Friday, July 2nd – Thursday, July 8th, 2010

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Attention all Lisbeth and Stieg fans!

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a literary and cinematic hit, and we have several events planned for those of you who can’t wait for the opening of the highly anticipated sequel, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, on July 9.

This Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 we present a FREE screening of MILLENNIUM: THE STORY, a documentary portrait of author Stieg Larsson and the world-wide phenomenon that is the MILLENNIUM trilogy.

To attend this FREE screening, simply pick-up your ticket at the box office that day (seating is limited to theater capacity). A limited number of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO posters, DVDs and Blu-rays will be given away at each screening!

Then on Thursday, July 8 at 9:10 we present a double feature of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, followed by a special midnight premiere of THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE.

Be the first to see the next installment in the Lisbeth Salander saga! Tickets are now on sale at the box office.

Happy Fourth of July,
Brian

 
 
 
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Let It Rain

Let It Rain

“Delightful! An urbane comedy of middle class manners.”
Time Out New York

“GRADE A! A rapier-sharp comedy. ”
Entertainment Weekly

From the celebrated director of LOOK AT ME and THE TASTE OF OTHERS, Agnes Jaoui, comes LET IT RAIN, an endlessly charming and a sharp-witted battle of the sexes. An audience favorite at the New York Film Festival, this charismatic comedy is un-missable for fans of French cinema everywhere.

Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is a self-centered, workaholic feminist politician who, upon reluctantly returning to her home in the south of France to sort out her mother’s affairs, runs for an local election. Upon her arrival, Agathe grudgingly agrees to take part in a documentary being made by the blundering duo of Karim (Jamel Debbouze, AMELIE) an aspiring filmmaker, and self-professed “reporter” Michel (Jaoui’s regular writing partner Jean-Pierre Bacri), on the subject of “successful women.” As Agathe’s life hilariously unravels, the camera is there to capture it all.

Fri, Jul 2

2:00pm · 5:10pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm

Sat, Jul 3

2:00pm · 5:10pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm

Sun, Jul 4

2:00pm · 5:10pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm

Mon, Jul 5

2:00pm · 5:10pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm

Tue, Jul 6

5:10pm · 7:30pm · 9:45pm

Wed, Jul 7

5:10pm · 7:30pm

Thu, Jul 8

5:10pm · 7:30pm

 

The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

“Electrifying! Thoughtful, stylish, at times dryly funny, disconcertingly sexy. ”
Los Angeles Times

“Wickedly entertaining!”
The Village Voice

Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom’s THE KILLER INSIDE ME tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy Lou Ford.

Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact he’s a sadist, a psychopath, a killer. Suspicion begins to fall on Lou, and it’s only a matter of time before he runs out of alibis. But in Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker than noir universe nothing is ever what it seems, and it turns out that the investigators pursuing him might have a secret of their own

Fri, Jul 2

2:45pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm

Sat, Jul 3

2:45pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm

Sun, Jul 4

2:45pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm

Mon, Jul 5

2:45pm · 5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm

Tue, Jul 6

5:00pm · 7:20pm · 9:40pm

Wed, Jul 7

5:00pm · 9:40pm

Thu, Jul 8

4:40pm · 7:00pm · 9:40pm

 

Wet Hot American Summer still

Wet Hot American Summer

Celebrate the Fourth of July at camp! The braintrust behind 90s cult MTV show The State leads a huge cast in this raunchy take on everyone’s favorite summer memories. Starring every comedian who has ever been on a VH1 “I Love The ___”

Fri, Jul 2

midnight

Sat, Jul 3

midnight

 

Hackers still

Hackers

Johnny Lee Miller (aka Crash Override, aka Zero Cool) joins the burgeoning hacker community whose members include a skateboarding Matthew Lillard (aka Cereal Killer) and a young Angelina Jolie (aka Acid Burn). These fun-loving punks have uncovered a conspiracy to unleash a massive computer virus, and they’re the only ones with the know-how to stop it! HACK THE PLANET!

Fri, Jul 2

midnight

Sat, Jul 3

midnight

 

Millennium: The Story

Millennium: The Story

FREE SCREENING!
Saturday and Sunday at 1:30pm

The Millennium trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson is THE literary phenomenon of the last decade, with 15 million books sold worldwide, 25 translations in over 40 countries, and a movie that is blasting box-office records in Scandinavia and several European countries. And the Millennium saga has only just begun…

This portrait of Stieg Larsson reveals the story of an outstanding success – a worldwide phenomenon who at the age of 50, died from a sudden heart attack before his first novel was even published. This planetary triumph is analyzed by close friends and relatives of Stieg Larsson; by his publisher, his journalist colleagues and by various professionals who have worked on the films, including leading actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist who play Lizbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.

This is a FREE screening!
To attend this FREE screening, simply pick-up your ticket at the theater box office the day-of the screening (seating is limited to theater capacity). A few lucky people attending each screening will receive a complimentary copy of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO on DVD and Blu-ray!

Sat, Jul 3

1:30pm

Sun, Jul 4

1:30pm

 

Roman Holiday still

Roman Holiday

A bored and sheltered princess (Audrey Hepburn) escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman (Gregory Peck) in Rome. Hepurn’s bittersweet mixture of whimsy and reluctance earned her an Oscar in her first ever leading role.

Sat, Jul 3

11:30am

Sun, Jul 4

11:30am

 

Breathless

Breathless

“Fifty years on, still the newest movie in town.”
John Powers, Vogue

“REVELATORY! The images yield up details hitherto imperceptible in the prints that were available until now. THIS RESTORATION PROVIDED A WELCOME JOLT OF THE NEW!”
Richard Brody, The New Yorker

New 35mm Print! 50th Anniversary Restoration!

There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard’s debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinéma. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, BREATHLESS (”À bout de souffle”) helped launch the French New Wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

Sat, Jul 3

11:30am

Sun, Jul 4

11:30am

 

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With Fire

“More gripping than Dragon Tattoo, because this one doesn't just play with thriller conventions — it puts them to work.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“Relentless suspense! Holds you in a viselike grip. Noomi Rapace is spectacular.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The second film in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling “Millennium” trilogy

In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – the second installment in the “Millennium” trilogy following THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society. On the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.

 

Calendar

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Tickets

Admission for main features and midnight films is $9.25 (different prices may apply to special presentations). The first show of the day on Mondays through Thursdays is only $8.25. Admission for the 11:30am matinee films is $7.25.

The Music Box Discount Card provides 5 admissions for $33.00 (a savings of up to $13.25; good for six months; limit two admissions per visit). Cards are available at the box office.

Film info line: (773) 871-6604.

Getting here

The Music Box is located at 3733 North Southport Avenue, Chicago. Metered street parking is available on Southport Avenue. The Music Box is a short walk east from free street parking on Ashland Avenue. There is a parking lot one block north of the theatre at the Blaine School ($10).

The theater is near the Southport station on CTA's Brown Line and the 152 Addison, 9 Ashland and 80/X80 Irving Park bus routes.

For public transit information, call 836-7000.

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