(NWCFS) has announced its summer slate of movies that will be shown on 天天吃瓜鈥檚 Main Campus. 鈥淏ringing up Baby鈥 (pictured above), a 1938 film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, will open the summer series on May 31. Other highlights include the July 20 screening of 鈥淭he Bedroom Window鈥 with live organ accompaniment and the July 27 screening of 鈥淭he Road Back,鈥 the sequel to 鈥淎ll Quiet on the Western Front鈥 that was suppressed for eight decades.
This will be the fourth NWCFS film series in partnership with Northeastern. In June 2015, Northeastern and NWCFS announced that the University鈥檚 had partnered with the film society to make Northeastern the institutional home for the NWCFS screenings of 35mm film prints. The screenings are integrated into Northeastern鈥檚 film studies courses, which serve more than 200 students each semester.
The Northwest Chicago Film Society makes rare and classic films available to local audiences in their original forms鈥攐n 35mm and 16mm motion picture film. The screenings spotlight the restoration efforts of archives, studios and private collectors, as well as the experience of seeing films projected in a theater with an audience.
NWCFS has screened 29 feature-length films鈥攑lus shorts and vintage trailers鈥攊n the first year of the partnership, selling more than 3,000 tickets.
All screenings take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium, in the E Building at 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. in Chicago. Tickets cost $2 with a Northeastern ID and $5 for the general public. is available on campus.
Here is the summer schedule:
May 31: 鈥淏ringing up Baby鈥 (Howard Hawks, 1938)
June 14: 鈥淜iller of Sheep鈥 (Charles Burnett, 1977)
June 21: 鈥淟ove in the Afternoon鈥 (Billy Wilder, 1957)
June 28: 鈥淭he Student Nurses鈥 (Stephanie Rothman, 1970)
July 6: 鈥淏rute Force鈥 (Jules Dassin, 1947)
July 13: 鈥淔erry Cross the Mersey鈥 (Jeremy Summers, 1965)
July 20: 鈥淭he Bedroom Window鈥 (William C. de Mille, 1924)
July 27: 鈥淭he Road Back鈥 (James Whale, 1937)
Aug. 3: 鈥淐hinese Roulette鈥 (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
Aug. 17: 鈥淏reathless鈥 (Jim McBride, 1983)
Aug. 24: 鈥淭he Missouri Breaks鈥 (Arthur Penn, 1976)
Aug. 31: 鈥淶aza鈥 (George Cukor, 1939)