Film Calendar February 8 - April 4, 2019
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FILM CALENDAR FEBRUARY 8 - APRIL 4, 2019 TRANSIT A Christian Petzold Film Opens March 15 Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607 CATVIDEOFEST RUBEN BRANDT, THE FILMS OF CHRISTIAN PETZOLD IDA LUPINO’S FEBRUARY COLLECTOR HARMONY KORINE MATINEE SERIES THE HITCH-HIKER 16, 17 & 19 OPENS MARCH 1 MARCH 15-21 WEEKENDS AT 11:30AM MARCH 4 AT 7PM Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE! FEATURE FILMS 4 COLD WAR NOW PLAYING 4 OSCAR-NOMINATED DOC SHORTS OPENS FEBRUARY 8 6 AMONG WOLVES FEBRUARY 8-14 6 NEVER LOOK AWAY OPENS FEBRUARY 15 8 AUDITION FEBRUARY 15 & 16 9 LORDS OF CHAOS OPENS FEBRUARY 22 9 RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR OPENS MARCH 1 11 BIRDS OF PASSAGE OPENS MARCH 8 FILM SCHOOL DEDICATED 12 TRANSIT OPENS MARCH 15 The World’s Only 17 WOMAN AT WAR OPENS MARCH 22 TO COMEDY 18 COMMENTARY SERIES Comedy Theory. Storytelling. Filmmaking. Industry Leader Masterclasses. 24 CLASSIC MATINEES Come make history with us. RamisFilmSchool.com 26 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY 28 SILENT CINEMA 30 MIDNIGHTS SPECIAL EVENTS 7 VALENTINE’S DAY: CASABLANCA FEBRUARY 10 VALENTINE’S DAY: THE PRINCESS BRIDE FEBRUARY 13 & 14 8 CAT VIDEO FEST FEBRUARY 16, 17 & 19 10 JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 1-17 10 THE HITCH-HIKER MARCH 4 11 PARTS OF SPEECH: HARI KUNZRU MARCH 12 14 HARMONY KORINE FILM SERIES MARCH 15-21 17 DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES MARCH 30 & APRIL 3 Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 37 ISSUE 154 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2019 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Buck LePard, Senior Operations Manager Will Morris, Programming Manager Published by Newcity Custom Publishing Newcitynetwork.com Claire Alden, Group Sales and Membership Manager For information, email [email protected] Julian Antos, Technical Director and Assistant Programmer or call 312.243.8786 Kyle Westphal, Programming Associate Rebecca Lyon, Assistant Technical Director Cover Image from the film TRANSIT, opening March 15 at Music Box Theatre. Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com APPLICATION DUE DATES 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office May 15, 2019 (Start Fall 2019: Aug. 19, 2019) September 15, 2019 (Start Winter 2020: Jan. 6, 2020) 3 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS NOW PLAYING FEATURE FILM ® candyality and the music box a southport tradition Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, including Best Director! C Winner - A Best Director - N 2018 Cannes D Film Festival Y COLD WAR A terrific, smoky-cool love story.” “–TIME DIRECTED BY: Pawel Pawlikowski Visually stunning, passionate, wistful, STARRING: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot “and thoughtful in equal measure.” 2018, 89 mins, DCP, In Polish with English subtitles –Vulture COLD WAR is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate—an impossible love story in impossible times. OPENS FEBRUARY 8 FEATURE FILM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, opening in Chicago exclusively at the Music Box Theatre. A collection of powerful and diverse real life stories, the Documentary Shorts routinely highlight lesser-heard voices from around the globe. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 24. 4 Music Box Theatre February-April 2019 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS PLAYING FEBRUARY 8-14 FEATURE FILM Chicago Filmmakers in Winner - Attendance Chicago Award - Chicago International Film Festival AMONG WOLVES Builds an “arresting power.” –RogerEbert.com DIRECTED BY: Shawn Convey 2019, 95 mins, DCP, In Croatian with English subtitles The Wolves are no ordinary biker club as revealed in this gorgeously shot, surprisingly intimate documentary of trauma and hope. Still struggling from the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi- ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the frontline. Out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing. Come celebrate the official release of this stunning debut by Chicago filmmaker Shawn Convey (in attendance for all screenings). Panel discussions, special events, comp night for veterans and more TBA. OPENS FEBRUARY 15 FEATURE FILM CASABLANCA with Sweetheart Sing-Along Sunday, February 10 at 2pm DIRECTED BY: Michael Curtiz STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid; (1942) 102 mins, 35mm The Music Box Theatre’s annual screening of the classic film CASABLANCA begins with a special “Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Sing-Along” featuring a selection of favorite love songs complete with projected lyrics and accompaniment from the Music Box organ. Songs include “You Are My Sunshine,” “Bicycle Built for