Saturday, May 25th
- 11:30am
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F For Fake
- From the Orson Welles: Hello Americans collection
- 2:00pm
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Renoir
- 7:30pm
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Safety Last and the Music Box Theatre Summer Calendar Release Party!
- 9:30pm
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Renoir
- midnight
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Cannibal Holocaust
Sunday, May 26th
- 11:30am
-
F For Fake
- From the Orson Welles: Hello Americans collection
- 2:00pm
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Safety Last
- 4:30pm
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Renoir
- 7:30pm
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Safety Last
- 9:30pm
-
Renoir
Monday, May 27th
- 2:00pm
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Safety Last
- 4:30pm
-
Renoir
- 7:30pm
-
Safety Last
- 9:30pm
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Renoir
Meals & Deals
Cullen’s Bar and Grill
3741 N. Southport Ave (773) 975-0600
Located on Southport just north of the Music Box Theater, we’ve been a part of Wrigleyville for over 15 years. Stop in for a pint and meet our friendly staff, check out our daily specials and enjoy our great food. There’s always something fun happening at Cullen’s and we look forward to serving you soon!
Extend your stay on southport! Present your Music Box Theatre ticket Stub and receive a 15% discount off of your entire check!
Bad Ass Coffee
3737 N. Southport, Chicago, IL 60657
Bad Ass Coffee is located just 2 doors down from Music Box and has tasty coffee and pastries!
Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark, Chicago, IL
Affordable, college-level training with accomplished industry and independent filmmakers.
Coobah
3423 N. Southport (773) 528-2220
Free parking in rear. Closed Dec. 24th.
Enjoy a 15% discount off your dine-in food with your ticket stub.
Deleece Restaurant
3747 N. Southport Ave. Chicago, IL 60613 (773) 325-1710
Enjoy our mouthwatering new menu in our beautiful new surroundings. We look forward to seeing you at our new location just a few doors north of the Music Box Theatre.
Ganesha Yoga
3113 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL (773) 904-7870
Ganesha is laid-back, non-threatening, and supportive. We specialize in yoga for beginners and doubters. We think yoga is a gateway exercise — once you start moving, who knows where you’ll go?
Mystic Celt
3443 N. Southport Ave. (773) 529-8550
Bring in your Music Box Theatre ticket stub for a free appetizer for your table!
The Second City Training Center
1608 N Wells St, Chicago IL 60657 312-664-3959.
Chicago is the world capital of improvisation (improv) and sketch comedy, and The Second City is in the heart of it. For fifty years The Second City has created a wealth of comedic material from a legendary group of performers. We offer a variety of classes in the performance arts for students at any level of experience.
Chicago Reader Real Deal
Since 1971, the Reader has served as Chicago’s political conscience, cultural guide, and music authority. We have thousands of reviews in our film archives; you can check them out and see what’s streaming on Hulu & Netflix with our Old Movies to Watch Now feature.
Safari Cup Coffee
3404 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 770-6162
Enjoy a free coffee upon presentation of any Music Box Theatre ticket for that day.
Uncommon Ground
3800 N. Clark St. 773-929-3680
Just a few blocks from the Music Box Theatre is the fantastic Uncommon Ground, Lakeview. Named “Greenest Restaurant in America” in 2011 by the Green Restaurant Association, we are Chicago’s first Certified Organic Rooftop Farm!
Music Box Films
A highly acclaimed distributor of foreign and independent film in theatrical, DVD and television markets in the United States.
Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly established itself as one of the leading distributors of non-English language feature films in the US in theaters, on DVD/Blu-ray and via Video-on-Demand.
Blog
Something in the Air review
by Patrick McGavin, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 5:29pm
Something in the Air has a rare and vital tone, a tough, honest and scrupulous reconstruction of the past, its youthful ardor mixed with a romantic verve, and how consideration of artistic choices and personal commitment spun on a dime, fleeting and often out of control and rapidly changing moment to moment.
Spring 2013 Calendar
VIVA LA CELLULOID: New Film Prints and Restorations
Tuesday 24 July - Saturday 1 September 2012
It seems like every recent article on cinema has been ringing the death knell for film as we know it. From the bankruptcy of Kodak, to the exponential increase in digital cinema theatres, and even the increased costs of shipping, it sure seems like dire straits for our beloved physical medium. But there’s still some crazy cats out there (ourselves included) who refuse to admit defeat. What follows are some films ripe for rediscovery, all presented in glorious new film prints from recent restorations.
Schedule
Saturday, August 4th
- 11:30am: The Gang’s All Here
Sunday, August 5th
- 11:30am: The Gang’s All Here
Sunday, August 12th
- 11:30am: The French Connection
Saturday, August 18th
- 11:30am: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Sunday, August 19th
- 11:30am: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Saturday, August 25th
- 11:30am: Pretty Poison
Sunday, August 26th
- 11:30am: Pretty Poison
Films
The Gang’s All Here (1943)
directed by Busby Berkeley starring Carmen Miranda
Hallucinatingly choreographed as only Busby Berkeley could do, this visually dazzling wartime Technicolor musical’s only plot-point involves soldier James Ellison going off to war with both Alice Faye and Sheila Ryan believing they are engaged to him. Featuring the knock-out musical number “The Lady with the Tutti-Frutti Hat” starring Carmen Miranda in the most outrageous extrapolation of her schtick.
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The French Connection (1971)
directed by William Friedkin starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
Featuring what is still one of the greatest car chases ever filmed, this out and out thriller is based on a true story. Doyle and Russo (Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider) are two NYPD narcotics cops who stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. When someone tries to kill Doyle, he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city (and legal) limits.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
directed by Stanley Kramer starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton
A groundbreaking film challenging race relations in Civil Rights-era America (especially given that anti-miscegenation laws were still on the books in 17 states at the time of release). Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton) is a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a young, idealistic black physician she met in Hawaii. When Joanna brings her new fiance to dinner to meet her liberal upper-class parents (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn), she is shocked to find such opposition to her marriage.
Pretty Poison (1968)
directed by Noel Black starring Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld
Anthony Perkins, unable to shake off the yolk of Psycho, here plays his best iteration of a psychopath since that defining (and damning) role in this fantastic, ecologically prescient black comedy. Perkins, a young arsonist out on parole, enlists sexy high-schooler Tuesday Weld to help him with an industrial sabotage scheme he’s hatching. But Perkins wasn’t expecting such enthusiastic complicity!
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