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FILM CALENDAR AUGUST 10 - OCTOBER 18, 2018
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA New 70MM Print
Part of THE 70MM FILM FESTIVAL, September 14-27
Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival
3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago
www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607
NOIR CITY SKATE CATVIDEOFEST HOCUS POCUS MUSIC BOX
CHICAGO KITCHEN SUNDAY, HEX-A-LONG OF HORRORS
AUGUST 17-23 OPENS AUGUST 24 SEPTEMBER 9 SUNDAY, 24 HOUR FILM FEST
OCTOBER 7 SATURDAY, OCT. 13
Welcome
TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE!
FEATURE FILMS
5 SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OPENS AUGUST 10
6 NICO, 1988 AUGUST 10-16
8 SKATE KITCHEN OPENS AUGUST 24
8 CUSTODY AUGUST 24-30
9 MADELINE’S MADELINE OPENS AUGUST 31
9 THE APPARITION SEPTEMBER 7-13
11 LET THE CORPSES TAN OPENS SEPTEMBER 14
12 PICK OF THE LITTER OPENS SEPTEMBER 28
12 BISBEE ‘17 OCTOBER 5-11
13 HEAVY TRIP OCTOBER 5-11
22 COMMENTARY
SERIES
24 CLASSIC MATINEES
27 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY
28 SILENT CINEMA
29 FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
30 MIDNIGHTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
5 MUSIC BOX MOVIES AT GALLAGHER WAY MAY 16-SEPTEMBER 19
RETURNING TO CHICAGO PARKS 6 COWBOY BEBOP AUGUST 15 & 16
AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 1 7 NOIR CITY AUGUST 17-23
10 CATVIDEOFEST SEPTEMBER 9
Clarendon Park | Ellis Park | Independence Park | Loyola Park 17 70MM FILM FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 14-27
Nichols Park | Ogden Park | Ping Tom Park 13 HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS OCTOBER 7
West Pullman Park | Wicker Park 14 AN EVENING WITH DON COSCARELLI OCTOBER 8
14 HUMP TOUR OCTOBER 10-12
15 MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS OCTOBER 13
A traveling exhibition of Chicago films. Eight 15 THE FACES OF FRANKENSTEIN OCTOBER 15
neighborhood park screenings and a three-day
festival celebration of local film featuring dozens
of films from all over the city.
Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 36 ISSUE 151
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Julian Antos, Technical Director and Assistant Programmer or call 312.243.8786
Kyle Westphal, Programming Associate Cover Image from the film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA,
Rebecca Lyon, Assistant Technical Director part of the 70MM Film Festival, September 14-27 at
Music Box Theatre.
THE OFFICIAL REWARDS
This program is presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in
the Parks with the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Arts programming in
Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com
PROGRAM OF THE CHICAGO
PARK DISTRICT
neighborhoods across the city advances the goals of the Chicago Park
District and the Chicago Cultural Plan. Learn more at:
773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office
www.ChiParkPoints.com www.nightoutintheparks.com 3
City of Chicago | Rahm Emanuel, Mayor For more information about your Chicago Park District, visit
Chicago Park District | Board of Commissioners | Michael P. Kelly, General Superintendent & CEO www.chicagoparkdistrict.com or call 312.742.7529 or 312.747.2001 (TTY).
FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
MAY 16 - SEPTEMBER 19
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MUSIC BOX THEATRE MOVIES AT GALLAGHER WAY
Every Other Wednesday, May 16 - September 19 at 7:30pm
Gather your friends and family and come enjoy Gallagher Way’s free summer movie series brought
to you by Chicago’s premier venue for independent and classic films, the Music Box Theatre.
Running every other Wednesday through September, join us as we screen classic films including
SPACE JAM, TOP GUN and BACK TO THE FUTURE. All screenings
take place at Gallagher Way, located at 3637 N Clark Street, Chicago.
Visit GallagherWay.com for more information and events.
There is no cost for Music Box Theatre Movies at the Gallagher Way,
join us for free.
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SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOLLYWOOD
DIRECTED BY: Matt Tyrnauer
“ Captures a fascinating era of
Hollywood—the public-relations
version and the real one.”
97 mins, DCP –The Wrap
SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD is the
deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a handsome “An engaging, layered, frequently
fascinating look at Hollywood
legend Scotty Bowers.”
ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after WWII and became
–The Hollywood Reporter
confidante, aide-de-camp and lover to many of Hollywood’s
greatest male—and female—stars. An unsung Hollywood legend,
Bowers would cater to the sexual appetites of celebrities—straight and gay–for decades. While the
studio PR machines were promoting their stars as wholesome and monogamous, Bowers was fulfilling
the true desires of many of them. This cinéma-vérité documentary tells his story, and presents eye-
opening takes on icons from the Hollywood Golden Age including Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn,
Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and many more.
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FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
AUGUST 10-16
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10th
Anniversary!
NICO, 1988
“ Surprisingly authentic, with
a zombie-pitch-perfect
performance by Trine Dyrholm.”
DIRECTED BY: Susanna Nicchiarelli –Variety
STARRING: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
95 mins, DCP, In English, German and French with English subtitles
NICO, 1988 features a tour de force performance from Trine Dyrholm as the aging Nico (aka Christa
Päffgen), interpreting rather than impersonating the famed singer-songwriter as she approaches 50.
