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17 Blocks
In 1999, nine-year-old EMMANUEL SANFORD-DURANT and his Washington, D.C. family began to film their daily lives in America's most dangerous neighborhood — just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol buildin... READ MORE
Directed by: Davy Rothbart
Runtime: 126 mins
Format: DCP
76 Days
*** WINNER - AFI FEST Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature ***On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the fr... READ MORE
Directed by: Hao Wu
Runtime: 93 mins
Format: Digital
Another Round
Official Academy Award Submission - Denmark - Best International FilmThere's a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to... READ MORE
Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg
Runtime: 116 mins
Format: Digital
Blizzard of Souls
Official Academy Award Submission - Latvia - Best International FilmBased on true events and the novel by Aleksandrs Grins, which was forbidden in the USSR, the film follows a coming-of-age story of a... READ MORE
Directed by: Dzintars Dreibergs
Runtime: 123 mins
Format: Digital
Dear Comrades!
Official Academy Award Submission - Russia - Best International FilmWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkass... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Runtime: 120 mins
Format: Digital
A Glitch in the Matrix
What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) uses a noted speech from P... READ MORE
Directed by: Rodney Ascher
Runtime: 108 mins
Format: Digital
Identifying Features
Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperat... READ MORE
Directed by: Fernanda Valadez
Runtime: 94 mins
Format: Digital
Lapsis
New York, an alternate present: the quantum computing revolution has begun and investors are lining their pockets in the quantum trading market. Building the network, though, requires miles of infrast... READ MORE
Directed by: Noah Hutton
Runtime: 108 mins
Format: Digital
M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity is the story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher (1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening... READ MORE
Directed by: Robin Lutz
Runtime: 81 mins
Format: Digital
Mandabi
New 4k Restoration! This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream... READ MORE
Directed by: Ousmane Sembene
Runtime: 91 mins
Format: Digital
Mirror
New 4K Restoration!A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Runtime: 106 mins
Format: Digital
Music Box To-Go
Introducing Music Box To-Go, our curbside concessions pickup service! The perfect choice for when you want to bring the Music Box Theatre experience to your home movie nights, every Friday & Satur... READ MORE
My Little Sister
Official Academy Award Submission - Switzerland - Best International FilmLisa, once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin,... READ MORE
Directed by: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Runtime: 99 mins
Format: Digital
Night of the Kings
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE MUSIC BOX'S POLICIES & PROCEDURES IN REGARDS TO COVID-19Opens Friday, February 26th - Tickets Must Be Purchased In AdvanceA young man is sent to “La Maca,” a prison in th... READ MORE
Directed by: Philippe Lacôte
Runtime: 93 mins
Format: DCP
Notturno
Official Academy Award Submission - Italy - Best International FilmFilmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, Notturno captures the everyday life that lies... READ MORE
Directed by: Gianfranco Rosi
Runtime: 100 mins
Format: Digital
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period
Official Academy Award Submission - Hungary - Best International FilmAfter 20 years in the United States, a Hungarian neurosurgeon returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with a fellow doctor sh... READ MORE
Runtime: 95 mins
Format: Digital
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
Near the beginning of Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock’s intimate profile of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Justice becomes visibly moved when a group of high school students present... READ MORE
Directed by: Freida Lee Mock
Runtime: 89 mins
Format: Digital
Sin
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceili... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Runtime: 134 mins
Format: Digital
Test Pattern
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policin... READ MORE
Directed by: Shatara Michelle Ford
Runtime: 82 mins
Format: Digital
True Mothers
Official Academy Award Submission - Japan - Best International FilmAfter a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the... READ MORE
Directed by: Naomi Kawase
Runtime: 140 mins
Format: Digital
Two of Us
Two retired women, Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier), have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbors... READ MORE
Directed by: Filippo Meneghetti
Runtime: 95 mins
Format: Digital
The Vigil
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE MUSIC BOX'S POLICIES & PROCEDURES IN REGARDS TO COVID-19Opens Friday, February 26th - Tickets Must Be Purchased In AdvanceSteeped in ancient Jewish lore and demonology, T... READ MORE
Directed by: Keith Thomas
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: DCP
You Will Die at Twenty
Official Academy Award Submission - Sudan - Best International FilmWinner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuo... READ MORE
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Runtime: 102 mins
Format: Digital
