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FILM CALENDAR AUGUST 11 - OCTOBER 12, 2017

LA CONFIDENTIAL 20th Anniversary Opening Night of NOIR CITY: , August 25

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JIMMY STEWART WALKER THE MIDWIFE SIGNATURE MOVE MUSIC BOX WEEKEND MATINEES WITH DIRECTOR STARRING OPENS SEPT 28 OF HORRORS AUG 19-OCT 15 ALEX COX Q&A CATHERINE DENUEVE SATURDAY, OCT 7 FRIDAY, SEPT 8 OPENS SEPT 15 6 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE!

FEATURE FILMS 5 DUNKIRK ON 70MM THROUGH AUGUST 23 6 MENASHE OPENS AUGUST 11 8 ON 35MM OPENS SEPTEMBER 1 9 COLUMBUS OPENS SEPTEMBER 8 12 THE MIDWIFE OPENS SEPTEMBER 15 12 RESERVOIR DOGS OPENS SEPTEMBER 15 Pablo Larraín, Jackie, Neruda , La La Land 14 MANOLO OPENS SEPTEMBER 22 14 RE-ANIMATOR OPENS SEPTEMBER 22 15 SIGNATURE MOVE OPENS SEPTEMBER 28 150 films from 50 15 LUCKY OPENS OCTOBER 6 53rd Chicago countries. 18 COMMENTARY International Meet the directors! SERIES 20 CLASSIC MATINEES See the stars! 22 SILENT CINEMA Film Festival 24 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY 25 IS IT STILL FUNNY? 27 DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES chicagofilmfestival.com Passes now on sale. 28 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN 30 MIDNIGHTS

SPECIAL EVENTS 6 EXTRAORDINARY: STAN LEE AUGUST 22 7 NOIR CITY AUGUST 25-31 8 WALKER WITH ALEX COX SEPTEMBER 8 Save the Date: 9 LABYRINTH QUOTE-ALONG SEPTEMBER 9 10 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 10-14 10 MAY IT LAST: A PORTRAIT OF THE AVETT BROS. SEPTEMBER 12 11 DAVID GILMOUR LIVE AT POMPEII SEPTEMBER 13 October 13 WHO IS ARTHUR CHU? SEPTEMBER 16 13 REELING FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 21 16 FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL OCTOBER 6 12-26, 2017 16 MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS MARATHON OCTOBER 7 © 17 SHORTCUT FILM FESTIVAL OCTOBER 8 17 CINEPOCALYPSE NOVEMBER 2-9

Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 35 ISSUE 145 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2017 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Buck LePard, Senior Operations Manager Stephanie , 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 LA CONFIDENTIAL, coming to Music Box Theatre August 25. See page 7 for more information.

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NOIR CITY CHICAGO AUGUST 25 - 31, 2017 NOIR CITY CHICAGO returns to the Music Box Theatre, with an epically suspenseful series of criminal capers! Presented by the FOUNDATION, MENASHE A gentle human comedy” “The Big Knockover” celebrates the history of the from black-and-white “– Hollywood classics to contemporary masterpieces. DIRECTED BY: Joshua Z. Weinstein Genius. A new way of looking This year’s focus on hold-ups, heists, and schemes gone awry STARRING: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz “at humanity” provides the perfect opportunity to venture beyond the 1940s 82 mins, DCP, In Yiddish with English subtitles –The Huffington Post and ‘50s to show how noir has expanded and transformed Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, over the decades. Opening Night of NOIR CITY CHICAGO will Brooklyn, MENASHE follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his celebrate the 20th anniversary of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997), son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires with author James Ellroy in person! a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, One of the most potent and stylish cop thrillers ever produced in Hollywood. James Ellroy’s epic novel but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. is streamlined into a rough-and-tumble police procedural in which four cops—brilliantly played by Guy Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe Pearce, , and James Cromwell—compete and cooperate to solve the “Nite a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent. Owl Massacre”—which only exposes deeper and deadlier levels of corruption in their ranks. Featuring an Oscar-winning support from Kim Basinger, and masterfully directed by the late . Other highlights include: AUGUST 22 SPECIAL EVENT THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (, 1950, 112 mins, 35mm) The gold standard of the heist film. Wily Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe, Oscar®-nominated) gets sprung from the joint and immediately plans a jewelry store job with a can’t-miss crew of professionals. But there’s no perfect crime—and no perfect criminals, because each man carries the seeds of his own destruction. Featuring a sly, sexy turn that put Marilyn Monroe on the map. BLUE COLLAR (, 1978, 114 mins, 35mm) One of the most politically savvy films of the 1970s. Three autoworkers—, , and Yaphet Kotto—decide to rip off the safe inside their own union office. When the robbery doesn’t go as planned, solidarity is only the first casualty. What starts as a buddy-comedy veers into the heart of American darkness. Pryor gives his finest dramatic performance in this seething, angry film that’s as relevant as ever. EXTRAORDINARY: STAN LEE HIGH SIERRA (Raoul Walsh, 1941, 100 mins, 35mm) Tuesday August 22 at 8pm Humphrey Bogart is memorable in his first romantic antihero role as outlaw Roy In the vein of “This Is Your Life,” EXTRAORDINARY: STAN LEE will be a nostalgic look back at Stan’s life “Mad Dog” Earle, plotting one last heist for unexpectedly sentimental reasons. Ida and influence on fans around the world. The Tribute will play out through themed segments based on Lupino is the hard-as-nails dame who loves him; Joan Leslie is the young girl who points in Stan’s life and career that were momentous on himself, others and the industry as a whole. could redeem him. Walsh directs this archetypal set-up Chris Hardwick will host, and other special guests include: Tom Bergeron, Channing Tatum, Lou Ferrigno, with his patented cinematic brio, bristling with dynamic James Gunn, Todd McFarlane, Stephen Moyer, , Michael Rooker, Andy Signore and Screen action. Remade multiple times, but this is the timeless classic. Junkies/Honest Trailers, , NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren. For the Full Lineup, Showtimes & Advance Tickets, visit MusicBoxTheatre.com Streamed live from The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA NOIR CITY CHICAGO is sponsored in part by TCM’s NOIR ALLEY.

