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CALENDAR APRIL 7 - JUNE 8, 2017

DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE, opening May 5

Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival 3733 N. Southport Avenue, www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607

YOUR NAME. EASTER WITH : TERRENCE DAVIES’ PALME D’OR WINNER OPENS APRIL 7 WILLY WONKA A COMPLETE A QUIET PASSION I, DANIEL BLAKE APRIL 15 AT 2PM RETROSPECTIVE OPENS MAY 19 OPENS JUNE 2 APRIL 27-MAY 4 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE!

FEATURE PRESENTATIONS 5 YOUR NAME. OPENS APRIL 7 5 IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE OPENS APRIL 7 8 DONNIE DARKO: 15TH ANNIVERSARY OPENS APRIL 21 10 KIZUMONOGATARI PART 3: REIKETSU APRIL 29 & 30 10 DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE OPENS MAY 5 11 MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA OPENS MAY 5 14 A QUIET PASSION OPENS MAY 19 14 OBIT. OPENS MAY 19 15 OPENS MAY 26 15 SOLARIS & STALKER: NEW 4K RESTORATIONS OPENS MAY 26 18 I, DANIEL BLAKE OPENS JUNE 2

20 COMMENTARY

SERIES 22 CLASSIC MATINEES 24 CINEMA SCIENCE 24 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY 25 SILENT CINEMA 26 IS IT STILL FUNNY? 27 EXHIBITION ON SCREEN 28 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN 30 MIDNIGHTS

SPECIAL EVENTS 6 WIN IT ALL APRIL 8 6 WINGS WITH THE PRIMA VISTA QUARTET APRIL 9 7 TOM VERDUCCI & THEO EPSTEIN TALK APRIL 11 7 HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 14 & 15 8 EASTER WEEKEND WITH WILLY WONKA APRIL 15 9 SOUND OF FESTIVAL APRIL 22 9 DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE APRIL 27-MAY 4 11 CINEYOUTH FESTIVAL MAY 4-6 12 SOUND OPINIONS PRESENTS WAYNE’S WORLD MAY 10 12 MOTHER’S DAY MAMMA MIA MAY 14 13 THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL MAY 12-18 16 4TH ANNUAL 26TH ANNUAL COMEDY FESTIVAL MAY 31 & JUNE 1 18 DEPAUL PREMIERE FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 2 19 THE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 4

Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 35 ISSUE 143 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2017 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Buck LePard, Senior Operations Manager Stephanie Berlin, Public Relations 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 Cover Image from the film DAVID LYNCH: THE ART BUY YOUR COPY TODAY AT THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE LIFE, coming to Music Box Theatre May 5. See page 10 for more information.

Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com @musicboxfi lms 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office musicboxfi lms.com 3 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS The Oscar-winning film returns OPENS APRIL 7 FEATURE to its true home—the stage! FILM April 15–June 11

based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & adapted for the stage by YOUR NAME. This vividly realized and emo- “tionally satisfying feature ought Lee Hall DIRECTED BY: Makoto Shinkai to make Shinkai a household name” directed by Kate McGonigle & Nick Rehberger; photo by Jeff Sciiortino 106 mins Rachel Rockwell Presented both in English and in Japanese with English subtitles –Variety From director Makoto Shinkai comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strang- ers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint. Is the string of fate between Mitsuha and Taki strong enough to bring them together, or will forces outside their control leave them forever separated?” 312.595.5600 • www.chicagoshakes.com

OPENS APRIL 7 FEATURE FILM

IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE

DIRECTED BY: Roger Sherman 94 mins IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Profiling chefs, home cooks, farmers, vintners, and cheese makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today through scenes that are mostly cinema verité, audiences will discover that this hot, multi-cultural cuisine has developed only in the last 30 years. In that short time, Israel went from being one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the most advanced. Its sophistication mirrors the current state of the Israeli people and their food: secular, outward looking and innovative. The film’s guide is Michael Solomonov, the James Beard award-winning chef/owner of Zahav and a number of other restaurants in Philadelphia. His book Zahav: A World of Israeli Cuisine was recently released and is on the NYTimes bestseller list.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 8 SPECIAL TUESDAY, APRIL 11 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT TOM VERDUCCI & THEO EPSTEIN IN CONVERSATION Presented by The Book Cellar Tuesday, April 11 at 8pm Author Tom Verducci will discuss his new book THE CUBS WAY with Theo Epstein, President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. Q&A with It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Director Joe Cubs are once again the World Series champions. How WIN IT ALL Swanberg! did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest Saturday, April 8 at 7pm championship drought in professional sports? In THE (, 2017, 90mins, DCP) CUBS WAY: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse, award-winning () stars as small-time gambler Eddie Garrett, who agrees to watch a duffel bag sportswriter Tom Verducci chronicles for an acquaintance who is heading to prison. When he discovers cash in the bag, he’s unable to resist the Chicago Cubs’ transformation from the temptation and winds up deeply in debt. When the prison release is shortened, Eddie suddenly has a perennial underachievers to the best small window of time to win all the money back. team in baseball, revealing the keys to Directed by Joe Swanberg () and co-written by Swanberg and Jake Johnson, the this incredible achievement. original film WIN IT ALL co-stars Keegan-Michael Key, and leading Mexican actress Tickets include a signed copy of THE Aislinn Derbez. Jake Johnson and Joe Swanberg also serve as producers, along with Alex Orr. The film will CUBS WAY. launch on Netflix on April 7