Leading a solitary existence in Manchester, Nico’s life and career are on the ropes, a far cry from
her glamorous days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for The Velvet Underground. NOIR CITY CHICAGO • AUGUST 17-23
Nico’s new manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest
album. Struggling with her demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a NOIR CITY CHICAGO celebrates 10 years with “Film Noir From A to B”! Audiences will be taken back in time
relationship with the son she lost custody of long ago. A brave and uncompromising musician, NICO, with a program of seven genuine “A” and “B” double bills, spanning the breadth of the original film noir era,
1988 is the story of an artist, a mother, and the woman behind the icon. 1945 to 1952. With a special Opening Night double feature of DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS and ONE FALSE MOVE
with director Carl Franklin in person. Hosted by Film Noir Foundation Founder and President Eddie Muller,
and FNF board member and author Alan K. Rode. Highlights include:
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Adapted from the first of Walter Mosley’s popular Easy Rawlins novels, this neo-noir
stars Denzel Washington as the private investigator plying his trade in South Central
Los Angeles after WWII. When DeWitt Albright (a memorably shifty Tom Sizemore)
asks Easy to find a missing woman (Jennifer Beals) involved with a mayoral candidate,
the detective soon has several murders to solve. With Don Cheadle.
ONE FALSE MOVE
(Carl Franklin, 1992, 105 mins, 35mm)
After Michael Beach, Cynda Williams and Billy Bob Thornton (who co-wrote the taut
script) leave Los Angeles following a particularly bloody drug robbery, LAPD detectives
suspect they’ll head to Star City, Arkansas. Talkative local sheriff Bill Paxton is excited by
COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE - Cont
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the prospect of doing real police work—but he has a connection to one of the criminals
Behin tes of that he doesn’t disclose in this unpredictable crime thriller. Critic Gene Siskel’s favorite
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film of 1992, and ran for 8 weeks at the Music Box Theatre in its initial theatrical release.
Foota nus
Wednesday, August 15 at 9:30pm & Thursday, August 16 at 7pm
ge! THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF
(Felix Feist, 1950, 81 mins, 35mm)
(Shinichirô Watanabe, 2001, 115 mins, DCP) A veteran San Francisco homicide cop (Lee J. Cobb) spirals into a moral morass when
Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, releasing a deadly his married socialite lover (Jane Wyatt, in a rare fatale role) “accidentally” bumps off
virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger, even more devastating biochemical attack, an astronomical her husband. Instead of playing it by the book (would that be noir?), he covers up the
reward is offered for the capture of the culprits behind the destruction. On the spaceship “Bebop,” crime, only to have his younger brother (John Dall)—a rookie homicide dick—start
Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters are bored and short of cash. But with the news of the putting together the pieces. This
reward, everything changes. Based on the wildly popular TV series, the big-screen adaptation pits James M. Cain-style thriller gets maximum impact from its San
Francisco locations, including a memorable climax at Fort Point.
Spike and Co. against their deadliest adversary ever. Featuring stunning, state-of-the-art animation,
this action-packed sci-fi adventure builds to a breathtaking, nail-biting climax, guaranteed to keep you Presented in a brand new 35mm restoration courtesy of the
hanging on the edge of your seat. Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
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SKATE KITCHEN R DN
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“ An irresistible hangout movie”
–Variety ON PAG
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DIRECTED BY: Crystal Moselle MADELINE’S MADELINE
STARRING: Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Jaden Smith
106 mins, DCP
“ A gorgeous exploration of
a young woman coming
into her own via her skills
“ One of the boldest and
most invigorating American
films of the 21st century.”
and her sisterhood” DIRECTED BY: Josephine Decker
In the first narrative feature from THE WOLFPACK director Crystal –IndieWire
–The Wrap STARRING: Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July
Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder from
Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based
skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling out with her
94 mins, DCP
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater
“ The best film I saw
at Sundance”
–Village Voice
mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy, but a relationship with him proves to be trickier troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director pushes the teenager
to navigate than a kickflip. Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother
skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film’s authenticity, which combines poetic, into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting
atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three
experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance women’s lives. Writer/director Josephine Decker’s film displays a rare sensitivity for capturing the
of camaraderie and self-discovery. messy struggles of discovering a sense of one’s self that defies easy narrative categorization.
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CUSTODY
“ Gripping. Superbly-performed.
Truly merit[s] the term ‘discovery.’” THE APPARITION
DIRECTED BY: Xavier Legrand
–The Playlist
“ An excellent film...”
–Cineuropa
STARRING: Denis Ménochet, Léa Drucker, Thomas Gioria
93 mins, DCP, French with English subtitles “ The most dazzling fusion of grim
social realism and giddy genre
DIRECTED BY: Xavier Giannoli
STARRING: Vincent Lindon, Galatéa Bellugi, Patrick d’Assumçao
thrills since 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS 144 mins, DCP, In English, French and Italian with English subtitles A Music
s
Box Film
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an AND 2 DAYS.”
embattled son at the center in this domestic thriller that will –Sight & Sound Jacques is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an e!
Relea s
keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their impartial and talented investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican who recruits
throats. Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is him for a special task: taking part of a committee to investigate the veracity of a saintly
seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine apparition in a small French village—a true canonical investigation. Upon his arrival, he
pleads his case as a scorned dad whose children have been turned against him by their vindictive meets the young and sensitive Anna who claims to have personally witnessed the apparition of the
mother. Unsure who is telling the truth, the appointed judge rules in favor of joint custody. A hostage Virgin Mary. A profound devout, she’s garnered an impressive following in the village and is torn
to the escalating conflict between his parents, Julien is pushed to the edge to prevent the worst from between her faith and the many solicitations she receives. Confronted with opposing views from
happening. A companion piece to director Xavier Legrand’s Academy Award®-nominated short film Just clergy members and skeptics in the group, Jacques gradually uncovers the hidden motivations and
Before Losing Everything, CUSTODY won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. pressures at work and sees his beliefs system profoundly shaken.
