The Odyssey

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to c... Read more

The Sun Never Sets

Wendy (Dakota Fanning) has her life thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack (Jake Johnson), who is older and divorced with children, insists they t... Read more

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with ima... Read more

Lockjaw

Six weeks after a drunk driving accident that left her jaw wired shut, Rayna tries to have a fun night out with her friends. Over the course of a wild... Read more

The Odyssey

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to c... Read more

The Sun Never Sets

Wendy (Dakota Fanning) has her life thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack (Jake Johnson), who is older and divorced with children, insists they t... Read more

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with ima... Read more

The Odyssey

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to c... Read more

The Sun Never Sets

Wendy (Dakota Fanning) has her life thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack (Jake Johnson), who is older and divorced with children, insists they t... Read more

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with ima... Read more

Music Box Bingo

Once a month, join us in the Music Box Lounge 7-10 PM for the infamous MUSIC BOX BINGO! Hosted by your good-time gals Gaudy God and Uncle Aunt. This 2... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

Sweet Smell of Success

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

A box-office disaster upon original release, Sweet Smell of Success is now considered one of best films of the 1950s—as well as the definitive cinemat... Read more

The Man with the Golden Arm

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Frank Sinatra is Frankie Machine, a hustler and recovering drug addict. Frankie decides to go straight and pursue his dream of becoming a musician, bu... Read more

Lifers: A Local H Movie

Written and directed by the band’s singer/guitarist, Lifers documents a Local H show shot in real time during a gig at Chicago’s revered music venue,... Read more

The Chaser

Na Hong-jin’s directorial debut, inspired by real-life serial killer Yoo Young-chul, inverts the thriller formula by revealing the murderer’s identity... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Harry and the Hendersons

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Academy Award nominee John Lithgow stars in this big-hearted, big-footed family comedy. Everything changes with a crash for the Hendersons when they m... Read more

Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Merciless Mayhem highlights the furious fists and feet of some of the world's finest martial artists, unwilling to accept defeat in the face of oppres... Read more

Swordsman

Part of: Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Initiated by legendary filmmaker King Hu though ultimately completed by a team of directors led by producer Tsui Hark, this dizzying wuxia whirlwind r... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

To Have and Have Not

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Humphrey Bogart is an aimless fisherman who gets drawn into the growing French Resistance in Martinique. Lauren Bacall is the American songbird who se... Read more

Nocturne

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

When Alfred Hitchcock protégé Joan Harrison landed at RKO in 1946, she pulled an abandoned script from deep in the archives to make her producing debu... Read more

Black Angel

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Kirk Bennett is sentenced to die for the murder of gorgeous actress Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), but his wife (June Vincent) won’t give up tryin... Read more

Blues in the Night

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

The first noir film to delve into the jazz world, Blues in the Night details the rise and inevitable fall of a St. Louis band. They land their big bre... Read more

Hundreds of Beavers

In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness.Can he go from zero to hero, become North America'... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Harry and the Hendersons

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Academy Award nominee John Lithgow stars in this big-hearted, big-footed family comedy. Everything changes with a crash for the Hendersons when they m... Read more

Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Merciless Mayhem highlights the furious fists and feet of some of the world's finest martial artists, unwilling to accept defeat in the face of oppres... Read more

Swordsman II

Part of: Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Virtually the entire cast of Part I was replaced for the sequel, one of the biggest successes of Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop. The story picks up a year... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

Kansas City

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Jean Harlow obsessed housewife trying to free her loser husband from the clutches of a local gangster. She kidnaps the wife... Read more

King Creole

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Elvis Presley is the headstrong teen who can sing. Walter Matthau is the crime boss who wants to own him. The dance between these two makes up the cen... Read more

Love Me or Leave Me

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

The tumultuous life of dancer-singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day, in a revelatory performance) gets a vivid retelling in this vivacious and vitriolic biop... Read more

Pete Kelly's Blues

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

The lone Technicolor offering of the festival has Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader who refuses to bend the knee to a local bootlegger. The ac... Read more

Dog Day Afternoon

Director Sidney Lumet's 1975 films stars Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik, an unemployed schnook from Brooklyn whose failed attempt to rob a bank makes him... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

The Man I Love

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

As flinty chanteuse Petey Brown, Ida Lupino is at the apex of her big-screen glamour, offering a radiantly romantic vision of the post-WWII American w... Read more

Gilda

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Rita Hayworth created her Hollywood “Love Goddess” legend in this tailor-made romantic drama, which Eddie Muller has described as “more tango than mov... Read more

Face the Music

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

A forgotten gem that inspired the name of this year’s festival, Face the Music teases a romance between an American trumpet player and a London singer... Read more

The Wailing

As country bumpkin police sergeant Kwak Do-won investigates a series of murders that appear to be connected to a strange, sense-deranging sickness tha... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

