Northwest Chicago Film Society Unveils Fall Schedule

By Rob Christopher in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 2, 2011 3:00PM

Since taking up residence in their new home at the Portage Theater, the Northwest Chicago Film Society has, if anything, gotten better at mixing oddities and rarities in with the classics. The newly announced fall schedule, stretching from Sept. 14 through Dec. 21, illustrates this perfectly.

Bette Davis' star-making turn in Of Human Bondage and Frank Tashlin's rock & rock satire The Girl Can't Help It are nestled alongside intriguing choices like Boris Karloff's double performance in the "evil twins" horror movie The Black Room, the comedy anthology If I Had A Million (featuring W.C. Fields' memorable revenge on roadhogs), and the oddball cheapie musical Moonlight and Pretzels.

Here's what's on tap (check out full details here):

Sept. 14: I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; 1945)
Sept. 21: The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino; 1953)
Sept. 28: Western Union (Fritz Lang; 1941)
Oct. 5: The Black Room (Roy William Neill; 1935)
Oct. 12: I Want You (Mark Robson; 1951)
Oct. 19: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (Alan Rafkin; 1966)
Nov. 2: Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell; 1934)
Nov. 9: The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin; 1956)
Nov. 16: Her Sister's Secret (Edgar G. Ulmer; 1946)
Nov. 23: If I Had A Million (Norman Taurog, Norman McLeod, Stephen Roberts, H. Bruce Humberstone, James Cruze, Ernst Lubitsch, and William A. Seiter; 1932)
Nov. 30: Moonlight and Pretzels (Karl Freund; 1933)
Dec. 7: Liliom (Fritz Lang; 1934)
Dec. 14: Huckleberry Finn (William Desmond Taylor; 1920)
Dec. 21: Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen; 1940)

All films screen at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave. Shows start at 7:30; admission is $5