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FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 9 OPENS SEPTEMBER 14
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LET THE CORPSES TAN
“ Meticulously executed,
obsessively stylized. You almost
expect to see Dario Argento or
DIRECTED BY: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
CATVIDEOFEST
Mario Bava’s name on the credits”
STARRING: Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin –Screen International
92 mins, DCP, In French with English subtitles
Sunday, September 9 at Noon & 2:30pm After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds “ Beautiful, experimental and
bold. One of the most exciting
cinematic experiences I’ve had
to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the
CatVideoFest returns to Chicago! 70 minutes of the best cat videos of the year, Mediterranean. Home to a reclusive yet hypersexual artist and
in quite some time.”
plus some classics and surprises. –Birth.Movies.Death
her motley crew of family and admirers, it seems like a perfect
CatVideoFest is a charitable nonprofit dedicated to bringing the joy of cat hideout. But when two cops roll up on motorcycles to investigate,
videos to the masses and raising money for cats in need. Each year, curator Will the hamlet erupts into a hallucinatory battlefield as both sides engage in a firefight rife with double-
Braden creates a program of the best cat videos of the year, along with some crosses and dripping with blood. Based on a classic pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and
classics and unique submissions. Ticket sales for CatVideoFest go toward local featuring music by Ennio Morricone, LET THE CORPSES TAN is a deliriously stylish, cinematic fever
cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters. dream that will slamfire your senses like buckshot to the brain.
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FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENS SEPTEMBER 28 OCTOBER 5-11
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PICK OF THE LITTER
“ Emotive storytelling with
HEAVY TRIP
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concisely focused film- Jukka Vidgren and Juuso
making that’s sure to charm Laatio’s breakout film is a
DIRECTED BY: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy viewers well beyond a sizable metal movie for the ages.”
81 mins, DCP audience of dog lovers.” DIRECTED BY: Jukka Vidgren, Juuso Laatio
–Birth.Movies.Death
–The Hollywood Reporter STARRING: Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen, Max Ovaska
PICK OF THE LITTER follows a litter of puppies from the moment
90 mins, DCP, In English, Norwegian and Finnish with English subtitles
they’re born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind.
Cameras follow these pups through an intense two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is
whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind partners from harm. Along the way, these being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his
remarkable animals rely on a community of dedicated individuals who train them to do amazing, bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from
life-changing things in the service of their human. The stakes are high and not every dog can make Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decide it’s now or never. They steal
the cut. Only the best of the best. The pick of the litter. a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer in order to make their dreams a reality.
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BISBEE ‘17 Screenin
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“ Instantly essential. A lyrical,
powerful piece of work that
will certainly stand among the
HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS
DIRECTED BY: Robert Greene best documentaries you’ll see
112 mins, DCP this year.”
–RogerEbert.com Sunday, October 7 at 1:30pm
BISBEE ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker
(Kenny Ortega, 1993, 96 mins, 35mm)
Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town
just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. “ A fascinating and dream-like
mosaic about a forgotten
American tragedy.”
This Halloween, the Sanderson Sisters are casting their spell over the Music Box!
Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker star as three 17th-century
Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and –IndieWire
Salem witches who rise from the dead to wreak havoc on the early-‘90s. And
musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit
with HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS, you can join in on the wicked mischief! Dick O’Day photo
community as they attempt to reckon with their town’s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand by Rick Aguilar
immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded Hosted by Dick O’Day, you’re invited to shout, sing, cheer and scream along with
up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexico the movie during our interactive screening. Plus, the magic is in your hands with our goody bags, full of
desert and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the candy, bubbles, streamers and more. So put on your wildest, wackiest Halloween costume, hop on your
Bisbee Deportation. broom (or vacuum), and fly over to the Music Box for this family-friendly event.
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FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
OCTOBER 8 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
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DON COSCARELLI
Monday, October 8 at 7:15pm
Conversation and Book-Signing
From Don Coscarelli, the celebrated
filmmaker behind many cherished cult
classics comes a memoir that’s both revealing
autobiography and indie film crash course.
Best known for his horror/sci-fi/fantasy films
including PHANTASM, THE BEASTMASTER
and BUBBA HO-TEP, now he’s taking you on
a white-knuckle ride through the wild world
of the independent filmmaker. Join Coscarelli
as he gets his own Universal Pictures office
on the studio lot while still a teenager, turns Includes
a short story about Elvis Presley battling a a
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into a beloved cult classic film, and breaks of BUBB
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bread with Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, HO-TEP!
Guillermo Del Toro and many more. True
Indie will prove indispensable for film fans,
aspiring filmmakers, and anyone who loves
an underdog success story.
