Film Calendar October 19 - December 13, 2018
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FILM CALENDAR OCTOBER 19 - DECEMBER 13, 2018 SUSPIRIA Opens November 2 Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607 THE ROCKY HORROR THE FOG THE SOUND OF MUSIC BURNING CHRISTMAS PICTURE SHOW NEW 4K SING-A-LONG OPENS DOUBLE FEATURE & HALLOWEEN EDITION RESTORATION NOVEMBER 23- NOVEMBER 30 SING-A-LONG OCTOBER 26-31 OPENS OCTOBER 26 DECEMBER 2 DECEMBER 7-24 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE! FEATURE FILMS 5 FREE SOLO OPENS OCTOBER 19 5 STUDIO 54 OPENS OCTOBER 19 7 BORDER OPENS OCTOBER 26 8 JOHN CARPENTER’S THE FOG OPENS OCTOBER 26 9 SUSPIRIA OPENS NOVEMBER 2 10 SAY HER NAME: SANDRA BLAND OPENS NOVEMBER 9 11 MARIA BY CALLAS OPENS NOVEMBER 16 17 BURNING OPENS NOVEMBER 30 22 COMMENTARY SERIES 24 CLASSIC MATINEES 26 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY 27 SILENT CINEMA 28 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN BRING YOUR FILMS TO THE PARKS 30 MIDNIGHTS ACCEPTING LOCALLY-PRODUCED & SPECIAL EVENTS 6 THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN OCTOBER 21 CHICAGO-FOCUSED FILM SUBMISSIONS 6 EYESLICER HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 23 7 AN EVENING WITH SALLY FIELD OCTOBER 24 8 ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 26-31 OCTOBER 15 - DECEMBER 7 9 CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 1-9 10 ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 11 11 JEFF TWEEDY NOVEMBER 18 12 AGAVE: SPIRIT OF A NATION NOVEMBER 19 12 BREWMASTER NOVEMBER 20 14 SOUND OF MUSIC SING-A-LONG NOV. 23-25, DEC. 1-2 15 SOMM 3 NOVEMBER 27 For five years, the Chicago Park District has brought local films to local 15 HELP INITITIATIVE NOVEMBER 29 parks with the Chicago Onscreen Local Film Showcase. We’ve shown 17 THE ANCIENT LAW DECEMBER 4 18 CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE DECEMBER 7-24 more than 75 films in more than 30 parks across the city, and yours could 20 WILD HONEY DECEMBER 11 21 ALTERNATIVE XMAS DOUBLE FEATURE DEC. 12-13, 19-20 be next. Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 36 ISSUE 152 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2018 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Submit your film at bit.ly/ChicagoOnscreen 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 Kyle Westphal, Programming Associate Cover Image from the film SUSPIRIA, opening Rebecca Lyon, Assistant Technical Director November 2 at Music Box Theatre. This program is presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in THE OF F ICIA L REWARDS the Parks with the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Arts programming in P R OGR A M OF THE CHICAGO neighborhoods across the city advances the goals of the Chicago Park Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com PARK DISTRICT District and the Chicago Cultural Plan. Learn more at: 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office www.ChiParkPoints.com www.nightoutintheparks.com 3 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). FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS Film Studies Center presents OPENS OCTOBER 19 FEATURE A PAGE OF FILM MADNESS Opening Weekend Q&As live score by with Director Alloy Orchestra Jimmy Chin FREE SOLO One of the most arresting “documentaries of the year. See the October 19, 7pm film on as big a screen as possible.’” DIRECTED BY: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin –Vanity Fair 2018, 97 mins, DCP University of Chicago Alex Honnold’s Free Solo climb From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi “should be celebrated as one of Logan Center for the Arts (MERU) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer the great athletic feats of any Jimmy Chin comes FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching kind, ever.” 915 E. 60th St. –The New York Times portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s $10 tickets at most famous rock… the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park… without a rope. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit. OPENS OCTOBER 19 FEATURE FILM ® STUDIO 54 A disco inferno of glamour, “greed, and thumping tunes.” –Sight & Sound DIRECTED BY: Matt Tyrnauer 2018, 98 mins, DCP Thrilling and definitive” –Variety For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the “ place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, tolerance, glitz and glamor, Studio 54 was very hard to gain entrance to and impos- sible to ignore, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily. Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two college friends from Brooklyn, succeeded in creating the ultimate escapist fantasy in the heart of the theater district. Studio 54 was an instant success, but the drug-and-sex-fueled dream soon imploded in financial scandal and the club’s demise. With unprecedented access to Schrager, who tells the whole unvarnished story for the first time, and a treasure-trove of rare foot- age, director Matt Tyrnauer (SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD) constructs a vivid portrait of a disco-era phenomenon. Features and Special Events 5 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OCTOBER 21 SPECIAL OCTOBER 24 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN One Night Only This Event AN EVENING WITH SALLY FIELD is Sold Out Sunday, October 21 at 9:30pm PRESENTED BY THE BOOK STALL (Tabbert Fiiller, 2018, 103 mins, DCP) After the breakup of the Sex Pistols, John Lydon/John Rotten formed Public Image Ltd (PiL)— Wednesday, October 24 at 7pm his groundbreaking band which has lived on nearly 15 times as long as his first one. He kept the Join The Book Stall for an evening with Academy Award and Emmy-winning actor Sally Field, as she band alive ever since, through personnel and stylistic changes, fighting to constantly reinvent new discusses her new book, In Pieces, an intimate, haunting literary memoir. With raw honesty and the ways of approaching music, while adhering to radical ideals of artistic integrity. John Lydon has fresh, pitch-perfect prose of a natural-born writer, and with all the humility and authenticity her fans not only redefined music, but also the true meaning of originality. have come to expect, Field brings readers behind-the-scenes for not only the highs and lows of her Former and current bandmates, as well as fellow icons like Flea, Ad-Rock and Thurston Moore, add star-studded early career in Hollywood, but deep into the truth of her lifelong testimony to electrifying archival footage (including stills and audio from the infamous Ritz Show). relationships—including her complicated love for her own mother. Powerful With his trademark acerbic wit and unpredictable candor, Lydon offers a behind-the-scenes look and unforgettable, In Pieces is an inspiring and important account of life as a at one of music’s most influential and controversial careers. woman in the second half of the twentieth century. OCTOBER 23 SPECIAL OPENS OCTOBER 26 FEATURE EVENT FILM Academy Award Official Entry - Best Foreign Language Film - Sweden READ STEVE PROKOPY’S COMMENTARY ON PAGE 22 THE EYESLICER HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Tuesday, October 23 at 7pm BORDER An exciting, intelligent mix of Touring punk rock TV show THE EYESLICER has returned with their craziest and most ambitious “romance, Nordic noir, social realism, and supernatural horror that defies episode yet: a feature-length Halloween Special! DIRECTED BY: Ali Abbasi and subverts genre conventions.” STARRING: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff Featuring a dozen segments of spine-tingling surrealist terror, THE EYESLICER HALLOWEEN SPECIAL –Variety 2018, 101 mins, DCP, In Swedish with English subtitles takes viewers on the cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City. Nothing short of breathtaking. From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human “One of the year’s best.” execution to a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself), this is an experience emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a –Screen Anarchy like no other—a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out bold new space in the mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, Midnight movie genre. she is forced to confront hugely disturbing insights about herself and humankind. 6 Music Box Theatre October-December 2018 Features and Special Events 7 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS FEATURE OPENS OCTOBER 26 Nov 1—— Nov 9 FILM Presented by 35th Annual Chicago JOHN CARPENTER’S THE FOG New 4K Facets. International FilmRestoration! Children’ Children's Film Festival s DIRECTED BY: John Carpenter STARRING: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook 1979, 89 mins, DCP A strange, glowing fog rolls over a small coastal town one hundred years after a mysterious shipwreck and when vengeful ghosts go on a killing spree, residents look for answers even as they try to survive. Out of theatrical release for years due to faded, unplayable prints, THE FOG can now be viewed again as it was intended, with the restoration of its breathtaking color cinematography by Dean Cundey (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, BACK TO THE FUTURE, APOLLO 13), who deftly captured both the daylight beauty of the Point Reyes shore and the ghostly goings-on in the dark, eerie night.