APRIL 7 - JUNE 8, 2017 - Music Box Theatre · The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strang-ers living separate lives. But

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DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE, opening May 5

YOUR NAME.OPENS APRIL 7

EASTER WITHWILLY WONKAAPRIL 15 AT 2PM

DAVID LYNCH:A COMPLETE

RETROSPECTIVEAPRIL 27-MAY 4

TERRENCE DAVIES’A QUIET PASSION

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PALME D’OR WINNERI, DANIEL BLAKE

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FEATURE PRESENTATIONSYOUR NAME.IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINEDONNIE DARKO: 15TH ANNIVERSARYKIZUMONOGATARI PART 3: REIKETSU DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFEMY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEAA QUIET PASSIONOBIT. MANHATTANSOLARIS & STALKER: NEW 4K RESTORATIONSI, DANIEL BLAKE

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SPECIAL EVENTSWIN IT ALLWINGS WITH THE PRIMA VISTA QUARTET TOM VERDUCCI & THEO EPSTEIN TALKHUMP! FILM FESTIVALEASTER WEEKEND WITH WILLY WONKASOUND OF SILENT FILM FESTIVALDAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVECINEYOUTH FESTIVALSOUND OPINIONS PRESENTS WAYNE’S WORLDMOTHER’S DAY MAMMA MIATHE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL 4TH ANNUAL 26TH ANNUAL COMEDY FESTIVAL DEPAUL PREMIERE FILM FESTIVALTHE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL

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based on the screenplay by

Marc Norman& Tom Stoppard

adapted for the stage by

Lee Halldirected by

Rachel Rockwell

The Oscar-winning film returns to its true home—the stage!

April 15–June 11

Kate McGonigle & Nick Rehberger; photo by Jeff Sciiortino

YOUR NAME.

OPENS APRIL 7

DIRECTED BY: Makoto Shinkai106 mins Presented both in English and in Japanese with English subtitles

From director Makoto Shinkai comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls.

The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strang-ers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint. Is the string of fate between Mitsuha and Taki strong enough to bring them together, or will forces outside their control leave them forever separated?”

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“This vividly realized and emo-tionally satisfying feature ought to make Shinkai a household name”

–Variety

FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS

OPENS APRIL 7 FEATUREFILM

DIRECTED BY: Roger Sherman94 mins

IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Profiling chefs, home cooks, farmers, vintners, and cheese makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today through scenes that are mostly cinema verité, audiences will discover that this hot, multi-cultural cuisine has developed only in the last 30 years. In that short time, Israel went from being one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the most advanced. Its sophistication mirrors the current state of the Israeli people and their food: secular, outward looking and innovative. The film’s guide is Michael Solomonov, the James Beard award-winning chef/owner of Zahav and a number of other restaurants in Philadelphia. His book Zahav: A World of Israeli Cuisine was recently released and is on the NYTimes bestseller list.

IN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE

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WIN IT ALL

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

Saturday, April 8 at 7pm (Joe Swanberg, 2017, 90mins, DCP)

Jake Johnson (NEW GIRL) stars as small-time gambler Eddie Garrett, who agrees to watch a duffel bag for an acquaintance who is heading to prison. When he discovers cash in the bag, he’s unable to resist the temptation and winds up deeply in debt. When the prison release is shortened, Eddie suddenly has a small window of time to win all the money back.

Directed by Joe Swanberg (DRINKING BUDDIES) and co-written by Swanberg and Jake Johnson, the Netflix original film WIN IT ALL co-stars Keegan-Michael Key, Joe Lo Truglio and leading Mexican actress Aislinn Derbez. Jake Johnson and Joe Swanberg also serve as producers, along with Alex Orr. The film will launch on Netflix on April 7

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Q&A with

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WINGS WITH THE PRIMA VISTA QUARTET & GUESTS

SUNDAY, APRIL 9 SPECIAL

EVENT

Sunday, April 9 at 1pm (William A. Wellman, 1927, 142 mins, DCP)

A Silent Movie Concert performed by the Prima Vista Quartet with an original score composed by Baudime Jam.