SUNDAY, APRIL 9 SPECIAL DAN SAVAGE’S WHERE EVENT EVERYONEIS WINGS SEXY! WITH THE PRIMA VISTA QUARTET & GUESTS Sunday, April 9 at 1pm (William A. Wellman, 1927, 142 mins, DCP) A Silent Movie Concert performed by the Prima FILM FESTIVAL Vista Quartet with an original score composed by Baudime Jam. MUSIC BOX THEATRE Powell is a young man passionate about motorsport. His neighbor, Mary Preston, is madly in love with him but he does not pay any attention to her because he is in love with Sylvia, herself in love Apr 14 & 15 with the wealthy David Armstrong. When the United CHICAGO, IL States engage in the First World War, Jack and David join the Air Force to fight in France, and they soon become close friends. Mary, meanwhile, joins the HUMP! FEATURES SHORT DIRTY MOVIES—EACH LESS THAN Women’s Motor Corp. to get closer to Jack… FIVE MINUTES—ALL CREATED BY PEOPLE WHO AREN’T PORN STARS BUT WANT TO BE ONE FOR A WEEKEND. OUR CAREFULLY The Prima Vista Quartet is composed of: ELZBIETA CURATED PROGRAM IS A CORNUCOPIA OF BODY TYPES, SHAPES, GLADYS - Violin 1, AMELIE PARADIS - Violin 2, BAUDIME AGES, COLORS, SEXUALITIES, GENDERS, KINKS, AND FETISHES— JAM - Viola, LADISLAV SZATHMARY - Cello, MATTHIAS ALL UNITED BY A SHARED SPIRIT OF SEX-POSITIVITY. HUMP!’S CHAMPON - Trumpet, CÉDRIC BARBIER - Percussion MAIN MISSION IS TO CHANGE THE WAY AMERICA SEES—AND MAKES AND SHARES—PORN.

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SPECIAL SPECIAL SATURDAY, APRIL 15 EVENT SATURDAY, APRIL 22 EVENT

Easter Weekend!

Goodie Bags Included!

THE SOUND OF SILENT FILM FESTIVAL willy wonka & the chocolate factory Saturday, April 22 at 7:30pm Saturday, April 15 at 2pm ACM presents the 12th annual Sound of Silent Film Festival, returning to the Music Box Theatre with an (Mel Stuart, 1971, 100 mins, 35MM) all-new program! Featuring newly composed scores performed live to modern silent from around the world, this one night only event is a don’t miss. This Easter, you have a Golden Ticket to the Music Box! Join Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe on an unforgettable interactive journey with WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! Roald Dahl’s beloved “Of all the art forms, music takes the shortest route to the heart, and this is especially true of live tale comes to magical, musical life as you enter a world of pure imagination. Pig out on snozzberries, wear your music,” says acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, and SOSF 2011 alumnus Guy Maddin. “Something truly best Veruca (or Augustus!) costume and join in the fun! alchemical happens when film gets a live score.” Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 online, $8 students and seniors: www.acmusic.org

SPECIAL OPENS APRIL 21 FEATURE APRIL 27-MAY 4 EVENT FILM

New 4K Restoration!

15th Anniversary!

DONNIE DARKO A mini-masterpiece” “–Empire DIRECTED BY: Richard Kelly Haunting & altogether exquisite.” STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE “–Sight & Sound With ’ third season airing on Showtime in May, what better way to prepare than with a full Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an submersion into the world of David Lynch? This complete retrospective spans Lynch’s entire body of imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 work in film, television, and music. hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space- This retrospective was programmed by Lynch expert Daniel Knox, who has cut together unique 20 time continuum. minute pre-shows for each feature, and will be presenting a celebration of Twin Peaks for Saturday’s FIRE WALK WITH ME screening. Initially beset with distribution problems, Richard Kelly’s debut feature would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium. This brand-new 4K restoration This series includes: , MULHOLLAND DRIVE, WILD AT HEART, DUNE, BLUE VELVET, IN- allows a modern classic to finally receive the treatment it deserves. LAND EMPIRE, HOTEL ROOM, ON THE AIR, and many more films, shows, and surprises…

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OPENS MAY 5 FEATURE MAY 4-6 SPECIAL FILM EVENT

DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE A keen and rare insight into one “of modern art’s most fascinating CINEYOUTH FESTIVAL DIRECTED BY: Jon Nguyen people.” Join us at the CINEYOUTH FESTIVAL, a three-day international film festival that 93 mins –Film Experience celebrates the talent of filmmakers 22 years old and younger from around the The unique documentary event DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE looks at Lynch’s art, music, and early films, world. More than 70 short films, ranging from thought-provoking documentaries and quirky comedies shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world and giving audiences a better understanding to experimental shorts, a showcase of locally made films and more will be shown with filmmakers in of the man and the artist. As he says, “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, attendance! Screenings are free and open to the public of all ages. you go with ideas, and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them. Even if they’re CineYouth is presented by Cinema/Chicago, the parent organization of the Chicago International Film new ideas, the past colors them.” We’re invited in and given private views from Lynch’s compound Festival and is made possible by the generous support of Allstate Insurance Company and Bloomberg and painting studio in the hills high above Hollywood, as he tells personal stories that unfold like Philanthropies. scenes from his films. Strange characters come into focus only to fade again into the past, all leaving an indelible mark. For more information on CineYouth visit: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/

FEATURE APRIL 25, 29 & 30 FEATURE OPENS MAY 5 FILM FILM

April 25 Kizumonogatari MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL Triple Feature SINKING INTO THE SEA The most original animated film “of the year!” DIRECTED BY: Dash Shaw –Indiewire KIZUMONOGATARI PART 3: REIKETSU STARRING: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, , Lena Wildly bizarre and imaginatively Dunham “alluring!” April 25 at 7:40pm, April 29 & 30 at 11:30am 77 mins –The Playlist DIRECTED BY: Tatsuya Oishi From graphic novelist Dash Shaw (New School) comes an audacious 83 mins debut that is equal parts disaster cinema, high school comedy and blockbuster , told through a In Japanese with English subtitles dream-like mixed media animation style that incorporates drawings, paintings and collage. Dash and With help from Meme Oshino, the apparition specialist, Koyomi defeats the three powerful vampire his best friends Assaf and Verti are preparing for another year at Tides High School. But just when a hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter. Koyomi takes back all the limbs of Kiss-Shot- blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys’ , Dash learns Acerola-Orion-Heart-Underblade in order to become a human again. But, when he returns to Kiss-Shot, of the administration’s cover-up that puts all the students in danger. Even as the film piles on brilliant she reveals to him the cold truth of what it means to be a vampire—a creature of the night. Unable details like a post-apocalyptic cult formed by jocks, video game homages, and an infectious synth to take back what he has done, Koyomi feels nothing but regret and can only deny his dreadful fate. soundtrack, it never loses sight of the characters at the heart of the story. The film’s everyday concerns While Koyomi is struggling to face , his “friend” Tsubasa Hanekawa comes to him with a certain of , cliques and young love remind us how the high school experience shapes who we plan… become, even in the most unusual of circumstances.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 SPECIAL MAY 12-18 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT

SOUND OPINIONS AT THE MOVIES PRESENTS WAYNE’S WORLD Wednesday, May 10 at 7pm (Penelope Spheeris, 1992, 94 mins, 35MM) THE LITTLE HOURS The latest installment in the popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series pays tribute to the 25th Anniversary of Penelope Spheeris’ cult classic WAYNE’S WORLD! Sound THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Opinions hosts and acclaimed music critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis will introduce the film. Sound Opinions is co-hosted by noted music writers Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune and Jim DeRogatis of WBEZ and reaches more than 400,000 tastemakers each week through national radio Presented by the Chicago Film Critics broadcasts and a popular podcast. creates award-winning content for people Association! curious about the issues and ideas that affect our , our nation, and our world. For more THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns information and tickets, visit www.soundopinions.org to the Music Box for its Fifth Anniversary! The only current example of a major film critics group hosting its own festival, the week-long event

SPECIAL offers a selection of films comprised of recent SUNDAY, MAY 14 EVENT festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works from a wide variety of filmmakers ranging from award winners to talented newcomers chosen by members of the organization. Just a small taste of what is to come includes THE from director Brett Haley (I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DrREAMS) starring Sam Elliott as a Western icon seeking a comeback; ’s THE LITTLE HOURS, a sexy comedy based on The Decameron, starring , and ; Marianna Palka’s BITCH about a depressed wife who assumes the psyche of a dog alongside Jason Ritter and Jaime King and the comedy BAND AID, written, directed and Hosted by starring Zoe Lister-Jones along with Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. Dick O’Day! MOTHER’S DAY WITH MAMMA MIA! The fest will also feature festival award winners such as BEACH RATS (Best Director, Sundance 2017), BIRDBOY: THE Sunday, May 14 at 2pm FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (Best Animated (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, 108 mins, 35MM) Feature, Goya) and DINA (Grand Jury Prize, This Mother’s Day celebrate with Meryl Streep and ABBA at the Music Box! Hosted by Dick O’Day, Sundance 2017). This is only a preview of a our interactive screening kicks off with a live pre-show 1970s fashion contest. Dress up in your best program that will include over 25 feature films ‘70s garb for your chance to win great prizes! Then play along with our audience participation guide and shorts. while you watch the Broadway smash on the big screen. Passes are now on sale at musicboxtheatre. Special Mother’s Day Mimosas will be served in the Music Box Lounge! com/events/chicago-critics-film-festival

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OPENS MAY 19 FEATURE OPENS MAY 26 FEATURE FILM FILM

New 4K Digital Print!