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THE FACES OF FRANKENSTEIN
Monday, October 15 at 7pm
Depictions of Frankenstein’s Creature from Mary Shelley
to Benedict Cumberbatch. A conversation coordinated by
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
HUMP TOUR: THE VERY BEST OF HUMP! Shelley’s creation has become one of the most recognizable but misunderstood characters in film,
literature and on stage: Boris Karloff’s nonverbal behemoth to Herman Munster to your favorite
Wednesday, October 10 - Friday, October 12 green Halloween mask. But the monster is much more than neck bolts—and has been a favorite
subject of filmmakers, artists, writers and performers for two centuries because of it. The creative
What’s HUMP!? It’s the best little porn festival in the world! For this special show, HUMP! creator
team of Remy Bumppo Theatre Company hosts a discussion of the depictions of this complex
Dan Savage (Savage Lovecast, It Gets Better Project) has selected some of his favorites from the
creature, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the novel’s publication. Panel discussion to start
2008 through 2017 festivals. Filmmakers resubmitted their films for this mini tour to select cities.
at 8:15pm following a 7pm screening of FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, 1931, 70 mins, 35mm).
Go to HumpFilmFest.com to see the lineup and buy tickets!
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“With narrative restraint and a lapidary visual style, Mr. Beauvois
opens up this isolated world with stirring emotional force.”
— The New York Times
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 TO
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
BUY YOUR COPY TODAY AT THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE
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70MM
FEATURES
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SPECIAL EVENTS
INDIANA JONES AND
THE MUSIC BOX THE LAST CRUSADE
(Steven Spielberg, 1989, 127 mins)
70MM FILM FESTIVAL 70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound
from Paramount
In the third entry in the Indiana Jones series,
Harrison Ford has to rescue his father profes-
September 14 - 27, 2018 sor Henry Jones (Sean Connery) from the Na-
zis before they get to the Holy Grail. Beauti-
The 70MM Film Festival returns to the Music Box for another epic year of fully shot in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom,
celluloid. This year’s festival includes a brand new 70MM print of LAWRENCE Turkey, and Jordan, THE LAST CRUSADE is
OF ARABIA, festival favorites like WEST SIDE STORY and 2001: A SPACE genuinely thrilling entertainment that still
ODYSSEY, and 8 films that have never screened in 70MM at the Music Box! makes time for Steven Spielberg’s patented
deadbeat father and son dynamics. Featuring River Phoenix as a teenage Indiana Jones!
Friday, September 21 at 7:15pm • Saturday, September 22 at 3pm
Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30pm • Wednesday, September 26 at 2:30pm
2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY
(Stanley Kubrick, 1968, 164 mins) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
70MM with DTS Sound from (David Lean, 1962, 228 mins)
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Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award- 70M
winning achievement is a compelling drama An account of the life and adventures of T.E. Lawrence
of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of mu- (piercingly blue-eyed Peter O’Toole), David Lean’s finest
sic and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the film is the rare historical epic that works on nearly every
screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits level, combining awe-inspiring production values with a
our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps genuinely moving story of a deeply imperfect man. Made
millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks by people who really meant business, the locations were
astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay so hot and dry that they caused cracking in the emulsion
doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin. of the camera negative. Don’t watch this one at home!
Monday, September 24 at 7pm • Thursday, September 27 at 2:30pm Saturday, September 15 at 7pm • Sunday, September 16 at 12:30pm
Tuesday, September 18 at 7pm • Wednesday, September 19 at 2pm
Thursday, September 20 at 2pm
THE DARK CRYSTAL
(Jim Henson, Frank Oz, 1982, 93 mins)
70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound PATTON
from Universal (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970, 172 mins)
A young Gelfling named Jen sets out to restore or- Archival 70MM Print with DTS Sound from
der to his planet by recovering a glass shard from Twentieth Century Fox
the broken and powerful Dark Crystal. A delightfully George C. Scott stars as the controversial WWII general
creepy collaboration between Jim Henson and Frank “Old Blood and Guts” George S. Patton, in a performance
Oz, THE DARK CRYSTAL presents a darker side of so crazed and immersed it’s hard not to believe he’s the
the muppets and features some of the best anima- man himself. A personal favorite of Roger Ebert, who
tronics of the ‘80s (which still hold up beautifully called PATTON “not only one of the best American
today). Variety noted the film was a welcome lesson in mortality for parents and children alike, and “the movies, but one of the best uses ever made of 70MM
outstanding character is the Aughra, an ancient one-eyed harridan of an oracle who somehow reminds widescreen photography … it is startling to see how good
one of a truly blowsy Shelley Winters.” a movie can look.”
Saturday, September 22 at 12:30pm • Sunday, September 23 at 9:15pm Saturday, September 15 at 11:30am
Wednesday, September 26 at 7pm Thursday, September 20 at 7pm
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FEATURES
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
(James Ivory, 1993, 134 mins)
70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound from
Sony Pictures Repertory
Adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Merchant-
Ivory’s exquisite follow-up to HOWARDS END
reunites Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins
in another understated and adult romance. A tale
STAR TREK VI: THE THE THING
of compromise and complicity in interwar England, UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (John Carpenter, 1982, 109 mins)
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY follows housekeeper (Nicholas Meyer, 1991, 110 mins) 70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound
Miss Kenton (Thompson) as she waits for unflap- 70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound from Universal
pable head butler Stevens (Hopkins) to think above from Paramount Master of horror John Carpenter and frequent col-
The final entry in the Star Trek franchise starring the laborator Kurt Russell take you to a remote outpost
his station and express his feelings while their employer Lord Darlington (James Fox) pursues a separate
cast of The Original Series (and the last Star Trek film in Antarctica, as a group of American research sci-
peace with Nazi Germany. The only Merchant-Ivory production to receive a 70MM release, REMAINS OF
to receive a 70MM release), THE UNDISCOVERED entists discover that a nearby camp has been de-
THE DAY shows the team’s typical attention to costume design, set decoration, and period detail to its stroyed and a strange craft has been found beneath
COUNTRY is a still timely Russian/American allegory
best advantage in this lovely blowup. the ice. Under attack by an alien lifeform that can
that borrows heavily from Shakespeare and finds the
Friday, September 21 at 3pm • Sunday, September 23 at 11:30am crew of the enterprise gracefully confronting old age. assume the shape of its victims, THE THING is a
Monday, September 24 at 2:30pm Hesitant to admit he was really a fan, Gene Siskel harrowing combination of slow burn paranoia and
revealed on “At the Movies” that after 6 movies, gruesome body horror. With groundbreaking crea-
he’d “really grown to like these people.” Featuring ture special effects by Rob Bottin (TOTAL RECALL,
SILVERADO an earth shattering Dolby SR soundtrack and Chris-
topher Plummer.
