Discover fantastic worlds, nostalgic favorites and arthouse gems with Animation Adventures at the Music Box Theatre! This recurring film series celebrating the vast history of animated cinema will feature pre-show activities in the Music Box Lounge, so make sure to come early!
Live musical accompaniment by harpist Isabelle Olivier, guitarist Raphael Olivier, and drummer Ernie Adams
This screening is supported by Culture for All
Coming up in this Series
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Opens April 26
When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seven... Read more
Hungarian director György Kovásznai’s wildly idiosyncratic animated musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistibl... Read more
Two-time Academy Award nominee and Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Don Hertzfeldt partners with Ink Films to release Animation Mixtape,... Read more
Journey inside the miniature world of bugs for bigger-than-life fun and adventure under every leaf. Embark on an incredible expedition with one little... Read more
A psychedelic odyssey through animation with visuals that’ll melt your mental highways, THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS is a surreal German film that’s... Read more
Max Fleischer is one of the most renown pioneers in animation. From 1919 to 1942, he and his company, Fleischer Studios, produced nearly 700 cartoons.... Read more
Released in 1940, FANTASIA represented Walt Disney's boldest experiment to date, bringing to life his vision of blending animated imagery with classic... Read more
Director Wes Anderson brings his inimitable style to the world of stop-motion animation. Based on the book by Roald Dahl, a brilliantly clever fox (Ge... Read more
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of... Read more
“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
When an enormous metal giant appears in a small town in Maine, Hogarth Hughes befriends him, hiding him from federal agent megalomaniac Kent Mansley,... Read more
OVER THE GARDEN WALL tells the story of two brothers, Wirt and Greg, who find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With th... Read more
Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and, under the code name "Paprika," is a dream detective at night. Atsuko and her colleagues are working... Read more
One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, Son of the White Mare is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters an... Read more
In this lively animated adventure, undersea oddball SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish friend, Patrick, embark on a quest to clear the name of Mr.... Read more
Inspired by Hello Kitty, Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy and the Superflat art movement, TAMALA is an upside-down arthouse sci-fi manga with a bumping 2000s-... Read more
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Mast... Read more
Legendary animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton’s first feature, THE TUNE is a wildly surreal animated musical comedy about a struggling songwriter na... Read more