MANHATTAN

DIRECTED BY: A QUIET PASSION An absolute, drop-dead STARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep “masterwork.” 96 mins DIRECTED BY: Terence Davies –The New Yorker STARRING: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine By turns a rhapsodic city symphony and an astute character study, MANHATTAN is a portrait of a 126 mins A bold and brilliant study of the modern metropolis and the messy lives of its inhabitants. It’s a love letter from a hometown hero “American poet.” that remains one of Woody Allen’s most successful explorations of his enduring themes: complex –Slant Magazine Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson relationships, compromised romances and his own creative processes. as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Forty-two-year-old Isaac Davis has a job he hates, a 17-year-old girlfriend he doesn’t love and a lesbian Davies (HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE DEEP BLUE SEA) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her ex-wife who’s writing a tell-all book about their marriage. Living vicariously through the protagonist close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled of his debut novel, but struggling to find fulfillment of his own, Isaac quits his job as a television writer with and transcended in her poetry. and begins a relationship with his best friend’s mistress, setting him off on a neurosis-riddled journey of self-discovery and self-sabotage.

FEATURE FEATURE MAY 26-29 OPENS MAY 19 FILM FILM

New 4K Digital Restorations!

Director OBIT. in person Engaging and lively.” opening “– TWO BY TARKOVSKY: STALKER & SOLARIS DIRECTED BY: Vanessa Gould weekend! Inspirational, uplifting and “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest director, the one who invented a new language true to the nature 95 mins “often hilarious. The perfect of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” – documentary.” An inside look at life on obituary desk. –The Upcoming One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of STALKER embarks on a metaphysical journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide leads extraordinary lives into the cultural memory—each life’s story spun amid the daily beat of war, politics, a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the and football scores. OBIT. is the first documentary to explore the world of these remarkable writers three men eventually zero in on a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. (In Russian and their subjects, focusing on a small team at The New York Times who approach their work with with English subtitles, 163 mins, 1979) journalistic rigor and narrative flair. Going beyond the byline and into the minds of those chronicling Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the residents of the SOLARIS space life after death on the freshly inked front lines of history, the film invites some of the most essential station. When a cosmonaut is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena questions we ask ourselves about life, memory, and the inevitable passage of time. What do we choose that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. to remember? What never dies? With SOLARIS, the legendary filmmaker created a brilliantly original epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. (In Russian with English subtitles, 166 mins, 1972)

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Presented by truTV, , The A.V. Club and Clickhole, The 4th Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival returns to Chicago, bringing two special events to the Music Box! • O • P E K THE MODERN SCHOOL OF FILM N EE 7 D A W WITH CHRISTOPHER GUEST AYS Wednesday, May 31 at 7pm Voted “Best Movie ” by New York Magazine, The Modern School of Film continues its international In:Pictures series, where celebrated guests from the world of film, music, comedy, and culture screen and discuss clips from three films that have most inspired their life and work. Hosted by MSF Founder Robert Milazzo, Christopher Guest In:Pictures features select segments of three movies chosen by and discussed with Mr. Guest, as he revisits the times and the films that shaped his singular body of work. He’ll also be taking audience questions, so sharpen the pencils. ON 35MM WITH JUDGE DABLON Thursday, June 1 at 7pm Acclaimed satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which our collective intelligence had dropped so low it threatened to destroy the world. In this future, America was run by a corrupt, sociopathic VINEYARDS former pro-wrestler with severe anger management issues, and the most popular entertainment in the land was a YouTube-esque video playlist called “Ow My Balls.” Winery & Tasting Room Flash forward to today. We have now entered into the most bizarre Presidency in U.S. history. Over the past year, thousands have questioned in whether IDIOCRACY was actually a documentary. Mike Judge’s sadly prescient film has transcended its cult classic status to become a vibrant and essential facet of this new era of American culture and its deranged politics. Following the screening, there will be a moderated discussion by Sean O’Neal from The A.V. Club and 111 W. Shawnee Rd. • Baroda, MI • 49101 Mike Judge.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 4 SPECIAL EVENT

THE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL Sunday, June 4 at Noon & 2pm Following its overwhelming success last year in Chicago, and its national tour to 10 cities in 2016, THE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Windy City on June 4. Perfect for dog lovers of all ages, the two shorts programs each feature a different medley of documentary, animated and live- action short canine-themed films from around the world. A portion of every ticket will be donated to One Tail at a Time Dog Rescue shelter.

