community of passionate cinema workers, and diverse local communities at Northwestern and beyond, who see cinema as a way to encounter the world and exchange ideas."
– Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum
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