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FILM CALENDAR OCTOBER 13 - DECEMBER 14, 2017

James Franco’s 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 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 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 . 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 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 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.

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OPENS OCTOBER 20 FEATURE OPENS OCTOBER 27 FEATURE FILM FILM

October 17 Sneak Preview with Director Catherine Gund &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 – 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 . 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. A deceptively Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker as three 17th-century simple tale of a group of strangers who find themselves fending off flesh-eating ghouls arisen from Salem witches who rise from the dead to wreak havoc on the early-‘90s. And their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of an America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the with HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS, you can join in on the wicked mischief! Dick O’Day photo rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary. After decades by Rick Aguilar of poor-quality prints and video transfers, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD can finally be seen for the Hosted by Dick O’Day, you’re invited to shout, sing, cheer and scream along with immaculately crafted film that it is thanks to a new 4K restoration, scanned from the original camera the movie during our interactive screening. Plus, the magic is in your hands with our goody bags, full of negative and supervised by Romero himself. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, NIGHT OF candy, bubbles, streamers and more. So put on your wildest, wackiest Halloween costume, hop on your THE LIVING DEAD is back. broom (or vacuum), and fly over to the Music Box for this family-friendly event.

OCTOBER 27-31 SPECIAL PLAYING NOVEMBER 3-9 FEATURE EVENT FILM

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW HUMAN FLOW A visual tone poem that HALLOWEEN EDITION! “proves both epic and FRIDAY OCTOBER 27-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 DIRECTED BY: Ai Weiwei highly human” 140 mins, DCP –The Guardian Halloween returns THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW to the Music Box Theatre. As archetypal Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their pair of squares Brad and Janet approach the castle of the fabulous Dr. Frank-N-Furter and meet his homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World minions—including decrepit butler Riff Raff; patched-together golden boy Rocky; and, played by Meat War II. HUMAN FLOW, an journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, Loaf, rock-and-roller Eddie—a shadow cast of actors clothed in lingerie gyrate in front of the screen. gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates In the , a decades-long tradition of crowd participation carries on as guests are encouraged to both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. participate in a group “Time Warp” dance, shine flashlights during the song “Over at the Frankenstein Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent Place,” follow the exploits of Brad and Janet (Damn-it) with the help of a friendly Shadowcast of human stories that stretches across the globe. HUMAN FLOW is a witness to its subjects and their players from Midnight Madness (www.midnightmadness.org). desperate search for safety, shelter and justice, posing one of the questions that will define this Friday, October 27 Saturday, October 28 Tuesday, October 31 century: Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT 9:30pm of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?

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CINEPOCALYPSE 2017 HIGHLIGHTS

RENDEL DEAD SHACK Finland, 2017 | Director: Jesse Haaja Canada, 2017 | Director: Peter Ricq | Midwest Premiere World Premiere While staying at a rundown cabin in the woods, three Finland’s first , RENDEL is dystopian children must save their parents from a neighbor who action/fantasy unlike anything ever witnessed intends to feed them to her undead family. Stateside. When a massive criminal organization takes over his town, a masked vigilante strikes back through a series of brutal attacks that leave blood spilled and cash ablaze. A dark adventure that harkens to the finest in ‘80s era comics, RENDEL is the anti- Marvel crusader: an all-too-human superhero from the streets, driven solely by rage and revenge!