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Opening Weekend— Limited Director in Engagement person! In 35mm!

COLUMBUS REMARKABLE. Cho has never “ been better and Richardson is a revelation” DIRECTED BY: Kogonada –RogerEbert.com BABY DRIVER One of the most entertaining STARRING: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey “thrill rides of this year, this 100 mins, DCP VISIONARY. Few films glow as decade, this century.” brightly with the gemlike fire DIRECTED BY: “ –Richard Roeper, When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a of precocious genius.” STARRING: Ansel Elgort, , Kevin Spacey, , Jon Hamm Chicago Sun-Times speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana— –The New Yorker 112 mins, 35mm a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist From Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) comes the best reviewed blockbuster of 2017, buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local the action-packed, music-infused BABY DRIVER, presented in 35mm! library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin’s estranged relationship with his father, and Casey’s reluctance to leave Columbus and her mother. A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch With its naturalistic rhythms and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada’s his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss COLUMBUS unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation, and a showcase for its director’s (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom. striking eye for the way physical space can affect emotions.

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Bags! Director Alex Cox in Costumes person! LABYRINTH QUOTE-ALONG Encouraged! WALKER: 30TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEPAUL UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS Saturday, September 9 at 2pm & 7pm LABYRINTH captivated a generation with its story of a girl (a very teenage Jennifer Connelly) who sets Friday, September 8 at 7:15pm out to save her baby brother from the clutches of the beguiling Jareth the Goblin King (a deliciously glam David Bowie), its infectious music, and tons of Henson’s fabulous creations. Now, Alamo A neo- biopic about William Walker, an American Drafthouse and Birth.Movies.Death. present the LABYRINTH QUOTE-ALONG, an unforgettable mercenary who made himself president of in 1856. interactive celebration that’ll have you singing, quoting, and dance (magic) dancing all night long. With Walker is almost unknown today, but at the time he was wildly popular, and U.S. newspapers wrote animated subtitles on screen for all best lines of dialog and every song lyric, so the whole theater can about him more than they did about the sitting U.S. presidents during that period. belt along with Bowie. Alex Cox was born outside , in 1954. Studied at Oxford, Bristol, and UCLA. Director and writer Plus, your ticket includes a prop bag packed with magic goodies to bring the action vividly to life. of various films, including REPO MAN, STRAIGHT TO HELL, and TOMBSTONE . Honorary Oh, costumes are very much encouraged. Channel your inner Sarah or Hoggle, and of course there can citizen of Tucson, AZ. never be too many Jareths.

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SEPTEMBER 10-14 SPECIAL SEPTEMBER 13 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT

One Night Only!

DAVID GILMOUR LIVE AT POMPEII Extraordinary” “– Wednesday, September 13 at 7pm Momentous” “– 125 mins, DCP 45 years after Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour filmed LIVE AT POMPEII in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows, part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album “Rattle That Lock.” The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre, and, for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD. DAVID GILMOUR LIVE AT POMPEII is a all-encompassing visual spectacle, but paramount above all is the astonishing music from an all-star band. The show includes songs from throughout David’s career, including many Pink Floyd classics.

