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Apollo 13 movie still
May 11

Apollo 13

Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)... Read more

Ron Howard
140 mins
The Ship of Lost Men
May 11

The Ship of Lost Men

A Frenchman who established his directorial renown in New Jersey in 1914 when the infant industry was still working out the grammar of feature-length... Read more

Maurice Tourneur
122 mins
mother!
May 12

Mother!

Two years after the final Hunger Games film, Jennifer Lawrence starred in Darren Aronofsky’s mother! The writer/director released Noah three and a hal... Read more

Darren Aronofsky
121 mins
Roman Holiday
May 12

Roman Holiday

This Mother’s Day, take the woman who gave you everything on a Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck!The Music Box Theatre is pleased to... Read more

William Wyler
118 mins
The Bridges of Madison County
May 13

The Bridges of Madison County + Gloria

In the world of being a mom, little is ever discussed about the inner machinations or secret desires of being a matriarch. Whether that's harboring a... Read more

248 mins
Dawn of the Dead
May 14

Dawn of the Dead

Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more

George A. Romero
127 mins
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May 15

Relative

David and Karen Frank are retirement-age progressive activists and parents who have lived in the same Victorian home on the north side of Chicago for... Read more

Michael Glover Smith
97 mins
Dawn of the Dead
May 15

Dawn of the Dead 3D

Celebrate the 45th anniversary of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the Music Box Theatre special guest Ken Foree in person. Writer-director George A. Romero ups th... Read more

George A. Romero
127 mins
The Handmaiden
May 16

The Handmaiden

From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sen... Read more

Park Chan-wook
144 mins
Wildcat
Opens May 16

Wildcat

Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothi... Read more

Ethan Hawke
108 mins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Coming May 18

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (El... Read more

Richard Brooks
108 mins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Film Series Opens May 18

Liz & Monty Matinees

“I thought he was the most gorgeous thing in the world and easily one of the best actors.” – Elizabeth TaylorEternally beautiful and mesmerizing perfo... Read more

Hundreds of Beavers
May 18

Hundreds of Beavers

In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness.Can he go from zero to hero, become North America'... Read more

Mike Cheslik
108 mins
Songs of Earth
Coming May 21

Songs of Earth

SONGS OF EARTH is a majestic symphony for the big screen. The filmmaker's father is our guide. Bringing us through Norway's most scenic valley, he gre... Read more

Margreth Olin
91 mins
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May 24

The Room

This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tomm... Read more

Tommy Wiseau
99 mins
From Here to Eternity
Coming May 25

From Here to Eternity

At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift... Read more

Fred Zinnemann
118 mins
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Opens May 25

Stop Making Sense

Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by criti... Read more

Jonathan Demme
88 mins
First Blood
May 26

First Blood

Vietnam veteran and drifter John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into a small Washington town in search of an old friend, but is met with intole... Read more

Ted Kotcheff
93 mins
For Your Consideration
Coming May 27

For Your Consideration

The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star... Read more

Christopher Guest
86 mins
Undivide Us
May 27

Undivide Us

America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to... Read more

Kristi Kendall
120 mins
Garden Movies
Film Series Opens May 27

Music Box Garden Movies

Summer is here and that means one thing: the return of our GARDEN MOVIES! Enjoy an outdoor movie on our Garden Patio, located right behind the Music B... Read more

Park Life
May 28

Park Life

Having both found themselves alone in Chicago one afternoon, a consultant from New York and a writer from Los Angeles strike up a conversation on a pa... Read more

Tyler Haney
80 mins
A Mighty Wind
Coming May 29

A Mighty Wind

In this hilarious backstage mockumentary, three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the deat... Read more

Christopher Guest
91 mins
Solo
Opens May 31

Solo

Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is a rising star in Montreal’s drag scene performing lively disco pop numbers weekly at his local club. Friendly with his fe... Read more

Sophie Dupuis
101 mins
The Misfits
Coming June 1

The Misfits

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable)... Read more

John Huston
124 mins
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
June 1

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

The Angels (Lucy Liu), (Drew Barrymore), (Cameron Diaz) are ready to go undercover to retrieve two missing silver wedding bands containing valuable en... Read more

McG
98 mins
Desperate Living
Coming June 3

Desperate Living

A housewife (Mink Stole) murders her husband, runs away and ends up in a town ruled by an evil queen who wants to infect her kingdom with rabies.