The Music Box Theatre is proud to present the debut year of CINEPOCALYPSE (an evolution to the VERONICA program design of Bruce Campbell’s Festival), which will take place November 2-9. The Spain, 2017 | Director: Paco Plaza | Midwest Premiere Midwest’s largest gathering of genre films and fans, the festival’s organizers are proud to have acclaimed After making a Ouija with friends, a teenager is besieged screenwriter Simon Barrett (YOU’RE NEXT, THE GUEST) guest host the entirety of the festival. by dangerous supernatural forces that threaten to destroy her entire family. From the writer/director of Writer/director Joe Carnahan (THE GREY, SMOKIN’ ACES, THE A-TEAM) will guest curate “Blood, Guts, the [•REC] franchise. Bullets, and Octane” – a special program of 35mm repertory films screening during the fest–while Oscar-nominated thespian Eric Roberts will take part in a very special live recording of Doug Tilley and Liam O’Donnell’s acclaimed film podcast “Eric Roberts Is The Fucking Man” – uniting the actor ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES and the program that bears his name for the very first time! UK, 2017 | Director: Dominic Brunt Featuring a wide variety of World, U.S., and Regional Premieres, Cinepocalypse’s phenomenal North American Premiere feature film lineup represents the latest and greatest in genre cinema from around the globe. High-powered middle-aged men intend to refuel the world’s economy by very sinister, sick, and monstrous means in this British gross-out extravaganza. TICKET INFORMATION SUSPIRIA 4-day All Access Pass Full Festival All Access Pass Italy, 1977 | Director: Dario Argento $150 General Admission $200 General Admission 40th Anniversary Screening $125 Music Box Members $175 Music Box Members Newly-discovered Italian Uncut 35mm print! A candy-col- ored nightmare from Italian terror maestro Dario Argento, Admits 1 to all Cinepocalypse film screenings, Admits 1 to all Cinepocalypse film screenings, SUSPIRIA weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy events, and parties from November 2-5, 2017 events, and parties from November 2-9, 2017 tale gone horribly awry. From the moment she arrives in Germany to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, Full Schedule, Passes & Tickets to Individual Screenings available at MusicBoxTheatre.com LOWLIFE American ballet-dancer Suzy Banyon senses that some- USA, 2017 | Director: Ryan Prows | U.S. Premiere thing horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a institution. Ill at ease as the result of her fellow student’s Luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes peculiar behavior and increasingly terrified following a very, very wrong in this wildly clever–and incredibly series of gruesome and spectacular murders, Suzy slowly brutal–modern LA noir. begins to unravel the dark history of the academy.

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OPENS NOVEMBER 10 FEATURE FILM

Palme d’Or Winner - 2017 Cannes Film Festival!

READ RAY PRIDE’S COMMENTARY ON PAGE 22 THE SQUARE A potent, disturbing work that “explores the boundaries of political correctness, artistic DIRECTED BY: Ruben Östlund liberty and free speech in STARRING: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary provocative ways.” 145 mins, DCP, In English and Swedish & Danish with English subtitles –The Hollywood Reporter Christian is the respected curator of a contemporary art museum, a A merciless and mercilessly “funny [comedy], laser-point divorced but devoted father of two who drives an electric car and precise in its humor.” supports good causes. His next show is “The Square,” an installation –The AV Club which invites passersby to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: Christian’s foolish response to the theft of his phone drags him into shameful situations. Meanwhile, the museum’s PR agency has created an unexpected campaign for ”The Square.” The response is overblown and sends Christian, as well as the museum, into an existential crisis.

PLAYING NOVEMBER 10-16 FEATURE NOVEMBER 15 SPECIAL FILM EVENT

Official Selection Reading Sundance Film & Book Festival Signing! AN EVENING WITH JOHN HODGMAN PRESENTED BY THE BOOK STALL 78/52 A landmark documentary. “ Exceptional and provocative” –Leonard Maltin DIRECTED BY: Alexandre O. Philippe Wednesday, November 15 at 7pm 92 mins, DCP Captivating. Does full justice Writer, comedian, and actor John Hodgman celebrates the publication of to how PSYCHO changed the Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches. Joining John in conversation The screeching strings, the plunging knife, the slow zoom out from “ heartbeat of the world” will be “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me” host Peter Sagal! a lifeless eyeball: in 1960, ’s PSYCHO changed film –Variety history forever with its taboo-shattering shower scene. With 78 Although his career as a bestselling author and on THE DAILY SHOW was founded on fake news, in camera set-ups and 52 edits over the course of 3 minutes, PSYCHO 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Disarmed of falsehood, he was redefined screen violence, set the stage for slasher films to come, and introduced a new element of left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, danger to the moviegoing experience. Aided by a roster of filmmakers, critics, and fans—including wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through the hills of Massachusetts where he spent his youth, Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Peter Bogdanovich—78/52 pulls back the the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him, and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age curtain on this cinematic game changer, breaking it down frame by frame and unpacking Hitchcock’s that connects them. Vacationland collects these wanderings, and through them you learn of the dense web of allusions and double meanings. The result is an enthralling piece of cinematic detective horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep work that’s nirvana for film buffs. as pets and which to kill with traps and poison.