SEPTEMBER 12 SPECIAL EVENT

MAY IT LAST: A PORTRAIT OF THE AVETT BROTHERS One Night Only! Tuesday, September 12 at 7pm & 9:30pm 104 mins, DCP Filmed with extraordinary access over more than two years, MAY IT LAST: A PORTRAIT OF THE AVETT BROTHERS is a deeply intimate and revealing look at the Grammy Award-nominated band fronted by Seth and Scott Avett. Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio chart the Avett Brothers’ decade-and-a-half rise, while chronicling their 2016 collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin on the critically-acclaimed album “True Sadness,” released on American Recordings/Republic Records. Using the recording process as a backdrop, the film depicts a lifelong creative partnership put to the test as band members undergo marriage, divorce, parenthood, illness, and the challenges of the music business. More than just a concert documentary, MAY IT LAST is a meditation on family, love, and the passage of time.

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THE MIDWIFE Catherine Deneuve is in one of “ her best roles of her career.” –IndieWire DIRECTED BY: Martin Provost Director STARRING: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet A stellar cast with terrific WHO IS ARTHUR CHU? 117 mins, DCP, In French with English subtitles “performances…a crowd-pleaser!” Q&A! – Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Saturday, September 16 at 2pm Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, Arthur Chu hacked JEOPARDY! and won big. Now he’s using his newfound celebrity to battle dark forces free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two on the internet as a blogger and cultural pundit. Raw, unfiltered and poignant, we follow Arthur as he come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together realizes he can only create positive change in the world if he first heals his own wounds by reconciling in this sharp character study from the César-award-winning director Martin Provost (SÉRAPHINE). with his estranged family.

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RESERVOIR DOGS: 25TH ANNIVERSARY New 35mm Print! DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi 1992, 99 mins, 35mm Six criminals, perfect strangers to one another, are hired by a crime boss to carry out a diamond robbery. Assigned false names and told to focus on the job, they are confident that the job is going to be a success. But when the police show up at the right place and the right time, panic spreads amongst the group and their simple heist explodes into a bloody ambush. When the remaining members of the crew assemble at the arranged rendezvous point, they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop. But which one?

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Special Preview September 28 with Shabana Azmi in attendance

SIGNATURE MOVE One of the 50 Most Anticipated “American Films of 2017” MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE –Filmmaker Magazine DIRECTED BY: Jennifer Reeder SHOES FOR LIZARDS STARRING: Fawzia Mirza, Shabana Azmi, Sari Sanchez, Charin Alvarez, Audrey Francis 80 mins, DCP OPENING NIGHT The debut feature from Newcity’s Chicago Film Project and Full Spectrum Features, DIRECTED BY: Michael Roberts Cast and Crew in set in Chicago with a Chicago-based cast and crew. 89 mins, DCP Attendance In this hilarious and heartfelt look at modern families and the complexities of love in An in-depth portrait of the man who is regarded as a genius by some of the most revered figures in its many forms, Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, fashion; A behind-the-scenes peek into his world; And a must see for any person who has ever looked lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma (Sari Sanchez), a confident longingly at a pair of his shoes—famously known on a first name basis as “Manolos.” Mexican-American woman. Zaynab’s recently widowed mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi) has moved The film features a “who’s who” list of some of the most notable figures in the fashion and in and spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas while searching for a potential husband for her entertainment worlds including Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley, Paloma Picasso, Candace Bushnell, only daughter. Alma’s mother, Rosa (Charin Alvarez), is a former professional Luchadora which Zaynab Charlotte Olympia, Iman, Jamie Prieto, Rihanna, Naomi Campbell, David Bailey, Isaac Mizrahi, Joan finds fascinating as she has recently taken up lucha-style wrestling training with a former pro wrestler, Burnstein, Mary Beard, Colin McDowell, Penelope Tree, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, , Jayde. Zaynab tries to keep both her love life and her wrestling a secret from her Muslim mother, who Karlie Kloss and, of course, Manolo Blahnik himself. knows more than she lets on.