Jack Powell is a young man passionate about motorsport. His neighbor, Mary Preston, is madly in love with him but he does not pay any attention to her because he is in love with Sylvia, herself in love with the wealthy David Armstrong. When the United States engage in the First World War, Jack and David join the Air Force to fight in France, and they soon become close friends. Mary, meanwhile, joins the Women’s Motor Corp. to get closer to Jack…

The Prima Vista Quartet is composed of: ELZBIETA GLADYS - Violin 1, AMELIE PARADIS - Violin 2, BAUDIME JAM - Viola, LADISLAV SZATHMARY - Cello, MATTHIAS CHAMPON - Trumpet, CÉDRIC BARBIER - Percussion

TOM VERDUCCI & THEO EPSTEIN IN CONVERSATION

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 SPECIAL

EVENT

Presented by The Book Cellar Tuesday, April 11 at 8pm

Author Tom Verducci will discuss his new book THE CUBS WAY with Theo Epstein, President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs.

It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again the World Series champions. How did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? In THE CUBS WAY: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball

and Breaking the Curse, award-winning sportswriter Tom Verducci chronicles the Chicago Cubs’ transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball, revealing the keys to this incredible achievement.

Tickets include a signed copy of THE CUBS WAY.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 15SPECIAL

EVENT

Saturday, April 15 at 2pm(Mel Stuart, 1971, 100 mins, 35MM)

This Easter, you have a Golden Ticket to the Music Box! Join Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe on an unforgettable interactive journey with WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! Roald Dahl’s beloved tale comes to magical, musical life as you enter a world of pure imagination. Pig out on snozzberries, wear your best Veruca (or Augustus!) costume and join in the fun!

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Easter

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DONNIE DARKO

OPENS APRIL 21 FEATUREFILM

DIRECTED BY: Richard KellySTARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze

Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.

Initially beset with distribution problems, Richard Kelly’s debut feature would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium. This brand-new 4K restoration allows a modern classic to finally receive the treatment it deserves.

“A mini-masterpiece” –Empire

“Haunting & altogether exquisite.” –Sight & Sound

New 4K Restoration!


15th

Anniversary!

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 SPECIALEVENT

Saturday, April 22 at 7:30pm

ACM presents the 12th annual Sound of Silent Film Festival, returning to the Music Box Theatre with an all-new program! Featuring newly composed scores performed live to modern silent films from around the world, this one night only event is a don’t miss.

“Of all the art forms, music takes the shortest route to the heart, and this is especially true of live music,” says acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, and SOSF 2011 alumnus Guy Maddin. “Something truly alchemical happens when film gets a live score.”

Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 online, $8 students and seniors: www.acmusic.org

THE SOUND OF SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE

APRIL 27-MAY 4

With Twin Peaks’ third season airing on Showtime in May, what better way to prepare than with a full submersion into the world of David Lynch? This complete retrospective spans Lynch’s entire body of work in film, television, and music.

This retrospective was programmed by Lynch expert Daniel Knox, who has cut together unique 20 minute pre-shows for each feature, and will be presenting a celebration of Twin Peaks for Saturday’s FIRE WALK WITH ME screening.

This series includes: ERASERHEAD, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, WILD AT HEART, DUNE, BLUE VELVET, IN-LAND EMPIRE, HOTEL ROOM, ON THE AIR, and many more films, shows, and surprises…

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April 25 at 7:40pm, April 29 & 30 at 11:30amDIRECTED BY: Tatsuya Oishi83 mins In Japanese with English subtitles

With help from Meme Oshino, the apparition specialist, Koyomi defeats the three powerful vampire hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter. Koyomi takes back all the limbs of Kiss-Shot-Acerola-Orion-Heart-Underblade in order to become a human again. But, when he returns to Kiss-Shot, she reveals to him the cold truth of what it means to be a vampire—a creature of the night. Unable to take back what he has done, Koyomi feels nothing but regret and can only deny his dreadful fate. While Koyomi is struggling to face reality, his “friend” Tsubasa Hanekawa comes to him with a certain plan…

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DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFEDIRECTED BY: Jon Nguyen93 mins

The unique documentary event DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE looks at Lynch’s art, music, and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world and giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. As he says, “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas, and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them. Even if they’re new ideas, the past colors them.” We’re invited in and given private views from Lynch’s compound and painting studio in the hills high above Hollywood, as he tells personal stories that unfold like scenes from his films. Strange characters come into focus only to fade again into the past, all leaving an indelible mark.

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“A keen and rare insight into one of modern art’s most fascinating people.”

–Film Experience

OPENS MAY 5

APRIL 25, 29 & 30

April 25 KizumonogatariTriple Feature

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CINEYOUTH FESTIVALJoin us at the CINEYOUTH FESTIVAL, a three-day international film festival that celebrates the talent of filmmakers 22 years old and younger from around the world. More than 70 short films, ranging from thought-provoking documentaries and quirky comedies to experimental shorts, a showcase of locally made films and more will be shown with filmmakers in attendance! Screenings are free and open to the public of all ages.

