The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

His Girl Friday

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milq... Read more

Melanin, Roots, and Culture

Join us for a few of our favorite historic and luminous feature films by artists of the Black-African diaspora on the big screen this February, plus t... Read more

Richard Pryor: Here and Now

Part of: Melanin, Roots, and Culture

This high-voltage concert film shot in New Orleans, features the sensational Richard Pryor in his prime. Doing some of his most innovative material, P... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

His Girl Friday

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milq... Read more

Dinner in America

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band unexpectedly fall in love and go on an epic journey together through America's deca... Read more

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

In the dozen years since the original massacre, countless more people have vanished without a trace and, despite fears from the locals that Leatherfac... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde

Small-time crook Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) tries to steal a car and winds up with its owner's daughter, dissatisfied small-town girl Bonnie Parker... Read more

House of 1000 Corpses

Love him or hate him, Rob Zombie came out of the gate with his gritty, self-consciously tasteless take on the horror genre fully formed. House of 1000... Read more

House

House is at once the most unlikely and the most obvious of Halloween classics. On the one hand, the film was largely unknown outside of Japan until th... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

Bringing Up Baby

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating... Read more

Rocky Horror Picture Show

This notorious horror parody — a fast-paced potpourri of camp, sci-fi and rock ‘n’ roll, among other things — tracks the exploits of naïve couple Brad... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

Bringing Up Baby

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating... Read more

Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

When Italian studios began to produce and distribute Western genre films in the 1960s, many critics quickly dismissed them as ultra-violent, nihilisti... Read more

Django

Part of: Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

With an addictively catchy theme song, this definitive spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE, COMPAÑEROS) made an international star... Read more

Music Box Bingo

On the 1st Thursday of the month (unless noted), join us in the Music Box Lounge 7-10 PM for the infamous MUSIC BOX BINGO! Hosted by your good-time ga... Read more

The Princess Bride

The fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” A young boy listens while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup, the most... Read more

The Princess Bride

The fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” A young boy listens while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup, the most... Read more

True Romance

A comic-book nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence (Christian Slater) and a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette) fall in love. Clarence breaks the n... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

The Thing from Another World

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick... Read more

Rounding

After a traumatic incident during his residency, young medical student James Hayman (Namir Smallwood, a Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member) transfers... Read more

True Romance

A comic-book nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence (Christian Slater) and a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette) fall in love. Clarence breaks the n... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

Only Angels Have Wings

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

At a remote South American port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots’ lives to win an important contract when a traveli... Read more

The Chicago Film Society Presents

The Chicago Film Society comes to the Music Box for all-celluloid screenings of classic & underseen features, short subjects, trailer reels, and other... Read more

The Unknown

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

Some films spin elaborate plots, with a relentless parade of character and incident, and others simply toss out a ludicrous premise and let the chips... Read more

Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

When Italian studios began to produce and distribute Western genre films in the 1960s, many critics quickly dismissed them as ultra-violent, nihilisti... Read more

The Big Gundown

Part of: Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

Sergio Sollima’s The Big Gundown is a pivotal film in the genre of Spaghetti Westerns. Unlike, the usual ‘buddy’ westerns featuring two opposite chara... Read more

Melanin, Roots, and Culture

Join us for a few of our favorite historic and luminous feature films by artists of the Black-African diaspora on the big screen this February, plus t... Read more

Life within the Lens

Part of: Melanin, Roots, and Culture

The Music Box Theatre invites everyone to “Life Within the Lens”, a celebration of Black Chicago filmmakers. This short film screening will feature so... Read more

Tangerine

Sin-Dee is back. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend was unfaithful during the days she was jailed, the sex worker and her friend, Alexandra, set out... Read more

Invader

Ana (Vero Maynez) is a long way from home, but eager to visit her cousin Camila in the Chicago suburbs. After Ana’s bus gets delayed, she arrives very... Read more

Animation Adventures

Discover fantastic worlds, nostalgic favorites and arthouse gems with Animation Adventures at the Music Box Theatre! This recurring film series celebr... Read more

Felidae

Part of: Animation Adventures

“Oh no, stranger. The dead come to me,” whispers Jesaja, the cat Guardian of the Dead in the skeleton-filled catacombs and labyrinths of director Mich... Read more

Scary Movie

Defying the very notion of good taste, Scary Movie out-parodies the pop culture parodies with a no-holds barred assault on the most popular images and... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

To Have and Have Not

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

Humphrey Bogart (having just come off the success of CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON) couldn't have been a bigger star at the time, and finding a co... Read more

Invader

Ana (Vero Maynez) is a long way from home, but eager to visit her cousin Camila in the Chicago suburbs. After Ana’s bus gets delayed, she arrives very... Read more

Animation Adventures

Discover fantastic worlds, nostalgic favorites and arthouse gems with Animation Adventures at the Music Box Theatre! This recurring film series celebr... Read more

Felidae

Part of: Animation Adventures

“Oh no, stranger. The dead come to me,” whispers Jesaja, the cat Guardian of the Dead in the skeleton-filled catacombs and labyrinths of director Mich... Read more

Scary Movie

Defying the very notion of good taste, Scary Movie out-parodies the pop culture parodies with a no-holds barred assault on the most popular images and... Read more

The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each... Read more

To Have and Have Not

Part of: The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees

Humphrey Bogart (having just come off the success of CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON) couldn't have been a bigger star at the time, and finding a co... Read more

Melanin, Roots, and Culture

Join us for a few of our favorite historic and luminous feature films by artists of the Black-African diaspora on the big screen this February, plus t... Read more

The Woman King

Part of: Melanin, Roots, and Culture

The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with s... Read more

Melanin, Roots, and Culture

Join us for a few of our favorite historic and luminous feature films by artists of the Black-African diaspora on the big screen this February, plus t... Read more

Life within the Lens

Part of: Melanin, Roots, and Culture

The Music Box Theatre invites everyone to “Life Within the Lens”, a celebration of Black Chicago filmmakers. This short film screening will feature so... Read more

Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

When Italian studios began to produce and distribute Western genre films in the 1960s, many critics quickly dismissed them as ultra-violent, nihilisti... Read more

The Great Silence

Part of: Mud, Blood, & Marinara: Spaghetti Westerns

On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted ou... Read more

Brick

Brendan Frye is a loner, someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determine... Read more