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PLAYING NOVEMBER 17-23 FEATURE NOVEMBER 24-26 AND DECEMBER 2-3 SPECIAL FILM EVENT

THIS THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, GIVE THANKS FOR SOME OF YOUR “FAVORITE THINGS” FUN FOR Grand Prix THE WHOLE Winner - 2017 FAMILY!! Cannes Film FUN PACKS INCLUDED! Festival! COSTUME CONTEST!

120 BPM Full of cinematic life… “Combines elegy, tragedy, urgency and a defiant euphoria” DIRECTED BY: Robin Campillo –The Guardian STARRING: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel 140 mins, DCP, In French with English subtitles In in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group’s radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.

NOVEMBER 29 SPECIAL EVENT

THE CLASSIC FILM WITH ON-SCREEN LYRICS SO THAT EVERYONE CAN SING ALONG! In For over a decade Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with the 35mm! Von Trapp Family Players and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This annual event has grown now to two weekends and thousands of people joining in on the fun. The lyrics for each song are projected on the big screen, and our host and organist will warm the audience up before the screening. Every attendee gets their own package of magic moment gifts to interact with the film. This Thanksgiving let’s all be thankful for some of our favorite things!

BEST IN SHOW FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BENTLEY’S PET STUFF 1:00 PM AND 7:00 PM 11:30AM

Wednesday, November 29 at 7:30pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 (Christopher Guest, 2000, 90 mins, 35mm) 1:00 PM AND 7:00 PM 11:30AM

From Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN) comes the SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 funniest film about dog pageantry ever made, BEST IN SHOW. 12:30 PM AND 6:30 PM Fellow Southport neighbors, Bentley’s Pet Stuff, will be in attendance offering raffle baskets and plenty of healthy treats to keep your dog or cat happy. Pet adoption groups, Felines & ADVANCE TICKETS DAY-OF TICKETS (IF AVAILABLE) Canines and Project Adoptable, will also be in attendance to help some furry friends find a happy General: $13 General: $15 home this holiday season. $1 from each ticket sale goes to benefit pet adoption. Music Box Members: $10 Music Box Member: $12 Kids 12 & under: $8 Kids 12 & under: $9 Bentley’s Pet Stuff (3657 N Southport Ave) is a nutrition-focused pet boutique specializing in natural Available on-line through the Available at box office foods for all your pet’s needs. More info at www.petstuff.com/bentleys-pet-stuff-chicago-southport/ Music Box Theatre website if show does not sell out in advance

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OPENS DECEMBER 1 FEATURE FILM

READ STEVE PROKOPY’S COMMENTARY ON PAGE 20

“A loving tribute to , its fans and filmmaking “A hysterical in general.” comedy that will – The Guardian blow your mind” – RogerEbert.com

THE DISASTER ARTIST “Franco’s best performance since his DIRECTED BY: Oscar-nominated turn STARRING: James Franco, , , Alison Brie

90 mins, DCP in 127 HOURS” – The Playlist With THE DISASTER ARTIST, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on ’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece THE ROOM (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), THE DISASTER ARTIST is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend — and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.

