
On Tuesday, the theater’s sister company, arthouse distributor Music Box Films, presents two of their best: the Oscar-winning Polish film Ida (from the masterful Pawel Pawlikowski), and Terence Davies’ haunting The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. Tuesday and Wednesday, August 27 & 28 – Double Features

The 1964 classic starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke screens on a Sunday afternoon, and stumbling your way through Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is not only appropriate, it’s encouraged. Sunday, August 25 – Mary Poppins Sing-A-Long So take an afternoon nap and then claim your seat for a night that will also include The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone and S traight Talk. Saturday, August 24 - Dolly Parton 9 to 5erĬhalk this one up to the Music Box’s characteristically genius programming: eight hours of non-stop Dolly Parton programming from, yes, 9 to 5. Filmmaker Andrew Davis will be in attendance to share stories about the film, and growing up in the neighborhood around the theater. Right up there with the likes of The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Fugitive is quintessentially Chicago, the city as backdrop to the now classic Harrison Ford crime drama.

Features the classic song, “Louise.”įriday, August 23 - The Fugitive, with filmmaker Andrew Davis in person
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Transport yourself back to the movie house era when the Music Box first opened with this Maurice Chevalier classic, about a “junk man” who has to choose between love and the stage.
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If for some reason you can’t find anything to check out the week of August 22-29 (literally the 90th anniversary, as the Music Box opened for business on August 22, 1929), the Music Box’s programming is a bit like Chicago weather: wait a bit, and it will certainly change.Ī preview of what’s in store as the Music Box turns 90 is below ( head here for a full run-down), and the only question that remains is: what will they do when they turn 100? Image courtesy of Music Box Theatre

How can such a revered establishment best celebrate such a landmark milestone? Do more of what they do best, of course: eclectic, inventive programming that truly offers something for everyone. As one who’s fallen deep into Peter O’Toole’s dreamy blue eyes at Lawrence of Arabia presented in 70mm who’s witnessed a hand-painted (!), original print of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty projected above our heads who’s celebrated new film premieres, sung along with classics, met friends and fellow cinephiles for drinks and a chat who’s walked under that classic marquee more times that I can count…it’s an epicenter, to say the least.