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READ STEVE PROKOPY’S LUCKY COMMENTARY ON PAGE 18 New 4K [A] rare portrait of mortality RE-ANIMATOR “that’s both fun and full of life.” Restoration! –Indiewire DIRECTED BY: John Carroll Lynch DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , , Ron Livingston An unassumingly wonderful STARRING: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton 88 mins, DCP “ little film about nothing in 1985, 105 mins, DCP particular and everything LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the that’s important.” Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a new Miskatonic University student who also moonlights as a mad quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having –Variety scientist, intent on perfecting a serum that “re-animates” corpses. Soon, everyone wants a piece of out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely the action, including an evil professor and his army of slime-covered deadites. independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading toward that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna’s joint debut, this epochal and awe-inspiring amalgam of and REVENGE OF THE NERDS is a hyperactive dose of gruesome Acclaimed character John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, LUCKY, is at once a love letter to insanity beloved by horror audiences all over the world. With berserker theatrics and career-defining the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality roles from horror icons Combs and Barbara Crampton, RE-ANIMATOR is a masterpiece of its genre. and human connection.

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OCTOBER 6 SPECIAL EVENT

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL: VOLUME 8

Friday, October 6 at 7pm & 9:30pm Joe Pickett (THE ONION) and Nick Prueher (LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN) are back with an all-new edition of the Found Footage Festival, featuring newly unearthed VHS gems found at thrift stores across the country. Highlights include: –– A collection of satanic panic videos from the ‘80s, including “The Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults” –– Outtakes and on-air bloopers from twenty years of North Dakota local news –– A star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell –– Highlights from David Letterman’s Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired

OCTOBER 7 SPECIAL NOVEMBER 2-9 SPECIAL SPECIAL EVENT EVENT EVENT MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS 24 Hour Horror Movie Marathon Saturday, October 7 at Noon Join us for this year’s incarnation of the MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS as we swiftly descend into madness through the exploits of zombified police run-ins and adolescent lycanthropy, dizzying dives into the wicked seductions of the occult, uber- degradation of the otherwise-sane mind- scape, nunsploitation in a water-locked covenant, and oh-so much more. November 2-9 Prepare This year, the Music Box of Horrors is delighted to Since 2014, Bruce Campbell’s Festival, the Midwest’s largest cinematic yourself, bring you John Carpenter’s underseen brain-melter IN THE horror gathering, has terrorized audiences with an annual slate of premiere films, Chicago! MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994), featuring a POSSESSION- guests, and bloodcurdling entertainment. In just three short years, the festival worthy turn from ; an ultra-rare screening, from played host to the likes of: John Carpenter, Fede Alvarez, Eli Roth, Christopher Lloyd, the only surviving print (16mm!), of Rusty Cundieff’s Fred Dekker, , Barbara Crampton, , , comedian funeral-director omnibus TALES FROM THE HOOD Doug Benson, and many more talented filmmakers from around the globe. (1995); and a crash-landing in the tundra of Finland for a pitch-black, comedic take on the Santa Claus mythology Josh Goldbloom (BCHFF) & Ryan Oestreich (Music Box Theatre) present CINEPOCALYPSE, a full with RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE (2010). week of ass-kicking genre movies, launching November 2-9, 2017. Within the confines of the historic theater, fans of BCHFF & Music Box’s programming can expect an unrivaled Chicago offering of More information on films, guests, vendors and tickets bloody international terror, world & regional premieres, repertory cinema, special guests, parties, can be found at musicboxtheatre.com and more.

