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Algren
The new feature documentary ALGREN is a journey through the gritty world, brilliant mind, and noble heart of Nelson Algren. Exploding onto the national scene in 1950 after winning the first-ever Natio... READ MORE
Directed by: Michael Caplan
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: Digital
Asia
Asia’s motherhood has always been an ongoing struggle rather than an obvious instinct. Becoming a mother at a very early age has shaped Asia’s relationship with her teenage daughter Vika. De... READ MORE
Directed by: Ruthy Pribar
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: Digital
Cat People (1942)
Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a New York City--based fashion designer who hails from Serbia, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). After the couple gets married, Oliver beco... READ MORE
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Runtime: 73 mins
Format: 35mm
Days
The great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (GOODBYE DRAGON INN) has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Le... READ MORE
Directed by: Tsai Ming-Liang
Runtime: 127 mins
Format: Digital
Dogs
One of the most acclaimed directorial debuts of recent years, and the winner of the coveted FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Bogdan Mirică’s Dogs is th... READ MORE
Directed by: Bogdan Mirică
Runtime: 104 mins
Format: Digital
House of Wax + Waxwork
Friday Night Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder Every generation gets the wax museum horror movie it deserves, and in 2005 horror-loving te... READ MORE
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra (HOUSE OF WAX), Athony Hickox (WAXWORK)
Runtime: 208 mins
Format: Digital
Joy Ride
Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould in Attendance for Post-Film Q&A | Midwest Premiere | Co-presented with Chicago Critics Film Festival Frenemies and veteran comedians Dana Gould and Bobca... READ MORE
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Runtime: 70 mins
Format: DCP
Learning to Live Together
One Show Only In the spring of 1970, Joe Cocker undertook what became the legendary Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, immortalized in a live album and concert film. Fifty years later, first-time... READ MORE
Directed by: Jesse Lauter
Runtime: 111 mins
Format: DCP
The Mummy + Curse of the Undead
Windy City Double Feature Picture Show Presents: Hammer Horror Double Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder This month, Adam and Mike are bringing Wi... READ MORE
Directed by: Terence Fisher (THE MUMMY), Edward Dein (CURSE OF THE UNDEAD)
Runtime: 167 mins
Format: Digital
Music Box of Horrors - Half Marathon
Saturday, October 23rd 11:45pm to Sunday, October 24th 12pmJoin us for a half version of THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS, starting with SINK at 12:15am and THE FACULTY at 12:30am. Admission begins at roughly... READ MORE
Runtime: 90 mins
The Mustangs: America's Wildest Horses
The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses is a feature documentary that is executive produced by Robert Redford, Patti Scialfa Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen.The film features songs by Bruce Springstee... READ MORE
Directed by: Steven Latham, Conrad Stanley
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: Digital
Nadja
Thirsty Thursdays Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder Produced by David Lynch’s longtime collaborator Mary Sweeney and featuring Lynch in a minor r... READ MORE
Directed by: Michael Almereyda
Runtime: 93 mins
Format: Digital
Possession
Opens Friday, October 22nd | New 4K Restoration Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike an... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrzej Zulawski
Runtime: 124 mins
Format: DCP
The Rescue
THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.A... READ MORE
Directed by: E. Chai Vasarhelyi (FREE SOLO), Jimmy Chin (FREE SOLO)
Runtime: 108 mins
Format: DCP
Se7en
Serial Killer Sundays Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder When a killer begins a string of gruesome, fiendishly inventive murders based on the seve... READ MORE
Directed by: David Fincher
Runtime: 127 mins
Format: Digital
Shy People
Presented by Chicago Film Society | CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets Do you love DELIVERANCE but find it too mannered and insufficiently attentive to mother-daughter dynamics? A lyrical c... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Runtime: 118 mins
Format: 35mm
Strangeland
Nü-Metal Mondays Feature | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder Based on the character “Captain Howdy”—also the subject of the 1984 Twisted Sister song “Horro... READ MORE
Directed by: John Pieplow
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: Digital
Titane
TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility.Winner of the Palme d'Or, Cannes 2021... READ MORE
Directed by: Julia Ducournau
Runtime: 104 mins
Format: DCP
Video Brain Blender
Lunchmeat & Strange Tapes Present | A Part of Music Box of Horrors: Dawn of the Drive-In Presented by Shudder A cranium-cracking concoction of VHS era insanity that explores the depths of hom... READ MORE
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: Digital
