Film Calendar

Film Calendar
May 6-June 30, 2016
Tom Hiddleston in HIGH-RISE, starting May 13
Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival
3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago
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Mother’s Day
with Mamma Mia
MaY 8
Page 5
Norman Lear
in person!
MaY 16
Page 6
GrindHouse
Film Fest
JUNE 3-5
Page 9
Blue Velvet:
30th Anniversary
STARTs JUNE 10
Page 10
Cinema
Slapdown
Starts JUNE 15
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ANIME FILMS
ART & ARCHITECTURE IN CINEMA
CINEMA SCIENCE
SOUND OPINIONS
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
CINEMA SLAPDOWN
SPECIAL EVENTS
NOTFILM
MOTHER’S DAY WITH MAMMA MIA
NORMAN LEAR IN PERSON
CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY PREMIERE FILM FESTIVAL
GRINDHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
SILENT SHAKESPEARE
IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL 2015
BRIAN DE PALMA FILM FESTIVAL
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Features and Special Events
Starts May 6
May 8
feature
presentation
Special
Event
The Family Fang
DIRECTED BY: Jason Bateman
STARRING: Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken
105 minutes
Sharp and affecting
“ dysfunctional-family portrait”
–Variety
Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home
after an unlikely accident. When their parents— performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes—suddenly
go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it’s
foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
Mother’s Day with Mamma Mia!
Sunday, May 8 at 2pm
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!
Hosted by
Dick O’Day!
May 8
Special
Event
Starts May 13
feature
presentation
Director
Ross Lipman
in person
NOTFILM
Sunday, May 8 at Noon
Directed by: Ross Lipman
Featuring: Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett; 128 minutes
Completely fascinating! For
“ moviegoers who care about film,
NOTFILM can be unreservedly
recommended.”
–Kenneth Turan, LA Times
In 1964 writer Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: a collaboration
with silent era genius Buster Keaton to create a short, avant-garde film titled FILM. Beckett
was nearing the peak of his fame, which would culminate in a Nobel Prize five years later. Keaton, in
his waning years, never lived to see Beckett’s canonization. The film they made has been the subject of
praise, consternation, and controversy for decades. NOTFILM is the film essay on the making of Beckett
and Keaton’s film and its philosophical implications. Filmmaker Ross Lipman has incorporated long-lost
outtakes and audio recordings into a portrait of the astonishing collaboration of two of the twentieth
century’s most extraordinary men.
HIGH-RISE
read RAY PRIDE’s
commentary on page 14
DIRECTED BY: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss
119 minutes
Official
Selection Toronto
International Film
Festival 2015
Dr. Robert Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper
whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and
meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte, his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother;
Wilder, a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen; and Mr. Royal, the enigmatic
architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as
power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the
regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
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Features and Special Events
May 16
®
Special
Event
Norman
Lear
in person!
NORMAN LEAR:
JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU!
May 16 at 7pm
DIRECTED BY: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; 92 minutes
One Night
Only!
Tickets and full festival passes are on sale now
www.musicboxtheatre.com/festivals/CCFF2016
Now in its fourth year, the only film festival
created and curated by a film critics association returns!
Check out a few of this year’s Chicago premieres:
Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear
brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s
shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue
and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on
race, class, creed and feminism. NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU! is the definitive
chronicle Visit: of www.BTDChicago.com
Mr. Lear’s life, work and achievements, but it is so much more than Expires an arm’s-length, 1-31-15 pasttense
biopic; at 93, Mr. Lear is as vital and engaged as he ever was.
American Fable
Another Evil
Dark Night
Demon
Disorder
First Girl I Loved
The Fits
Goat
In a Valley of Violence
Life, Animated
Little Men
Operator
The Other Half
Trash Fire
Under the Shadow
The Music Box Theatre
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Enjoy our rotating
selection of craft beers
and fine wines with a film.
All titles, screening dates, times and guest appearances are subject to change.
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Features and Special Events
Starts May 27
June 3-5
feature
presentation
Special
Event
GRINDHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
Presented by Dan Halsted
All films
presented in
35 mm!