16 Music Box Theatre August-October 2017 Features and Special Events 17 LUCKY OPENS ON OCTOBER 6. COMMENTARY SEE PAGE 15 FOR DETAILS. care about. Were those people who made themselves available whenever you needed? Without a doubt, everybody showed up for Harry Dean. And that was not just the people you saw on the screen. That was from the DP, Tim Suhrstedt, who I’ve worked with before as an actor. I knew him, I liked him, I love his work. Ira Steven Behr, one of the producers, knows him, and that’s how he got the script, but he showed up for Harry Dean, and that was true for every single person, honestly all the way down to one of the set dressers came from Richmond, Virginia, to work on this movie because he loves Harry Dean. It was all about him. Is Harry Dean a guy you can direct easily? Oh, he’s direct-able. He just doesn’t like to be directed. I don’t blame him. He’s 90-years-old. TALES FROM THE OUTSKIRTS He knows what he’s doing. But also, what was beautiful about this movie is he distrusts the John Carroll Lynch Discusses LUCKY word “acting.” He doesn’t really believe he’s By Steve “Capone” Prokopy acting anymore. He is. He’s forgotten more about acting than most of us ever knew. But you really have to earn it, and rightly so. He’s a master, and you don’t go in there without having a reason, Character actor John Carroll Lynch (FARGO, ZODIAC, GRAN TORINO) sits down with Steve and there were several times in the course of the thing that I had to go in there and go “I’ve really Prokopy to talk about Lynch’s directorial debut LUCKY. got to make sure he understands this is where we are, this is where we are headed.” Sometimes This film is not only about an older man, but it also feels like a film made by a seasoned he was right, sometimes he was wrong, and we worked it out. filmmaker. It feels like a film you build up to rather than debut with. The scene with him and Tom Skerritt is one of my favorites. I hope people appreciate that [Laughs] I guess when you do your first movie at 53, you really should dive in and get started. ALIEN reunion. Why was this the story that you wanted to be your first as a director? They haven’t worked together since then. Yeah, things happen, so you go with what the flow is going with, but this movie to me became In addition to just capturing his essence in this character, there are bigger things going on. important because it’s a story about a person who lives on the edge of the town of mortality. This character has this daily routine that he does, which you show us at the beginning, and I mean that literally. He’s on the outskirts of the town we all live in. Like anybody, he’s going then he starts to break routine and that’s when life creeps in. We all have our routines, but to hear the tremors first and then the rest of us have to maybe deal with it too. I have a lot of it’s when we stray from the routine that things suddenly get interesting. personal stuff tied to this, like my dad is 86—four years behind Harry Dean, at least one president Yeah, and he strays from routine, because he’s forced to. There’s a moment that he has a fall. behind Harry, although it was FDR, so it really doesn’t matter. I don’t know about you, but every time I see an adult fall, it’s terrifying. And he has a fall in the I’ll say it in the clearest way I can. No one would watch a soccer game without a time limit. It movie, and the fall’s effect is not physical, but it shakes him and it makes him look at his routine. would be a terrible game. The thing that makes it real, the thing that makes it exciting, is the One of the things I loved about the script is, it’s not a thing that happens when he says, “I’ve got clock, and the thing that makes soccer exciting for those who love it is also penalty time, when to go find my long-lost daughter, now.” Or, “I’ve got to jump from a plane or rob a bank.” There you don’t quite know when the game’s going to end. That’s what interested me about this movie, are good movies on all those subjects. It’s about how he goes back to his life with a different and about this story. Lucky is a man who, by all rights, has thought about mortality before. perspective, which is what I think most of us do. Certainly he did in WWII, and he did when he was 13, but he’s in penalty time, so thoughts are As much as he is a man on the outskirts, he also has this little family of people he sees every different, and he’s certain he doesn’t have any backup. He’s certain he doesn’t have any god to day who look after him. lean on, and how do I come to terms with my mortality with no proof anything happens later? That’s what really attracted me about the script. But he’s not aware of that. Was it written for him? Right, he’s cultivated this family just by being around them every day. It was tailor made. Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja, the writers, they did a beautiful job of Yes, that’s right. In essence, somebody plants a garden—and the cactus is a big image in the encapsulating Harry’s being, Harry’s life. Not only in terms of the work he does, because they movie—and there’s a cactus that’s been growing there, and there are a bunch of other things that wrote a script that fits his sensibilities and what he brings to a movie perfectly, but they just used grow in the shade and they’re all around each other and they co-exist, and they actually support so much of what they knew about his life in the movie. It’s not biographical, but it’s in essence a each other, but they may not necessarily know it. fictionalization of his life in a five-day period. Steve Prokopy is the Chicago Editor for Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), where They used things from his life including some of his old friends. David Lynch is amazing here, he has contributed film reviews and filmmaker & actor interviews under the name “Capone” and it’s not some throwaway comic cameo; it’s like a legit character that you really grow to since 1998. He is also chief film critic for the Chicago-based arts outlet Third Coast Review (www.ThirdCoastReview.com). 18 Music Box Theatre August-October 2017 Commentary 19 CONTINUING SERIES

