Film Calendar August 26-October 20, 2016

John Turturro in MIA MADRE, opening September 2

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Krzysztof DAVID BOWIE IS NATIONAL THE BEYOND MUSIC BOX OF Kieslowski’s September 19 ART HOUSE COMPOSER’S CUT HORRORS DEKALOG Page 12 THEATER DAY with Fabio Frizzi 24-Hour Film Fest Starts September 2 September 24 October 6 October 15 Page 6 Page 15 Page 20 Page 20 Welcome to the Music Box Theatre!

Feature PRESENTATIONS 4 LO AND BEHOLD OPENS AUGUST 26 4 MIA MADRE OPENS SEPTEMBER 2 6 DEKALOG OPENS SEPTEMBER 2 10 THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK OPENS SEPTEMBER 15 11 DEMON OPENS SEPTEMBER 16 14 GOAT OPENS SEPTEMBER 23 18 OPERATION AVALANCHE OPENS SEPTEMBER 30

SERIES 22 CLASSIC MATINEES 24 MIDNIGHTS 25 IS IT STILL FUNNY? 26 SILENT CINEMA 26 ART & ARCHITECTURE IN CINEMA 27 CINEMA SCIENCE FIELD TRIPS 28 SOUND OPINIONS 30 STAGE TO SCREEN

SPECIAL EVENTS 8 NICK CAVE: ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING SEPTEMBER 8 8 DOG FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 11 10 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT SEPTEMBER 11-15 11 BODY AND SOUL SEPTEMBER 18 12 DRAGONFLY SEPTEMBER 18 12 DAVID BOWIE IS SEPTEMBER 19 13 AN EVENING WITH JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER SEPTEMBER 21 13 REELING FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 22 14 THE ROOM WITH TOMMY WISEAU SEPTEMBER 23 15 ART HOUSE THEATER DAY SEPTEMBER 24 16 BEGOTTEN AND SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE SEPTEMBER 25 16 NORTHWEST CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY SEPTEMBER 26 & OCTOBER 17 18 THE LOVE POTION SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 14 19 AV CLUB PRESENTS DUNE OCTOBER 1 19 CAT VIDEOFEST OCTOBER 2 20 THE BEYOND OCTOBER 6 21 ANNIVERSARY SCREENINGS OPENS OCTOBER 7-20 20 MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS OCTOBER 15

Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 33 ISSUE 139 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2016 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Buck LePard, Senior Operations Manager Stephanie Berlin, Public Relations & Special Events Manager Published by Newcity Custom Publishing Newcitynetwork.com Claire Alden, Group Sales and Membership Manager For information, email [email protected] Julian Antos, Technical Director or call 312.243.8786 Cover Image from the film MIA MADRE, coming to Music Box Theatre September 2. See page 4 for more information.

Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office 3 Features and Special Events THE ORIGNAL Fe opens August 26 ature VAMP IS BACK! Film Join us for a screening of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German silent horror Classic NOSFERATU. Austin’s The Invincible Czars will perform their haunting, original score to the film live on stage at Lo and Behold, Reveries the Athenaeum Of The Connected World FOUR STARS. Herzog weaves a Theatre. “fantastical tale” –The Guardian DIRECTED BY: Werner Herzog Get your tickets now! 98 minutes A must-see for anyone on social Monday October 24th “networks.” Screening at 7:30 pm –The Verge Oscar®-nominated documentarian Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian outback. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in 2936 N. Southport Ave. the real world works—from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how Box Office - 773-935-6875 we conduct our personal relationships. Visit - www.athenaeumtheatre.org

opens September 2 Fe ature BCH@BING film Join Black Cinema House and BING Art Books for a Official Selection monthly film series exploring Cannes Film films by and about people of Festival the African diaspora. Each month throughout the year, intimate screenings and discussions are focused on one or more visual artists, including Diana Ross, Ulysses Mia Madre Jenkins, Prince, Spike Lee, Warm, witty and seductive” Ja’Tovia Gary, Kevin Jerome “–The Guardian DIRECTED BY: Nanni Moretti Everson, and more. Starring: John Turturro, Margherita Buy Turturro is an exuberant, scene- 107 minutes; Italian with English subtitles “stealing hoot, adding fireworks to the quiet colours of this absorbing, BCH@BING every Thursday Acclaimed Italian auteur Nanni Moretti finds comedy and pathos affecting take on the many Artisan Pizza, Fine Wine BING Art Books • 307 E Garfield Blvd in the story of Margherita, a harried film director (Margherita Buy, A burdens of being human” Free admission FIVE STAR LIFE) trying to juggle the demands of her latest movie and –The List & Craft Cocktails a personal life in crisis. The star of her film, a charming but hammy American actor (John Turturro) imported for the production, initially presents nothing From 3707 N. Southport bingartbooks.com Music Box but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries 773.477.2625 BINGartbooks to hold her life together as her beloved mother’s illness progresses, and her teenage Films! Coalfirechicago.com daughter grows ever more distant.

