Our October 2025 Calendar is now here! You can download one here or pick one up at the box office.
Join us as we celebrate the work of a true legend of American independent cinema with Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy 35mm prints from the Chicago Film Society, featuring The Unbelievable Truth, Trust (presented on 35mm), and Simple Men (presented on 35mm). Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy opens October 24.
Julian Glander’s surreal animated coming-of-age story Boys Go To Jupiter opens October 3.
Hind Meddeb’s latest documentary Sudan, Remember Us, a powerful portrait of a generation that chose poetry over silence and imagination over fear, opens October 3.
Technical and Rentals Coordinator Luke Roach introduces Tom Green’s bizarre masterpiece Freddy Got Fingered on October 9 as part of our Staff Picks series!
Happyend, a feature debut from director Neo Sora transports us to a near-future Tokyo, a city on high alert for cataclysmic earthquakes and moving dangerously close to applying total surveillance to its public spaces. Opens October 10.
Through intimate cinema vérité, Union chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Opens October 10.
Ghosts and ghouls – are you “freddy” for a spooky Saturday morning? The Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party: Halloween Edition returns October 11!
Fifty years after Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked the world and forever changed the face of global cinema and popular culture, Chain Reactions charts the film’s profound impact and lasting influence. Opens October 17.
50 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. The new 4K restoration of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre opens October 17!
Cherub, a gentle, ambient character study about the healing power of being admired, opens October 17. Join us on October 17 for a post-screening discussion with director Devin Shears!
Join us October 18 for Fleischer Halloween Party, featuring a block of the spookiest and most surreal cartoons ever made by the legendary Fleischer Studios. Koko the Clown, Betty Boop and more will be in attendance to weird you out with brand new digital restorations from the golden age of animation.
Cult-O-Rama returns October 23 with the first all-out horror film by legendary filmmaker Doris Wishman, A Night to Dismember!
Comedian, star and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald presents Withnail and I on October 30 for McDonald at The Movies!
And finally, join us for a special Halloween double feature of Lamberto Bava’s Demons and Demons 2 for Bikini Drive-In on October 31! “Let’s party!”