WEINER
DIRECTED BY: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
96 minutes
read steve prokopy’s
commentary on page16
Anthony Weiner was a young congressman on the cusp of higher office
when a sexting scandal forced a humiliating resignation. Just two
2016
SUNDANCE FILM
FESTIVAL – WINNER
U.S. Grand Jury Prize:
Documentary
WEINER has drama, laughs and
“ surprises. It’s the full package.”
–New York Post
A rollicking and never-dull insider’s
“ view of a political campaign.”
–Variety
years later, he ran for mayor of New York City, betting that his ideas would trump his indiscretions.
He was wrong. With unprecedented access to Weiner, his family and his campaign team, WEINER is
a thrilling look inside a political comeback-turned-meltdown. What begins as an unexpected surge
to the top of the polls takes a sharp turn once Weiner is forced to admit to new sexting allegations.
As the media descends and dissects his every move, Weiner desperately tries to forge ahead, but the
increasing pressure and crippling 24-hour news coverage halt his political aspirations.
Climb aboard the exploitation starship as we travel to the outer reaches of cinematic insanity! In
the 1970s and ‘80s, distributors trying to creatively sell strange movies in over-saturated markets
unwittingly created some of the most mind-blowing pieces of cinema to ever rip through a film
projector. Buckle up for the insanity!
Friday, June 3
GRINDHOUSE TRAILERS
This is a compilation of some of the best grindhouse trailers of
all time. We’ll see Italian horror, blaxploitation, sexploitation,
hicksploitation, revenge films, kung fu obscurities. All the wildest
scenes, strangest taglines, and oddball promotional gimmicks
packed into two-minute cinematic roller coaster rides.
Saturday, June 4
OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU DOUBLE FEATURE
THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING (1979) The original
Ghostface Killer is on the loose! A vicious villain with an unstoppable
five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals.
SHAOLIN VS. WU TANG (1981) An evil lord murders a Wu
Tang master in an attempt to turn the Shaolin and Wu Tang
against each other. The two schools each begin training to
prepare for a showdown while the villainous lord attempts to
combine the two styles to become the supreme kung fu master.
Sunday, June 5
EXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE
GATES OF HELL (1980) A surreal Italian gutmuncher from
gore-maestro Lucio Fulci! A priest commits suicide and unwittingly
opens the gateway to hell. The rotting dead rise from their
graves to feed on the living in gruesome fashion, while a psychic
and a journalist attempt to stop the rancid carnage.
SECRET SCREENING An extremely rare 35mm print of one
of the greatest exploitation films ever made! Not to be missed in
this incredibly scarce big screen appearance.
Dan Halsted is the head film programmer
at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland
OR. He’s an avid film collector, with
a passion for Hong Kong cinema, and in
2009, he unearthed a massive collection
of extremely rare 35mm kung fu films.
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Features and Special Events
June 6
Starts June 10
feature
presentation
Special
Event
From
the two-time
Academy Awardnominated
director
of PARADISE NOW
and OMAR
Silent Shakespeare
Part of
Shakespeare
400 Chicago!
Presented by Chicago Humanities Festival & Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Monday, June 6 at 7pm
Featuring rare clips from silent films, lively commentary, Chicago actors and the audience gathered at
the Music Box Theatre, Judith Buchanan, a world expert on silent films and Shakespeare, transports
you back one hundred years, when Shakespeare’s beloved works first found themselves translated
into the new medium of moving pictures. Join us for what will certainly be a unique evening of
imagery and acting.
THE IDOL
DIRECTED BY: Hany Abu-Assad
Starring: Qais Atallah, Hiba Atallah, Abd-Elkarim Abu-Barakeh,
Teya Hussein, Tawfeek Barhom, Dima Awawdeh
Palestine; Arabic with English subtitles; 95 minutes
Thoroughly captivating,”
“–Justin Chang, Variety
Irrepressibly optimistic.”
“–Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
Based on an incredible true story! Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair
but to Mohammed Assaf and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they,
along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music and football and dare to dream big. Their
band might play on secondhand, beaten-up instruments, but their ambitions are sky high. For Mohammed
and Nour, nothing less than playing the world-famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them
a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.