Two” Academy and “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” After the sing-a-long you and your sweetheart can hold hands, Award Nominee - From the canoodle and watch Bogart and Bergman in the timeless CASABLANCA, one of the great romantic films Best Foreign Director of of all time. Language Film THE LIVES OF OTHERS THE PRINCESS BRIDE NEVER LOOK AWAY 2 Shows! Wednesday, February 13 & Thursday, February 14 at 7pm An epic, intergenerational “tale of art, love, tragedy, DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner DIRECTED BY: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and politics.” STARRING: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright; (1987) 98 minutes, DCP –Variety STARRING: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer The fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” Featuring pre-show entertainment that includes a 2018, 189 mins, DCP, In German & Russian with English subtitles A gorgeous example of costume contest. Dress up as the dashing Inigo Montoya, the beautiful Buttercup, the gentle Fezzik, or any of your “provocative storytelling. Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, NEVER See it!” other favorite characters! LOOK AWAY tells the story of a young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling) –The Boston Herald A young boy listens while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup, the most beautiful woman who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie (Paula Beer). Ellie’s father, in the world, and Westly, the man she loves, in the fairy-tale kingdom of Florin. Along the way they encounter Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch), a famous doctor, is dismayed at his a Spanish swordsman, a gentle giant, and the six-fingered villain, Count Rugen. Inconceivable! daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago. 6 Music Box Theatre February-April 2019 Features and Special Events 7 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS FEBRUARY 15 & 16 FEATURE OPENS FEBRUARY 22 FEATURE FILM FILM 20th Anniversary! New 2K Restoration! AUDITION LORDS OF CHAOS A lethally poised Funny and vicious… Venus flytrap of a a compulsively watchable jam” DIRECTED BY: Takashi Miike “ “ movie...the best-disguised DIRECTED BY: Jonas Åkerlund –BirthMoviesDeath STARRING: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina psychotronic splatter STARRING: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer 1999, 115 mins, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles flick in recent memory.” A pitch-perfect black metal 2018, 112 mins, DCP –Village Voice “dramedy about real-life head- One of the most well-crafted, impactful and infamous J-horror films Based on an astonishing true story, LORDS OF CHAOS recounts the bangers who lost their minds.” ever made returns to the big screen after far too long a break. –Variety exploits of the Norwegian black metal movement’s most notorious Recent widower Shigeharu is advised by his son to find a new wife. On the advice of a film company band: Mayhem. Its founder, Øystein Aarseth, better known as colleague, they stage “auditions” for a new girlfriend that masquerade as an acting job. Shigeharu Euronymous, was one of the originators of the annihilating metal guitar sound that burst onto the becomes enchanted with Asami: a spooky twentysomething responsive to his charms. But this is no scene in the early ’90s. After the gruesome suicide of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin, who performed under ordinary FATAL ATTRACTION-style thriller, for it carefully pulls the audience through a wrenching the pseudonym “Dead,” Euronymous used the opportunity to inject a mix of satanism, havoc, and exploration of deep male fears and the stereotype of submissive Japanese women. murder into the music to sell more records. FEBRUARY 16, 17 & 19 SPECIAL OPENS MARCH 1 FEATURE EVENT FILM READ ANDREA GRONVALL’S COMMENTARY ON PAGE 18 RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR A magnificent “achievement.” –Cineuropa DIRECTED BY: Milorad Krstic´ CATVIDEOFEST STARRING: Iván Kamarás, Gabriella Hámori, Csaba Márton Joyously wild.” 2018, 94 mins, DCP “–Los Angeles Times Saturday, February 16 & Sunday, February 17 at Noon Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world’s renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from Tuesday, February 19 at 7pm terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by CatVideoFest returns to the Music Box! 70 minutes of the best cat videos of the year, his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, plus some classics and surprises. Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art. CatVideoFest is a charitable nonprofit dedicated to bringing the joy of cat videos to the masses and “The Collector” quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world.