SE7EN) and music by the great Ennio Morricone.
Please note this print has somewhat faded color.
(Lawrence Kasdan, 1985, 133 mins) Friday, September 14 at 11:30pm
Friday, September 21 at 10:30pm
70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound Saturday, September 15 at Midnight
Saturday, September 22 at 11pm
from Sony Pictures Repertory Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 23 at 6:30pm
Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter of RAIDERS OF THE
LOST ARK and STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES
BACK and an Oscar-nominee for THE BIG CHILL, uses
his industry clout to assemble a star-studded cast for
this old-fashioned Western. Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover and Kevin Costner (in his breakout role)
are four drifters who arrive in a small town overrun by a corrupt sheriff and his mercenaries. Kasdan pays
tribute to the cowboy films of the past, with thrilling gunfights, horseback chases, jailbreaks, dishonorable
men doing honorable deeds, and fills the 70MM frame with the sun-drenched vistas of the old west. All
this, plus Jeff Goldblum as a lowlife gambler! YEAR OF THE DRAGON
(Michael Cimino, 1985, 134 mins)
Sunday, September 23 at 3pm • Tuesday, September 25 at 2:30pm WEST SIDE STORY 70MM Blowup with Magnetic Sound
Wednesday, September 26 at 9:30pm (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961, 152 mins)
from Private Collections, permission
70MM with DTS Sound from Park Circus Warner Brothers
Adapted from the incredibly successful Broad-
THE SOUND OF MUSIC way play, even the magnificent 70MM frame has
Director Michael Cimino’s first film after the infa-
mously disastrous (and quite beautiful) HEAVEN’S
(Robert Wise, 1965, 172 mins) trouble containing the raw energy of WEST SIDE GATE, YEAR OF THE DRAGON stars Mickey Rourke
Archival 70MM Print with DTS Sound STORY. Robert Wise (THE SOUND OF MUSIC, THE as Vietnam War veteran Stanley White, a police
from Twentieth Century Fox DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) co-directed with captain hell bent on cleaning up organized crime
Jerome Robbins, who had a nervous breakdown in New York’s Chinatown. Oliver Stone wrote the
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer star in the midway through production—the results are visible script, and described Cimino’s obsessive directing
beloved American classic, based on the real life von on screen, and it was worth it. For our money, this style as follows: “With Michael, it’s a 24-hour day
Trapp family’s escape from Nazi-annexed Austria. is one of the best looking prints of the festival, it … He doesn’t really sleep … he’s truly an obsessive
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Pic- also has the best end credits sequence by Saul Bass. personality. He’s the most Napoleonic director I
ture, THE SOUND OF MUSIC was enormously popular on its original release, with many 70MM engage- Friday, September 14 at 7:30pm ever worked with.” The results are big budget Hol-
ments running over two years straight (the run at the Michael Todd Theatre in Chicago was 92 weeks)! Sunday, September 16 at 6pm lywood filmmaking at its most personal.
With music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Patrons please note, this is NOT a Sing-A-Long! Monday, September 17 at 2:30pm Saturday, September 15 at 3:30pm
Saturday, September 22 at 6:30pm • Thursday, September 27 at 7pm Tuesday, September 18 at 2:30pm Monday, September 17 at 7:30pm
20 Music Box Theatre August-October 2018 70MM Film Festival 21COMMENTARY
collaborating cinematographer Ashley Connor, and a dedication to shallow focus, leaving much of the world a blur
as we hone in on the crystal-clear spectacle in front of us.
As someone whose creative energy thrives off of discomfort and intimacy, Decker doesn’t excuse herself from the
claustrophobia of the project, or distance herself from the awkward notion that Howard is Decker’s creative break-
through. Decker interrogates the purpose of the very film you’re watching through Molly Parker’s performance.
As the story works through its light narrative, she becomes another mysterious, shattered soul who feels that
attaching herself to being another figure to someone as untamable as Madeline will provide some sort of clarity.
Miranda July’s Regina watches much of this from the sidelines, until her influence as Madeline’s mother is seen as
a means to inspire the truest art out of Howard’s character. Decker hones in on July’s curious delicacy, especially
as a mother whose dynamic with Madeline is more like a younger sister who can easily be overpowered. As the
movie becomes about Madeline’s relationship with her mother, so too does it touch upon a woman with more
first-hand experience to how Madeline creates beauty and pain, and someone well aware that Madeline is also still
MADELIN just a teenager. In one of the best projects July has ever been a part of, she adds to the humming anxiety that gives
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OPEN ’S MADELIN the film its energy.