FEATURE OPENS JUNE 2 FILM 6TH ANNUAL

Winner Palme d’Or 2016 Cannes READ RAY PRIDE’S COMMENTARY Film Festival COMiNG SSN! ON PAGE 20. JUNE 15-18 I, DANIEL BLAKE A work of scalding and moving “relevance.” DIRECTED BY: Ken Loach –Variety STARRING: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires @ 100 mins Magnificent. Demands to be “seen.” Winner of the Palme d’Or, the latest from legendary director Ken –Sight & Sound APPLICATIONS DUE 4/15 Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make. Gruff but good-hearted, Daniel Blake is a man out of time: a widowed woodworker who’s never owned a computer, he lives according to his own common sense moral code. But after a heart attack leaves LEARN MORE AT him unable to work and the state welfare system fails him, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel must stand up and fight for his dignity, leading a one-man crusade for compassion that will transform the lives STAGE773.COM/ of a struggling single mother and her two children. Graced with humor and heart, I, DANIEL BLAKE is EMAIL [email protected] CHICAGOWOMENSFUNNYFESTIVAL a moving, much-needed reminder of the power of empathy from one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers.

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APRIL 14 - 20 AMERICAN ANARCHIST MAY 5 - 18

DIRECTED BY CHARLIE SISKEL FINDING OSCAR FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 164 N State • siskelfilmcenter.org I, DANIEL BLAKE OPENS JUNE 2. SEE PAGE 18 FOR DETAILS. HELLO, CRUEL WORLD I, DANIEL BLAKE, A Portrait of Ordinary People By Ray Pride

After making a documentary a few years back, Ken Loach said that was it, he was done, after almost 25 fiction features he’d had his say. But admirers of his lovingly photographed, progressively inclined, actor-embracing raft of features can be grateful that he changed his mind for at least one more go-round. (“That was a rash thing to have said,” Loach joked recently. “There are so many stories to tell. So many characters to present.”) Now, at the age of 80, Loach has made one of his most refined of his later features, I, DANIEL BLAKE, about a sardonic Newcastle widower who finds himself up against an indifferent state when suddenly in need, swept up by what Loach describes as “the use of bureaucracy, the intentional inefficiency of bureaucracy, as a political weapon: ‘This is what happens if you don’t work; if you don’t find work you will suffer.’ The anger at that was the motive behind the film.” That ire, that fire, makes what could be rough going into an unsentimental, angering, but greatly moving melodrama about essentials like how to be a good person in modern times. Dan, played with keen wit and with fierce presence by stand-up comic Dave Johns, is a carpenter in his late 50s who has a heart attack on the job, but it’s the damage done to his dignity by form-filling employment bureaucrats that nearly does him in. We’re in the thick straightaway: on black under the main titles, we hear the prim, domineering voice of a worker for an American company paid to press on dozens of small questions about his fitness to work, but never see her, arriving finally at Dan’s face, a ripe concoction of incredulity and offense. Dan meets a single mother, Katie (Hayley Squires) with two young children, and they pool resources against a society more prepared to shame than to lift. The tenor of I, DANIEL BLAKE isn’t quite Dickensian, but it’s certain Loachian in its concerns and its bracingly blunt dramatics. The timeliness of its Chicago release could be hardly more fitting, a few weeks after a new administration issued a bullet-pointed wishlist for the U.S. budget that would eradicate most of the kind of programs that help disadvantaged Americans in temporary straits like our man Dan. Paul Laverty’s screenplay is incisive and cheekily profane, while Johns’ witty habitation of Dan builds to emotional crescendos that shake with great dramatic force. And like another British filmmaker of his generation, Mike Leigh, Loach is too often disregarded as a graceful director of the camera, whose attention to frame and delicacies of light can quietly ravish. In the end, I, DANIEL BLAKE is political in its insistence that the smallest “I” matters, but as in his best work like his 1990s work, RAINING STONES and LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD, Loach’s film is about empathy, a portrait of ordinary people, blunt, bracing and far from mere polemic. Ray Pride is film critic of Newcity (newcityfilm.com), editor of Movie City News (moviecitynews.com) and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine. A book of photography is forthcoming. 20 Music Box Theatre April-June 2017 Commentaries 21 CONTINUING SERIES CONTINUING SERIES CLASSIC MATINEES May 6 & 7 ALICE IN WONDERLAND SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS AT 11:30AM (Norman Z. McLeod, 1933, 76 min, 35MM) With an all star cast including , Gary NOT QUITE FOR KIDS Cooper, W.C. Fields, and Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, this pre-Code adaptation of The Music Box explores the strange space Lewis Carroll’s Alice books is still among the most between saccharine kid’s classics and Oscar- bizarre and delightful versions of the story, far qualifying grown up pictures. What was Harry more twisted, terrifying, and hilarious than the Nilsson on when he wrote THE POINT? Did 1951 Disney film. The sets and special effects by W.C. Fields keep your grandmother up at hold up incredibly well night in ALICE IN WONDERLAND? We’re still today, and Alice Lidell, the inspiration for Carroll’s scratching our heads. original books called it “a picture which represents a revolution in cinema history!”

