1986

The Festival makes the move to October, and for the first time utilizes the gorgeous Music Box Theatre. Tributes are presented to Sydney Pollack and Deborah Kerr, along with a Claude Lelouch retrospective and a special focus on Argentine cinema. Other highlights include The Decline of the American Empire by Canadian director Denys Arcand, and Alejandro Jodorowski brings his classic cult films The Holy Mountain and El Topo to Chicago.