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Fe opens september 2 ature film DEKALOG: FOUR DEKALOG: SEVEN & EIGHT A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a (113 minutes) Dekalog unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka Sunday 9/4 at 2:00pm and 9:30pm is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she Monday 9/5 at 7:00pm Directed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski finds an unopened letter from her deceased Wednesday 9/7 at 4:30pm In Polish with English subtitles, DCP mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father. (57m) This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieslowski is one DEKALOG: SEVEN of the 20th century’s greatest achievements in As a high school student, Majka bore a child, visual storytelling. Originally made for Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been Polish television, DEKALOG focuses on raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready the residents of a housing complex DEKALOG can be seen in for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading in late-Communist Poland, whose any order! Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unex- lives become subtly intertwined pected emotional consequences. (57m) as they face emotional dilemmas DEKALOG: EIGHT that are at once deeply personal and Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by universally human. The series’ ten hour-long Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of films, drawing from the Ten Commandments Jews who survived World War II. for thematic inspiration and an overarching DEKALOG FIVE & SIX* A daytime classroom conversation turns into a structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, (121 minutes) night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to hate, truth, and the passage of time. Saturday 9/3 at 2:00pm and 9:30pm answer for a decision she made decades ago Sunday 9/4 at 7:00pm that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s “You never see the ideas coming and don’t realize until much later how Monday 9/5 at 4:30pm life. (56m) profoundly they have reached your heart.” —Stanley Kubrick Wednesday 9/7 at 2:00pm DEKALOG: NINE & TEN “An overwhelming psychological and spiritual epic.” —Chicago Tribune DEKALOG: FIVE* (119 minutes) An angry drifter murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to an Sunday 9/4 at 4:30pm idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed Monday 9/5 at 9:30pm DEKALOG: TWO to the death penalty, and their interactions take Wednesday 9/7 at 9:45pm Dorota is in love with two men: her gravely ill on an emotional honesty that throws into stark Thursday 9/8 at 4:30pm husband, Andrzej, and a fellow musician who is relief the injustice of killing of any kind. (60m) the father of her unborn child. Andrzej’s doctor, DEKALOG: SIX * DEKALOG: NINE himself no stranger to loss, is Dorota’s down- A teenage postal worker routinely spies on his Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but stairs neighbor; she implores him to swear to a older neighbor, a sexually liberated artist who his impotence has led to her having an affair. prognosis for her husband, and in doing so puts lives in the apartment across the courtyard from The unbearable situation drives Roman to a very serious decision into his hands. (59m) his. As their private worlds merge, fascination extreme measures both physically and mentally, turns to obsession, and the line between love testing their love and his own will to live. (60m) DEKALOG THREE & FOUR and curiosity becomes violently blurred. (61m) DEKALOG: TEN Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a (115 minutes) DEKALOG ONE & TWO *Director Krzysztof Kieślowski and coscreen- valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, Friday 9/2 at 4:30pm and 9:30pm writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz decided to turn is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of (115 minutes) Saturday 9/3 at 7:00pm these two segments into feature-length films shadiness. The more involved the brothers get Friday 9/2 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm Monday 9/5 at 2:00pm for theatrical distribution. The Music Box will in their father’s world, the more dire and comi- Saturday, 9/3 at 4:30pm Tuesday 9/6 at 4:30pm screen both versions. cal their situation becomes. (59m) Monday 9/5 at 11:30am Thursday 9/9 at 7:00pm Tuesday 9/6 at 2:00pm A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE* Thursday 9/8 at 4:30pm DEKALOG: THREE (86m) It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass Friday, 9/9 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm DEKALOG: ONE the hours until morning with her former lover Saturday, 9/10 at 4:30pm and 9:30pm Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING* to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of choices made when their affair was discovered (84m) one day, both adults are forced to question three years ago, and with the value of their Friday, 9/9 at 4:30pm and 9:30pm their belief systems. (56m) present lives. (58m) Saturday, 9/10 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