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DECEMBER 9-24

Saturday, December 9 Wednesday, December 20 12:00pm: White Christmas 4:30pm: White Christmas 3:15pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 8:00pm: It’s a Wonderful Life THE 34TH ANNUAL MUSIC BOX 6:30pm: White Christmas 9:45pm: It’s a Wonderful Life Thursday, December 21 CHRISTMAS SING-A-LONG 3:15pm: It’s a Wonderful Life Sunday, December 10 6:30pm: White Christmas AND DOUBLE FEATURE 12:00pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 9:45pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 3:15pm: White Christmas 6:30pm: It’s a Wonderful Life Friday, December 22 12:00pm: It’s a Wonderful Life One of the most popular and Friday, December 15 3:15pm: White Christmas 6:30pm: White Christmas 6:30pm: It’s a Wonderful Life beloved Christmas traditions in Chicago 9:45pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 9:45pm: White Christmas is celebrating its 34th anniversary this year. Come celebrate the holidays with the Music Box! Saturday, December 16 Saturday, December 23 12:00pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 12:00pm: White Christmas Each year, holiday revelers are greeted by none other than 3:15pm: White Christmas 3:15pm: It’s a Wonderful Life Santa Claus, live and in person. Santa welcomes the audience 6:30pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 6:30pm: White Christmas and, accompanied by the theater organist, leads them in the 9:45pm: White Christmas 9:45pm: It’s a Wonderful Life singing of the most cherished Christmas carols of all time. The lyrics are projected onto the theater’s screen so no one Sunday, December 17 Sunday, December 24 12:00pm: White Christmas 12:00pm: White Christmas misses a chance to sing their hearts out. 3:15pm: It’s a Wonderful Life 3:15pm: It’s a Wonderful Life Then the audience sits back and enjoys a Christmas 6:30pm: White Christmas movie classic. Some folks like to keep the music going and opt to see WHITE CHRISTMAS (Michael Curtiz, 1954) so they can sing the timeless lyrics of Irving Berlin along with Bing Crosby, Danny Kay and Rosemary Advance tickets are: Day of tickets (if available) are: Clooney. Others prefer to cheer for Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey and hiss Mr. Potter Single Feature: $13 Single Feature: $15 during a showing of the heart-warming IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946). Double Feature: $20 Double Feature: $24 And those truly filled with holiday spirit see BOTH films! Children under 13: $10 or $15 double feature Children under 13: $10 or $15 double feature