CineYouth is presented by Cinema/Chicago, the parent organization of the Chicago International Film Festival and is made possible by the generous support of Allstate Insurance Company and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

For more information on CineYouth visit: chicagofilmfestival.com/cineyouth/

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EVENT

MAY 4-6

MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEADIRECTED BY: Dash ShawSTARRING: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham77 mins

From graphic novelist Dash Shaw (New School) comes an audacious debut that is equal parts disaster cinema, high school comedy and blockbuster satire, told through a dream-like mixed media animation style that incorporates drawings, paintings and collage. Dash and his best friends Assaf and Verti are preparing for another year at Tides High School. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys’ friendship, Dash learns of the administration’s cover-up that puts all the students in danger. Even as the film piles on brilliant details like a post-apocalyptic cult formed by jocks, video game homages, and an infectious synth soundtrack, it never loses sight of the characters at the heart of the story. The film’s everyday concerns of friendships, cliques and young love remind us how the high school experience shapes who we become, even in the most unusual of circumstances.

FEATURE FILM

OPENS MAY 5

“The most original animated film of the year!”

–Indiewire

“Wildly bizarre and imaginatively alluring!”

–The Playlist



WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 SPECIAL

EVENT

Wednesday, May 10 at 7pm (Penelope Spheeris, 1992, 94 mins, 35MM)

The latest installment in the popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series pays tribute to the 25th Anniversary of Penelope Spheeris’ cult classic WAYNE’S WORLD! Sound Opinions hosts and acclaimed music critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis will introduce the film.

Sound Opinions is co-hosted by noted music writers Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune and Jim DeRogatis of WBEZ and reaches more than 400,000 tastemakers each week through national radio broadcasts and a popular podcast. Chicago Public Media creates award-winning content for people curious about the issues and ideas that affect our community, our nation, and our world. For more information and tickets, visit www.soundopinions.org

SOUND OPINIONS AT THE MOVIES PRESENTS

WAYNE’S WORLD

MOTHER’S DAY WITH MAMMA MIA!

SUNDAY, MAY 14

Sunday, May 14 at 2pm (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, 108 mins, 35MM)

This Mother’s Day celebrate with Meryl Streep and ABBA at the Music Box! Hosted by Dick O’Day, our interactive screening kicks off with a live pre-show 1970s fashion contest. Dress up in your best ‘70s garb for your chance to win great prizes! Then play along with our audience participation guide while you watch the Broadway smash on the big screen.

Special Mother’s Day Mimosas will be served in the Music Box Lounge!

SPECIAL

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Hosted by Dick O’Day!


THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL

MAY 12-18

Presented by the Chicago Film Critics Association! THE CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box for its Fifth Anniversary! The only current example of a major film critics group hosting its own festival, the week-long event offers a selection of films comprised of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works from a wide variety of filmmakers ranging from award winners to talented newcomers chosen by members of the organization.

Just a small taste of what is to come includes THE HERO from director Brett Haley (I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DrREAMS) starring Sam Elliott as a Western icon seeking a comeback; Jeff Baena’s THE LITTLE HOURS, a sexy comedy based on The Decameron, starring Alison Brie, Dave Franco and Aubrey Plaza; Marianna Palka’s BITCH about a depressed wife who assumes the psyche of a dog alongside

Jason Ritter and Jaime King and the comedy BAND AID, written, directed and starring Zoe Lister-Jones along with Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. The fest will also feature festival award winners such as BEACH RATS (Best

Director, Sundance 2017), BIRDBOY: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (Best Animated Feature, Goya) and DINA (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2017). This is only a preview of a program that will include over 25 feature films and shorts.Passes are now on sale at musicboxtheatre.com/events/chicago-critics-film-festival

SPECIAL

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THE LITTLE HOURS


OPENS MAY 19 FEATURE FILM

DIRECTED BY: Terence Davies STARRING: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine126 mins

Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE DEEP BLUE SEA) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and transcended in her poetry.

A QUIET PASSION“An absolute, drop-dead

masterwork.” –The New Yorker

“A bold and brilliant study of the American poet.”

–Slant Magazine


OBIT. DIRECTED BY: Vanessa Gould95 mins

An inside look at life on The New York Times obituary desk.

Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of extraordinary lives into the cultural memory—each life’s story spun amid the daily beat of war, politics, and football scores. OBIT. is the first documentary to explore the world of these remarkable writers and their subjects, focusing on a small team at The New York Times who approach their work with journalistic rigor and narrative flair. Going beyond the byline and into the minds of those chronicling life after death on the freshly inked front lines of history, the film invites some of the most essential questions we ask ourselves about life, memory, and the inevitable passage of time. What do we choose to remember? What never dies?

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“Engaging and lively.” –The Hollywood Reporter

“Inspirational, uplifting and often hilarious. The perfect documentary.”

–The Upcoming

OPENS MAY 19

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MANHATTANDIRECTED BY: Woody AllenSTARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep96 mins

By turns a rhapsodic city symphony and an astute character study, MANHATTAN is a portrait of a modern metropolis and the messy lives of its inhabitants. It’s a love letter from a hometown hero that remains one of Woody Allen’s most successful explorations of his enduring themes: complex relationships, compromised romances and his own creative processes.

Forty-two-year-old Isaac Davis has a job he hates, a 17-year-old girlfriend he doesn’t love and a lesbian ex-wife who’s writing a tell-all book about their marriage. Living vicariously through the protagonist of his debut novel, but struggling to find fulfillment of his own, Isaac quits his job as a television writer and begins a relationship with his best friend’s mistress, setting him off on a neurosis-riddled journey of self-discovery and self-sabotage.

FEATURE FILM

OPENS MAY 26

TWO BY TARKOVSKY: STALKER & SOLARIS“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest director, the one who invented a new language true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” – Ingmar Bergman

One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER embarks on a metaphysical journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. (In Russian with English subtitles, 163 mins, 1979)

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the residents of the SOLARIS space station. When a cosmonaut is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With SOLARIS, the legendary filmmaker created a brilliantly original epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. (In Russian with English subtitles, 166 mins, 1972)

FEATURE FILM

MAY 26-29

New 4K Digital Print!

New 4K Digital Restorations!



MAY 31 & JUNE 1

Presented by truTV, The Onion, The A.V. Club and Clickhole, The 4th Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival returns to Chicago, bringing two special events to the Music Box!

THE MODERN SCHOOL OF FILM WITH CHRISTOPHER GUESTWednesday, May 31 at 7pm

Voted “Best Movie Outing” by New York Magazine, The Modern School of Film continues its international In:Pictures series, where celebrated guests from the world of film, music, comedy, and culture screen and discuss clips from three films that have most inspired their life and work. Hosted by MSF Founder Robert Milazzo, Christopher Guest

In:Pictures features select segments of three movies chosen by and discussed with Mr. Guest, as he revisits the times and the films that shaped his singular body of work. He’ll also be taking audience questions, so sharpen the pencils.

IDIOCRACY ON 35MM WITH MIKE JUDGE

Thursday, June 1 at 7pm

Acclaimed satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which our collective intelligence had dropped so low it threatened to destroy the world. In this future, America was run by a corrupt, sociopathic former pro-wrestler with severe anger management issues, and the most popular entertainment in the land was a YouTube-esque video playlist called “Ow My Balls.”

Flash forward to today. We have now entered into the most bizarre Presidency in U.S. history. Over the past year, thousands have questioned in social media whether IDIOCRACY was actually a documentary. Mike Judge’s sadly prescient film has transcended its cult classic status to become a vibrant and essential facet of this new era of American culture and its deranged politics.

Following the screening, there will be a moderated discussion by Sean O’Neal from The A.V. Club and Mike Judge.

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THE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVALSunday, June 4 at Noon & 2pm

Following its overwhelming success last year in Chicago, and its national tour to 10 cities in 2016, THE 2ND ANNUAL NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Windy City on June 4. Perfect for dog lovers of all ages, the two shorts programs each feature a different medley of documentary, animated and live-action short canine-themed films from around the world. A portion of every ticket will be donated to One Tail at a Time Dog Rescue shelter.

SPECIAL

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SUNDAY, JUNE 4

I, DANIEL BLAKEDIRECTED BY: Ken LoachSTARRING: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires100 mins

Winner of the Palme d’Or, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make. Gruff but good-hearted, Daniel Blake is a man out of time: a widowed woodworker who’s never owned a computer, he lives according to his own common sense moral code. But after a heart attack leaves him unable to work and the state welfare system fails him, the stubbornly self-reliant Daniel must stand up and fight for his dignity, leading a one-man crusade for compassion that will transform the lives of a struggling single mother and her two children. Graced with humor and heart, I, DANIEL BLAKE is a moving, much-needed reminder of the power of empathy from one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers.