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S September 8 peci Ev ent al Film Studies Center presents E.A. Dupont’s Varieté

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time With Feeling

DIRECTED BY: Andrew Dominik 85 minutes Live Score Performed By Thursday, September 8 at 9:30pm The first opportunity anyone will have to hear any of the songs from the new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album, Skeleton Tree, will be to watch the feature film ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING, directed Alloy Orchestra by Andrew Dominik (THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD). Origi- nally a performance-based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik October 2, 2016, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Filmed in black-and-white Tickets at filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu and colour, the result is stark, fragile and raw.

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Sunday, September 11 SPONSORED BY Screening Group A - 4:30 Screening Group B - 6:30 Screening Group C - 8:30 Monday, September 12 Screening Group D - 7:00 Screening Group E - 9:00 Thursday, September 15 Best of Chicago Awards - 7:30

Demon Stylish and clever” The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a “–RogerEbert.com prop, and a line of dialogue, and then have 48 hours to create an 8 minute short film containing those DIRECTED BY: Marcin Wrona Italy Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska elements. This year’s 12th annual Premiere Screenings will showcase the work of filmmakers from all over Starring: Haunting…echoes of of Roman 94 minutes; Polish with English subtitles the city, and audiences will also get in on the fun voting to select the Audience Choice Award, which will “Polanski” then screen with local celebrity judge’s choices at the Best Of Chicago Screening on Thursday, Sept 15th. Newly arrived from England to marry his fiancee Zaneta, Peter –Indiewire The winning film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2017 for a chance at the has been given a gift of her family’s ramshackle country house in grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival 2017, Court Métrage. rural Poland. It’s a total fixer-upper, and while inspecting the premises on the eve of the wedding, he falls into a pile of human remains. The ceremony proceeds, but strange things begin to happen…During (Please note: all screening blocks require seperate admissions.) the wild reception, Peter begins to come undone, and a dybbuk, the iconic ancient figure from Jewish Want to compete? Register your own team before August 26th at: www.48hourfilm.com/chicago-il folklore, takes a toehold in this present-day celebration.

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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week Includes Body and Soul The Touring Years 30 minutes of w/Live Score by Renèe Baker’s Chicago Modern Orchestra Project bonus concert footage DIRECTED BY: Ron Howard Sunday, September 18 at 12:00pm 129 minutes The recontextualizing of Oscar Micheaux’s 1925 silent race film BODY AND SOUL has been brilliantly THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK—THE TOURING YEARS is based on the first part of The Beatles’ accomplished by a new music score by composer Renèe Baker and her Chicago Modern Orchestra career (1962-1966)—the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Ron Howard’s Project. Starring Paul Robeson, singer and political activist in his first movie role, Baker’s score brings film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to to life the societal ills of the time, pushing the envelope forward to the dangers of 2016. Many of the become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.” It delves into their inner workings—how they contexts of both ages are remarkably similar in light of racial strife and continued struggle for equality made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together—all the while, highlight- and a level playing field for African Americans in America. Taking the cue from the continuing story being ing The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personali- written everyday in our society, Baker and CMOP crafted a score that performs as more than dialogue, ties. The film will focus on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern more than background—the framework of the movie and its action come to life with the narrative form Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966. and marriage with her score.

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S S September 18 peci September 21 peci Ev Ev ent al ent al DRAGONFLY An Evening with Chicago Premiere with Director Q&A! Jonathan Safran Foer

Sunday, September 18 at 7pm Presented by Unabridged Bookstore (Cara Greene Epstein, 2016, 72mins) Told with heart, humor, and a little bit of magic, Wednesday, September 21 at 7:30pm DRAGONFLY is a female-led feature film about Unabridged Bookstore and the Music Box Theatre homecoming and healing for a Midwestern family present An Evening with Jonathan Safran Foer, bestselling divided by divorce and illness. Struggling artist Anna author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud Larsen’s mother has never understood her. When and Incredibly Close, in celebration of his newest novel her mom is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, Here I Am, Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly Anna returns home to help but brings years of family entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature baggage with her. As she unpacks her past, Anna as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a mature novelist rediscovers a mysterious mailbox from her childhood who has fully come into his own as one of the most and embarks on a search to solve its mystery. What important writers of his generation. she learns along the way may just be the key to rekindling her own magic. A book signing will follow the program. Ticket packages include a copy of Here I Am.