STARTS June 10
June 16 & 18
Special
Event
feature
presentation
BLUE VELVET
DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper,
Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern; 120 minutes
read pat mcgavin’s
commentary on page 18
30th
Anniversary
DCP
Restoration
A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small all-American town. A college student
stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The oblique
world he’s found lurking beneath his hometown’s picture-postcard veneer is about to become
violently stranger.
IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL 2015
Thursday, June 16 & Saturday, June 18 at 9:45pm
There‘s a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk—every single punk band of the past
and present has either knowingly or unknowingly borrowed a thing or two from Pop and his late-‘60s/
early-‘70s band, the Stooges, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
Iggy Pop, an outstanding artist known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, sings at the
Baloise Session in Basel, Switzerland, where he was honored with a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.
This fantastic performance features all of Iggy Pop’s top hits, including “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “The Passenger,”
“Lust for Life” and many more.
Recorded October 24, 2015
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Features and Special Events
Starts June 17
Starts June 24
feature
presentation
feature
presentation
De Palma
DIRECTED BY: Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
Starring: Brian De Palma; 111 minutes
A must-see for all cinephiles”
“–The Playlist
A delightful, illuminating career
“ reflection”
–Variety
One of the most talented, influential and iconoclastic filmmakers
of all time, Brian De Palma’s career started in the ‘60s and has
included such acclaimed and diverse films as CARRIE, DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT, SCARFACE, THE
UNTOUCHABLES, CARLITO’S WAY and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly
moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and
candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach
to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early
days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.
TICKLED
DIRECTED BY: David Farrier and Dylan Reeve
92 minutes
After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video
online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter
Captivating and Jaw Dropping”
“–The Hollywood Reporter
A humorously titillating entry
“ hook that soon gives way to an
engrossing conspiracy-thriller.”
–Variety
David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking—the
sender mocks Farrier’s sexual orientation and threatens extreme legal action should he dig any deeper.
So, like any good journalist confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he travels to the hidden
tickling facilities in Los Angeles and uncovers a vast empire, known for harassing and harming the lives of
those who protest their involvement in these films.
PLUS…
a Brian De Palma
Film Festival!
Films include:
THE PHANTOM OF PARADISE
(1974, 92m)
THE UNTOUCHABLES
(1987, 119m)
DRESSED TO KILL
(1980, 105m)
BODY DOUBLE
(1984, 114m)
…and many more!
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Calculated Chaos
The Fully-Constructed World of HIGH-RISE
By Ray Pride
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing
reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this
huge apartment building during the previous three months.”
high-rise STARTS may 13.
SEE PAGE 5 FOR DETAILS.
From that deft setting, J. G. Ballard’s slim 1975 novelcum-provocation
about the potential wages of indolence
and the easily snarled bonds of social decorum,
HIGH-RISE, slides into calculated chaos. Ben Wheatley
and Amy Jump’s adaptation announces itself with a
gambit, dropping us into destruction in media res,
with assured narration and a luxury apartment in teeming disarray, and glimpses of things to come, or that
have happened already, not limited to a bloodied electric carving knife and a shank turning on a spit with a
suspiciously fluffy paw on it.
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Wheatley has the Kubrickian cajones to attempt a fully-constructed world, rife with invented elements, to
approach the seething sensibility of Ballard. Plus, the American poster even dares make a cocky nod to the key
art for Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. .
In the present tense of a “community of the future,” the humans that scamper and snoop and snipe and banter
and soon battle in stylized play of class conflict include the surgeon Dr. Laing (Tom Hiddleston, on television
with “The Night Manager” and more Marvel movies), Sienna Miller, and as the creator of this terror town, a
weary-voiced but sanguinary-tilting Jeremy Irons. Irons makes the most of lines like, “Of course, I’m a modernist
by trade” and purring about a terrible act being “for the good of the building.”
The building is Brutalist architecture, asserting itself against dusky sky, one of several towers in some sort of
outlands, a city and thin distant clouds on the horizon, a dream that seems farther away than the nightmare
the film readily descends into. It’s a wholly constructed world, which filmmakers seldom make the strenuous
effort to fabricate, a world not our own. Each detail is calculated and sinister, down to a uniform set of fonts
for all the conveniences and appurtenances of the exclusive apartments-cum-barracks-cum-bunkers, spaces
William S. Burroughs might have savored for hard, heavy presence.