OPENS JUNE 2FEATURE FILM

“A work of scalding and moving relevance.”

–Variety

“Magnificent. Demands to be seen.”

–Sight & Sound

Winner Palme d’Or 2016 Cannes Film Festival


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After making a documentary a few years back, Ken Loach said that was it, he was done, after almost 25 fiction features he’d had his say. But admirers of his lovingly photographed, progressively inclined, actor-embracing raft of features can be grateful that he changed his mind for at least one more go-round. (“That was a rash thing to have said,” Loach joked recently. “There are so many stories to tell. So many characters to present.”)

Now, at the age of 80, Loach has made one of his most refined of his later features, I, DANIEL BLAKE, about a sardonic Newcastle widower who finds himself up against an indifferent state when suddenly in need, swept up by what Loach describes as “the use of bureaucracy, the intentional inefficiency of bureaucracy, as a political weapon: ‘This is what happens if you don’t work; if you don’t find work you will suffer.’ The anger at that was the motive behind the film.” That ire, that fire, makes what could be rough going into an unsentimental, angering, but greatly moving melodrama about essentials like how to be a good person in modern times.

Dan, played with keen wit and with fierce presence by stand-up comic Dave Johns, is a carpenter in his late 50s who has a heart attack on the job, but it’s the damage done to his dignity by form-filling employment bureaucrats that nearly does him in. We’re in the thick straightaway: on black under the main titles, we hear the prim, domineering voice of a worker for an American company paid to press on dozens of small questions about his fitness to work, but never see her, arriving finally at Dan’s face, a ripe concoction of incredulity and offense. Dan meets a single mother, Katie (Hayley Squires) with two young children, and they pool resources against a society more prepared to shame than to lift. The tenor of I, DANIEL BLAKE isn’t quite Dickensian, but it’s certain Loachian in its concerns and its bracingly blunt dramatics.

The timeliness of its Chicago release could be hardly more fitting, a few weeks after a new administration issued a bullet-pointed wishlist for the U.S. budget that would eradicate most of the kind of programs that help disadvantaged Americans in temporary straits like our man Dan.

Paul Laverty’s screenplay is incisive and cheekily profane, while Johns’ witty habitation of Dan builds to emotional crescendos that shake with great dramatic force. And like another British filmmaker of his generation, Mike Leigh, Loach is too often disregarded as a graceful director of the camera, whose attention to frame and delicacies of light can quietly ravish. In the end, I, DANIEL BLAKE is political in its insistence that the smallest “I” matters, but as in his best work like his 1990s work, RAINING STONES and LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD, Loach’s film is about empathy, a portrait of ordinary people, blunt, bracing and far from mere polemic.

Ray Pride is film critic of Newcity (newcityfilm.com), editor of Movie City News (moviecitynews.com) and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine. A book of photography is forthcoming.

HELLO, CRUEL WORLDI, DANIEL BLAKE, A Portrait of Ordinary People By Ray Pride

I, DANIEL BLAKE OPENS JUNE 2. SEE PAGE 18 FOR DETAILS.

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CLASSIC MATINEES

NOT QUITE FOR KIDS

The Music Box explores the strange space between saccharine kid’s classics and Oscar-qualifying grown up pictures. What was Harry Nilsson on when he wrote THE POINT? Did W.C. Fields keep your grandmother up at night in ALICE IN WONDERLAND? We’re still scratching our heads.

FORBIDDEN PLANET (Fred McLeod Wilcox, 1956, 98 min, 35MM) A rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a spaceship that crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet. One of the stranded humans has deciphered the secrets of the planet’s long-extinct inhabitants, and the technology that gave them the power to instantly destroy their civilization. Now, he refuses to share his knowledge, and one-by-one the rescuers begin to die. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Forbidden Planet gained popularity as a children’s matinee when reissued in the early ‘70s in a version that cut out all the romance between Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis. Features the first ever screen appearance of Robbie the Robot!

April 15 & 16

THE POINT(Fred Wolf, 1971, 74 min, 16MM) Oblio is the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where everyone must have a point. Thrown into an existential crisis by lack of uniformity, the son of an evil Count banishes Oblio and his dog arrow to the Pointless forest. Harry Nilsson wrote and produced this companion piece to his 1971 album of the same name. Featuring the original narration by Dustin Hoffman. 16mm print provided by Kier-La Janisse and the American Genre Film Archive

April 22 & 23

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WATERSHIP DOWN(Martin Rosen, 1978, 91 min, 35MM) A very serious, violent, and heartbreaking movie about bunnies, WATERSHIP DOWN features the voice acting talents of the late, great John Hurt, who leads a pack of rabbit companions to a new home after he has an apocalyptic vision of their warren being destroyed. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Richard Adams, the film’s beautiful hand-drawn animation had the unfortunate distinction of scaring the bejesus out of a generation of unsuspecting kindergarten-aged moviegoers in its first reel.

