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Film Calendar October 13 - December 14, 2017 FILM CALENDAR OCTOBER 13 - DECEMBER 14, 2017 James Franco’s THE DISASTER ARTIST Opening December 1 Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607 CINEPOCALYPSE THE SQUARE HITCHCOCK’S THE SOUND OF MUSIC IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE GENRE FILM FESTIVAL PALME D’OR VERTIGO SING-A-LONG & WHITE CHRISTMAS NOVEMBER 2-9 WINNER ON 70MM NOVEMBER 24-26 DECEMBER 9-24 OPENS NOVEMBER 10 NOVEMBER 18 & 19 & DECEMBER 2-3 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE! FEATURE FILMS 5 LOVING VINCENT OPENS OCTOBER 13 6 CHAVELA OPENS OCTOBER 20 7 FACES PLACES OPENS OCTOBER 27 8 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD OPENS OCTOBER 27 9 HUMAN FLOW NOVEMBER 3-9 12 THE SQUARE OPENS NOVEMBER 10 12 78/52 NOVEMBER 10-16 14 120 BPM NOVEMBER 17-23 16 THE DISASTER ARTIST OPENS DECEMBER 1 20 COMMENTARY SERIES 24 CLASSIC MATINEES 26 CINEMA SCIENCE FIELD TRIPS 27 SILENT CINEMA 27 IS IT STILL FUNNY? 28 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY ACCEPTING LOCALLY-PRODUCED & 28 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN CHICAGO-FOCUSED FILM SUBMISSIONS 30 MIDNIGHTS SPECIAL EVENTS OCTOBER 16 – DECEMBER 15, 2017 5 LE CHEF FROM À LA CARTE OCTOBER 15 FRENCH FOOD FEST 6 ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL OCTOBER 26 8 ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 27, 28 & 31 9 HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS OCTOBER 30 In our first four years, Chicago Onscreen brought more than 60 10 CINEPOCALYPSE NOVEMBER 2-9 13 ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 local films to free, outdoor screenings in 25 parks across the city. 13 AN EVENING WITH JOHN HODGMAN NOVEMBER 15 We are on the lookout for exciting local films to feature in our parks 14 BEST IN SHOW NOVEMBER 29 15 SING-A-LONG SOUND OF MUSIC NOV 24-26, DEC 2-3 in our fifth season, and your film could be next! 17 MIRACLE ON SOUTHPORT DECEMBER 14 18 CHRISTMAS SING-A-LONG AND DECEMBER 9-24 Submission is free and open to filmmakers of all ages, skill DOUBLE FEATURE levels and professional experience. Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 35 ISSUE 146 For more information and submission guidelines, visit bit.ly/ChicagoOnscreen 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 THE DISASTER ARTIST, coming to Music Box Theatre December 1. See page 16 for more information. This program is presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in THE OFFICIAL REWARDS the Parks with the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Arts programming in PROGRAM OF THE CHICAGO neighborhoods across the city advances the goals of the Chicago Park PARK DISTRICT District and the Chicago Cultural Plan. Learn more at: Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com www.ChiParkPoints.com www.nightoutintheparks.com 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office City of Chicago | Rahm Emanuel, Mayor For more information about your Chicago Park District, visit Chicago Park District | Board of Commissioners | Michael P. Kelly, General Superintendent & CEO www.chicagoparkdistrict.com or call 312.742.7529 or 312.747.2001 (TTY). 3 GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OPENS OCTOBER 13 FEATURE REVOLUTIONS ALL THE QUEEN’S HORSES FILM OF THE NIGHT: NOV 10 - 16 THE ENIGMA OF HENRY DARGER OCT 27 - NOV 2 New from Kartemquin Films! Image: ‘At Jennie Richee. At the shore of Aronburgs Inside the Rita Crundwell scandal — Run river storm comes up anew’ © Kiyoko Lerner where did $50 million go? 164 N State • siskelfilmcenter.org LOVING VINCENT An animated masterpiece!” “–Deadline DIRECTED BY: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Brings a poetic sense of STARRING: Douglas Booth, Robert Gulaczyk, Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan “tragedy to the last act of 94 mins, DCP van Gogh’s life, and fresh insight into the kind LOVING VINCENT is the world’s first fully oil painted feature film. of man he was.” The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his –Variety remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who traveled from all across the world to the LOVING VINCENT studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings, is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death. OCTOBER 15 SPECIAL EVENT LE CHEF PRESENTED BY THE À LA CARTE FRENCH FOOD FESTIVAL Sunday, October 15 at 7pm (Daniel Cohen, 2012, 84 mins, DCP) In the new age of molecular gastronomy, legendary chef Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno) is struggling to keep up. Lagarde’s only hope is to team up with Jacky Bonnot (Michaël Youn), a young, talented, and at times obnoxiously passionate food enthusiast. Despite their differences, the odd culinary couple have to find a way to work together to navigate the new world of modern cuisine to save