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The Queen of Versailles! The Intouchables! Joe Dante!
 
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Happy Thursday, Music Boxers!

This week brings the opening of The Queen Of Versailles, the Sundance Award-winning documentary that The AV Club’s Noel Murray calls, “A sad, funny film, full of the wonder of opulence and the shock of decay”.

Speaking of The AV Club, we’re very excited to be hosting another installment of The New Cult Canon with Scott Tobias. On August 10th, special guest Joe Dante will be on hand to host the Midwest premiere of his new film The Hole, followed by a screening his cult classic Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Advance double feature tickets on sale now!

This weekend, our Viva La Celluloid matinee series kicks off with Busby Berkley’s The Gang’s All Here, presented in a glorious new film print.

Also coming to the Music Box this week is The Intouchables, the heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship, and hilarious weekend Midnight Movies of films both new (Klown) and old (Spaceballs).

See you at the movies!

Wednesday, August 1st – Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

 

Lauren Greenfield, US Directing Award: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival Awards
2012
 

The Queen of Versailles

A film by Lauren Greenfield starring Jackie Siegel and David Siegel

 

A documentary that follows a billionaire couple who live in a 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles, built on the success of the time-share industry.


“A sad, funny film, full of the wonder of opulence and the shock of decay.”
–Noel Murray, The Onion

“Hilarious and upsetting. Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. Laugh-out-loud funny, with elements of profound tragedy and allegory.”
–Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream.

We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor.

 


Fri, Aug 3 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sat, Aug 4 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sun, Aug 5 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Mon, Aug 6 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Tue, Aug 7 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Wed, Aug 8 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Thu, Aug 9 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Fri, Aug 10 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sat, Aug 11 12:00pm · 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sun, Aug 12 12:00pm · 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Mon, Aug 13 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Tue, Aug 14 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Wed, Aug 15 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Thu, Aug 16 5:15pm · 7:30pm
Fri, Aug 17 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sat, Aug 18 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sun, Aug 19 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Mon, Aug 20 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Tue, Aug 21 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Wed, Aug 22 5:15pm · 9:45pm
Thu, Aug 23 5:15pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm
Sat, Aug 25 11:30am
Sun, Aug 26 11:30am
Sat, Sep 1 11:30am
Sun, Sep 2 11:30am
Sat, Sep 8 11:30am
Sun, Sep 9 11:30am
 
 
 

The Intouchables

A film by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano starring François Cluzet, Omar Sy and Anne Le Ny

 

An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust and human possibility.

Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his street smart ex-con caretaker (Omar Sy), The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.

Directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the film was nominated for a total of nine 2012 César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, including Best Picture, and won Best Actor for breakout star Omar Sy. The film also won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Tokyo International Film Festival.

The Intouchables has received Audience Awards from U.S. film festivals including the San Francisco Film Festival, COL COA, and the Nashville Film Festival.

 


Fri, Aug 3 2:00pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
Sat, Aug 4 11:30am · 2:00pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
Sun, Aug 5 11:30am · 2:00pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:39pm
Mon, Aug 6 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
Tue, Aug 7 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
Wed, Aug 8 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
Thu, Aug 9 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm
 
 
 

Spaceballs

A film by Mel Brooks starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, John Hurt, Mel Brooks, George Wyner, Dick Van Patten, Michael Winslow, Joan Rivers

 

It’s been 25 years since this fantastic spoof of the Star Wars trilogy! Nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet’s air. Space bum Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue, with help from Yogurt and the power of “The Schwartz.”

A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks.

Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy life. But they reluctantly come to the rescue when Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) is threatened by the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis), who wants to steal all of the air from her planet, Druidia. Trapped on a harsh desert world with Vespa and her robot chaperone, Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers), Lone Starr and Barf are helpless to prevent Helmet from kidnapping the girl. But assistance arrives in the form of Yogurt (Brooks), a wizard who turns Lone Starr on to a mysterious power known as The Schwartz. Catching up with Helmet just as he’s transforming his spaceship into a giant vacuum cleaner in orbit around Druidia, the reluctant heroes stage a dramatic showdown.

Although it borrows most of its plot from the Star Wars series, Spaceballs also pokes fun at Star Trek, Snow White, and Planet of the Apes — as well as the entire videocassette and movie marketing industries. The large supporting cast includes Dick Van Patten, Jim J. Bullock, and the voice of Dom DeLuise. John Hurt makes a cameo in a parody of the exploding chest scene he played in Alien.

 


Fri, Aug 3 midnight
Sat, Aug 4 midnight
 
 
 

Klown

A film by Mikkel Nørgaard starring Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen

 

In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), Klown follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Danish countryside, plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries.

Hopelessly wrongheaded Frank “kidnaps” the 12-year-old nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential, and they join sex-crazed Casper on his secret adulterous weekend canoe trip. Rampaging through exclusive brothels, hospitalizations, armed robberies and even prison, the three paddle downstream from one chaotic misadventure to the next, all culminating in a surprisingly sentimental portrait of friendship and a final shocking reveal that you’ll never be able to unsee.

 


Fri, Aug 3 midnight
Sat, Aug 4 midnight
Sat, Aug 11 midnight
 
 
 

The Gang’s All Here

A film 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.

 


Sat, Aug 4 11:30am
Sun, Aug 5 11:30am
 

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