May 20 & 21

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Norman Z. McLeod, 1933, 76 min, 35MM)With an all star cast including Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, and Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, this pre-Code adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books is still among the most bizarre and delightful versions of the story, far more twisted, terrifying, and hilarious than the 1951 Disney film. The sets and special effects by William Cameron Menzies hold up incredibly well today, and Alice Lidell, the inspiration for Carroll’s original books called it “a picture which represents a revolution in cinema history!”

May 6 & 7

THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER(Jim Henson, 1981, 97 min, 35MM)The Muppets are caught in the middle of a jewel heist in London, with Miss Piggy framed as the master thief, and it’s up to Kermit the Frog to bring the real culprits to justice. The only Muppet feature directed by creator Jim Henson, Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it “a combination of A.A. Milne, Busby Berkeley and a small bit of Blake Edwards.” Featuring cameos by John Cleese, Peter Falk, Peter Ustinov, and Oscar the Grouch.

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THE MARTIANFeaturing a discussion with Field Museum expert Philipp R. Heck

(Ridley Scott, 2015, 144 mins, DCP)

Tuesday, May 9 at 7pm

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies,

he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Philipp R. Heck is the curator in charge and head of the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies at The Field Museum. He oversees the collection of meteorites, the largest meteorite collection housed at a private research institution. Other responsibilities include the curation of the gem, mineral, rock and economic geology collections.

FIELD TRIPSCINEMA SCIENCE WITH THE FIELD MUSEUMThe Field Museum heads to the Music Box Theatre on a few field trips! Join us as we delve into the reality and science behind the silver screen!

POPEYE(Robert Altman, 1980, 114 mins, 35MM)

Monday, May 22 at 7:15pm Co-Presented with Chirp Radio

Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall are Popeye and Olive Oyl in this unlikely and sublime live action ad-aptation of the timeless Fleischer Brothers cartoon. Long overlooked in favor of more serious Altman pictures like MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER and SHORT CUTS, POPEYE can now take its place beside them, heartfelt and bouncing off the wall. Why can’t all comic book movies be this great?

With music by Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks. Screening in a one-of-a-kind 35mm print from the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

THE CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTSThe Chicago Film Society hosts monthly presentations featuring classic films, underseen rarities, cult movies, short subjects, trailer reels and more, all on glorious celluloid. For more information, visit www.chicagofilmsociety.org.

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SILENT CINEMAClassic silent films the way they were meant to be seen! Featuring a live musical score on the famous Music Box organ by Dennis Scott, Music Box House Organist.

BARBED WIRE Tuesday, April 18 at 7:30pm Archival 16mm print

(Rowland V. Lee, 1927, 67 min)“It isn’t really a war picture at all. It’s a peace picture. It holds out the hope that, in time, we may forget all about war and war pictures and just have a good time, which will throw that kettle-drummer out of a job, but otherwise will be all for the best.” —Screenland.

A spiritual precursor to ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, BARBED WIRE is a quiet anti-war film beautifully photographed by frequent John Ford collaborator Bert Glennon. Pola Negri plays a French farm girl who falls in love with Clive Brook, a German POW in the middle of WWI.

HER WILD OAT Tuesday, May 30 at 7:30pm 35mm from the Academy Film Archive

(Marshall Neilan, 1927, 70 min)Chicago International Film Festival co-founder Colleen Moore stars as Mary Lou Smith, orphan—whose father left her a lunch wagon, a dog, and a lot of ambition. When the love of her life goes to Plymouth Beach for vacation, she follows him and impersonates a duchess to win his heart. Thought to be lost for decades, HER WILD OAT screens in a restoration from the Academy Film Archive, reconstructed from a print found in the Czech National Film Archive.

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IS IT STILL FUNNY?Chicago film/entertainment writer Mark Caro puts supposedly timeless comedies to the test and dares ask the question “Is It Still Funny?”

