May 2024

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The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Sasquatch Sunset

Sasquatch Sunset

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and... Read more

David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
89 mins
DCP
Cinema Femme 2024
Film Festival

Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

The 6th edition of the Cinema Femme Short Film Fest runs from April 25 – May 2, 2024. This one-of-a-kind festival emphasizes the importance of support... Read more

A Land Memory

Cinema Femme Shorts Program 2: Sincerely, Yours

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

At 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 2: "Sincerely, Yours." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susa... Read more

110 mins
DCP
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Cinema Femme Shorts Program 3: P.S.

Part of: Cinema Femme Short Film Fest 2024

At 9:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 3: "P.S." The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susan Johnson’s c... Read more

110 mins
DCP

Thu, May Thu, May 2, 2024

Sasquatch Sunset

Sasquatch Sunset

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind— embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and... Read more

David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
89 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
The Unknown
Film Series

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

Master and Commander

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

In the years since its maiden voyage, Peter Weir’s epic seafaring adventure film has made an inexplicable journey: from respected blockbuster that nev... Read more

Peter Weir
138 mins
35mm

Fri, May Fri, May 3, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Sing Sing

Sing Sing

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other men who ar... Read more

Greg Kwedar
105 mins
DCP
Cuckoo

Cuckoo

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new f... Read more

Tilman Singer
102 mins
DCP
Sleep

Sleep

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (LEE Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (JUNG Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in h... Read more

Jason Yu
95 mins
DCP

Sat, May Sat, May 4, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Fleischer

Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored project is one dedicated to gathering and restoring as many of the 700-odd animated shorts produced by Max Fl... Read more

65 mins
Shorts Program 1

CFCA Shorts Program #1

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDME - A mysterious new musical from Don Hertzfeldt, Academy Award-nominated director of “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” and “World Of Tomorr... Read more

91 mins
DCP
Thelma

Thelma

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The feature directorial debut of Josh Margolin, THELMA is a poignant action-comedy that gives veteran Oscar® nominee June Squibb (NEBRASKA) her first... Read more

Josh Margolin
97 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Babes

Babes

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
In a Violent Nature

In a Violent Nature

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

An ambient slasher that methodically depicts the enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.

Chris Nash
94 mins
DCP
Oddity

Oddity

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local men... Read more

Damian Mc Carthy
98 mins
DCP

Sun, May Sun, May 5, 2024

2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Little Women

Little Women (1994)

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. Starring Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon.

Gillian Armstrong
115 mins
35mm
Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
The Dead Don't Hurt

The Dead Don't Hurt

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely indepe... Read more

Viggo Mortensen
106 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Ibelin

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at age 25, his parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and iso... Read more

Benjamin Ree
106 mins
DCP
I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of... Read more

Jane Schoenbrun
100 mins
DCP
The Last Stop in Yuma County

The Last Stop in Yuma County

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

A traveling knife salesman is stranded and forced to wait at a rural rest stop and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a violent hostage situation... Read more

Francis Galluppi
90 mins
DCP

Mon, May Mon, May 6, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Shorts Program 2

CFCA Shorts Program #2

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

SHORTS INCLUDEDBaigal Nuur - Lake Baikal - The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined with hand-painted animation and mixed materials, feat... Read more

89 mins
DCP
Dandelion

Dandelion

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where s... Read more

Nicole Riegel
113 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Flipside

Flipside

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdn... Read more

Christopher Wilcha
92 mins
DCP

Tue, May Tue, May 7, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

What You Wish For

What You Wish For

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incomin... Read more

Nicholas Tomnay
101 mins
DCP
Bringing Out the Dead movie still

Bringing Out the Dead

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

This tense urban drama from Martin Scorsese stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has... Read more

Martin Scorsese
121 mins
35mm
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In the year 2032, the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. A string of murders perpetrated by a prototype andr... Read more

Mamoru Oshii
100 mins
DCP

Wed, May Wed, May 8, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Good One

Good One

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chri... Read more

India Donaldson
90 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP
Handling the Undead

Handling the Undead

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them.... Read more

Thea Hvistendahl
99 mins
DCP

Thu, May Thu, May 9, 2024

2024
Film Festival

The Chicago Critics Film Festival

THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Eleventh Year! The event, a frequent nominee for Best Film Festival in the Chicago... Read more

Power

Power

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

In the United States, police have been granted extraordinary power over our individual lives. The police determine who is suspicious and who ‘fits the... Read more

Yance Ford
85 mins
DCP
Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
National Anthem

National Anthem

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

Dylan (Charlie Plummer), a 21-year-old soft-spoken construction worker, is the de facto father figure to his little brother and works odd jobs to help... Read more

Luke Gilford
99 mins
DCP
Ghostlight

Ghostlight

Part of: The Chicago Critics Film Festival

When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater’s pr... Read more

Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson
110 mins
DCP
The People's Joker

The People's Joker

This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical, coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted tra... Read more

Vera Drew
95 mins
DCP

Fri, May Fri, May 10, 2024

I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
Hump 2024

2024 HUMP! Film Festival

HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creativ... Read more

90 mins
DCP
The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain

A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.