CLASSIC MATINEES September 16 SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS AT 11:30am : FIEVEL GOES WEST JIMMY THROUGH THE YEARS (Phil Nibbelink & Simon Wells, 1991, 75 mins, 35mm) The Music Box celebrates the rich and varied career of one of our favorite This sequel to the 1986 animated classic finds the Hollywood stars, Jimmy Stewart! titular mouse and his family traveling west to escape the threat of cats. With the help of some old friends August 19 & 20 and new (including Jimmy Stewart as Wylie in his last ever film role), the Mousekewitz’s hope to find peace HARVEY and prosperity. Featuring the voice talents of John (Henry Koster, 1950, 104 mins, 35mm) Cleese, Dom DeLuise, and Amy Irving. Voted AFI’s #7 of all time. Elwood P. Dodd (Jimmy Stewart) is a jovial yet eccentric man September 23 & 24 whose best friend just so happens to be a 6’ 3½” tall imaginary rabbit named Harvey. Whimsy, folly, and MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON unexpected love follow as Elwood proves wiser (Frank Capra, 1939, 129 mins, 35mm) than his family ever thought. The idealistic and naive Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) is appointed Senator of an unnamed August 26 & 27 western state by its governor. With aspirations to set up a scout camp for his hometown Boy Rangers, THE MORTAL STORM Jefferson soon faces staunch opposition and must (Frank Borzage, 1940, 100 mins, 35mm) learn to stand up to the daunting political corruption all around him. James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan attempt to flee Germany as the Nazi takeover begins to tear their lives apart. A stunning from Frank Borzage September 30 & October 1 and one of the most devastating war pictures ever made, THE MORTAL STORM is one of only a handful THE STORY of unambiguously anti-Nazi movies made before the (George Cukor, 1940, 112 mins, 35mm) United States entry into WWII. One of the greatest love triangles ever depicted on film and featuring three of Classic Hollywood’s September 2 & 3 biggest names (Cary Grant, , Jimmy Stewart), THE PHILADELPHIA STORY finds a wealthy THE MAN WHO SHOT socialite (Hepburn)’s wedding plans complicated thanks to the concurrent appearances of her ex- LIBERTY VALANCE husband (Grant) and a tabloid reporter (Stewart). (, 1962, 123 mins, 35mm) Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns to the town of Shinbone October 14 & 15 for the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) and recounts the decades-old REAR WINDOW shooting of outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee (, 1954, 112 mins, 35mm) Marvin) to two local reporters. John A beautiful exploration of mise-en-scène, REAR Ford’s only feature in the ’60s shot in WINDOW stars Jimmy Stewart as wheelchair bound , THE MAN WHO SHOT photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies. He starts using LIBERTY VALANCE is a film of shadows his telephoto lens to spy on his neighbors until and light, and more or less the last word one night he believes he witnesses a murder and is on the classic American Western without determined to solve the mystery with the help of being a caricature of it. his friends and trusty camera.

20 Music Box Theatre August-October 2017 Matinees 21 CONTINUINGCONTINUING SERIES SERIES Music Box Member SILENT CINEMA Becoming a member at the Music Box is a great way to 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. support the quality programming at the independently owned and operated historic movie theatre, lounge WHAT PRICE and garden. This includes our holiday classics, talk GLORY (Raoul Walsh, 1926, backs, film festivals, visits from directors, producers, 116 mins, 35mm) and , as well as our regular midnight, matinee, Saturday, September 9 at 11:30am and feature presentations. Released a year after the very successful THE BIG PARADE, WHAT PRICE GLORY is Walsh’s first high-caliber and it’s camouflaged join today beneath the same antiwar sentiment as the former. • Discounted tickets • Restaurant discounts Unusually gritty battle scenes wallow in the muck of • Members-only screenings • Deals on Music Box Films DVD’s trenches even Kubrick would be proud of. But the real terrain to be taken is that of masculine rivalry. In roles they would reprise • Bottomless popcorn three times, Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe begin as suitors to the very suitable Dolores Del Rio, • Advanced purchase for until the dreary realities of war arrive. Adapted from a notably bawdy play, lip-readers had a field day as McLaglen and Lowe dropped some profane bombshells. (description: Pacific Film Archive) special screenings • Discounted house wines Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA register online (Rupert Julian, 1925, 93 mins, 35mm) at musicboxtheatre.com Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30pm or visit our box office! Based on the 1910 novel of the same name, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is the role was born to play, with a face made so grotesque and emaciated that audiences who saw the film as children on its original release remembered the film in terror for decades. “It creates beneath the opera one of the most grotesque places in the cinema, and Chaney’s performance transforms an absurd character into a haunting one.” —