18 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 Features and Special Events 19 COMMENTARY Holidays at the retelling of a moment in time that resulted in a clas- sic film that millions adore for whatever reason. But Driehaus Museum the result is a comic masterpiece because sticking to the facts is the funniest thing Franco and his team could possibly have done. And while we witness actors like Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, , Paul Scheer, Jacki Weaver, and so many more take up their positions playing real people in front of and behind the cameras, we also get to see the strain that the production had on Wiseau and Sestero, who are both clearly over their heads as first-time filmmakers. But they contin- ued surging forward like modern-day Ed Woods because of their shared love of the art form. THE DISASTER ARTIST OPENS ON DECEMBER 1. The screenplay also digs deep into Wiseau’s neu- SEE PAGE 16 FOR DETAILS. rosis about being seen only as a villain to casting THE MASTER OF DISASTER directors (when he clearly sees himself as a leading Laugh Hard and Witness THE DISASTER ARTIST man) but not wanting Sestero to see him that way. By Steve Prokopy As funny as the film gets at times, there’s a beauti- ful thread of emotion and sincerity running through it that almost breaks your heart by the time we get The question I’ve been asked the most since I caught the “work-in-progress” world premiere of THE DISASTER to the re-staging of the world premiere screening ARTIST at the SXSW Film Festival back in March has been a variation of “Will those unfamiliar with writer- of THE ROOM, where the audience can’t keep director Tommy Wiseau’s bafflingly terrible, wholly entertaining film THE ROOM be able to enjoy and from laughing hysterically at Wiseau’s writing and appreciate THE DISASTER ARTIST, the movie about the making of that cult classic?” And I feel confident that thrashing performance. How does an artist recover the answer is “Yes,” for the same reason I believe that those who have yet to see THE ROOM would enjoy from that? Wiseau found a way by leaning into actor Greg Sestero’s endlessly informative memoir, THE DISASTER ARTIST (co-written by ). Both the idea that the film was, in fact, a dark comedy. the book and the film are not simply an account/re-creation of the making of THE ROOM. Instead, they tell That’s how history begins. the story of two Hollywood dreamers, struggling to make it as actors and becoming the greatest of friends in the process. THE ROOM was an extension of their friendship, which the rest of the world just happened to With THE DISASTER ARTIST, James Franco is a have fallen in love with…more or less. generous director, giving as many of his actors moments to shine and build upon events well Adapted by the team of Scott Neustadte and Michael H. Weber (500 DAYS OF SUMMER, as well as the documented, either in THE ROOM or in Sestero’s screen versions of THE SPECTACULAR NOW and THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), THE DISASTER ARTIST is told book. Those who say the movie doesn’t reveal from Sestero’s point of view, as he struggles as most actors do early on. In a acting class, he enough about Wiseau, let me end with this: I did meets the man who would change his life—the enigmatic Wiseau (James Franco, who also directs), who is so a two-hour interview with him back in 2000 and totally overplaying his scenes. He is seen as a pariah by the rest of the class, except Sestero, who is intrigued spent additional hours babysitting him over a by Wiseau and his vampire look of dyed black hair, sunglasses, nebulous accent (he insists he’s from New 36-hour period that included a couple of Q&A Orleans), and unusual style of dress. And before long, the two are encouraging each other’s careers and Make the Driehaus Museum screenings, being his unnecessary, non-threatening plotting their conquering of . Sestero is played by Dave Franco, an actor who also took a while bodyguard while he signed hundreds of auto- a part of your annual to break through because many people only saw him as James Franco’s little brother. The resulting kismet of graphs, and sharing a handful of meals with him. holiday traditions! Greg and Dave works to the film’s advantage, whether it was intentional or not. And at the end of that 36 hours, I felt I knew less Seasonal programming The first portion of the film isn’t meant to be funny, but James Franco’s performance as Wiseau is extraor- about him than when we first shook hands. Like dinary and likely the single greatest character he’s ever created. Over the years that THE ROOM has played Wiseau, THE DISASTER ARTIST is something you and special events at regularly in Chicago (about seven years and counting), I’ve spent countless hours with both Wiseau and experience and enjoy. If you’ve never seen THE DriehausMuseum.org/Programs Sestero, together and separately, and while I would never say that Wiseau’s strange accent, speech patterns ROOM, don’t try to figure out the phenomenon; or word choices are phony, there is most definitely a difference between “on-stage Tommy” and the more simply enjoy witnessing the creating of it. And if conversational man that I’ve spoken to one-on-one over the years. James Franco so completely embodies this you are, in fact, a ROOM devotee, prepare to laugh latter version of Wiseau that I stopped seeing Franco almost immediately and only saw and heard the real harder than you have ever in your life. Wiseau. For those who have never been exposed to Wiseau’s weird ramblings, Franco’s work takes on Steve Prokopy is the Chicago Editor for an almost Andy Kaufman-level of dedication to the character he’s inhabiting. Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), where What many who see THE DISASTER ARTIST will be waiting for are the behind-the-scene glimpses into the mak- he has contributed film reviews and filmmaker ing of THE ROOM, and while I think you’ll fully adore the scenes prior to the production, the attention to detail & actor interviews under the name “Capone” 40 East Erie, Chicago IL 60611 of THE ROOM sets and strange method of shooting (the film was shot on film and digitally for no conceivable since 1998. He is also chief film critic for the 312-482-8933 reason) are going to shock you as to their accuracy and absurdity. I’ve heard some (those who haven’t actually Chicago-based arts outlet Third Coast Review seen THE DISASTER ARTIST yet) describe this film as a parody, which it absolutely is not. It’s a straight-faced (www.ThirdCoastReview.com). DriehausMuseum.org

20 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 Commentary 21 COMMENTARY give the gift of THE SQUARE OPENS ON NOVEMBER 10. SEE PAGE 12 FOR DETAILS. the music box! This holiday season, a Music Box Membership is the gift that keeps on giving; with discounted tickets, MANNERS AND DECORUM AT RISK bottomless popcorn, free members-only screenings, A Modern Art World Marketplace in THE SQUARE and more. Your gift will continue to surprise the By Ray Pride