SEE PAG S AUGUST 31. E
A SWIRLING, SYMPHONIC FILM E 9 FO R
DETAILS
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With its hypnotic glimpses of such perilous relationships, MADELINE’S MADELINE leads viewers to an exhilarating
climax that comes out of nowhere, and yet it feels perfect for a film such as Decker’s. It’s essentially a trip inside
MADELINE’S MADELINE Is Undoubtedly the Star Madeline’s brain, but with no special effects needed: only the craft of performance, and the visceral emotions that
By Nick Allen came before it. It’s a testament to the pleasures of such an impulsive movie, one that rewards viewers with creativ-
ity and a type of acting and filmmaking style that feels wholly new. Its greatest gift of all, however, is cluing us into
World—meet Helena Howard. The 17-year-old actress contains the latest must-witness talent in American inde-
Howard’s talents. Decker doesn’t just gorgeously articulate the complexity of acting, she gives us a new voice,
pendent cinema, as presented by Josephine Decker’s “MADELINE’S MADELINE,” Howard’s first movie and one that
whose talent is beyond words.
dares not contain her. Here is a young woman who seemingly has the ability to broadcast any emotion, making
her instantaneously enigmatic. MADELINE’S MADELINE is the type of acting reel for a first-timer that an endless Nick Allen is an assistant editor and film critic at RogerEbert.com, and also writes for The Hollywood Reporter
amount of bigger-name actors can’t match: her first scene shows that she could play an animal without any motion and the AV Club. You can follow him on Twitter at @nickallen_redux.
capture needed; her last scene proves that she could play the title role in a biopic about God.
MADELINE’S MADELINE is the swirling, symphonic work of a director who is more than prepped for her own GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER
MINDING
big moment, a performance artist-turned-filmmaker who has been telling impulsive, abrasive stories on a micro-
scale. Decker’s previous movies sent her to the woods; 2013’s “Butter on the Latch” dealt with a woman having THE
a breakdown in a California forest, and 2014’s “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” dreamed of three people on a quiet
farm, gaming each other with what they do and don’t reveal about their urges. Feeding off of improvisation with
THE GAP AREA
her actors, her scripts often send her main characters on disturbing fever dreams, composing slowly unsettling AUG 31 - SEPT 13 SEPT 14 - 27
character-driven tales. She’s also the kind of director who doesn’t hesitate to show us the POVs of the animals
in her films, articulating how untamable humans are at their core.
For her best and biggest film yet, MADELINE’S MADELINE puts into her unique cinematic language the primal FROM KARTEMQUIN LAND GRAB IN
FILMS! ENGLEWOOD!
expression of acting, of pretending to be something or someone while stuck in your own skin and bones. Based
around the relationship between a student (Helena Howard’s Madeline), her teacher Evangeline (Molly Parker) and
Madeline’s mother (Miranda July), it is light on plot—so much that it’s an acting movie without a focal production, 164 N State • siskelfilmcenter.org
at least in the conventional sense. But the movie is extremely heavy with character—it’s about Madeline, and the
two mother figures who have different projections of her.
Madeline is the youngest student in a New York City acting class full of other die-hard thespians, but she’s
undoubtedly the star. Her flexibility with her emotions, and full physical commitment, bewitches Evangeline as
she starts to gear obscure acting exercises toward Madeline’s talents. As an acting coach and expectant mother,
she dangerously romanticizes the elements that make Madeline a complicated soul—Madeline’s tense relationship
with her comparably docile mother, or the history of mental illness that once sent her to a psych ward, and makes
her an unpredictable stage presence.
Often taking place within the realm of performance, MADELINE’S MADELINE in part displays Howard’s tremendous
knowledge of people—how to imitate them, intimidate them, or break them. As she commands the attention
of those around her, Madeline’s acting abilities are a superpower of creativity and/or destruction, and she is not
aware of their full potential. Decker’s film captivates in part by showing this phenomenon in its most pure form,
while finding a soul-mate for Decker’s own aesthetic interests: disorienting cuts, intrusive close-ups by frequent
22 Music Box Theatre August-October 2018 Commentary 23CONTINUING SERIES
CLASSIC MATINEES Presente
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September 1 & 2
SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS AT 11:30am on 35MM SUNSET BOULEVARD
! (Billy Wilder, 1950, 110 mins, 35mm)
MUSIC BOX STAFF PICKS! Picked by Kyle, Operations Manager
Kyle says: Film noir has always held a special place in my
The Music Box Matinee programming has been turned over to our excellent house staff! Come heart and SUNSET BOULEVARD is one of my all-time
see classic films selected by the folks who sell the tickets, make the popcorn, mix the drinks, favorites. The part in which Gloria Swanson’s character
project the movies, and keep the Music Box running. rewatches old movies of herself while smoking and
relives her glory days is one of the best scenes ever put
August 12 on film. Plus, any movie featuring Buster Keaton, albeit
in a small role, will forever hold my attention.
CABARET
(Bob Fosse, 1972, 124 mins, 35mm) September 8 & 9
Picked by Sarah, Front of House
Sarah says: Directed by Bob Fosse with music and lyrics THE ‘BURBS
by Kander & Ebb, CABARET takes place in Berlin during (Joe Dante, 1989, 101 mins, 35mm)
the uprising of the Nazi party. It centers around cabaret Picked by Ray, Front of House
singer, Sally Bowles (LIZA MINNELLI!!!!) and brings glitter,
Ray says: THE ‘BURBS is an overlooked gem from Tom
jazz, and sexual fluidity to the forefront despite the
Hanks’ comedy days. Its darker themes are painfully
world falling apart (relevant) and reminds us to live life
relevant today and the humor is timeless and nonstop.
to the fullest.
