Calendar: Winter 2012
Doc Films offers diverse programming every academic quarter. Each night of the week from Sunday through Thursday, Doc presents a different ten-week series of films which are curated and voted on by members of Doc's programming board. Descriptions for each of the programs are available via the links above the calendar. Saturday nights are devoted to recent releases and classic titles.
Jason Sperb, a Visiting Professor in Film Studies at Michigan State University will be introducing Friday's 7 PM screening of Punch-Drunk Love. His introduction (10 minutes), entitled "The Art House Adam Sandler Movie" is taken from his forthcoming book Blossoms & Blood: The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson (University of Texas Press, 2013).
Sunday - Always Crashing in the Same Car: British Cinema After the New Wave
Monday - Naruse & Takamine: Of an Auteur and an Actress
Tuesday - Humphrey Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Wednesday - Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Spaghetti Westerns
Thursday I - Heist! Nicholas Cage Steals Declaration, Has Rad Moustache
Thursday II - WHPK 88.5FM Presents Roxploitation: Subculture on Film
Friday - Anderson & Anderson: Wes and P.T.
Saturday - A Tribe Called Doc: A Sampling of the Latest Releases
Special Events
February 13: Screening of Fire Escape's 48 Hour Film Festival Entrants
February 26: When the Bough Breaks
Second Saturdays with Facets!Children and adults alike are sure to enjoy these three official selections from the Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival at 3pm on Saturday afternoons. Screening at Doc Films and in association with Facets.
- January 14: Rock It!
- February 11: From Time to Time
- March 10: Timetrip: Curse of the Viking Witch
Join us this February as we celebrate the works of this prolific director. Schedule posted on our events page.