22 Music Box Theatre August-October 2017 CONTINUING SERIES THE CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS IS IT STILL FUNNY? The Chicago Film Society hosts monthly presentations featuring classic films, underseen Chicago film/entertainment writer Mark Caro puts supposedly timeless rarities, cult movies, short subjects, trailer reels and comedies to the test and dares ask the question “Is It Still Funny?” more, all on glorious celluloid. For more information, visit www.chicagofilmsociety.org. RICHARD PRYOR: SÉRIE NOIRE LIVE IN CONCERT Monday, September 4 at 7pm (Jeff Margolis, 1979, 78 mins, 35mm) (Alain Corneau, 1979, 111 min, 35mm) Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30pm In French with English subtitles In revisiting the towering stand-up What do you get when French avant-garde comedy talent of the 20th century, novelist Georges Perec adapts a work of do you look to his most successful red‑blooded American crime literature like Hollywood efforts, such as SILVER Jim Thompson’s A Hell of a Woman? From STREAK or STIR CRAZY, or do you one angle Alain Corneau’s SÉRIE NOIRE, go with the unfiltered Richard Pryor named for an infamous series of French at the peak of his powers in LIVE IN paperback pulps, is simply an exemplary CONCERT? We opted for the latter neo-noir, but that’s almost too timid—with its archetypally spare characters cruising through a (at least this time). Showcasing his brutalist concrete landscape, this movie is proudly post-noir, post-punk, post-everything. Patrick astounding verbal and physical skills, Dewære stars as hapless door-to-door salesman Frank Poupart, just the type of schmuck to be drawn Pryor takes on sex, drugs, heart attacks into a murder plot by an old widow’s mute niece (Marie Trintignant). “Without a second thought,” and deer hunting in what Pauline Kael deemed “probably the greatest of all recorded-performance writes Pacific Film Archive curator emeritus Steve Seid, “you buy his worn-out, deranged lowlife films.” Rolling Stone ranked it No. 1 among its 25 Best Stand-Up Specials and Movies, and it prompted toying with oblivion.” to write: “This is what every comic is striving for, and we all fall very short.” This is a rare IMPORTED 35MM PRINT FROM INSTITUT FRANÇAIS opportunity to catch this pioneering comedy on the big screen.

SMITHEREENS AFTER HOURS Monday, October 9 at 7pm (, 1985, 97 mins, 35mm) (Susan Seidelman, 1982, 89 min, 35mm) Tuesday, October 17 at 7:30pm Susan Seidelman’s feature film debut Griffin Dunne’s word processor SMITHEREENS is the meaner, younger sister (quaint!) visits Rosanna Arquette’s of her cult classic DESPERATELY SEEKING Henry Miller-loving mystery woman SUSAN. Released 3 years prior and funded in Soho and experiences the longest, in part by the money her grandmother most nightmarish night of his life in left her for her “future wedding,” it was this Martin Scorsese . shot without permits on the streets of The movie is unlike anything else on Koch-era (sorry Grandma) this master filmmaker’s resume: a brisk and went on to become the first American (a mere 97 minutes), dark New York independent feature selected to compete at Cannes. Susan Berman stars as Wren, a New Jersey story that tapped into ‘80s yuppie/ro- runaway who heads to NYC seeking fame in the punk scene, and whose limited talents include mance paranoia a year before Jonathan pasting Xeroxed self portraits of herself around town, and pinballing back and forth between sweet Demme’s SOMETHING WILD explored (but decidedly NOT punk) Brad Rinn, and sexy (real life punk icon) Richard Hell. With a soundtrack thematically similar ground. And how about that supporting cast: Verna Bloom, Linda Fiorentino, soaked in the Feelies, ESG, and the Voidoids and screening in a newly struck 35mm print, this is the Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard and Cheech & Chong. AFTER HOURS fared better with New Wave your horrible teenage self should have shoplifted from the video store. critics than at the box office but now is regarded as a cult classic and is ready for its “Is It Still Funny?” close-up—in glorious 35MM.

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H EST TC AT DECONSTRUCTING A E B W THE BEATLES L I L N Composer/producer/Beatles expert Scott Freiman takes fans young and A E old into the studio with The Beatles, looking at the enduring and influential M R albums produced by The Fab Four. S Y

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SGT. PEPPER’S REVOLVER LONELY HEARTS Tuesday, October 10 CLUB BAND at 7:00pm Saturday, September 9 95 mins, DCP at 4:30pm In many music polls, Revolver is rated the top 95 mins, DCP album of all time. The 1966 album launched DABLON a period of studio experimentation for The The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Beatles that coincided with their decision to Band is one of the most influential albums of stop performing live. With memorable songs, our time. Rolling Stone described it as “the such as “Eleanor Rigby,” “Yellow Submarine,” most important rock & roll album ever made, and “Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles VINEYARDS an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, pushed popular music to a place it had never songwriting, cover art and studio technology been before. by the greatest rock & roll group of all time.” Mr. Freiman explores the groundbreaking Winery & Tasting Room Mr. Freiman looks at Sgt. Pepper from multiple production techniques that went into creating angles, conducting an educational journey this landmark piece of music history. In addition into the creative process of The Beatles’ to many of the tracks from Revolver, Mr. Freiman performances and recording sessions. You are will also explore the creation of two other guaranteed to leave amazed at The Beatles’ songs recorded during the same time period, innovation in the studio and have a newfound “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.” 111 W. Shawnee Rd. • Baroda, MI • 49101 appreciation for the talents of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr. • 26 Music 269-422-2846Box Theatre June-August 2017 DABLON.COM 27 CONTINUING SERIES FROM STAGE TO SCREEN The Music Box proudly presents the greatest filmed theatrical productions from around the world!