Raucous shambles await in this drunken bloody nightmare. Moments of brief pastoral prettiness have their
flipside: if there is a moon above, there will be candlelight and screams below. Ripe with sordid beauty even in
its tumults of violence, HIGH-RISE functions in a future, futuristic setting firmly demarcated by the 1970s, the
time in which Ballard’s novel was set, yet it is not our world, and yet it is intended to be wholly ours, a place of
privilege and brutality where idle hands form fists or readily take up weaponry or utter such offhand incitements
as “I should have married someone like you, stoic and perfectly breasted. You know, I’d ideally like to
get between those thighs of yours one of these days.”
“It looks like the unconscious diagram of some kind of psychic event,” Dr. Laing says of one of the mad, fantasticated
drawings of Irons’ creator. Wholly plotted out and supremely self-conscious, Wheatley’s construction
world gets between the pages and into the headspace of Ballard with perverse joy.
Ray Pride is longtime film critic of Newcity, news editor of MovieCityNews.com and a contributing editor of
Filmmaker magazine. His photos and other work are linked at muckrack.com/ray-pride
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DABLON
VINEYARDS
Winery & Tasting Room

THE NAKED TRUTH
A View of the Modern Political
Landscape with WEINER
By Steve “Capone” Prokopy
weiner STARTS may 27.
SEE PAGE 8 FOR DETAILS.
“Same Old Schlong & Dance,” “Weiner’s
Second Coming,” “Weiner Pull Out,” “Weiner’s
Rise & Fall,” “Tip of the Weiner,” “Weiner
Exposed,” “Weiner: I’ll Stick It Out.” These are
all examples of some of the tasteful headlines
that appeared in that bastion of fine journalism,
the New York Post, over the several years in
which former U.S. Representative from New
York Anthony Weiner was embroiled in
multiple scandals involving lewd and explicit
photos and text messages to various women.
The justifiable uproar that followed the original
scandal eventually led to him resigning from Congress in June 2011, but only two years later, he was a frontrunning
candidate for mayor of New York City before a new round of revelations came to light, probably
best remembered due to his chosen online alias “Carlos Danger.”
Directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg do a sometimes shockingly thorough job of covering the Weiner
mayoral campaign, giving the viewer the necessary backstory to make the second wave of sexting seem all the
more shocking—especially since many of the texts were sent after he resigned from Congress. Although he
never cops to it, Weiner clearly has some variety of sex addiction that only seemed to escalate once he got
caught. But before he was dethroned as one of the Democratic Party’s shining stars, he was a congressman
who passionately fought for keeping health benefits for 9/11 rescue workers when Republicans were on the
verge of pulling the plug on them. And during his run of mayor, it was clear that many of his ideas for New
York City were good ones that many voters supported.
To add an ironic twist to Weiner’s story, in 2010 he married Huma Abedin, a long-time aide to Hillary
Clinton, who served as her Deputy Chief of Staff at the State Department. Some of the film’s most palpably
uncomfortable moments come between the husband and wife as they attempt to figure out what campaign
events she feels comfortable attending by his side. It’s clear that after the first scandal, they went through
intensive marriage counseling, even contemplating separation, but made it through together. After the
second set of revelations, her mood alters dramatically, as you might expect, and the camera captures every
sideways glance and If-Looks-Could-Kill glare. Even in their happier moments, Abedin is clearly a reluctant
participant in this documentary.
For most of the shoot, the filmmakers stay silent as they attempt to take a fly-on-the-wall approach to the
documentary, but there are some moments where they break their silence with both Weiner and Abedin
because to not comment or question the current state of the campaign or marriage would be almost
unforgivable. The access granted to Weiner is astonishing at times. He invited the crew into his life, thinking
they’d be documenting one of the greatest comeback stories in politics, only to have a new round of texts
and photos leak, followed in kind by more outrage and jokes.
WEINER is a fascinating view of the modern political landscape, which feels more like a battleground than
a place for ideas. Weiner rarely hid from the media; he put himself in front of reporters every chance he
could, hoping just one of them would want to talk about the issues, and he was consistently disappointed.