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DAVID BOWIE IS Monday, September 19 at 7pm COMING OUT AT (Directed by: Hamish Hamilton, 100 mins, DCP) A documentary film of the groundbreaking David Bowie Is exhibition created by the Victoria and MUSIC BOX THEATRE Albert Museum, London (V&A). Described by The Times as “stylish & outrageous” and The Guardian as “a triumph,” the exhibition features a remarkable collection of photographs, stage costumes, and SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 other rare possessions from the David Bowie Archive. The exhibition provides fascinating insight REELINGFILMFESTIVAL.ORG into the most memorable music videos and original costumes, as well as more personal items such as never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork, set designs and diary entries, which re- PREMIER SPONSORS: veal the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas. The documentary was filmed on the closing night of the V&A exhibition in London.

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Art House Theater Day

Art House Theater Day celebrates the art house theater and the cultural role it plays in a community. It is a day to recognize the year-round contributions of films and Featuring filmmakers, patrons, projectionists and staff, and the brick an Audience and mortar theaters that are passionately dedicated to providing access to the best cinematic experiences. The Q&A Music Box is proud to be a part of this year’s Art House Theater Day, mixing special nationwide screenings with Music Box exclusives.

The Room, with Tommy Wiseau in person! TIME BANDITS at 1:45pm Friday, September 23 at 7:30pm & 11pm (Terry Gilliam, 1981, 110mins, DCP) The enigmatic Tommy Wiseau returns to the Music Box for 2 screenings of his cult sensation THE A young boy accidentally joins a band of adventurers as they ROOM! Don’t forget your spoons! jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Terry Gilliam, written and produced by) the mysterious Tommy Wiseau, and has been a cult favorite at the Music Box with uncompressed stereo soundtrack since 2009! Uninhibited by cinematic convention, THE ROOM delivers nonstop laughs from beginning to end as Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) discovers that his foxy fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle), is bedding his best friend. Enter THE ROOM and leave forever changed! A MAN CALLED OVE at 7:00pm Special (Hannes Holm, 2015, 116 mins, DCP) Free Screening for Music Box Fe In Swedish with English subtitles opens September 23 ature Members! film Stepping from the pages of Frederik Backman’s international bestselling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove has given up on life. Enter a boisterous young family next door who accidentally flattens Ove’s mailbox while moving in and earning his special brand of ire. Yet from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship forms and as we come to understand Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks. What emerges is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and the gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it’s shared.

PHANTASM at 9:30pm Goat (Don Coscarelli, 1979, 88mins, DCP) A harsh but gripping study in “uncontrolled male aggression.” A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave DIRECTED BY: Andrew Neel –The Hollywood Reporter robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious Starring: Nick Jonas, James Franco, Ben Schnetzer arsenal of terrible weapons with him. 96 minutes A refreshing and overdue “exposure of the violence that Digitally Restored by J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot, and presented by Fantastic Fest & Alamo Drafthouse. Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, 19-year-old Brad white male privilege breeds and Limited edition PHANTASM merch, created by Mondo, is exclusively available at theatres. Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college determined to get his life back needs to reassert itself.” to normal. His brother Brett (Nick Jonas) is already established on –Slant Magazine campus and with a fraternity that allures Brad with its promise of pro- Other Music Box programing on Art House Day includes: Classic Matinee series showing IT tection, popularity, and life-long friendships. Brad is desperate to belong, but as he sets out to join the HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934); week-long run of BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK—THE TOURING fraternity his brother suggests, exhibits reservations, a sentiment that threatens to divide them. As the YEARS (2016), and a Midnight presentation of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with live pledging ritual moves into hell week, a rite that promises to usher these unproven boys into manhood, Shadow Cast. the stakes violently increase with a series of torturous and humiliating events.

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S September 25 peci Ev Music Box Member ent al Becoming a member at the Music Box is a great way to support the quality programming at the independently owned and operated historic movie theatre, lounge and garden. This includes our holiday classics, talk backs, film festivals, visits from directors, producers, BEGOTTEN & SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE and actors, as well as our regular midnight, matinee, Double Feature with Director E. Elias Merhige In Person! and feature presentations.

