Film, Film & TV

Preview: Music Box Theatre Celebrates Wes Anderson and Asteroid City With Four New Classics

This Friday, in anticipation of filmmaker Wes Anderson’s upcoming Asteroid City, the Music Box Theatre hosts 4 by Wes; from Friday, June 16, to Tuesday, June 20, the Music Box […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Full Time Creates a Life in Constant Motion as Single Mom Fights to Keep Her Life Together

Full Time is set in Paris, that glamorous city of our dreams—but everything that happens to our heroine, Julie (Laure Calamy) happens every day to single moms everywhere trying to keep […]

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Feature, Film, Film & TV

Feature: A Century of American Childcare Revealed in CHF’s Screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid

The Chicago Humanities Festival presented a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s hour-long masterpiece The Kid, at the Music Box Theater on November 5, with whimsical, period intertitles (handwritten, but similar to […]

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Feature, Film & TV, Film fest

Dispatch: Chicago International Film Festival Ends With Announcement of Award Winners, Closing Night Feature

The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ls history now with winners announced and Closing Night over. Last night’s closing feature at the Music Box Theatre was Noel Baumbach’s White Noise, […]

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Film, Film & TV, Film fest

Dispatch: Chicago Film Festival Heads Into Last Weekend—We Have Film Suggestions for You

The 58th Chicago International Film Festival ends Sunday and Chicago movie fans will be sad to see it go. But Chicago has many other film festivals, which although smaller in […]

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Film & TV, Film fest

Preview: Chicago International Film Festival Opens With a Block Party and Film Screening at the Music Box

The Chicago International Film Festival—the 58th edition of North America’s longest-running competitive international film festival—opens tomorrow night with The Compassionate Spy, a new documentary by renowned local filmmaker Steve James […]

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Dialogs: Female Rock Talk with Kim Gordon, Laurie Anderson, Sinead Gleeson at Chicago Humanities Festival

The Music Box Theatre hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youth’s frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author, music journalist Sinead Gleeson, along with feminist electronica pioneer Laurie […]

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Feature, Film & TV

Retrospective: Music Box Theatre Presents a Week of All Things Weird, Wonderful and Totally Lynchian

Five years (and one pandemic) after its first go-round with an all-David-Lynch, all-the-time program, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre again presents a week-long retrospective on “one of the greatest and most […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 9/2 and Beyond

While everything seems to be open like the old days, there is still that looming presence of the Delta variant in the background threatening all we’ve done to get back […]

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Film, Film & TV

Chicago’s Independent Cinemas Find Creative Ways to Keep Us Entertained From Home

Corpus Christi

As we head into our second (and far from last) official week of Illinois’s “Stay at Home” order, keeping busy and entertained remains the best way to keep the Coronavirus […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: In The Aeronauts, Thrills and Scientific Discovery Taken to New Heights

The Aeronauts

Those with a fear of heights may want to brace themselves for The Aeronauts, the story of a scientist and a balloonist who ascend in a hot air balloon over 1860s […]

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Film, Film & TV

Screens Monthly: Spooky Stories and Chicago’s Biggest Film Festival

One Child Nation

There’s something about flipping the calendar over to October that feels different from earlier months. It’s as if the space between September 30 and October 1 is a mini time […]

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