May 20 & 21 April 15 & 16 WATERSHIP DOWN FORBIDDEN PLANET (Martin Rosen, 1978, 91 min, 35MM) (Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956, 98 min, 35MM) A very serious, violent, and heartbreaking movie about A rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a spaceship that bunnies, WATERSHIP DOWN features the voice acting talents crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet. One of the stranded humans has of the late, great John Hurt, who leads a pack of rabbit deciphered the secrets of the planet’s long-extinct inhabitants, and the technology that companions to a new home after he has an apocalyptic gave them the power to instantly destroy their civilization. Now, he refuses to share his vision of their warren being destroyed. Adapted from the knowledge, and one-by-one the rescuers begin to die. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s bestselling novel by Richard Adams, the film’s beautiful , Forbidden Planet gained popularity as a children’s matinee when reissued hand-drawn animation had the unfortunate distinction of in the early ‘70s in a version that cut out all the romance between Leslie Nielsen and scaring the bejesus out of a generation of unsuspecting Anne Francis. Features the first ever screen appearance of Robbie the Robot! kindergarten-aged moviegoers in its first reel. May 27 & 28 April 22 & 23 THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER THE POINT (Jim Henson, 1981, 97 min, 35MM) (Fred Wolf, 1971, 74 min, 16MM) The Muppets are caught in the middle of a Oblio is the only round-headed person in the Pointed jewel heist in London, with Miss Piggy framed as Village, where everyone must have a point. Thrown the master thief, and it’s up to Kermit the Frog into an existential crisis by lack of uniformity, the son to bring the real culprits to justice. The only of an evil Count banishes Oblio and his dog arrow to Muppet feature directed by creator Jim Henson, the Pointless forest. Harry Nilsson wrote and produced Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it this companion piece to his 1971 album of the same “a combination of A.A. Milne, Busby Berkeley name. Featuring the original narration by Dustin and a small bit of Blake Edwards.” Featuring Hoffman. 16mm print provided by Kier-La Janisse and cameos by John Cleese, Peter Falk, Peter Ustinov, the American Genre Film Archive and Oscar the Grouch.

22 Music Box Theatre April-June 2017 Matinees 23 CONTINUING SERIES CONTINUING SERIES FIELD TRIPS SILENT CINEMA CINEMA SCIENCE WITH THE FIELD MUSEUM Classic silent films the way they were meant to be seen! Featuring a live musical score on the famous Music Box organ by Dennis Scott, Music Box House Organist. The Field Museum heads to the Music Box Theatre on a few field trips! Join us as we delve into the reality and science behind the silver screen!

THE MARTIAN BARBED WIRE Featuring a discussion with Field Tuesday, April 18 at 7:30pm Museum expert Philipp R. Heck Archival 16mm print (Ridley Scott, 2015, 144 mins, DCP) (Rowland V. Lee, 1927, 67 min) “It isn’t really a war picture at all. It’s a Tuesday, May 9 at 7pm peace picture. It holds out the hope During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark that, in time, we may forget all about Watney () is presumed dead after war and war pictures and just have a a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But good time, which will throw that kettle- Watney has survived and finds himself stranded drummer out of a job, but otherwise on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, will be all for the best.” —Screenland. he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Philipp R. Heck is the curator in charge and head of the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar A spiritual precursor to ALL QUIET ON Studies at The Field Museum. He oversees the collection of meteorites, the largest meteorite collection THE WESTERN FRONT, BARBED WIRE is a quiet anti-war film beautifully photographed by frequent housed at a private research institution. Other responsibilities include the curation of the gem, mineral, collaborator Bert Glennon. Pola Negri plays a French farm girl who falls in love with Clive rock and economic geology collections. Brook, a German POW in the middle of WWI.

THE CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS HER WILD OAT The Chicago Film Society hosts monthly presentations featuring classic films, Tuesday, May 30 at 7:30pm underseen rarities, cult movies, short subjects, trailer reels and more, all on 35mm from the Academy Film Archive glorious celluloid. For more information, visit www.chicagofilmsociety.org. (Marshall Neilan, 1927, 70 min) Chicago International Film Festival POPEYE co-founder Colleen Moore stars as (, 1980, 114 mins, 35MM) Mary Lou Smith, orphan—whose father left her a lunch wagon, a dog, and a lot Monday, May 22 at 7:15pm of ambition. When the love of her life Co-Presented with Chirp Radio goes to Plymouth Beach for vacation, she follows him and impersonates a and Shelley Duvall are Popeye and duchess to win his heart. Thought to Olive Oyl in this unlikely and sublime live action ad- be lost for decades, HER WILD OAT aptation of the timeless Fleischer Brothers cartoon. screens in a restoration from the Long overlooked in favor of more serious Altman Academy Film Archive, reconstructed pictures like MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER and from a print found in the Czech SHORT CUTS, POPEYE can now take its place beside them, National Film Archive. heartfelt and bouncing off the wall. Why can’t all comic book movies be this great? With music by Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks. Screening in a one-of-a-kind 35mm print from the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