Sunday, September 25 at 5pm E. Elias Merhige’s debut feature BEGOTTEN was hailed by TIME Magazine as one of the top ten films of 1991, and led to projects with Marilyn Manson and the movie SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE starring Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich. 2016 is the 25th anniversary of this landmark of experimental join today film, and director E. Elias Merhige visits the Music Box to discuss the movie, the preservation and restoration of the original negative, and its upcoming release on BluRay. • Discounted tickets • Restaurant discounts Screened from the director’s personal 16mm print. Stick around after the BEGOTTEN Q&A for a screening of SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE on 35mm. • Members-only screenings • Deals on Music Box Films DVD’s • Advanced purchase for • Bottomless popcorn S September 26 & October 17 peci Ev ent al special screenings • Discounted house wines

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The Northwest Chicago Film Society

Monday, September 26 & Monday, October 17 The Northwest Chicago Film Society presents a series of revivals and rediscoveries including new 35mm restorations and forgotten classics that may as well have been dug out of the earth. Programs include short subjects, trailer reels, and an introduction. Visit www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org for more details.

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The Love Potion (Le Vin Herbé) A Chicago Opera Theater Production The A.V. Club presents Composed by: Frank Martin Friday, September 30 at 7:30pm Directed by: Andreas Mitisek Friday, October 7 at 7:30pm David Lynch’s DUNE Sunday, October 9 at 3:00pm

Saturday, October 1 at 7pm The epic story of Tristan and Isolde, the fateful lovers who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue their love in defiance of heavenly and earthly powers, is told through Frank Martin’s mystical and The Overlook, The A.V. Club’s ongoing exploration of neglected and misunderstood films, gets a special haunting score. THE LOVE POTION (Le Vin Herbé) premiered in 1942 and is based on The Romance of live edition with David Lynch’s 1984 sci-fi epic DUNE. Prepare yourself for decadent production design, Tristan & Iseult, a retelling of the Tristan legend by historian and medievalist Joseph Bédier (published difficult-to-follow interplanetary intrigues, multiple voice-overs, symphonic rock, and Patrick Stewart 1900). Martin uses 12 singers, much in the manner of ancient Greek tragedy. Martin fashioned a work in going into battle with a pug under his arm as we present the flop that changed Lynch’s career—and the greatest possible contrast to Wagner’s work by using older text sources and by creating an intimate remains one of the weirdest big-budget blockbuster wannabes ever made. Be forewarned: You might chamber work with a medieval feel. For tickets, visit www.ChicagoOperaTheater.com. just end up leaving the theater thinking that it’s great.

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Operation Avalanche Found footage done right” “–Hitfix CatVideoFest DIRECTED BY: Matt Johnson Starring: Owen Williams, Matt Johnson Clever, funny, and so in love with Sunday, October 2 at 2pm & 5pm 93 minutes “movies themselves that it nearly forces you to smile” CatVideoFest is coming to Chicago! 70 minutes of the best cat videos of the year, plus some classics and In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two young CIA agents go –The Verge surprises. Hosted by Will Braden, creator of Henri, le Chat Noir and curator of the CatVideoFest reel, this undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise will be a great day of fun! as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and break into offices while purporting to learn more about the Apollo project. But when they end up uncovering a shocking NASA secret—and a major CatVideoFest is a charitable nonprofit dedicated to bringing the joy of cat videos to the masses. Come government cover-up—they decide to embark on a new mission that may put their own lives at risk. see cat videos and help raise money for cats in need!