their restaurant. LE CHEF is a feel good French comedy with all the right ingredients that celebrates people who love to cook good food. A reception with refreshments will precede the film. After the screening, there will be a talkback with Chicago chefs and a raffle. This event is sponsored by the à la carte French Food Festival, which brings together French and French inspired restaurants and businesses across the Midwest for a celebration of French gastronomy. Features and Special Events 5 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OPENS OCTOBER 20 FEATURE OPENS OCTOBER 27 FEATURE FILM FILM October 17 Sneak Preview with Director Catherine Gund Q&A! FACES PLACES Magnificently moving, funny, CHAVELA A trailblazing free spirit whose “ life-affirming, and altogether appetite for tequila and women wonderful!” “ DIRECTED BY: Agnès Varda, JR was as legendary as her soul- –Indiewire DIRECTED BY: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi stirring vocals…” 86 mins, DCP, In English & French with English subtitles 93 mins, DCP, In English & Spanish with English subtitles –The Hollywood Reporter Agnès Varda, in the glory of 89-year old Agnès Varda, one of the leading figures of the French “ her golden years, has become CHAVELA is the captivating portrait of beloved singer Chavela Vargas, New Wave, and acclaimed 33-year-old French photographer and a humanist magician.” whose passionate renditions of popular Ranchera songs made her a beloved figure in Mexico, even as muralist JR teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/ –Variety her androgynous appearance and unconventional life challenged norms of the day. After disappearing road movie. Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for from the public eye for decades, Chavela makes a triumphant return to the stage, earning her a new images and how they are created, displayed and shared. level of international fame late in life. Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their CHAVELA centers around a 1991 interview—the singer’s first public appearance after 15 hard years lost stories and producing epic-size portraits of them. The photos are prominently displayed on houses, to alcoholism and heartbreak. In the final years of her life, Chavela openly comes out as a lesbian and barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. FACES PLACES rises into her momentous third act, becoming a muse to filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, earning a Lifetime documents these heart-warming encounters as well as the unlikely, tender friendship they formed Achievement Grammy, and selling out performances at prestigious concert halls around the world. along the way. ROCK Imagination running wild on the screen. THE 7:00 pm–Antenna 9:00 pm–In Between CHICAGO PREMIERE (Bar Behar) Holocaust survivor Joshua Three Palestinian women Chicago International Children’s Film Festival discovers one morning that living in an apartment in a cellular antenna has been Tel Aviv try to find a balance Oct 27———— Nov 5 BOX4 installed on the roof of his between traditional and Thursday, October 26 condo. He starts believing modern culture. One is a Music Box Theatre that all his diseases and pains secular criminal defense Experience the full are caused by the antenna’s lawyer, one a lesbian DJ from flavor of Tel Aviv’s radiation, dragging his wife a Christian family and multi-cultural night life and three adult sons one is a religious Muslim with street food, beer, unwillingly into this vortex. computer science student. Directed by Directed by Maysaloun Hamoud. Get your Family Pass today. a dance party and two Arik Rothstein. Starring Produced by Shlomi Elkabetz. new feel-good, award- Gila Almagor and World premiere at the 2016 Childfacets.org/cicff rens winning feature films! Ishai Golan (Hatufim). Toronto Int’l. Film Festival. 6:00-9:00 pm $30 in advance, $36 at the door. Includes double feature Private party israelifilmchi and party. For tickets, trailers and more, go to in the Music Box Lounge @israelifilmchi israelifilmchi.org 6 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 Film FesFeaturest and Special Events 7 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OPENS OCTOBER 27 FEATURE OCTOBER 30 SPECIAL FILM EVENT Prop Bags! New 4K Hosted NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Restoration! by Dick O’Day! DIRECTED BY: George A. Romero HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS STARRING: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman 96 mins, DCP Monday, October 30 at 7pm Shot outside of Pittsburgh by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. (Kenny Ortega, 1993, 96 mins, 35mm) Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight This Halloween, the Sanderson Sisters are casting their spell over the Music Box! hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.
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