Often gracious and patient, but occasionally passionate and frustrated, Anthony Weiner was a victim of his
own desires, certainly, but the film also shines a light on the unbridled glee with which the press tore him
and his family down. It’s a rather disgusting portrait of both sides of the camera.
The most remarkable element to WEINER is that even if the second scandal hadn’t broke, the doc would
have still been a gripping examination of a cutthroat campaign. The film reveals Weiner to be the perfect
politician in many ways. He possessed a fiery persona that flared up right on cue during speeches and debates;
his ideas about how to improve the city were so beloved by citizens that they often booed his opponents
if they brought up the original scandal; and voters loved his wife to such a degree that many would have
preferred it if she’d run for office, which made her the perfect target after the scandal, with such sensitive
headlines as “What’s Wrong With You?” (again, courtesy of the New York Post) running next to her photo
after the second scandal broke, and she continued to stick with her husband.
WEINER is not designed to change your mind about Anthony Weiner. The odds are fairly strong that your
opinion of him (assuming you have any), his poor choices, and his policies will remain largely unchanged
at the end of this work. Instead, the film attempts to give more of a complete picture of a news story that
largely played out as a series of punchlines in the press, on the talk shows, and around water coolers. Some
in the film question why Bill Clinton—who officiated at Weiner’s wedding—was forgiven for his indiscretions,
doing far worse than Weiner (remember, Weiner had no inappropriate physical contact with anyone). The
unsatisfying answer given by one person is, “Clinton is different.”
Based on a sit-down interview done by the filmmakers with Weiner months after his lost mayoral race, it
becomes clear that part of the reason he agreed to allow cameras to follow him was to put a certain part
of his life behind him. He certainly got more than he bargained for, but because of that, WEINER is one of
the most unbelievable and sometimes grotesque (for many reasons that don’t have to do with cybersex)
political profiles in recent memory.
Steve Prokopy is the Chicago Editor for Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), where he has contributed
movie reviews and filmmaker and actor interviews under the name “Capone” since 1998. From 2005-15,
he was on staff at the Chicago-based media outlet GapersBlock.com as the site’s Friday film critic with
his Steve@theMovies column, which now appears weekly at the newly launched ThirdCoastReview.com.
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Bracing, Upsetting and Vital
BLUE VELVET at 30
By Patrick Z. McGavin
From the moment it first appeared—
voluptuous, staggering, startlingly funny—
David Lynch’s fourth feature BLUE VELVET was
a film so rich in its meaning and associations
the movie achieved the sublime and
unaccountable.
blue velvet STARTS june 10.
SEE PAGE 10 FOR DETAILS.
Lynch was working in very personal and knotty
material. It was never sensationalized or cheap.
It was always a work fixed in time, of Ronald
Reagan’s “Morning in America,” except that
here was also a work that transcended time.
Woody Allen called it the best film released that year. Roger Ebert panned it. “It’s an anomaly—the work
of a genius naïf,” Pauline Kael wrote. The movie is again front and center thanks to a digital restoration
marking its 30th anniversary.
BLUE VELVET is unmistakably a work of its maker’s interests and preoccupations. The artistry is not Lynch’s
alone. The velvet and deeply saturated color photography of the cinematographer Frederick Elmes is
exceptionally vivid and suggestive. The great sound designer Alan Splet brings a great aural richness eerily
synchronized to the intricate visual design. Lynch’s soundtrack, of Roy Orbison and Bobby Vinton, is also
just right, aided by the unsettling and intoxicating score of Angelo Badalamenti.
The casting is perfect, and the secondary characters, like Dean Stockwell’s epicene gangster, are memorable
and frighteningly alive. MacLachlan gives a remarkably shaded turn that is both open and self effacing. The
long limbed, gorgeous Dern is a revelation. In the greatest performance of her career, Rossellini gets lost
in the part of Dorothy, tragic, beautiful and soulful. Hopper brings such a sexual menace and cruel energy,
his handsomeness was never used to such powerful effect. A gifted filmmaker in his own right, Hopper
had a wounding, sharp gift of language, gesture and intonation. He makes Frank’s derangement deeply
human and recognizable.
BLUE VELVET was never about shock. It opened up Lynch’s underground aesthetic to a wider audience. It
was art, bracing, upsetting and vital. How magnificent to once again celebrate its existence.
