Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

Union Pacific

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Union Pacific begins with President Lincoln’s signing of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, firing the starting gun of the sprint pitting the Union Pac... Read more

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Playing off the multiverse fanaticism and superhero craze prominent in today’s pop culture, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE burst onto the scene to... Read more

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

Written on the Wind

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

Perhaps the most anxious and lurid of Sirk's incredible run of melodramas for Universal-International, Written on the Wind is a soap opera laid in a T... Read more

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

Strange and Found

Chicago VHS all-stars, Joe Pickett (Found Footage Fest) and Scott Miller (Strange Tapes Zine) have a combined VHS collection of 15,000 tapes and will... Read more

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah. 

By Design

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If on... Read more

White Chicks

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to esc... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films

BUTTERFLY (Dir. Florence Miailhe, 15 mins, France)A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Au... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

BUTCHER’S STAIN (Dir. Meyer Levinson-Blount, 26 mins, Israel)Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing dow... Read more

Iced

February 20 & 21, bundle up and follow our tracks through the polar vortex to the Music Box Theatre where it's just as cold inside—because we're plung... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Blade

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristo... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Space is the Place

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidosco... Read more

Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

The Furies

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Larger-than-life cattle baron T. C. Jeffords (Walter Huston, in his final role) is a restless egotist who speaks every word as though the world is lis... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

BUTCHER’S STAIN (Dir. Meyer Levinson-Blount, 26 mins, Israel)Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing dow... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films

BUTTERFLY (Dir. Florence Miailhe, 15 mins, France)A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Au... Read more

Frostbiter

February 20 & 21, bundle up and follow our tracks through the polar vortex to the Music Box Theatre where it's just as cold inside—because we're plung... Read more

Blade

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristo... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Space is the Place

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidosco... Read more

Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

The Furies

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Larger-than-life cattle baron T. C. Jeffords (Walter Huston, in his final role) is a restless egotist who speaks every word as though the world is lis... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films

BUTTERFLY (Dir. Florence Miailhe, 15 mins, France)A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Au... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

BUTCHER’S STAIN (Dir. Meyer Levinson-Blount, 26 mins, Israel)Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing dow... Read more

Safe

Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness.... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

Blade

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

Wesley Snipes stars as the tortured soul Blade – half man, half immortal. Blade sharpens his lethal skills under the guidance of Whistler (Kris Kristo... Read more

Life within the Lens

Join us this Black History Month for the 7th iteration of “Life Within the Lens”, our short film program featuring some of the city’s most talented Bl... Read more

Safe

Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness.... Read more

Sirat

A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who... Read more

Borderlands

Fleeing the 1980 Civil War in El Salvador, Dora Rodriguez, along with 25 other asylum seekers, were abandoned by their guide in the relentless Sonoran... Read more

Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

Director Jacques Tourneur once said of Barbara Stanwyck: “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.” With a career that spanned six de... Read more

The Night Walker

Part of: Working Girl: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck

DO YOU DREAM OF SEX? DO YOU DREAM OF VIOLENCE? DO YOU DREAM OF MURDER? If you do, do not see The Night Walker!Fresh off the smashing success of 1964’s... Read more

Brothers from Another Planet

We’re taking a fantasy deep dive this February with some of cinema’s most out-of-this world Black protagonists. Take a spin through the Spider-verse w... Read more

The Brother From Another Planet

Part of: Brothers from Another Planet

He arrives at Ellis Island like the immigrants in the late-19th and early-20th century, but our newcomer, played by Joe Morton, is not from another co... Read more

2026 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films

ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (Dir. Joshua Seftel, 33 mins, USA)In this moving short documentary, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bed... Read more

Dolly

The frame narrative of this gloriously grimy riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would fit on any soiled bib: A young woman named Macy (Fabianne There... Read more