Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024
The 6th edition of the Cinema Femme Short Film Fest runs from April 25 – May 2, 2024. This one-of-a-kind festival emphasizes the importance of support... Read more
Haroula Rose Tribute Filmmaker Event
Festival Director Rebecca Martin Fagerholm will have a discussion with filmmaker and performer Haroula Rose. They will discuss the scope of her career... Read more
The People's Joker
This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more
Rocky Horror Picture Show
This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more
Horse Money
Pedro Costa's follow‐up to his renowned COLOSSAL YOUTH, follows Costa regular Ventura on an odyssey that is part horror film, part fever dream, and ut... Read more
A King in New York
When King Igor Shahdov (Charles Chaplin) flees the revolutionaries of Estonia, he arrives in New York City with almost nothing. With a theater backgro... Read more
Lori Felker Spotlight Series Q&A Event
Matt Fagerholm, film critic and contributor to RogerEbert.com, Cinema Femme magazine, and Indie Outlook, speaks with filmmaker Lori Felker about her w... Read more
Cinema Femme Shorts Program 1: Dear Body
At 9:30 PM on Sunday, April 28, join us for Shorts Program 1: "Dear Body." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from "All the Bo... Read more
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and rega... Read more
The Sweet East
THE SWEET EAST is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from S... Read more
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Cinema Femme Shorts Program 3: P.S.
At 9:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 3: "P.S." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susan Johnson’s c... Read more
Cinema Femme Shorts Program 2: Sincerely, Yours
At 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 2: "Sincerely, Yours." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susa... Read more
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
In the years since its maiden voyage, Peter Weir’s epic seafaring adventure film has made an inexplicable journey: from respected blockbuster that nev... Read more
The Chicago Critics Film Festival
THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more
Sleep
SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (LEE Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (JUNG Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in h... Read more
Sing Sing
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other men who ar... Read more
Le Samourai
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hi... Read more
Cuckoo
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new f... Read more
In a Violent Nature
An ambient slasher that methodically depicts the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.
Thelma
The feature directorial debut of Josh Margolin, THELMA is a poignant action-comedy that gives veteran Oscar® nominee June Squibb (NEBRASKA) her first... Read more
Oddity
When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local men... Read more
Babes
BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more
Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons
The Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored project is one dedicated to gathering and restoring as many of the 700-odd animated shorts produced by Max Fl... Read more
CFCA Shorts Program #1
SHORTS INCLUDEDME - A mysterious new musical from Don Hertzfeldt, Academy Award-nominated director of “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” and “World Of Tomorr... Read more
Little Women (1994)
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. Starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
When Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25, his parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and iso... Read more
The Last Stop in Yuma County
A traveling knife salesman is stranded and forced to wait at a rural rest stop and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent hostage situation... Read more
I Saw the TV Glow
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of... Read more
The Dead Don't Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely indepe... Read more
Dandelion
Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where s... Read more
Flipside
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdn... Read more
CFCA Shorts Program #2
SHORTS INCLUDEDBaigal Nuur - Lake Baikal - The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined with hand-painted animation and mixed materials, feat... Read more
Bringing Out the Dead
This tense urban drama from Martin Scorsese stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has... Read more
What You Wish For
Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incomin... Read more
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype andr... Read more
Power
In the United States, police have been granted extraordinary power over our individual lives. The police determine who is suspicious and who ‘fits the... Read more
Good One
In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chri... Read more
Handling the Undead
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them.... Read more
Gasoline Rainbow
Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more
National Anthem
Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a 21-year-old soft-spoken construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works odd jobs to help... Read more
Ghostlight
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
I Like Movies
Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more
2024 HUMP! Film Festival
HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creativ... Read more
The Holy Mountain
A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.
The Ship of Lost Men
A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length... Read more
Roman Holiday
This Mother’s Day, take the woman who gave you everything on a Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck!The Music Box Theatre is pleased to... Read more
Mother!
A young woman spends her days renovating the Victorian mansion that she lives in with her husband in the countryside. When a stranger knocks on the do... Read more
The Bridges of Madison County + Gloria
In the world of being a mom, little is ever discussed about the inner machinations or secret desires of being a matriarch. Whether that's harboring a... Read more
Dawn of the Dead
Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more
Relative
David and Karen Frank are retirement-age progressive activists and parents who have lived in the same Victorian home on the north side of Chicago for... Read more
Dawn of the Dead 3D
Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more
The Handmaiden
From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sen... Read more
Wildcat
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothi... 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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (El... Read more
Liz & Monty Matinees
“I thought he was the most gorgeous thing in the world and easily one of the best actors.” – Elizabeth TaylorEternally beautiful and mesmerizing perfo... Read more
The Room
This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more
Stop Making Sense
Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by criti... Read more
From Here to Eternity
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift... Read more
First Blood
Vietnam veteran and drifter John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into a small Washington town in search of an old friend, but is met with intole... Read more
Park Life
Having both found themselves alone in Chicago one afternoon, a consultant from New York and a writer from Los Angeles strike up a conversation on a pa... Read more
Solo
Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a rising star in Montreal’s drag scene performing lively disco pop numbers weekly at his local club. Friendly with his fe... Read more
The Misfits
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable)... Read more
Mommie Dearest
When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Cra... Read more
Feel the Base
An evening of original music videos made as part of a collaboration between The Base Chicago and Elmhurst University who teamed up to share their know... Read more
Godzilla vs. Music Box
The Music Box is partnering with the Japanese Arts Foundation to throw Godzilla a birthday party June 7 -13, and you're invited! Come celebrate 70 yea... Read more
Godzilla: The Complete Showa-Era Marathon
Join the Music Box on Saturday, 6/8 for an exclusive 24-hour marathon screening of all 15 Showa-Era Godzilla titles! There will be vendors, exclusive... Read more
Cruising
A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire... Read more
Ask Any Buddy
Featuring fragments from 126 theatrical feature films spanning the years 1968-1986 ASK ANY BUDDY uses rare footage shot at dozens of real bathhouses,... Read more
Wild River
Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee th... Read more
Quadrophenia
An angst-ridden London youth, Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels) escapes the drudgery of his postal job as a member of the Mods, a sharply dressed gang const... Read more
Crossroads + Morvern Callar
In the annals of pop and film history, 2002 remains a definitive year for the female-led road movie. It almost seems shocking now to realize Tamra Dav... Read more
The Birdcage
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) sha... Read more
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Best friends Sunako (Michiko Oikawa) and Dora (Yukiko Inoue) attend a Catholic school together in the port city of Yokohama, a bustling gateway to Wes... Read more
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail party at the h... Read more
Repo Man
After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent name... Read more
Kinds of Kindness
A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-a... Read more
A Place in the Sun
In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, i... Read more