Alejandro Jodorowsky
114 mins
35mm

Sat, May Sat, May 11, 2024

The Unknown
Film Series

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 Ship of Lost Men

The Ship of Lost Men

Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents

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
35mm
Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
Apollo 13 movie still

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
DCP
Hump 2024

2024 HUMP! Film Festival

HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creativ... Read more

90 mins
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain

A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.

Alejandro Jodorowsky
114 mins
35mm

Sun, May Sun, May 12, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
Roman Holiday

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
35mm
MBT Trivia

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. S... Read more

120 mins
Who Gives an F
Film Series

Who Gives an 'F'

Since 1979, CinemaScore has surveyed opening night audiences for wide releases from an A+ to F scale. In their polling, there’s a list of just 22 movi... Read more

mother!

Mother!

Part of: Who Gives an 'F'

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
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP

Mon, May Mon, May 13, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
Highs and Lows
Film Series

Highs & Lows - A Film Series

Films of a higher tier, those stamped with the seal of Art, usually accrue a more serious following than many of the movies being made on a supposedly... Read more

The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County + Gloria

Part of: Highs & Lows - A Film Series

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

Tue, May Tue, May 14, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
Dawn of the Dead

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
DCP

Wed, May Wed, May 15, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
Dawn of the Dead

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
3D DCP
Relative movie still

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
DCP

Thu, May Thu, May 16, 2024

Le Samourai

Le Samourai

NOIR CITY presents a spectacular new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai, one of the director’s most perfectly realized works of existen... Read more

Jean-Pierre Melville
105 mins
DCP
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School... Read more

Chandler Levack
100 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
The Handmaiden

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
DCP

Fri, May Fri, May 17, 2024

Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP

Sat, May Sat, May 18, 2024

A Place in the Sun
Film Series

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

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees

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
35mm
Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Hundreds of Beavers
January 31

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
DCP

Sun, May Sun, May 19, 2024

A Place in the Sun
Film Series

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

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees

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
35mm
Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
MBT Trivia

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. S... Read more

120 mins

Mon, May Mon, May 20, 2024

Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP

Tue, May Tue, May 21, 2024

Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Bingo

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

180 mins
Songs of Earth

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
DCP

Wed, May Wed, May 22, 2024

Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP

Thu, May Thu, May 23, 2024

Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinemati... Read more

Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
110 mins
DCP
Eno

Eno

The Chicago Premiere performance of Gary Hustwit's new generative documentary, created live in real time.Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — kno... Read more

Gary Hustwit
100 mins

Fri, May Fri, May 24, 2024

Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Songs of Earth

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
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
The Room movie still
January 3

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
35mm

Sat, May Sat, May 25, 2024

A Place in the Sun
Film Series

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

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees

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
35mm
Songs of Earth

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
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Stop Making Sense movie still
Opens January 24

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
DCP

Sun, May Sun, May 26, 2024

A Place in the Sun
Film Series

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

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

Part of: Liz & Monty Matinees

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
35mm
Songs of Earth

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
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
MBT Trivia

Music Box Movie Trivia

What makes Music Box Trivia Chicago's premier movie trivia?Six rounds of movie trivia, including audio and visual components. A beautiful community. S... Read more

120 mins
First Blood

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
DCP

Mon, May Mon, May 27, 2024

Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Undivide Us

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
DCP
Garden Movies
Film Series

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

For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

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
Digital

Tue, May Tue, May 28, 2024

Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Park Life

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
Garden Movies
Film Series

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

For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

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
Digital

Wed, May Wed, May 29, 2024

Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
Garden Movies
Film Series

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

A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

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
Digital
Invader
Coming February 28

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

Mickey Keating
70 mins
DCP

Thu, May Thu, May 30, 2024

Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP
Wildcat 1

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
DCP
High Fidelity movie still

High Fidelity

Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago. But Rob's business isn't the only... Read more

Stephen Frears
113 mins
35mm
Garden Movies
Film Series

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

A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind

Part of: Music Box Garden Movies

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
Digital

Fri, May Fri, May 31, 2024

Solo

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
DCP
Babes

Babes

BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in differ... Read more

Pamela Adlon
109 mins
DCP