SLEEPER (Woody Allen, 1973, 89 mins, 35MM)Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30pm

It’s time to put one of Woody Allen’s “early, funny ones” to the test. SLEEPER presents a zany 1973 vision of the future, with Allen playing a health-food store owner who’s cryogenically frozen and wakes up 200 years later in a police state. He winds up on the run with Diane Keaton’s socialite, the plot involves cloning, and there’s an orgasmatron. Allen has said this farce was inspired in part by

Groucho Marx and Bob Hope, and it’s more slapstick heavy than his later films. Upon its release Roger Ebert wrote, “SLEEPER establishes Woody Allen as the best comic director and actor in America.” Does this satirical view of the 22nd century hold up? For that matter, does Woody?

BEING THERE(Hal Ashby, 1979, 130 mins, 35MM)Monday, May 8 at 7pm

A simpleton gains power inside the White House. Crazy! But that’s the path taken by Peter Sellers’ Chance the gardener, in Hal Ashby’s satire based on Jerzy Kozinski’s novel of the same name. This isn’t a joke-a-minute comedy but rather an unsettling, humorous exploration of how one TV-addicted gardener’s banality comes to be widely embraced as wisdom. Far-fetched then? Now? Sellers received a best actor Oscar nomination, Melvyn Douglas won Best Supporting Actor as the elderly businessman who nurtures Chance, and Shirley MacLaine is the businessman’s wife who tries to turn on Chance in a non-TV sort of way, even as the latter insists, “I like to watch.” BEING THERE is ranked 26th on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Comedies list and is the namesake of an excellent Wilco album.

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THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISMMay 13 & 14 at 11:30am Narrated by Gillian Anderson

From the creators of PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSE comes a new film exploring how the relationship between art and gardening blossomed across the pond. THE ARTIST’S GARDEN tells the intertwining stories of American Impressionism and The

Garden Movement which flourished between 1887–1920. With increasing urbanization prompting the emerging middle-class to seek refuge in the suburbs, they began cultivating impressive private gardens.

When French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought a selection of impressionist paintings to New York in 1886, he changed the course of art in America entirely. Many American artists, inspired by what they saw, made the pilgrimage to study in Monet’s Giverny, and were keen to employ their experience to America’s own unique landscapes. In doing so, they captured a unique moment in America’s history—a snapshot of a nation transitioning from a land of agriculture to a land of industry.

EXHIBITION ON SCREENThis groundbreaking project connects major exhibitions from across the world with art-lovers and cinema goers across some 30 countries worldwide.

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THE CRUCIBLEPRESENTED BY THE OLD VIC THEATRE

Directed by: Yaël Farber

Sunday, April 23 at 11am & Wednesday, April 26 at 7pm

Captured live at The Old Vic in London, Olivier-nominated Richard Armitage stars in Arthur Miller’s classic American drama THE CRUCIBLE, brought vividly to life in this visceral five-star production by internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber (MIES JULIE, NIRBHAYA). Based on Salem’s infamous

witch trials, THE CRUCIBLE takes place in a small tight-knit community, where personal grievances collide with lust and superstition, fueling widespread hysteria. Miller’s timeless parable attacks the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.

The Music Box proudly presents the greatest filmed theatrical productions from around the world!

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THE CHERRY ORCHARDPRESENTED BY STAGE RUSSIA

Directed by: Adolf Shapiro

Presented in Russian with English subtitles

Sunday, May 7 at 11:30am

First produced in 1904 at The Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky, this production of Anton Chekhov’s classic tale of cultural futility, starring Russian stage and screen legend Renata Litvinova, is more relevant today than it was over a hundred years ago. Adolf Shapiro’s interpretation asks the question, where would the characters of this play live today years after their cherry orchard has been cut down? The answer, which lies in the material world created by set designer, David Borovsky, is, of course, on the stage.

A century later, this production brings THE CHERRY ORCHARD full circle, with its wandering band of characters never at peace, but finally back home.

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ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEADPRESENTED BY NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

Directed by: David Leveaux

Wednesday, June 7 at 7pm

Daniel Radcliffe (HARRY POTTER, THE WOMAN IN BLACK), Joshua McGuire (THE HOUR) and David Haig (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London.

Director David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary of the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight.

Against the backdrop of HAMLET, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

ANNA KARENINAPRESENTED BY STAGE RUSSIA

Directed by: Angelica Cholina

Presented in Russian with English subtitles

Saturday, June 3 at 11:30am

Directed and choreographed by Angelica Cholina, this internationally award-winning

Vakhtangov Theatre production of ANNA KARENINA is a choreographed interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel.