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S October 6 peci Ev ent al Anniversary Screenings THE BEYOND The Music Box celebrates the birthdays of three timeless films with special anniversary screenings. Showtimes for Composer’s Cut with Live each film are available at MusicBoxTheatre.com. Score from Frizzi 2 Fulci THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Thursday, October 6 at 7:30pm 50th Anniversary 35 years after the shooting of Italian horror/thriller (Sergio Leone, 1966, 179 mins, DCP) masterpiece THE BEYOND (L’ALDILA), Maestro October 8 & 10 Fabio Frizzi retraces his steps in order to realize one of the boldest projects of his life: a composer’s cut. The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) We are used to having theatrical cuts and director’s are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each cuts, but nobody ever dared to conceive a movie other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard version following the musician’s point of view. A new where a Confederate treasure is buried, while the Man With No Name learns the identity of the score for a cult classic, realized through renewed exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Sentenza (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the skill and mastery with 35 years of added proficiency. desperadoes knowing part of the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty. Performed by the Frizzi 2 Fulci band, the seven top performers of the Maestro’s F2F band. HOWARDS END 25th Anniversary (James Ivory, 1991, 142 mins, DCP) New 4K Restoration! October 7-13 One of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic 1910 novel is a saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England. Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson in an Oscar-winning performance) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham S October 15 peci Carter) become involved with a wealthy, conservative industrialist Ev ent al (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Their interwoven fates and misfortunes are connected to the ownership Music Box of Horrors of Howards End, a beloved country home. A compelling, brilliantly acted study of one woman’s struggle to maintain her ideals and Noon Saturday to Noon Sunday integrity in the face of society’s moribund conformist values. For one 24-hour period every October the Music THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS Box welcomes fearless moviegoers as it transforms 50th Anniversary into…the Music Box of Horrors. The 2016 Music Box (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 123 mins, DCP) “BRILLIANT! of Horrors is an unrelenting 24 hours of scares and UNFORGETTABLE!” chills, featuring some of the most frightening and October 14-20 –Chicago Tribune entertaining horror films around! October 7, 1957. An old Algerian nationalist, This year’s marathon includes POPCORN, DOCTOR under torture, reveals to Colonel Mathieu the BUTCHER (Zombie Holocaust), HALLOWEEN III: hiding place of the last surviving guerrilla leader, SEASON OF THE WITCH, EYES OF FIRE (newly Ali La Pointe. Mathieu’s paratroops surround the re-discovered), ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET house in the Casbah, ready to blow it up unless Ali surrenders. FRANKENSTEIN, EYE OF THE CAT, and From the pensive faces of the four freedom fighters within, we more! All films will be presented on flash back to November 1, 1954, when a message from the National 35mm, and HALLOWEEN III will Liberation Front had launched The Battle of Algiers. A history of be projected from an archival the three-year battle ensues, chronicling the escalating terrorism 16mm print. and violence between French military forces and the Algerian 12th guerrilla movement. Based on the book Souvenirs de la Bataille Full line-up, special guests, and D’Alger by Saadi Yacef. Restored by Cinteca di Bologna and Anniversary more will be announced soon Istituto Luce - Cinecittà at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in collaboration with Surf Film, Casbah at MusicBoxTheatre.com. Entertainment Inc. and CultFilms.

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Oscar-Winning Comedies

• O • In the 88-year history of the Academy Awards, P K E E N E only a handful of times has Best Picture been 7 DAYS A W awarded to a comedy. Come laugh along with a selection of the comedy classics that beat the Oscars’ genre bias! DABLON VINEYARDS Winery & Tasting Room August 27 & 28 September 3 & 4

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September 17 & 24 October 1 & 2 On sale now at IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT ANNIE HALL (Frank Capra,1934, 105mins, DCP) (Woody Allen,1977, 93mins, Music Box Theatre 35mm) Ellie (Claudette Colbert) is a spoiled heiress who decides Woody Allen is in prime form to run away from her family. as the neurotic, highly insecure Aiding her is Peter Warne and indecisive New Yorker (Clark Gable), a reporter with Alvy Singer, who falls head THE WORLD’S FIRST FILM a good eye for a juicy story. over heels for a naive small- SCHOOL COMPLETELY Meet the Author In exchange for an exclusive, town “girl” Annie Hall (Diane DEDICATED TO DEVELOPING Peter agrees to escort Ellie to Keaton). Allen’s comic blend of COMEDIC STORYTELLERS. her snobbish beau. But a lot reality and fantasy, paired with Book Signing can happen on a cross-country Keaton’s iconic performance, bus trip! makes it easy to see why we on Sat. Sept. 24 “need the eggs.” FOR MORE INFO VISIT RAMISFILMSCHOOL.COM 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. OR CALL (312) 664-3959 CONTINUING SERIES