Even before taking the Palme d’or at Cannes 2017, Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s work has taken the public film lover in your life all year long! square as his subject and location. The line between public and private is in his best-known movie, the sly, piercing comedy FORCE MAJEURE, the story of a man, his family, an avalanche, and the smartphone he should have been clever enough to leave behind to make the gesture of saving his family first. Östlund’s first three lengthy works were skiing films, which informs his flair for the sustained sequence shots and choreographing social interactions without making cuts. Östlund’s 2010 short, INCIDENT BY A BANK is the showiest of these efforts, a re-creation of what happened in the square outside a Stockholm bank during a failed 2006 robbery as witnessed by a pair of puzzled passersby, enacted by ninety performers and captured in an unbroken twelve-minute take with computer-generated camera movement. But it was his fifth feature, FORCE MAJEURE, a worldwide success, which demonstrated a rare knack for choreographing vast forces ranging from a growing, roaring avalanche to the blocking of a husband and wife brushing their teeth. Working largely in restrained, refined tableau style, the geometry of intimacy is pitted against the inevitable forces of conflict in public spaces. THE SQUARE takes not only the title but the underlying forces of Östlund’s work in a jumpy, jangly satire of the modern art world, its makers, its merchants, its frauds, its ripe potential for vicious satire. The square is the marketplace, the meeting of dealers, the performance piece at the core of the corrosive comedy, and most emphatically, a self-satisfied Swedish middle class. The genesis was a 2015 exhibition by Östlund and collaborator Kalle Boman, a film producer and professor who worked with Swedish luminaries like Bo Widerberg in the 1960s on ELVIRA MADIGAN and, as well as early efforts by the great surrealist of deadpan comedy Roy Andersson (SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR). register online Installed at a design museum, the exhibition explored the possibility of providing a humanitarian sanctuary, a literal physical square, in the town center of every Swedish city. In THE SQUARE, as in the exhibit, Östlund at musicboxtheatre.com fixes on issues of trust and responsibility to others around us, especially the societally disadvantaged, invoking elements as far-flung as the parable of the Good Samaritan, Socratic notions of justice and Stanley Milgram’s or visit our box office! 1960s experiments. “These tests are well known for exemplifying Hannah Arendt’s view of the banality of evil and humans’ obedience to authority,” Östlund has said. The innate weight of these concerns, however, are leavened, even elevated by the 43-year-old writer-editor-director’s satirical instincts, toward performance Questions? Contact: art, toward museum frameworks in the commercial art world, and especially, the created environment of the public sphere we live within called “public relations.” The styles of comedy and performance zig and zag [email protected] within the generous range of sweetly surly vignettes in THE SQUARE, from lightly surreal to lavishly farcical, and performances are compelling even at their oddest turns, including Claes Bang as the harried manager of the contemporary art museum and Elisabeth Moss as an American journalist who struggles against hope to get him to decipher the tortuous critical prose from the museum’s website. The deliciously physical, tour-de-force centerpiece of THE SQUARE, a performance at a dinner party, rises to a high level of Scandinavian-style provocation, its black-on- ranging from embarrassment to mor- tification and back again, to a near-certain chance of abrupt violence. Manners and decorum are at risk, but so are the character’s manifestations of self-delusion and downright selfishness, captured in squares of their own making as well as the greater public sphere. Ray Pride is longtime film critic of Newcity, news editor of MovieCityNews.com and a contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine. He is also a photographer: a book on Chicago “Ghost Signs” is expected in 2018.

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H EST CLASSIC MATINEES TC AT SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS AT 11:30am A E B W JIMMY THROUGH THE YEARS L I The Music Box continues our celebration of the incomparable career L N of Hollywood’s Everyman, Jimmy Stewart! A E M R October 20 & 21 S Y

THE FAR COUNTRY (Anthony Mann, 1954, 97 mins, 35mm from Universal) Shot on location in the unforgiving wilderness of Northwest Canada, the sixth collaboration between James • O • Stewart and Anthony P K E E Mann stars Stewart as a cattle driver N E and obsessive loner with vengeance 7 DAYS A W in his heart and murder in his past. Hoping to cash in on the Klondike gold rush, Stewart drives a herd of cattle through Dawson with comic relief Walter Brennan, and runs into trouble when a corrupt judge seizes their stock.