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EXHIBITION ON SCREEN ® IS IT STILL FUNNY? This groundbreaking project connects major exhibitions from across the world with art-lovers and cinema goers across some 30 countries Chicago film/entertainment writer Mark Caro puts supposedly timeless worldwide. comedies to the test and dares ask the question “Is It Still Funny?” THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM May 13 & 14 at 11:30am SLEEPER Narrated by Gillian Anderson (Woody Allen, 1973, 89 mins, 35MM) From the creators of PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30pm MONET TO MATISSE comes a new film exploring how It’s time to put one of Woody Allen’s the relationship between art and gardening blossomed “early, funny ones” to the test. SLEEPER across the pond. THE ARTIST’S GARDEN tells the presents a zany 1973 vision of the future, intertwining stories of American Impressionism and The with Allen playing a health-food store Garden Movement which flourished between 1887–1920. With increasing urbanization prompting the owner who’s cryogenically frozen and emerging middle-class to seek refuge in the suburbs, they began cultivating impressive private gardens. wakes up 200 years later in a police state. He winds up on the run with Diane When French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought a selection of impressionist paintings to New York Keaton’s socialite, the plot involves in 1886, he changed the course of art in America entirely. Many American artists, inspired by what they cloning, and there’s an orgasmatron. Allen saw, made the pilgrimage to study in Monet’s Giverny, and were keen to has said this farce was inspired in part by employ their experience to America’s own unique landscapes. In doing and Hope, and it’s more slapstick heavy than his later films. Upon its release Roger so, theyVisit: captured www.BTDChicago.com a unique moment in America’s history—a snapshot Expires 1-31-15 Ebert wrote, “SLEEPER establishes Woody Allen as the best comic director and actor in America.” Does of a nation transitioning from a land of agriculture to a land of industry. this satirical view of the 22nd century hold up? For that matter, does Woody?

BEING THERE (Hal Ashby, 1979, 130 mins, 35MM) Monday, May 8 at 7pm A simpleton gains power inside the White House. Crazy! But that’s the path taken by ’ Chance The Music Box Theatre the gardener, in Hal Ashby’s satire based on Jerzy Kozinski’s novel of now sells beer and wine! the same name. This isn’t a joke- a-minute comedy but rather an Enjoy our rotating unsettling, humorous exploration of how one TV-addicted gardener’s selection of craft beers banality comes to be widely and fine wines with a film. embraced as wisdom. Far-fetched then? Now? Sellers received a best actor Oscar nomination, Melvyn Douglas won Best Supporting Actor as the elderly businessman who nurtures Chance, and Shirley MacLaine is the businessman’s wife who tries to turn on Chance in a non-TV sort of way, even as the latter insists, “I like to watch.” BEING THERE is ranked 26th on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Comedies list and is the namesake of an excellent album.

26 Music Box Theatre April-June 2017 27 MIDNIGHTSCONTINUING SERIES CONTINUING SERIES FROM STAGE TO SCREEN The Music Box proudly presents the greatest filmed theatrical ANNA KARENINA productions from around the world! PRESENTED BY STAGE RUSSIA Directed by: Angelica Cholina THE CRUCIBLE Presented in Russian with English subtitles PRESENTED BY THE OLD VIC THEATRE Directed by: Yaël Farber Saturday, June 3 at 11:30am Sunday, April 23 at 11am & Directed and choreographed by Angelica Wednesday, April 26 at 7pm Cholina, this internationally award-winning Vakhtangov Theatre production of ANNA KARENINA is a choreographed interpretation Captured live at The Old Vic in London, of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel. Olivier-nominated stars in Arthur Miller’s classic American Cholina strives to find the equivalent of Tolstoy’s words in harmony and movement, drama THE CRUCIBLE, brought vividly to with every gesture holding meaning. The music of Alfred Schnittke helps to reveal the life in this visceral five-star production characters and their depth, together with elegance and mood corresponding to the by internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber amplitude of the novel. (MIES JULIE, NIRBHAYA). Based on Salem’s infamous A crowd favorite in Moscow which plays to sold-out houses month after witch trials, THE CRUCIBLE takes place in a small tight-knit community, where personal month, this meticulously detailed and gorgeous ANNA KARENINA is grievances collide with lust and superstition, fueling widespread hysteria. Miller’s an example of the new Russian theater scene, fearlessly focusing on the timeless parable attacks the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of visceral, allowing audience members to form their own interpretations. false accusations.

ROSENCRANTZ & THE CHERRY ORCHARD GUILDENSTERN ARE PRESENTED BY STAGE RUSSIA DEAD Directed by: Adolf Shapiro PRESENTED BY NATIONAL Presented in Russian with THEATRE LIVE English subtitles Directed by: David Leveaux Sunday, May 7 at 11:30am Wednesday, June 7 at 7pm First produced in 1904 at The Daniel Radcliffe (HARRY POTTER, Moscow Art Theatre under THE WOMAN IN BLACK), Joshua the direction of Konstantin McGuire (THE HOUR) and David Haig (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) star in Tom Stanislavsky, this production of Anton Chekhov’s classic tale of cultural futility, starring Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in Russian stage and screen legend Renata Litvinova, is more relevant today than it was London. over a hundred years ago. Adolf Shapiro’s interpretation asks the question, where would Director David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that the characters of this play live today years after their cherry orchard has been cut down? made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight. The answer, which lies in the material world created by set designer, David Borovsky, is, of course, on the stage. Against the backdrop of HAMLET, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre A century later, this production brings THE CHERRY ORCHARD full stage. As the young stumble their way in and out circle, with its wandering band of characters never at peace, but finally of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become back home. increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

