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... Read more
Miami Vice + Organized Crime and Triad Bureau
Tuesday, Apr 16 - 7:00PM
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 ju... Read more
Killing Them Softly
Monday, Apr 22 - 7:00PM
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... Read more
Haroula Rose Tribute Filmmaker Event
Thursday, Apr 25 - 7:00PM
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 celebr... Read more
Godzilla: The Complete Showa-Era Marathon
Saturday, Jun 8 - 12:00PM
Recent Series + Festivals
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
Triple Threat! A 3D Series
The Music Box just installed a brand new Digital 3D system! Come see what all the fuss is about with our week-long series showcasing the magic of 3D c... Read more
Film Girl Film Festival
The Festival was founded by Andrea Thompson, who became inspired when people in the local film community and Hollywood insiders alike started having i... Read more
Cinema Morricone
Ennio Morricone had already established himself as a musician equally at home with classical and pop melodies when he reluctantly, almost ashamedly, t... Read more
Melanin, Roots, and Culture
Music Box Theatre is proud to bring to you our Black History series, “Melanin, Roots and Culture,” for the month of February. Our five-film series emb... Read more
The Princess Bride Valentine's Show
Bring your Valentine to the Music Box for THE PRINCESS BRIDE, the fairy tale that puts the “comedy” in “romantic comedy.” Fun for all ages, this inter... Read more
Music Box of Horrors Presents
The team at Music Box of Horrors collectively agreed we could no longer only celebrate all things horror & hang out with you sickos once a year! Every... Read more
Hitchcock and Friends
"Hitchcock pioneered a whole type of film grammar. He taught us how to express things as clearly, visually, I think as they can be expressed…Learning... Read more
January Giallo 2024
Music Box of Horrors is thrilled to be back for another installment of January Giallo, in partnership with our friends at Cinematic Void! This year we... Read more
The 40th Annual Music Box Christmas Sing-A-Long & Double Feature
Who could have predicted on that snowy Christmas Eve in 1983, when the operator of a vintage movie theater in Chicago decided to show two old holiday... Read more
Alternative Christmas Features
For nearly four decades, the Music Box has celebrated the holidays with Jimmy Stewart and Bing Crosby. However, if those guys aren’t your cup of eggno... Read more
The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long
Friday November 24th - Sunday November 26th + December 2nd & 3rdFor over a decade, Thanksgiving has been celebrated at the Music Box Theatre with the... Read more
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Halloween Edition!
Happy Halloween 2023! Join us as we do the Time Warp again! In this Music Box Halloween tradition, the classic cult musical is screened with a cast of... Read more
Bride of Music Box of Horrors
She’s alive! The mad scientists at the Music Box of Horrors have created another electrifying month of unholy horror programming that’ll make your hai... Read more
Music Box of Horrors 2023
This October, THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS rises from the grave with a 24 hour movie marathon guaranteed to drive you MAD! Featuring frightening flicks on... Read more
Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder Matinees Part 2
“Never resist an impulse, Sabrina, especially if it’s terrible.” An Austrian journalist and screenwriter who had nearly a dozen films under his belt b... Read more
Fresh Films: A Celebration of 50 Years of Hip Hop
For the entire month of September the Music Box Theatre is proud to present “Fresh Films: A Celebration of 50 Years of Hip Hop,” a 17-film series cele... Read more
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
NOIR CITY: Chicago 2023
NOIR CITY: Chicago returns to the Music Box to celebrate the heart of Hollywood’s noir movement with “Film Noir in 1948”! Screenings from Friday Augus... Read more
New Adventures in 70MM
70mm is frequently a format of “er’s”: bigger, brighter, crisper, sharper, wider, heavier, costlier, louder. These terms are often used to compare the... Read more
Stranger in a Strange Land
“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are, until someone finds you. But who'd ever think to look for me here?” - (ALIC... Read more
4 By Wes
The Music Box celebrates the release of Wes Anderson’s new film ASTEROID CITY with a miniature series of four of our favorite films from his oeuvre –... Read more
Mezzanotte at the Music Box
This May, women are on the verge at midnight! Produced by independent film programmer Stephanie "La Gialloholique" Sack, Mezzanotte at the Music Box -... Read more
Cinema Femme Short Film Fest
The 5th annual Cinema Femme Short Film Fest runs from April 28 through May 4. This one-of-a-kind festival emphasizes the importance of supporting emer... Read more
Carole Lombard x3
Three classics from one of the funniest women in Hollywood. All hail Carole Lombard, the Screwball Queen! Saturday & Sundays at 11:30 AM in April
Crackerjack Compass: The Works of Robert Zemeckis
Hitchcock, now forever-canonized as one of the most quintessential filmmakers in all of history, is a far cry from being previously known as America’s... Read more