November 18 & 19 IN VERTIGO 70MM! (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 128 mins, 70mm from Universal) DABLON After an incident in the field, detective John “Scottie” Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart) suffers from acrophobia and vertigo, forcing him to retire. He’s hired as a VINEYARDS private investigator to follow a man’s wife, Madeline (Kim Novak), who’s been acting peculiarly. Stylistic flair and sultry mystery Winery & Tasting Room abound in this Hitchcock , voted the greatest movie of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2012 poll. Screening in a 70mm print from the highly publicized 1996 Robert Harris restoration. 111 W. Shawnee Rd. • Baroda, MI • 49101

• 24 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 269-422-2846 DABLON.COM 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 visits the Music Box Theatre for a few field trips, featuring Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and entertaining and educational presentations from Field Museum experts. Join us as THE LAST MAN ON EARTH we delve into the reality and science behind the silver screen! (J.G. Blystone, 1924, 70 mins, 35mm) Saturday, November 11 at Noon Not to be confused with the post- Featuring a discussion apocalyptic Vincent Price vs. zombies pic, with DNA expert and Field the silent version of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH is a work of speculative science Museum scientist Erica Zahnle fiction super-charged by festering 19th (David Cronenberg, 1986, 96 mins, 35mm) Amendment anxieties. It’s 1954 and the world has been beset by a global pandemic Tuesday, October 24 at 7:15pm of masculinitis, a disease that mysteriously When scientist Seth Brundle () kills off all men fourteen years and older. Eventually one straggler (Earle Foxe) is discovered in the completes his teleportation device, he decides forest, a tree-dwelling Rip Van Winkle utterly unprepared to become a planetary sex symbol. Foxe to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to is soon set upon by female gangsters, female politicians, female scientists, female everything. The him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading climax even comes down to an extended boxing match between the “Senatoresses” from California to a merger of man and insect. As the fly’s cells take over his body, Brundle’s girlfriend () is and Massachusetts! Co-presented by The Chicago Film Society. horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster. 35mm print and photo credit from the Museum of Modern Art Erica Zahnle is the lead educator for the Rice DNA Discovery Center, and is part of The Emerging Pathogens Project, identifying correlations of infection between avian hosts and their protozoan parasites. She hosts “Talk to the Scientist Hour” in the DNA Discovery Center, a Q&A session that educates the public about their ongoing research. IS IT STILL FUNNY? Chicago film/entertainment writer Mark Caro puts supposedly timeless HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS to the test and dares ask the question “Is It Still Funny?” Featuring a discussion with evolutionary biologist Shauna Price (Dean Parisot, 1999, 102 mins, 35mm) (Joe Johnston, 1989, 93 mins, 35mm) Wednesday, November 22 at 7:15pm Tuesday, November 28 at 7pm This modest spoof was a modest box-office success when it came out, yet Rick Moranis stars as an inventor who just can’t GALAXY QUEST not only has gained in seem to get his electro-magnetic shrinking stature to become a Cult Comedy, but at a machine to work. Then, when he accidentally 2013 STAR TREK convention, voted shrinks his kids down to one-quarter-inch tall and it the seventh best STAR TREK film despite tosses them out in the trash, the real adventure it having no official ties to the actual begins! Now the kids face incredible dangers as they make their way home through the jungle of their movies. Now a GALAXY QUEST TV series is being written for Amazon, even as Seth MacFarlane own backyard! has attempted his own spaceship comedy series, . Fandom is a key subject here, as the Shauna Price is an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum who has studied ants for more than convention-attending actors who starred in a TREK-like show—including Tim Allen as the captain, 15 years. She uses molecular and morphological data to understand how a group of ants from the a Shakespearean-trained Alan Rickman as the part-alien science officer, Sigourney Weaver as the Neotropics–turtle ants–have diversified in terms of their traits and number of species. jiggly computer officer, Tony Shalhoub as the chief engineer and Sam Rockwell as “the plucky comic relief”—wind up on an actual space adventure amid aliens who think their show was a documentary. Can GALAXY QUEST transport the rest of us as well?

26 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 27 CONTINUING SERIES THE CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS The Chicago Film Society hosts monthly presentations featuring classic films, underseen rarities, cult movies, short subjects, trailer reels and more, all on glorious celluloid. For more information, visit www.chicagofilmsociety.org. DICK TRACY Monday, November 27 at 7pm (Warren Beatty, 1990, 105 min, 35mm) A long-gestating project that finally hit theaters after Tim Burton’s fortified the blockbuster paradigm, DICK TRACY was the first film to gross $100 million and still be judged a flop. Revisited today, it’s a romantic, auteur-driven take on the comic book movie. While Marvel and DC efforts are forever teasing the next chapter in their cinematic universes, DICK TRACY crams in so many incidents and villains (including Dustin Hoffman as Mumbles and Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice) as to make a sequel unfathomable and mildly nausea-inducing. For all the pyrotechnics, though, it’s mostly an emotionally direct, stirringly simple movie about Dick Tracy trying to be a better boyfriend. With songs by Stephen Sondheim, singing by Madonna, and spittle-flecked mugging from everyone else. FROM STAGE TO SCREEN The Music Box proudly presents the greatest filmed theatrical productions from around the world!

