The late night cult sensation is back! The Chicago Cinema Society at The Patio Theater is excited to present the Chicago premiere of BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION!!! Also, director James Nguyen and producer Jeff Gross will be in attendance for Q&A. Come on out and meet the creators of Birdemic, you know you have questions […]

The Chicago Cinema Society at the Patio Theater is proud to present a special screening of the Spaghetti Western classic “If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Your Death” on Friday, April 5th at 10 p.m.! This 1968 film will be shown from the best color and condition 35mm print on the planet earth which was used […]

The Chicago Cinema Society at The Patio Theater presents two special screenings of Walter Hill’s classic <i>The Warriors</i> in 35mm on Friday, March 22nd and Monday, March 25th! Come out to see <i>The Warriors</i> as it was meant to be seen, at the most beautiful theater in Chicago! This will be the first Chicago Cinema […]

The Chicago Cinema Society is proud to present an exclusive weekend of screenings of the newly-remastered DCP of Ron Howard’s 1980s Fantasy classic Willow March 2nd, 3rd and 4th! 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of this family favorite, and Lucasfilm is celebrating with a new Blu-ray release and limited engagement screenings of this newly remastered […]

The Chicago Cinema Society is proud to present the CHICAGO PREMIERE of Vanishing Waves, the film that swept the Fantastic Fest 2012 awards, winning: Best Picture, Best Director (Kristina Buozyte), Best Screenplay (Bruno Samper, Kristina Buozyte) and Best Actress (Jurga Jutaite). Synopsis from Artsploitation Films: “A bold, visionary work of science fiction cinema that recalls […]

The Chicago Cinema Society is proud to present the CHICAGO PREMIERE of writer/director Rebecca Daly’s feature film debut The Other Side of Sleep! This haunting, understated drama features Antonia Campell Hughes in a quietly powerful lead performance. Synopsis from the Factory25 site: “Arlene (Hughes) is a ghost in her own life. She lives in a […]

The Chicago Cinema Society is incredibly proud to be able to host  two screenings of the incredibly underrated DRAGON (aka: Wu Xia) at The Patio Theater! This was easily one of our favorite new martial arts films of last year starring DONNIE YEN and, one of our absolute favs, JIMMY WANG YU giving an amazingly […]

The Chicago Cinema Society is super excited to announce that we will also be collaborating with the stunningly beautiful Patio Theater! We will elaborate more on our collaboration  a lot more in the near future. We are happy to announce our first screening with the Patio Theater SOUND CITY which is directed by Dave Grohl. […]

  THE 36TH CHAMBER OF THE SHAOLIN (Dir. Liu Chia-Liang, 1978, subtitled)  THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Dir. Chang Cheh, 1979, dubbed)  COLD STEEL (CHICAGO PREMIERE, Dir. David Wu, 2012, subtitled) The Chicago Cinema Society is incredibly proud to be screening two classic Kung Fu features that we love dearly along with the Chicago […]

The Chicago Cinema Society, in partnership with our lovely friends at the Logan Theatre, will be presenting one of the most anticipated genre titles of 2013: THE ABCs OF DEATH! We will be screening ABCs for two weekends: March 8th-9th and 15th-16th. Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. The ABC’s OF DEATH is perhaps the most […]