Patrick Z. McGavin is a Chicago writer and film critic. His reviews, essays and film festival reports have
appeared in Cineaste, filmjourney.org, RogerEbert.com and the London film magazine Empire. He also
maintains the film website www.lightsensitive.typepad.com
Lynch always wanted the film to be his follow up to his extraordinary 1977 black and white debut,
ERASERHEAD. He needed to prove himself with larger budgets, and he turned out his sharp and pungent
adaptation of THE ELEPHANT MAN. Lynch’s DUNE was a legendary folly, but a necessary one in his
evolution as an artist that demonstrated his uncanny ability to collapse boundaries between the avant
garde and the industrial cinema.
A trained painter, Lynch had a genius instinct for working through the abstract and the unconscious. I
disagree with Kael. The naïvity was always a cover to make his ideas more accessible. He stylized his images
but always located the dark humor, like the opening sequence where a man watering his lawn suffers a
stroke and Lynch undercuts our sympathy by having the neighboring dog voraciously lap up the jutting
water coming out of the hose.
The three decade anniversary reissue is telling, because part of what made the movie so unnerving was
how Lynch seamlessly suggested the past superimposed over the present tense—his vision of social rot and
transgression underneath the placid surfaces echoed the key works of Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock.
The movie’s fictional Lumberton, summoned through brilliant production design and painstakingly detailed
sets, has an eerie authenticity.
Lynch also deftly merged tones and mood, upbraiding the coming of age story with much darker
implications coloring a horror noir that intertwined self discovery with intimations of sex, kink, violation
and surrender. “I don’t know if you’re a pervert or a detective,” Sandy (Laura Dern) tells Jeffrey Beaumont
(Kyle MacLachlan), the protagonist. A college kid, Jeffrey discovers a detached human ear that kicks the
plot in motion.
Jeffrey is ensnared into a criminal underworld as his fantasies and avid need for experience collapse against
two strikingly realized figures, the alluring and damaged torch singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and
the crime boss Frank (Dennis Hopper). The celebrated 20 minute centerpiece brought about by Jeffrey’s
sexual initiation with Dorothy, touching on voyeurism, emotional vulnerability, corruption and death,
throbs with a hallucinatory power.
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Becoming a member at the Music Box is a great way to
support the quality programming at the independently
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and garden. This includes our holiday classics, talk
backs, film festivals, visits from directors, producers,
and actors, as well as our regular midnight, matinee,
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join today
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SERIES
Classic Matinees
Saturdays & Sundays at 11:30am
Foreign Masterpieces
The Music Box takes you around the world
with seminal classics from master filmmakers.
May 14 & 15 May 28 & 29
8 ½
Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963, 35mm,
138 mins, Italy
Marcello Mastroianni plays
Guido Anselmi, a director
whose new project is collapsing
around him, along with his
life. One of the greatest films
about film ever made, Federico
Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s
artistic crisis into a grand
epic of the cinema. An early
working title for 8½ was THE
BEAUTIFUL CONFUSION, and
Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly
that: a shimmering dream, a
circus, and a magic act.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 35mm,
96 mins, Sweden
Disillusioned and exhausted
after a decade of battling in
the Crusades, a knight (Max von
Sydow) encounters Death on a
desolate beach and challenges
him to a fateful game of chess.
Much studied, imitated, even
parodied, but never outdone,
Bergman’s stunning allegory of
man’s search for meaning, THE
SEVENTH SEAL was one of the
benchmark foreign imports
of America’s 1950s art-house
heyday.
June 4 & 5 June 18 & 19
June 25 & 26
register online
at musicboxtheatre.com
or visit our box office!
THE RED SHOES
Dir. Michael Powell & Emeric
Pressburger, 1948, 35mm, 133 mins,
United Kingdom
A glorious Technicolor epic
that influenced generations
of filmmakers, artists, and
aspiring ballerinas, THE RED
SHOES intricately weaves
backstage life with the thrill of
performance. A young ballerina
(Moira Shearer) is torn between
two forces: the composer who
loves her, and the impresario
determined to fashion her into
a great dancer.