28 Music Box Theatre April-June 2017 29 CONTINUING SERIES THE BOXER’S OMEN Presented by The Front Row MIDNIGHTS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT MIDNIGHT (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983, 99 mins, 35MM) April 7 & May 5 THE ROOM April 21 & 22 INTERSTELLA 5555 - THE The basic plot line of THE BOXER’S OMEN, involving the (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35MM) 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET brother of a paralyzed boxer traveling to Thailand to seek 5TAR 5YSTEM vengeance upon beloved Bruce Lee foil Bolo Yeung, could April 7 & 8 THE VOID (Kazuhisa Takenouchi, 2003, 65 mins) little prepare you for the myriad viscous atrocities and (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski, 2017, grotesque fantasias that form the heart of the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio’s most notorious 90 mins, DCP) May 19 & 20 THE BOXER’S OMEN foray into the horror genre. Playing out mostly as a protracted supernatural duel, by way of (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983, 99 mins, 35MM), convoluted magic rituals involving regurgitated food, slimy, unidentifiable viscera, and uncanny, April 8 & May 6 THE ROCKY HORROR presented by The Front Row enchanted animals, between cosmic Buddhist twins and a collective of dark wizards intent on PICTURE SHOW preventing them from achieving immortality, THE BOXER’S OMEN broke ground in Hong Kong (Jim Sharman, 1975, 100 mins, 35MM) May 26 & 27 THE RUNNING MAN (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, 101 mins, genre cinema by marrying the martial arts action the Shaw Brothers were known for with gory, April 14 & 15 FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS 35MM), presented by The Front Row surreal imagery recalling Lucio Fulci and the heyday of Italian horror. A particularly stylish entry (Cheh Chang, 1982, 107 mins, 35MM), in the cycle of stomach-churning black magic horror films that proliferated throughout Hong presented by The Front Row June 2 & 3 HARRY POTTER AND THE Kong in the 1980s, thanks to the steady hand and careful eye of veteran Shaw Brothers director GOBLET OF FIRE Kuei Chih-Hung, THE BOXER’S OMEN indirectly led to Hong Kong’s infamous Category III film (Mike Newell 2005, 157 mins, 35MM) rating and left countless, flimsy imitators in its considerable wake.

THE RUNNING MAN THE VOID Presented by The Front Row (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski, 2017, 90 mins, DCP) (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, 101 mins, 35MM) “Creatures that recall beasts from films as diverse as In the distant future of 2017, the rule of law is governed John Carpenter’s THE THING, Stuart Gordon’s FROM 30th by television ratings. One show dominates the airwaves— BEYOND, and Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER” –FILM Anniversary THE RUNNING MAN—where convicted prisoners have a SCHOOL REJECTS chance at freedom by running through a deadly gauntlet of When police officer Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a hunters and killers. Host Damon Killian (Richard Dawson) may have finally met his deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, match when the wrongly-convicted war criminal Ben Richards () cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously becomes the show’s most popular contestant. As Richards kills off colorful hunters one by insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where one, he wins over fans and catches the attention of the underground resistance force lead they discover a gateway to immense evil. by Mick Fleetwood. Co-starring Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse (The “The best ‘80s horror throwback in years” –SLASHFILM Body) Ventura, and Dweezil Zappa, THE RUNNING MAN is a marathon of blood, guts, and Schwarzenegger’s signature one-liners! FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS Presented by The Front Row HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Cheh Chang, 1982, 107 mins, 35MM) Midnight Screening Party on June 2 (Mike Newell 2005, 157 mins, 35MM) Chang Cheh’s FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS is the ultimate ‘80s Harry Potter apparates back to the Music Box this summer film, Shaw turned to 11, a legend among even the most for more wizardry and witchcraft! discerning martial arts aficionados. With glorious Shaw sets, Harry begins his fourth year at Hogwarts on Friday, June breathtaking choreography, a breakneck pace, and a brutality never before seen in a Chang film, 2, with a pre-screening party in the Music Box Lounge & FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS is the frenetic, bloodthirsty, completely insane exploration of single- Garden! Additional screenings will happen on Saturday, June 3 at 11am & Midnight. minded vengeance, trading the conceits of loyalty, honor, and brotherhood for a bloodsoaked mountain of bodies. Cheng Tien-chi and his brothers will tarnish gold, turn wood to ash, boil When Harry Potter’s name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a water, snuff fire, and scorch the very Earth upon which we walk to exact their revenge. grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, everything changes as Harry, Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined. 30 Music Box Theatre April-June 2017 Chicago, we’re bringing you the best in with the Slamdance Cinema Club. Each month, this film series will showcase new independent films from the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival at ArcLight Cinemas.

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