The Trials of Muhammad Ali Theatrical run at CHATHAM 14, 210 W 87th Street from Friday, November 8 – 2:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:30 Saturday, November 9, 4:45 Q&A with both Bill Siegel and Khalilah Camacho-Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of…(Read More)
TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE Part 1 (2012) Sunday, Dec 1, 4pm, Admission: $6 Thurs, Dec 5, Part 2, 7pm, $6 Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th Street, Chicago, IL FREE PARKING We are bringing it back? See Part One and Part 2 in the same week. Toussaint Louverture was 8 when he saw his father thrown…(Read More)
Thurs., Nov. 7, 7pm, Adm. $6.00 Chatham Theaters, 210 W 87 St TOP OF THE HEAP, Christopher St. John, USA, 1972, 92 min. AT LAST!!!! **Christopher St. John in conversation via Skype!** The story of a black policeman whose tenuous grip on reality is threatened by the pressures of institutional racism, Top of the…(Read More)
Faces of Women, Ivory Coast, 1985, 105 min. Wednesday Sept 18, 6:30pm, Admission: $8.00 Directed by Désiré Ecaré. In French with English subtitles. Blacklight Cinema Series Co-Presented by the Black Cinema HouseWednesday, September 18, 2013 – 6:30pm Location: Ferguson Auditorium – 600 S Michigan Ave, Admission: $8 Structured around the rhythm of…(Read More)
Thursday Sept 5, 7pm, Admission: $6.00 Am I Black Enough For You, 2009, Sweden, 87 min Directed by Göran Olsson. 2009, Sweden, 87 min Am I Black Enough For You Directed by Göran Olsson. Featuring Billy Paul, Blanche Williams, Kenny Gamble, Clive Davis, Questlove, & Schoolly D. This is the film that…(Read More)
Saturday August 17, 2013, 12pm-7pm Admission: $6.00 | $2.50 Children @ 12:00pm Karate Kid, with free popcorn $10 for entire program (South Side Warriors, Black Belt Jones and Enter the Dragon) Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St Jim Kelly Martial Arts Extravaganza &?40th Anniversary Enter the Dragon Screening To celebrate the…(Read More)
Thursday August 1, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St Welcome to Pine Hill, 2012, 87 minutes Director: Keith Miller Starring: Shannon Harper TimeOutNY “..moody and mesmerizing… deeply human…” The Hollywood Reporter “..uniquely intimate… a breath of fresh air…” Badass Digest “Atmospheric and Enlightening” Shannon Harper is a Midtown claims…(Read More)
Thursday June 6, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St Mali, 1987, 105 minutes Bambara w/ English subtitles Director:Souleymane Cissé Starring: Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Soumba Traoure “Ravishingly beautiful…One of the great experiences of world cinema” — Shelia Benson, The Los Angeles Times “Conceivably the greatest African film…(Read More)
Thurs. May 2, 7pm, $6 admission Chatham 14, 210 W 87th Street, Chicago Coming Back for More: Sly Stone, Dance to the Music 2008, 92min, Director: Willem Alkema from the oju image collective One of the great musical innovators of the last fifty years, Sly (of the Family Stone, naturally) survived his drug addiction but…(Read More)
Hot New works Coming to Chicago Thursday June 6, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP 2012, USA, 88 minutes directr; Jorge Hinojosa from the oju image collective Author of the 1969 pulp best seller Pimp: The Story Of My Life, Slim defined the…(Read More)