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A part of MUBI FEST Chicago, a weekend of essential music movies celebrating the transformative power of song and dance in cinema.
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Director Braden King in attendance
In 2005, storied Chicago indie label Thrill Jockey released Looking For a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration. It's a totally ambitious, charmingly lo-fi DVD compilation of interviews with over a hundred musicians from various scenes and genres, telling the stories of their personal artistic epiphanies — from Thurston Moore's first encounter with punk rock, to Bjork's first encounter with car alarms.
For this almost-20th-anniversary of the DVD's release, host Rico Gagliano presents a selection of the DVD's best moments, then talks live about inspiration and Chicago music with esteemed locals, including two of the THRILL's original interviewees: Janet Beveridge Bean (11th Dream Day) and Doug McCombs (11th Dream Day, Tortoise).
Music Box Theatre screens films of all genres and from every era of cinema, both new releases and repertory. These films may sometimes contain upsetting, outdated, or offensive material. While we aim to introduce many of our screenings, we do not always provide warnings about potentially triggering content within the films we screen. We encourage our patrons to research the film before they attend using trailers, reviews, or content information found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.
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