ANGELS IN AMERICA A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES PRESENTED BY Directed by: Marianne Elliott

PART ONE: “ “An absolute drop- MILLENNIUM APPROACHES dead masterwork” Sunday, September 10 at Noon A searing performance – Richard Brody, New Yorker PART TWO: from Cynthia Nixon” PERESTROIKA – Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent Sunday, September 17 at Noon

America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Oscar-nominee (, ) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including (PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS), (THE PRODUCERS), James McArdle (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) and (THE PASS). This new staging of ’s multi-award- winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and Tony award-winning director Marianne Elliott (THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME and WAR HORSE). PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES was first performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was followed by PART TWO: PERESTROIKA the following year.

“««««« A start-to-finish sensation. The performances and the plays absolutely fly.” – “««««« An exhilarating long day’s journey into flight. Andrew Garfield is spectacular.” BUY YOUR COPY TODAY AT THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE –Sunday Times “««««« A true theatrical epic.” –Evening Standard @musicboxfi lms 28 Music Box Theatre August-October 2017 musicboxfi lms.com 29 CONTINUING SERIES FILM CENTER in THE MIDNIGHTS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT MIDNIGHT FROM THE OATH August 11 & 12 THE FIFTH ELEMENT August 26 & THE HORROR LAND OF (Luc Besson, 1997, 126 mins, DCP) September 23 PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman, 1975, 100 mins, 35mm) THE MOON August 18 & 19 DEMOLITION MAN SEPTEMBER 8 - 14 (Marco Brambilla, 1993, 115 mins, DCP) September AUSTIN POWERS: AUGUST 18 - 24 8 & 9 INTERNATIONAL Icelandic Noir by Baltasar Kormákur August 25 & 26 THE LAST HOUSE MAN OF MYSTERY ON DEAD END STREET (Jay Roach, 1997, 89 mins, 35mm) (Roger Watkins, 1977, 78 mins, DCP) 164 N State • siskelfilmcenter.org Presented by The Front Row September HEATHERS 15 & 16 (Michael Lehman, 1988, 103 mins, DCP) August 25 & THE ROOM September 22 (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35mm) September CANDYMAN 29 & 30 (Bernard Rose, 1992, 99 mins, 35mm) Presented by The Front Row

THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET Presented by The Front Row (Roger Watkins, 1977, 78 mins, DCP) Nicholas Ray protege and desperate amphetamine addict Roger Watkins’ debut feature as a director is perhaps the most polarizing film produced during the ‘70s heyday of American exploitation cinema. Mirroring the film’s production, Watkins plays a pornographer recently released from prison out to shoot a low-rent snuff epic with his acne-scarred, Manson family inspired gang of miscreants. Sold to an organized crime syndicate years after its production and shorn of its original title (THE CUCKOO CLOCKS OF HELL), THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET has, despite the decimation of original prints and countless substandard video transfers, developed a reputation of being something special, an underground horror film as scummy as it is artful. AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (Jay Roach, 1997, 89 mins, 35mm) Before it reached total pop culture saturation, there was the film that started it all. Made on a thrifty budget of $16.5 million, what initially seemed destined to be a minor cult hit quickly 20th became a worldwide phenomenon. And with good reason: It’s Anniversary! hysterical. Mike Myers gives two instantly iconic performances: Austin Powers, the grooviest spy of the swinging ‘60s who is forced to reckon with the politics and cynicism of the ‘90s, and Dr. Evil, his folically-challenged power-hungry nemesis. Taking influence from not only James Bond, but Harry Palmer, The Beatles, Blake Edwards, and BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Which may have contributed to it receiving “Two Thumbs Up” by Siskel & Ebert!), AUSTIN POWERS is an effective time capsule of two bygone eras, the late ‘60s and the late ‘90s. And keep an eye out for a delightfully underplayed cameo from Fisher! CANDYMAN Presented by The Front Row (Bernard Rose, 1992, 99 mins, 35mm) The only Clive Barker adaptation to feature a score by , CANDYMAN’s remarkable craft, as well as its odd mixture of baroque horror and academic camp, set it apart from the vast majority of American horror in the early ‘90s. While researching the connection between a series of murders around the Cabrini-Green housing project and a local myth involving the vengeful spirit of a brutally murdered African-American painter (played with terrifying and tragic grandeur by an impossibly sexy ), Chicago graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) inadvertently awakens the spirit of Todd’s Candyman and sets off a cycle of stomach-churning and beautifully art-directed violence. 25 years on, CANDYMAN remains one of the great horror films of its era, as well as an essential time capsule of Chicago in the late 20th century.

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