YOJIMBO
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1961, 35mm,
110 mins, Japan
The incomparable Toshiro
Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s
visually stunning and darkly
comic YOJIMBO. To rid a terrorstricken
village of corruption,
wily masterless samurai Sanjuro
turns a range war between two
evil clans to his own advantage.
Remade twice, by Sergio Leone
and Walter Hill, this exhilarating
genre-twister remains one
of the most influential and
entertaining films of all time.
M
Dir. Fritz Lang, 1931, DCP, 99 mins,
Germany
In his harrowing masterwork
M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant
social commentary with
chilling suspense, creating a
panorama of private madness
and public hysteria that to
this day remains the blueprint
for the psychological thriller.
A psychopathic murderer of
young girls terrorizes a German
city causing public hysteria and
intense police investigations,
which in turn disrupts organized
crime. The contrasting worlds of
the police and the underworld
are juxtaposed as they both
resolve to hunt, capture, and try
the murderer.
Matinees 21

MIDNIGHTS
SERIES
MIDNIGHTS
May 6 & 7
May 13 & June 17
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
(George Miller, 2015, 120 mins, 35mm)
THE ROOM
(Tommy Wiseau, 2003, 99m, 35mm)
Friday & Saturday Midnight Screenings
June 3 & 4
June 10 & 11
THE FINAL GIRLS
(Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2015, 88 mins, DCP)
3 NINJAS
(Jon Turteltaub, 1992, 84 mins)
SILENT CINEMA
Classic 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.
DENNIS
SCOTT AT THE
MUSIC BOX
THEATRE
ORGAN!
May 14 & June 18
ROCKY HORROR
PICTURE SHOW
(Jim Sharman, 1975, 100m, 35mm)
June 24 & 25
TWIN PEAKS:
FIRE WALK WITH ME
(David Lynch, 1992, 135 mins, 35mm)
May 27 & 28
REPO MAN
(Alex Cox, 1984, 92 mins, 35mm)
Rare 35MM
Screening!
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
(George Miller, 2015, 120 mins)
From George Miller, mastermind behind
the legendary “Mad Max” franchise, comes
a return to the world of the Road Warrior.
Haunted by his turbulent past, Max believes
the best way to live is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across
the Wasteland, led by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. Pursued by a vicious warlord and his gangs, Max must
survive in a high-octane chase across the desolate, deadly landscape. Winner of 6(!) Academy Awards,
with nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.
3 NINJAS
(Jon Turteltaub, 1992, 84 mins, 35MM)
**Saturday, June 11 screening will include a pre-party in the
Music Box Lounge, sponsored by Pipeworks Brewing Co!**
While their friends are spending the summer playing, three young
brothers—Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum—are learning the ways of the
ninja from their wise grandfather. As the boys’ FBI agent father closes in on capturing notorious arms
dealer and evil ninja-master Hugo Snyder, the balance of power shifts when Snyder kidnaps the brothers.
Suddenly, the boys are caught in the middle of an incredible adventure they never dreamed possible.
Surrounded by danger, they must rely on their wits, as well as the ancient ninja ways, to even the odds
and defeat the unscrupulous Snyder!
THE FINAL GIRLS
(Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2015, 88 mins, DCP)
When Max and her friends attend an anniversary screening of “Camp
Bloodbath,” the infamous ‘80s horror film that starred Max’s late
mother, they are mysteriously sucked into the silver screen. Trapped
inside the cult classic movie, they must team up with the fictional
and ill-fated camp counselors, including Max’s mom as the scream queen, to battle a machete-wielding
killer. With the body count rising in scene after iconic scene, who will be the final girls left standing and
live to escape this film?
SUNRISE: A SONG OF
TWO HUMANS
Directed by F.W. Murnau
1927, 94 mins, DCP
Wednesday, May 18 at 7:30pm
One of the most acclaimed silent films of all
times, F.W. Murnau’s heart-wrenching romance
SUNRISE was his first film in the United States.
George O’Brien is a married farmer tempted
away from his wife, Janet Gaynor, by a slatternly
woman from the city, who tries to convince
him to drown his wife. When the farmer’s
wife escapes her murderous husband, he has
a change of heart and must find his wife in the
big city to which she’s fled and bring her home.
Featuring the most adorable drunk pig you’ll
ever see on film!