FOLLIES PRESENTED BY NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Directed by: Dominic Cooke Tuesday, December 12 at 2pm and 7pm Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre. New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves. BUY YOUR COPY AT THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE TODAY Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in Dominic Cooke’s dazzling new production. Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, SWEENEY TODD, and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. “««««« Imelda Staunton is unforgettable in Sondheim’s showbiz stunner” –The Guardian “««««« Jaw-droppingly great” –The Independent “««««« A true theatrical epic.” –Evening Standard @DoppelgangerReleasing DoppelgangerReleasing.com 28 Music Box Theatre October-December 2017 29 CONTINUING SERIES

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October 13 & 14 EVIL DEAD II November 3 & 4 CINEPOCALYPSE (Sam Raimi, 1987, 84 mins, 35mm) Selections 30TH ANNIVERSARY See page 10-11 for details! Friday, November 17, 2017 November 10 & 11, THE ROOM October 20 & 21 JACOB’S LADDER December 1 & 8 (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35mm) through Monday, January 1, 2018 (Adrian Lyne, 1990, 113 mins, 35mm) Presented by The Front Row November STREETS OF FIRE 17 & 18 (Walter Hill, 1984, 93 mins, 70mm) October 27 & 28, THE ROCKY HORROR Presented by The Front Row December 2 PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman, 1975, 100 mins, 35mm) November BEETLEJUICE See trees in a different light. See page 8 for Halloween Shows! 24 & 25 (Tim Burton, 1988, 92 mins, 35mm) Make memories as you stroll a mile-long paved path through the winter woods brought to life with JACOB’S LADDER innovative lights, projections, and music. Presented by The Front Row (Adrian Lyne, 1990, 113 mins, 35mm) JACOB’S LADDER is the rarest of all films, one which defies both categorization and convention, not merely a by-the-numbers horror, nor just another drama, nor a rote thriller, it is as free of cliché as it is of constraint, cinema unwound. Terrifying to the heart, mind, and New this year! especially soul, JACOB’S LADDER posits that life and death, heaven and hell are one and the same, that reality Be a part of the interactive light display! is the most subjective experience of all, that the fleeting moments of our waking lives might never surpass the best–and worst–of our dreams. With one of the few truly great twists in film history (are you detecting a theme Purchase a glowing Illu-medallion that reacts to the yet?), Adrian Lyne’s masterpiece remains one of the most influential movies of the ‘90s, to this day a blueprint in genre-defying filmmaking. spectacular sights and sounds along your journey.

THE ROOM (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35mm) Before James Franco’s THE DISASTER ARTIST, there was Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM! The Music Box has been the Chicago home of THE ROOM since 2008, introducing thousands to the mysterious mind of Tommy Advance purchase recommended. Wiseau. An electrifying black comedy (perhaps unintentionally), THE ROOM film so outrageous it must truly be seen to be believed. Love, mortonarb.org/wonderland passion, betrayal, lies, drugs, disease, pick-up football games, and so, so many spoons. Enter THE ROOM and leave forever changed!

STREETS OF FIRE Presented by The Front Row (Walter Hill, 1984, 93 mins, 70mm) In Greaser street gangs and over the top power ballads 70MM! reign supreme in Walter Hill’s neon drenched rock Illumination Sponsors & roll fantasy. A soldier of fortune returns home to rescue his kidnapped rock diva ex-girlfriend from a gang of vinyl clad bikers led by Willem Dafoe and backed up by Fear frontman Lee Ving. Set in a hyper-stylized “another time, another place” (which resembles Chicago thanks to exterior scenes shot on Lower Wacker and under the L) where the night is eternal, the rain never stops, and ‘50s pulp teenage dreams merge with ‘80s action bravado (Butterfly knives! Explosions! Sledgehammer fights!).

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