MIDNIGHTS Friday & Saturday Midnight Screenings IS IT STILL FUNNY? Chicago film/entertainment writer Mark Caro puts supposedly timeless August 26 & 27 NEON DEMON September 23 THE ROOM comedies to the test and dares ask the question “Is It Still Funny?” (Nicolas Wending Refn, 2016, 118mins, DCP) at 7:30pm & 11pm (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99mins, 35mm) *see Special Events on page XX September 2 & 3 SANTA SANGRE HAROLD AND MAUDE (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989, 123mins) September 24 THE ROCKY HORROR (Hal Ashby, 91 mins, 1971, 35mm) PICTURE SHOW Wednesday, September 7 at 7:30pm (Jim Sharman, 1975, 100mins, 35mm) September 9 & 10 BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE This black comedy about a May-December romance (Sam Liu, 2016, 76mins, DCP) between two social misfits wasn’t a hit upon release, but September 30 POSSESSION now ranks No. 45 on the AFI all-time-comedies list and September 16 THE BLUES BROTHERS & October 1 (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, 124mins, 35mm) No. 4 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of Top 50 Cult Films. & 17 (John Landis, 1980, 133mins, 35mm) October 7 & 8 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Wes Craven, 1984, 124mins, 35mm) (Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 91mins, 1975, 35mm) Wednesday, October 19 at 7:30pm SANTA SANGRE An absurdist take on the legend of King Arthur that for (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989, 123mins) many people is the comedy holy grail. Is it still funny if you’ve never seen it before? Is it still funny if you’ve seen In the 1970s, his legendary films EL TOPO and THE HOLY it 23 times and have memorized every line? What if you’re MOUNTAIN redefined movies as both art and entertainment somewhere in between? while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, vi- sionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: the story of a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to his armless mother, deaf-mute lover, and murder. It is an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness.

BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE (Sam Liu, 2016, 76mins, DCP) **Featuring a pre-show of rare clips, interviews and short films, curated by musician & Music Box projectionist Daniel Knox** Batman (Kevin Conroy) must save Commissioner Gordon (Ray Wise) from the Joker’s (Mark Hamill) twisted quest to drive him insane, in the animated adaptation of one of The Dark Knight’s most famous graphic novels.

POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, 124mins, 35mm) Capturing the energy generated when two people whose lives are so intensely fused are forcibly split, POSSESSION is an emotional nuclear explosion. If all we were given were its operatic performances by leads Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, its impossible-to-describe music by Andrzej Korzynski, and its hyper-kinetical ballet of camera choreography—all delivered with the force of a long-suppressed traumatic memory— then POSSESSION would already be the best film about divorce ever made.

24 Music Box Theatre August-October 2016 MIDNIGCONTINUINGHTS SERIES SILENT CINEMA Field Trips Classic silent films the way they were meant to be seen! Featuring a live musical score Cinema Science with The Field Museum 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! THE KID Join us as we delve into the reality and science behind the silver screen! (Charlie Chaplin, 1921, 53 mins) Saturday, September 10 at Noon Charlie Chaplin stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from Stand By Me the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble Presented with Field Museum marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title expert Alison Paul card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.” (Rob Reiner, 1986, 89 mins, 35mm) DIARY OF A LOST GIRL Tuesday, September 20 at 7:30pm (George Wilhem Pabst, 1929, 112m, 35mm) Thursday, October 13 at 7pm After learning that a boy has been acci- dentally killed near their rural homes, four The second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and Oregon friends decide to find his body, and director G.W. Pabst (Pandora's Box), DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a an unforgettable two-day trek turns into an provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in odyssey of self-discovery. which the naive daughter of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by her father's assistant, only to be disowned and sent to a repressive home for wayward girls. As The Field Museum’s Youth Conservation Action Coordinator, environmental educator Alison Paul has worked in a range of settings in order to support the next generation of environmental leaders. Join her for an evening of learning why it’s so important for kids and adults to spend time outdoors and why Art & Architecture Chicago is one of the best places to do so. in Cinema THE MUMMY Captured exclusively for the cinema, this ground-breaking series brings the world’s greatest Presented with Field Museum works of art, and their environments, to cinemas nationwide. Enjoy unprecedented big screen expert Cassie Pontone access into the lives of renowned artists, their art, and the fabulous museums and galleries (Stephen Sommers, 1999, 125 mins, 35mm) that are not only the custodians of such masterpieces, but works of art in their own right. Saturday, October 29 at Noon An expedition of treasure-seeking explorers Saint Peter’s and the Papal in the Sahara Desert unwittingly set loose the Basilicas of Rome vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest September 17 & 18 at 11:30am who had been sentenced to an eternity as (95 mins) one of the living dead. SAINT PETER’S is a unique film that combines history, spirituality, architecture and art. It takes its cue Cassie Pontone is an Assistant Collections Manager of the Anthropology Collections at The Field Museum. from the Extraordinary Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Cassie works closely with the local Filipino American community to co-curate The Field's collection of Francis, which will see the faithful from all over the over 10,000 objects from the Philippines, connecting living culture to 20th century material objects. THE world pour into Rome to cross the threshold of the MUMMY is Cassie's all time favorite film—it's full of action, humor, historical inaccuracies, and it also Papal Basilicas. The opening of the Holy Doors will provides an excellent opportunity to discuss cultural representation. be a historical moment, drawing the whole world’s attention to Rome’s Papal Basilicas and be the ideal opportunity to tell the story, in spectacular 4K, that will emotionally involve audiences as they witness the magnificence that lies inside the four Basilicas.