John Waters
90 mins
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June 4

Mommie Dearest

When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Cra... Read more

Frank Perry
129 mins
The Base
Coming June 5

Feel the Base

An evening of original music videos made as part of a collaboration between The Base Chicago and Elmhurst University who teamed up to share their know... Read more

120 mins
Cecil B. Demented
Coming June 5

Cecil B. Demented

An insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force her to star in t... Read more

John Waters
87 mins
Godzilla vs. Music Box
Film Series Opens June 7

Godzilla vs. Music Box

The Music Box is partnering with the Japanese Arts Foundation to throw Godzilla a birthday party June 7 -13, and you're invited! Come celebrate 70 yea... Read more

Shin Godzilla
June 7

Shin Godzilla + Godzilla Minus One

SHIN GODZILLA Synopsis:It’s a peaceful day in Japan when a strange fountain of water erupts in the bay, causing panic to spread among government offic... Read more

245 mins
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Coming June 8

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Godzilla faces off against the benevolent insect monster-god Mothra in this clash of the titans, a crossover battle between two of Toho Studios’ most... Read more

Ishirô Honda
89 mins
Godzilla vs. Megalon
June 8

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Nuclear testing unleashes mayhem on the undersea kingdom of Seatopia, causing a series of environmental disasters that nearly wipes out Rokuro, the sc... Read more

Jun Fukuda
81 mins
Invasion of Astro-Monster movie still
June 8

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Aliens from Planet X make an irresistible offer to the people of Earth: let them borrow Godzilla and Rodan to help defeat King Ghidorah, and in return... Read more

Ishirô Honda
94 mins
Godzilla Raids Again
June 8

Godzilla Raids Again

Toho Studios followed the enormous success of the original Godzilla with this sequel, efficiently directed by Motoyoshi Oda as a straight-ahead monste... Read more

Motoyoshi Oda
82 mins
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Coming June 8

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan, Godzilla vs. Hedorah finds the King of the Monsters fighting an alien life form t... Read more

Yoshimitsu Banno
85 mins
Son of Godzilla
June 8

Son of Godzilla

In director Jun Fukuda’s second Godzilla outing, secret weather-control experiments create a radioactive storm and Godzilla must rescue monster hatchl... Read more

Jun Fukuda
86 mins
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster movie still
Coming June 8

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After laying waste to an alien civilization on Venus, the three-headed, lightning-emitting space monster Ghidorah brings its insatiable thirst for des... Read more

Ishirô Honda
93 mins
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Coming June 8

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Godzilla’s evil twin Mechagodzilla first reared its head in this Jun Fukuda–directed film. A robot designed by aliens to conquer Earth, the enduringly... Read more

Jun Fukuda
84 mins
Godzilla
June 8

Godzilla: The Complete Showa-Era Marathon

Join the Music Box on Saturday, 6/8 for an exclusive 24-hour marathon screening of all 15 Showa-Era Godzilla titles! There will be vendors, exclusive... Read more

1440 mins
King Kong vs. Godzilla
June 8

King Kong vs. Godzilla

King Kong and Godzilla go head-to-head in an epic battle of the beast when the giant gorilla escapes from captivity in Japan and squares up to the rec... Read more

Ishirô Honda, Tom Montgomery
91 mins
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Coming June 8

Godzilla vs. Gigan

An alien invasion prompts a tag-team battle between Godzilla and Anguirus, the planet protectors, and King Ghidorah and the new monster Gigan, a cybor... Read more

Jun Fukuda
89 mins
All Monsters Attack
June 8

All Monsters Attack

Director Ishiro Honda returned again for the first Godzilla movie expressly for children. Economizing by reusing effects shots from other films in the... Read more

Ishirô Honda
69 mins
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Coming June 8

Destroy All Monsters

The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju ext... Read more

Ishirô Honda
89 mins
Terror of Mechagodzilla
June 8

Terror of Mechagodzilla

In Godzilla’s last gasp of the Showa era, aliens retrieve Mechagodzilla’s remains and rebuild it with the aid of an unhinged biologist (a scenery-chew... Read more

Ishirô Honda
83 mins
Godzilla
Coming June 8

Godzilla (1954)

GODZILLA (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time... Read more

Ishirô Honda
96 mins
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
June 8