Some hearty laughs will be had and I can’t think of a
better way to start the day. It’s easily in my top 10. Tom
August 18 & 19 Hanks, Corey Feldman, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, Joe
Dante... a lot to love.
JOHNNY GUITAR
(Nicholas Ray, 1954, 110 mins, 35mm)
Picked by Justin, Projectionist
Justin says: When I first started at the Music Box in
UNIVERSAL HORROR
2013, JOHNNY GUITAR played as a matinee. I foolishly
missed it and it hasn’t played in Chicago on film since. The Music Box and DePaul University’s School of Cinematic
I love everything about it. The way it looks (those Arts resurrect the most iconic monsters, murderers, and
colors! those costumes!), the way it feels (so sensitively madmen ever captured on 35MM. This series celebrates the
dramatic! so wonderfully queer!), and that commanding haunting legacy of DRACULA, THE MUMMY, THE INVISIBLE
performance by Joan Crawford. Oh my goodness! MAN and more in establishing the horror genre as a site for
powerful philosophical, political, and cultural discussions
about the terrors lurking in our imagination. Prepare
August 25 & 26 yourself for the macabre seduction of undead aristocrats,
megalomaniac scientists, and the birth of Modern Horror
AMERICAN GRAFFITI Cinema. Featuring introductions by DePaul faculty and
(George Lucas, 1973, 110 mins, 35mm) post-screening discussions in the Music Box Lounge
& Garden. Sponsored by DePaul University College of
Picked by Roibeard, House Manager
Computing and Digital Media, School of the Cinematic Arts.
Roibeard says: After his first feature (THX 1138) flopped
at the Box Office, George Lucas needed a success September 29 & 30 October 20 & 21
or his film career could have ended before it began. DRACULA MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
Thankfully, AMERICAN GRAFFITI (based on George’s (Tod Browning, 1931, 75 mins, 35mm) (Robert Florey, 1932, 61 mins, 35mm)
teenage years) struck a chord with audiences being both
critically and commercially successful. Without this film, October 6 & 7 October 27 & 28
we wouldn’t have STAR WARS or INDIANA JONES, and THE INVISIBLE MAN THE MUMMY
the landscape of films today would be vastly different. (James Whale, 1933, 71 mins, 35mm) (Karl Freund, 1932, 73 mins, 35mm)
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GREEN SNAKE
(Tsui Hark, 1993, 99 mins, 35mm,
In Cantonese with English subtitles)
Monday, August 13 at 7pm
Tsui Hark had moved from punk
rock outsider to studio mogul
when he made his revisionist wuxia
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masterpiece GREEN SNAKE, a film
N 7 DAYS A WE that married the surface appeal
of a special effects-heavy martial
arts blowout with a colorful,
hyperactive style and subversive
sense of humor reminiscent of Frank
Tashlin. An update of the undying
folk tale Madame White Snake, GREEN SNAKE features Hong Kong superstars Maggie Cheung and
Joey Wong as a pair of sororal snake spirits hunted by a puritanical Buddhist monk after taking human
form. Every overindulgent camera tilt and oversized snake prosthetic serve to push this ridiculous
pulp concoction ever closer to the sublime.
35mm from the Academy Film Archive
DABLON THE SMALLEST
SHOW ON EARTH
(Basil Dearden, 1957, 80 mins, 35mm)
VINEYARDS
Monday, September 3 at 7pm
A young couple (Virginia McKenna
and Bill Travers) discover they have
inherited a derelict cinema the
locals call “the fleapit.” The staff
is a bickering triad of fantastic
Winery & Tasting Room character actors: Peter Sellers as
Mr. Quill, the projectionist, Margaret
Rutherford as Mrs. Fazackalee, the
cashier, and Bernard Miles as Old
Tom, the usher. McKenna and Travers gamely succumb to the joys and pains of running a decrepit
single screen: elaborate concessions sales schemes, customers who want to pay in pork chops,
and the eternal problems of management vs. projection. A love letter to movie houses and their
occupants that will be felt keenly by anyone who ever watched a multiplex go up around the corner
and secretly wished that it would mysteriously burn to the ground.
Imported 35mm print
26 Music Box Theatre August-October 2018 Chicago Film Society 27CONTINUING SERIES
SILENT CINEMA SAPPHO
(Dimitri Buchowetzki, 1921,
Classic silent films the way they were meant to be seen!
81 mins, 35mm)
Featuring a live musical score on the famous Music
Sunday, October 14 at 5pm
Box organ by Dennis Scott, Music Box House Organist.
Co-presented by Chicago Film Society. Fresh from the worldwide success of
Ernst Lubitsch’s MADAME DUBARRY, Pol-
ish actress Pola Negri signed a Hollywood
contract with great fanfare. In March 1923,
THE BLUE BIRD a month before the release of Negri’s first
(Maurice Tourneur, 1918, American film, Goldwyn Studios dusted
80 mins, 35mm) off a German Negri film from two years
Saturday, August 11 at 11:30am earlier, retitled it MAD LOVE, and cannily
exploited the public’s mounting Negri-
Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck’s
mania. Described by the New York Tri-
1908 play THE BLUEBIRD had already
bune as “the greatest non-stop vamping
charmed audiences in Moscow, Lon-
record ever filmed,” SAPPHO follows Negri as the titular temptress who drives one lover to the insane
don, and New York by the time this
asylum (Alfred Abel), proceeds to seduce his brother (Johannes Riemann), beguiles an automobile
magical adaptation reached the
magnate (Albert Steinrück), and more. A mad whirl of betrayal and revenge follows.
screen. The simple fairytale of My-
tyl and Tytyl, children who journey 35mm print courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archives
through enchanted lands in search of Still provided by MoMA
the Bluebird of Happiness, provided
the ideal material for Maurice Tour-
neur, the French émigré who brought a wispy Pictorialist sensibility to the wilds of New Jersey. This
delicate dream of a film excels in realizing the stranger aspects of Maeterlinck’s play with wide-eyed,
guileless gusto: the spirits and fairies, the living souls of everyday objects like bread and milk, the
Cathedral of Happiness, and more. 35mm print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum.
FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
The Music Box proudly presents the greatest in filmed theatrical
experiences from around the world!
CITY GIRL
(F.W. Murnau, 1930, 88 mins, 35mm)
Saturday, September 8 at 11:30am
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS -
THE MUSICAL
Initially conceived as poetic paean to
the production chain of bread, F.W. PRESENTED BY TRAFALGAR RELEASING
Murnau’s decidedly experimental Directed by: Christopher Wheeldon
concept was reconfigured into an en- Sunday, September 30 at 11:30am &
dearingly simple love story between Tuesday, October 16 at 2:30pm & 7pm
Minnesota country boy Lem (Charles
Farrell), come to the big city to sell Rory Kinnear (THE THREEPENNY OPERA, PENNY
his family’s wheat crop, and Chicago This breathtakingly beautiful, Tony Award-winning
waitress Kate (Mary Duncan), yearn- Broadway musical, inspired by the Oscar-winning
ing for an end to the loneliness of film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love
urban life. Lem weds Kate and brings in the “City of Light.” Featuring the gorgeous music
her home to the farm, where Lem’s and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin, stunning
family doesn’t look kindly upon designs, and show-stopping choreography. With
Kate’s city girl ways. Filming his city a record-setting 28 five-star reviews from critics,
scenes on extravagant studio sets AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is coming from London’s
and his farm scenes on location in the wilds of Oregon, Murnau imbues both with a rapturous West End to the Music Box. Experience this “old-
sense of discovery, collapsing simple urban-rural dichotomies and inventing the career of Terrence fashioned, big-hearted spare-no-expense Broadway
Malick in the process. romance” (The Wall Street Journal) on the big screen.
28 Music Box Theatre August-October 2018 Stage to Screen 29CONTINUING SERIES
4
MIDNIGHTS
5
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT MIDNIGHT presents
August 10 & 11 SUMMER OF ‘84 August 31 & MIND GAME
September 1 (Masaaki Yuaza, 2004,
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(François Simard, Anouk Whissell &
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Yoann-Karl Whissell 2018, 105 mins, DCP) 103 mins, DCP)
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August 17 & THE ROOM September WAYNE’S WORLD 2
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September 28 (Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99 mins, 35mm) 7 & 8 (Stephen Surjik, 1993,
95 mins, 35mm)
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August 18 & THE ROCKY HORROR
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September 29 PICTURE SHOW September GET MY GUN
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(Jim Sharman, 1975, 100 mins, 35mm) 14 & 15 (Brian Darwas, 90 mins,
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2017, DCP)
INTF ILM 150 PREMIERES
August 24 & 25 LETHAL WEAPON
(Richard Donner, 1987, 119 mins, 35mm)
SUMMER OF ‘84
(François Simard, Anouk Whissell Writer
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Smith
& Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018, 105 mins, DCP) Stephen !
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For 15-year-old Davey, the thought of having a serial in pe o
rs
killer in his suburban town circa the 1980s is a scary
yet exciting prospect at the start of a lazy summer. In MEET DIRECTORS
hormonal overdrive, Davey and his friends dream of sexual conquests
until the news reports of the Cape May Killer. Davey convinces his
SEE STARS
friends that they must investigate, and they come to the conclusion
that his next-door neighbor, an unassuming police officer, could be the
prime suspect. Is this a case of successful amateur sleuthing, or simply an overactive imagination fueled by Reagan-era OCTOBER 10-21, 2018 AMC River East 21• 322 E. Illinois St.
paranoia? From the directing trio that brought the world 2015’s TURBO KID.
PASSES NOW ON SALE!
MIND GAME
(Masaaki Yuaza, 2004, 103 mins, DCP)
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of unconstrained expression—gloriously colorful images ricochet in
rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuaza’s demented brain splattered @chifilmfest
onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to
save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot in the butt by a
soccer-playing psychopath, projecting Nishi into the afterlife. In limbo,
God—shown as a series of rapidly changing characters—tells him to walk
toward the light. But Nishi runs like hell in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment
to the fullest. Phantasmagoric does not even begin to describe this truly mind-bending work of animated mad-genius!
WAYNE’S WORLD 2
(Stephen Surjik, 1993, 95 mins, 35mm) 25th
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back in this sequel to the 1992 hit comedy. The Patric Woo
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success of their TV show allows Wayne Campbell Alfre
(Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to finally
move out of the basement, but now they have to figure out what to do
with their lives. Prompted by the ghost of Jim Morrison, Wayne organizes
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a massive rock concert, while his rockstar girlfriend Cassandra (Tia agne
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8.28 - beastie boys: awesome; i f***ing
shot that! / fight for your right revisited
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10. 2 - nick cave: 20,000 days on earth
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