26 Music Box Theatre August-October 2016 Midnights 27 CONTINUING SERIES Sound Opinions

A MIGHTY WIND Presented by Sound Opinions at the Movies Wednesday, October 5 at 7pm Rock critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, the hosts of Sound Opinions from WBEZ, host a special screening of Christopher Guest’s hilarious mockumentary look at the folk music scene. Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on a reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son. For the members of The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey, time has not been kind. As the show approaches, apprehension sets in, romances are rekindled and ambitions are permanently deferred. Starring Guest’s regular crew of seasoned improvisors, including Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Catherine O’Hara.

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Richard III colum.edu/cinema Presented by Almeida Live Directed by: Rupert Goold Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave RheA BozzACChi (BA ’12) Director & Writer: vCArd Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm Debut feature (in production); initially developed Collin SChiffli (BA ’09) in Columbia College’s Semester in LA program at Raleigh Studios, Hollywood War-torn England is reeling Director: AnimAls after years of bitter conflict. King Debut feature; winner 2014 SXSW Grand Jury Prize; Writer: Cheat, Cheat, Bang, Bang: short film for Edward is ailing, and as political winner 2014 Chicago Film Critics Association Fulton Market Films Audience Award unrest begins to stir once more, Encore Intern: Fulton Market Films, Chicago; Hutch Parker Entertainment, LA; FilmEngine, LA Presentation! Director: Ghostophobia Edward’s brother Richard— Second feature (in development) vicious in war, despised in peacetime—awaits the opportunity to seize his brother’s crown. Through the malevolent Richard, Shakespeare examines the GARy MiChAel SChultz (BA ’01) Director & Writer: VinCent-n-roxxy all-consuming nature of the desire for power amid a society riddled by conflict. Olivier- RoBeRt-CARniliuS (MfA ’15) Unified Pictures production starring Anton Yelchin winning director Rupert Goold’s (MACBETH, KING CHARLES III) searing new production Director & Writer: JAspA Jenkins and Megalyn Echikunwoke (in production) hones a microscopic focus on the mythology surrounding a monarch whose 2014 Student Academy Award finalist (winner Midwest regional award) Director & Writer: Devil in My Ride (2013) machinations are inextricably woven into the fabric of British history. Multiple award-winner now in wide Video On Director & Writer: Pulse Demand release Thesis short film (in production) Co-Producer: Rudderless (2014) Romeo and Juliet Director & Writer: McTucky Fried High William H. Macy’s feature directing debut starring Billy Comedic animated web series (in production) Cruddup; premiered at 2014 Sundance Film Festival Presented by Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Directed by: Kenneth Branagh, Rob Ashford Starring: Lily James, Richard Madden, Derek Jacobi Monday, October 3 at 7pm The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live cinema season continues with a new vision of Shakespeare’s heartbreaking tale of forbidden love. Branagh and his creative team present a modern passionate version of the classic tragedy. Cinema Art + Science Kenneth Branagh co-directs with Rob Ashford, reuniting with the stars of his celebrated film of CINDERELLA, Richard Madden and Lily James, as Romeo and Juliet. Also featuring Sir Derek Jacobi as Mercutio. ROMEO AND JULIET will be screened in high definition black and white. “Bustling, Energetic and Exuberant” —Time Out “A production pulsating with energy” —The Guardian

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