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Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Happy Thursday, Music Boxers!

We have two great new films opening tomorrow. The first is South By Southwest Grand Jury Winner NATURAL SELECTION, about a devote Christian housewife attempting to reunite her dying husband with his illegitimate son. Paste Magazine says it’s “a violent, witty, heart-wrenching [tale].”

The second is THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke. Roger Ebert gives this thriller 3 1/2 stars!

Lastly, drink a Red Bull and come on out to JURASSIC PARK, this Friday and Saturday at Midnight. We’re told a Jeep matching this description just might make an appearance at the Music Box…

See you at the movies!

Thursday, June 21st – Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

 
Chicago International Film Festival

The Woman In The Fifth
Nominated: Pawel Pawlikowski, Gold Hugo, International Feature Film Competition, Chicago International Film Festival (2011)

 

The Woman In The Fifth

A film by Pawel Pawlikowski starring Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig

 

A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Lights, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of murders.


“Hypnotic.”
–John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

“Intriguing.”
–Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter who is living with his estranged ex-wife. Completely broke, he accepts a job as a night guard for a local crime boss. Stationed in a basement office, his only task is to push a button when a bell rings. The tranquility of the night, he hopes, will help him focus on his new novel.

His days become more exciting when he starts a romance with Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas), a mysterious and elegant widow who sets strange rules to their meetings: she will only see him at her apartment in the fifth arrondissement, at 5pm sharp, twice a week and he should ask no questions about her work or her past life.

When people suddenly start dying around Tom, he begins to believe that a dark force has entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong. After the police accuse him of murdering his neighbor, Tom tries to use his weekly visits to Margit’s apartment as an alibi, only to find out that she hasn’t lived at this address for the past 15 years.

 


Fri, Jun 22 2:00pm
 
 

Natural Selection
Best Narrative Feature - Grand Jury Award, SxSW Narrative Feature Competition (2011)

Natural Selection
Best Narrative Feature - Audience Award, SxSW Narrative Feature Competition (2011)

Natural Selection
Best Screenplay - Robbie Pickering, SxSW Narrative Feature Competition (2011)

 

Natural Selection

A film by Robbie Pickering starring Rachael Harris, Jon Gries, Matt O'Leary

 

Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.


“Insightful, touching, funny. Rachael Harris is wonderful.”
–Roger Ebert

A woman eager to grant what could be her husband’s last wish ends up on a road trip with an ill-mannered criminal in this comedy from writer and director Robbie Pickering.

Linda White (Rachael Harris) has been married for more than 20 years to Abe (John Diehl), a Christian so devout that he refuses to have sex with his wife; when the couple had trouble conceiving early in their marriage, a doctor discovered that Linda was infertile, and believing that sex without producing offspring is a sin, Abe insisted their union be celibate.

Linda, an obedient spouse and devout Christian, has obeyed Abe’s edict, but when he suffers a stroke likely to claim his life, Linda makes a surprising discovery — Abe has been making frequent deposits at a sperm bank, and wants to meet one of the children he’s sired before he dies.

Linda is able to track down one of the products of Abe’s seed, but Raymond (Matt O’Leary) is hardly the sort of son most folks wish for — he’s a mean-spirited prison escapee with a taste for drugs who agrees to travel from Florida to Texas with her only to avoid the cops who are on his trail.

At first, Linda and Raymond mix as well as oil and water, but after a few days on the road the two discover they have a bit more in common than they expected. Natural Selection won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival.

 


Fri, Jun 22 2:15pm
 
 
 

Jurassic Park

A film by Steven Speilberg starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

 

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

A few paleontologists (Sam Neil and Laura Dern) are invited to take a preview tour of a theme park filled with cloned dinosaurs. But as chaos theorist Jeff Goldblum warns, life finds a way, and the park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its exhibits to run amok – and breed. Clever girls. Celebrating 20 years of being the only movie to have good-looking CGI!

 


Fri, Jun 22 midnight
 
 
 

Headhunters

A film by Morten Tyldum starring Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund

 

Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it


“A WILD AND BLOODY ADRENALINE RUSH OF A MOVIE.”
–Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“It’s on my short list of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory. Smart, funny, scary and surprising -– a one-of-a-kind thriller.”
–Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway’s most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.

Headhunters is based on Jo Nesbø’s best-selling thriller from 2008.

 


Sat, Jun 23 11:30am
 
 
 

Sunset Blvd

A film by Billy Wilder starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim

 

Hack screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) is coaxed with lavish gifts into writing a script to revive the faded career of silent-film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who lives in total obscurity revisiting the past with her former partner-turned-butler Max (Erich von Stroheim). But Norma’s delusions have a dangerous edge, and Joe’s not exactly a careful man.

 


Sat, Jun 23 11:30am
 

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