Events & Schedule Changes
In addition to our full schedule of screenings, Doc Films hosts various special events, from free movies outside on the University quads to sneak previews of upcoming films often attended by their actors, directors and producers.
If you're interested in proposing an idea for an event, partnering with Doc on an event, or simply getting a feel for what kinds of events Doc has put on in the past, click here.
Upcoming Events & Schedule Changes: Spring 2008
Thursday, April 10 - Mexican Golden Age Cinema Schedule Change
Due to the limited availability of these rare prints, Doc Films will be screening Vámonos con Pancho Villa instead of our scheduled Fantasma en el Convento on Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 pm. It will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles.
Thursday, April 17 - Mexican Golden Age Cinema Schedule Change
Doc Films will be screening Allá en el Rancho Grande instead of our scheduled Dos Monjes on Thursday, April 17 at 7:00 pm. Note: this film will be screened in Spanish with French subtitles.
Thursday, April 24 - Mexican Golden Age Cinema Schedule Change
As scheduled, Doc Films will be screening La Mujer del Puerto on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00 pm. Note: this film will be screened in Spanish with French subtitles. Please check this site regularly for more updates!
Saturday, April 26 - Macedonian Director Milcho Manchevski visits Doc Films
Co-sponsored by the CEERES, the University of Chicago Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. 
Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films
Before the Rain, Dust and Shadows and over 50 short
forms (experimental films, documentaries, commercials and music videos, including Tennessee for “Arrested Development”),
and has guest-directed network and cable tv (HBO’s “The Wire”).
• 4:30 - Before the Rain won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards.
• 8:00 - Shadows was the Macedonian Academy Awards entry, and is currently in world-wide distribution.
• 11:30 - Dust was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival.
Manchevski’s films have screened at more than a hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, tv, cable and video).
May - June - Mexican Golden Age Cinema Schedule Change
Doc Films announces the final schedule for the Thursday 7:00 series, the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Unless otherwise noted, all screenings will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles. For more information on these titles, please check our Mexican Cinema series page.
May 1 – Distinto Amanecer (Julio Brancho, 1943 – 108 min.)
May 8 – Enamorada (Emilio Fernández, 1946 – 98 min.)
May 15 – La Perla (Emilio Fernández, 1947 – 85 min.)
May 22 – La Virgen que forjó una patria (Julio Brancho, 1942 – 110 min.)
May 29 – Maria Candelaria (Emilio Fernández, 1943 – 102 min.) In Spanish with no subtitles.
June 5 – La Zandunga (Fernando de Fuentes, 1937 – 107 min.)
Sunday, May 25 and Sunday, June 1 - Daniel Sefik Presents...
Pianist Daniel Sefik has accompanied nearly all the silent films screened at Doc for the last
few years, but unfortunately, this quarter will
be his last at Doc. To go out in style, he’s chosen two magnificent silent films that we
invite you to enjoy: F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
Sunday, May 25 - 7:00
• Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922 - 90 min.)
An unauthorized translation of Stoker’s Dracula made for a shortlived Weimar studio, Murnau’s Nosferatu has survived lawsuits, truncation, and piracy to become the greatest of all vampire films. Unlike German fantastic cinema that relied on Expressionist sets, Murnau’s film locates the uncanny en plein air, creating a countryside of terror. Max Schreck’s landmark performance – attuned to the gruesomeness of Stoker’s novel, not the suavity of later cinematic vampires – fueled speculation that the mysterious actor was a vampire. 35mm.
Live piano accompaniment by Daniel Sefik.
Sunday, June 1 - 7:00
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927 - 126 min.)
Probably the most iconic silent film ever made, Fritz Lang’s futuristic superproduction fuses socialism and sci-fi to create a startling vision of a society that has lost its human core. The bold contraptions and contradictions of Lang’s film assured in a place in both mainstream and avant-garde film canons, inspiring animation, experimental art, and horror and science fiction cinema. Long available only in a severely re-edited version, the present restoration attempts to approach the beauty of the Berlin premiere version. 35mm.
Live piano accompaniment by Daniel Sefik.
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