Chicago Film Society Screenings at NEIU
SPRING 2025
This fall marks the 25th and final season of the Chicago Film Society in residence at NEIU. It has been a wonderful ten years of this collaboration where the NEIU community has been able to watch some of the greatest films of all time, lovingly projected on 35mm celluloid film. Thank you to everyone who has attended these film screenings!
This season’s line-up is one that you will not want to miss! We kick things off in the NEIU Auditorium on Wednesday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m. with John Ford’s classic 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Grapes of Wrath” starring Henry Fonda.
Other highlights include “The Love Parade” (the 1929 Ernst Lubitsch film starring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier), “Corn’s-A-Poppin’” (a CFS restoration of a 1955 film co-written by Robert Altman), “My Winnipeg” (Guy Maddin’s 2007 “docu-fantasia” about his homeland of Canada), and “The Band Wagon” (Vincente Minnelli’s 1953 Technicolor musical with more than one musical sequence that you will have to see to believe).
This is a rare opportunity to see these movies on actual 35mm film, so if you love cinema, don’t miss out! Check out the full schedule below.
Tickets
Tickets cost $5 with a Northeastern ID and $10 for the general public. All screenings are presented on 35mm film by the Chicago Film Society and sponsored by the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre.
All screenings take place at 7:30 p.m. on the Main Campus in the NEIU Auditorium.
Wednesday, Jan. 22
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Directed by John Ford • 1940 • 35mm from Criterion Pictures, USA
Wednesday, Jan. 29
MY WINNIPEG
Directed by Guy Maddin • 2007 • 35mm from Chicago Film Society collections
Wednesday, Feb. 5
CHOOSE ME
Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1984 • 35mm from Park Circus
Wednesday, Feb. 19
THE LOVE PARADE
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1929 • 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Wednesday, Feb. 26
LIGHT OF DAY
Directed by Paul Schrader • 1987 • 35mm from Paramount
Co-presented with CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM
Wednesday, March 5
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland • 1933 • 35mm from Universal
Wednesday, March 26
HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT
Directed by Frank Borzage • 1937 • 35mm from UCLA Film & Television Archive
Wednesday, April 9
SPRING NIGHT, SUMMER NIGHT
Directed by J. L. Anderson • 1967 • 35mm
Wednesday, May 7
CORN'S-A-POPPIN'
Directed by Robert Woodburn • 1955 • 35mm
Wednesday, May 14
THE BAND WAGON
Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1953 • 35mm from Park Circus
Directions and Parking
Event Parking
Complimentary parking for audience members on Wednesday nights is available in Parking Lot D adjacent to the Bryn Mawr entrance. See the campus map for more details.
Getting Here with the CTA
Our screenings are also accessible via CTA.
From the Brown Line (Kimball station), one can either walk or take the #82 Kimball-Homan bus to Catalpa and walk the remaining short distance to Building E. From the Blue Line (Jefferson Park station), take the #92 Foster bus to Central Park and walk the remaining short distance to Building E.
Divvy
For cyclists, a Divvy station is located on the eastern edge of campus at St. Louis and Balmoral avenues. View a map of Divvy station locations.