Hangover Square

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

In this moody gaslight noir, Laird Cregar, one of the most memorable character actors of the forties, had his first—and final—starring role as the tal... Read more

The Wrong Man

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

The only film by The Master of Suspense based on a true story. Henry Fonda plays real-life jazz musician Emanuel Balestrero, a bass player at Manhatta... Read more

Hope

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

Round Midnight

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Round Midnight is a devastating chronicle of addiction inspired by the lives of jazz legends Lester Young and Bud Powell. The film blends the struggle... Read more

The Crimson Canary

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

The Crimson Canary boasts two things that make B-movies so much fun: a great premise and a short runtime. A trumpet player gets locked up after the le... Read more

Hope

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more

NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

From September 4 - 10, NOIR CITY: Chicago will present ‘Face the Music!’, a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From... Read more

All Night Long

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

All Night Long redresses William Shakespeare’s Othello for pulp audiences. Patrick McGoohan is an ambitious drummer who tries to coax a famous singer... Read more

A Man Called Adam

Part of: NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026

Sammy Davis, Jr. like you’ve never seen him before! Sammy plays Adam, the cornetist whose prodigious talent is dwarfed only by his penchant for self-d... Read more

Hope

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more

The Late Show

Stay up late with those goof-off, irreverent movies your parents wouldn't let you watch as a kid. If you grew up in the '90s & '00s and had to sneak o... Read more

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Part of: The Late Show

Since the beginning of time ‘twas written in the stones that one day a band would come. And come they shall. When a dragon-hearted dreamer with vision... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Beethoven

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Barely escaping from nefarious dog-nappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family—and promptly grows up into 185 pou... Read more

Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Merciless Mayhem highlights the furious fists and feet of some of the world's finest martial artists, unwilling to accept defeat in the face of oppres... Read more

Swordsman III: The East Is Red

Part of: Merciless Mayhem: Martial Arts Midnights, Matinees, & More!

Jet Li and Chin Siu-ho are two young Shaolin monks unjustly kicked out of the monastery and forced to adapt to live in the secular world. The power-hu... Read more

Hope

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more

The Late Show

Stay up late with those goof-off, irreverent movies your parents wouldn't let you watch as a kid. If you grew up in the '90s & '00s and had to sneak o... Read more

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Part of: The Late Show

Since the beginning of time ‘twas written in the stones that one day a band would come. And come they shall. When a dragon-hearted dreamer with vision... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Beethoven

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

Barely escaping from nefarious dog-nappers, an adorable puppy named Beethoven adopts the unsuspecting Newton family—and promptly grows up into 185 pou... Read more

Hope

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a my... Read more

DEVO: Restorations and Revelations - Collected Film Works 1976-1984

Formed in the wreckage of the Kent State shootings in 1973, where co-founders Gerald V. Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were students during the massacre... Read more

Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

TWIN PEAKS: Moving Through Time is a five-day journey through the complete original run of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking series, ending... Read more

Twin Peaks Season 1 & 2

Part of: Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

Not a marathon but a voyage through time. Between episodes, Knox’s newly assembled “commercial break” segments bring together deleted scenes, outtakes... Read more

Music Box of Horrors Presents

The team at Music Box of Horrors collectively agreed we could no longer only celebrate all things horror & hang out with you sickos once a year! Every... Read more

In the Dark

Part of: Music Box of Horrors Presents

Apathetic librarian Jane (Kim Garrett) is bored with the mundanity of her day to day life. That is, until a stranger leaves her an envelope containing... Read more

Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

TWIN PEAKS: Moving Through Time is a five-day journey through the complete original run of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking series, ending... Read more

Twin Peaks in Japan + Scott Ryan's The Double R Dream

Part of: Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

A screening featuring rare Japan-centric footage and The Double R Dream, followed by an in-person appearance by director Scott Ryan. Pie and coffee wi... Read more

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Part of: Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television... Read more

Twin Peaks: The Pilot

Part of: Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a rive... Read more

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Part of: Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time

A feature-length compilation of deleted and alternate takes from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the... Read more

Labyrinth

David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems! Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Pete's Dragon

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

When Pete, an orphan, and his best friend Elliot, an invisible green dragon, wander into the seaside village of Passamaquoddy, the townspeople think h... Read more

Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

“My father took me to the movies all the time. He told me about the first one he ever saw. He went into a dark room, and on a white screen, he saw a r... Read more

Pete's Dragon

Part of: Indoor Kids: Family-Friendly Matinees

When Pete, an orphan, and his best friend Elliot, an invisible green dragon, wander into the seaside village of Passamaquoddy, the townspeople think h... Read more

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. P... Read more

Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

Playing with Fire is a heartfelt, mythopoetic documentary born from the ashes of a massive, devastating forest fire. Long time lovers, Beth and Annie... Read more

Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story

Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the true tale of ecosexual lovers, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco t... Read more

Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure

With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective.... Read more