Cholina strives to find the equivalent of Tolstoy’s words in harmony and movement, with every gesture holding meaning. The music of Alfred Schnittke helps to reveal the characters and their depth, together with elegance and mood corresponding to the amplitude of the novel.

A crowd favorite in Moscow which plays to sold-out houses month after month, this meticulously detailed and gorgeous ANNA KARENINA is an example of the new Russian theater scene, fearlessly focusing on the visceral, allowing audience members to form their own interpretations.


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INTERSTELLA 5555 - THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM (Kazuhisa Takenouchi, 2003, 65 mins)

THE BOXER’S OMEN (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983, 99 mins, 35MM),

presented by The Front Row

THE RUNNING MAN (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, 101 mins,

35MM), presented by The Front Row

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Mike Newell 2005, 157 mins, 35MM)

THE ROOM

(Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35MM)

THE VOID (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski, 2017,

90 mins, DCP)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman, 1975, 100 mins, 35MM)

FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS (Cheh Chang, 1982, 107 mins, 35MM),

presented by The Front Row

THE VOID (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski, 2017, 90 mins, DCP)

“Creatures that recall beasts from films as diverse as John Carpenter’s THE THING, Stuart Gordon’s FROM BEYOND, and Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER” –FILM SCHOOL REJECTS

When police officer Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil. “The best ‘80s horror throwback in years” –SLASHFILM

FIVE ELEMENT NINJASPresented by The Front Row (Cheh Chang, 1982, 107 mins, 35MM)

Chang Cheh’s FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS is the ultimate ‘80s wuxia film, Shaw turned to 11, a legend among even the most discerning martial arts aficionados. With glorious Shaw sets,

breathtaking choreography, a breakneck pace, and a brutality never before seen in a Chang film, FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS is the frenetic, bloodthirsty, completely insane exploration of single-minded vengeance, trading the conceits of loyalty, honor, and brotherhood for a bloodsoaked mountain of bodies. Cheng Tien-chi and his brothers will tarnish gold, turn wood to ash, boil water, snuff fire, and scorch the very Earth upon which we walk to exact their revenge.

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THE BOXER’S OMENPresented by The Front Row(Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983, 99 mins, 35MM)The basic plot line of THE BOXER’S OMEN, involving the brother of a paralyzed boxer traveling to Thailand to seek vengeance upon beloved Bruce Lee foil Bolo Yeung, could little prepare you for the myriad viscous atrocities and

grotesque fantasias that form the heart of the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio’s most notorious foray into the horror genre. Playing out mostly as a protracted supernatural duel, by way of convoluted magic rituals involving regurgitated food, slimy, unidentifiable viscera, and uncanny, enchanted animals, between cosmic Buddhist twins and a collective of dark wizards intent on preventing them from achieving immortality, THE BOXER’S OMEN broke ground in Hong Kong genre cinema by marrying the martial arts action the Shaw Brothers were known for with gory, surreal imagery recalling Lucio Fulci and the heyday of Italian horror. A particularly stylish entry in the cycle of stomach-churning black magic horror films that proliferated throughout Hong Kong in the 1980s, thanks to the steady hand and careful eye of veteran Shaw Brothers director Kuei Chih-Hung, THE BOXER’S OMEN indirectly led to Hong Kong’s infamous Category III film rating and left countless, flimsy imitators in its considerable wake.

THE RUNNING MANPresented by The Front Row(Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, 101 mins, 35MM)In the distant future of 2017, the rule of law is governed by television ratings. One show dominates the airwaves—THE RUNNING MAN—where convicted prisoners have a chance at freedom by running through a deadly gauntlet of

hunters and killers. Host Damon Killian (Richard Dawson) may have finally met his match when the wrongly-convicted war criminal Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

becomes the show’s most popular contestant. As Richards kills off colorful hunters one by one, he wins over fans and catches the attention of the underground resistance force lead by Mick Fleetwood. Co-starring Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse (The Body) Ventura, and Dweezil Zappa, THE RUNNING MAN is a marathon of blood, guts, and Schwarzenegger’s signature one-liners!

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIREMidnight Screening Party on June 2(Mike Newell 2005, 157 mins, 35MM) Harry Potter apparates back to the Music Box this summer for more wizardry and witchcraft! Harry begins his fourth year at Hogwarts on Friday, June 2, with a pre-screening party in the Music Box Lounge &

Garden! Additional screenings will happen on Saturday, June 3 at 11am & Midnight.

When Harry Potter’s name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, everything changes as Harry, Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.

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