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

The first Godzilla film directed by Jun Fukuda, who would go on to direct four more, is fast-paced and light in tone, and builds to a riveting race-ag... Read more

Jun Fukuda
87 mins
Godzilla (1998)
June 9

Godzilla (1998)

Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing westward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko... Read more

Roland Emmerich
139 mins
Godzilla 2000
June 9

Godzilla 2000

A self-proclaimed group called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) is actively tracking Godzilla as he makes landfall. Besides trying to study the m... Read more

Takao Okawara
99 mins
Godzilla vs. Biollante
June 10

Godzilla vs. Biollante

Godzilla cells left from his attack in the mid-1980's create a miniature arms race to secure them, involving Japan, US interests and Saradia. Eventual... Read more

Kazuki Ômori
104 mins
The Return of Godzilla
June 10

The Return of Godzilla

Three decades have passed since Godzilla, a monster spawned by postwar H-bomb tests, turned Japan's capital city into a radioactive wasteland. Its wra... Read more

Koji Hashimoto
103 mins
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Coming June 10

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) is the biggest Ramones fan at Vince Lombardi High School, but her plans to liberate her dance-crazy classmates with tickets... Read more

Allan Arkush
93 mins
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah
June 12

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

After nearly half a century of peace, Godzilla is a distant memory for most of Japan. The serenity is broken, though, when a US nuclear submarine is a... Read more

Shûsuke Kaneko
105 mins
Mothra
June 12

Mothra

Following reports of human life on Infant Island, the supposedly deserted site of atomic bomb tests, an international expedition to the heavily-radiat... Read more

Ishirô Honda
101 mins
Dazed and Confused movie still
Coming June 12

Dazed and Confused

This coming-of-age film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenagers in Austin, Texas, celebrating the last day of high school in 1976. The graduati... Read more

Richard Linklater
102 mins
Godzilla (2014)
June 13

Godzilla (2014)

The world's most revered monster is reborn as visionary new director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) unleashes the epic action adventure GODZILLA. Starring... Read more

Gareth Edwards
123 mins
Cruising
Coming June 14

Cruising

A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire... Read more

William Friedkin
102 mins
Ask Any Buddy
Coming June 14

Ask Any Buddy

Featuring fragments from 126 theatrical feature films spanning the years 1968-1986 ASK ANY BUDDY uses rare footage shot at dozens of real bathhouses,... Read more

Elizabeth Purchell
78 mins
Wild River
Coming June 15

Wild River

Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee th... Read more

Elia Kazan
110 mins
Quadrophenia
June 17

Quadrophenia

An angst-ridden London youth, Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels) escapes the drudgery of his postal job as a member of the Mods, a sharply dressed gang const... Read more

Franc Roddam
117 mins
Grey Gardens
Coming June 17

Grey Gardens

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together... Read more

Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles
100 mins
Crossroads
June 18

Crossroads + Morvern Callar

In the annals of pop and film history, 2002 remains a definitive year for the female-led road movie. It almost seems shocking now to realize Tamra Dav... Read more

191 mins
The Birdcage movie still
Coming June 20

The Birdcage

In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) sha... Read more

Mike Nichols
117 mins
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
June 22

Japanese Girls at the Harbor

Best friends Sunako (Michiko Oikawa) and Dora (Yukiko Inoue) attend a Catholic school together in the port city of Yokohama, a bustling gateway to Wes... Read more

Hiroshi Shimizu
77 mins
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
June 23

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail party at the h... Read more

Mike Nichols
132 mins
The Watermelon Woman
June 26

The Watermelon Woman

Cheryl Dunye made cinematic history with The Watermelon Woman, the first American feature to be directed by a black lesbian as well as an incisive, hu... Read more

Cheryl Dunye
85 mins
Repo Man movie still
Coming June 28

Repo Man

After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent name... Read more

Alex Cox
92 mins
Kinds of Kindness
Opens June 28

Kinds of Kindness

A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-a... Read more

Yorgos Lanthimos
165 mins
A Place in the Sun
Coming July 6

A Place in the Sun

In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, i... Read more

George Stevens
122 mins
Free LSD
July 17

Free LSD

The film sees Keith (OFF!’s Keith Morris), an elderly sex shop owner, fall for a younger woman who visits his store looking for a gift. When their rel... Read more

Dimitri Coats
97 mins