Tol’able David
Directed by Henry King
1921, 99 Mins, 35MM
Saturday, June 11 at Noon
Young David Kinemon (Richard Barthelmess)
lives in a small West Virginia farming village and
wants to be taken seriously by those around
him—particularly by the pretty girl (Gladys
Hulette) who lives on a nearby farm. When
a family of hooligans led by Iscah Hatburn
(Walter P. Lewis) moves into town, David
watches as they wreak havoc. After David’s
father dies, David must summon his inner
strength and take it upon himself to stop the
fugitive Hatburn clan.
35 MM Print from the Museum of Modern Art
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SERIES
From Stage To screen
THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL PRESENTS
The Stratford Festival has been setting the standard
for classical theatre in North America for more than 60
years. Since the revolutionary first season, more than
26 million theatregoers from around the world have visited the Stratford Festival. Now
partnering with SpectiCast, the acclaimed repertory theatre presents three exciting
plays captured live in September 2015. Working with renowned Producer and Director
Barry Avrich, and his exceptional team at Melbar Entertainment, the plays are captured
using 10 cameras and 128 tracks of sound to create a sensational high-definition,
surround-sound experience remaining faithful to the stage version of the production.
HAMLET
Directed for the stage by Antoni Cimolino
Directed for the screen by Shelagh O’Brien
Presented by The Stratford Festival & Specticast
May 14 at noon
May 24 at 7pm
A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated
by loss, a deadly duel and the most famous question in all of drama: Shakespeare’s
iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound. HAMLET has been called the greatest play in the
English language, and this production from the world-renowned Stratford Festival—the
most complete, most fulfilling, most satisfying in decades of theatergoing. Jonathan Goad
is witty and courageous in the title role, but also deeply human. The film excites and surprises
at every turn, with a cast of some of the finest classical actors in the world bringing
to life the most intense and heartbreaking relationships the stage has ever seen.
THE ADVENTURES OF PERICLES
Directed for the stage by
Scott Wentworth
Directed for film by Barry Avrich
Presented by The Stratford Festival & Specticast
May 28 at noon
June 7 at 7pm
A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of
Tyre, and another snatches it away. This magical production of Shakespeare’s epic tale is a
delight for the eye and ear. Filled with music and brilliant spectacle, it follows a fairy-tale
hero on a miraculous journey to one of literature’s most poignant reunions. Evan Buliung
gives a sweeping performance, portraying the dashing young prince with verve and
swagger, and taking him into his elder years with sorrowful tenderness. Moving and fun
from beginning to end, it is a story rarely told, and one you won’t soon forget.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Directed for the stage by Chris Abraham
Directed for film by Barry Avrich
Presented by The Stratford Festival & Specticast
June 12 at 11:30am
June 21 at 7pm
Courtship or conquest? The breakdown of a defiant spirit or
a breakthrough that liberates a heart deprived of love? This
scintillating production of Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW will stir your emotions as you follow the love story of
Katherina and Petruchio—the feisty lovers at the center of Shakespeare’s most pointed
social commentary. Deborah Hay gives a performance for the ages as the Shrew and Ben
Carlson is the perfect counterpoint as her plotting suitor, creating a chemistry that sets
the stage alight.
Encore
Presentation
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Presented by National Theatre Live
June 25 at 11:30am
For a limited time only, National Theatre
Live’s Encore Series brings a selection of
award-winning British theatre productions
to your local cinema.
Featuring a Tony Award-winning
performance from host of THE LATE LATE
SHOW, James Corden, the uproarious
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS was a
runaway hit both in London’s West End
and on Broadway. Fired from his skiffle
band, Francis Henshall becomes minder
to Roscoe, an East End hood looking to collect a debt from his
fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her
own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley.
Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the ravenous Francis spots
the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with
Stanley, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent
discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.
For more on these productions, The Stratford Festival, and National Theatre
Live, visit MusicBoxTheatre.com
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SERIES
Anime Films
DOU KYU SEI – CLASSMATES
Saturday, May 7 at Noon
& Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30pm
(Dir. Shoko Nakamura, 2016, 60 mins)
Rihito Sajo is an honor student who got perfect
scores in every subject on his entrance exam.
Hikaru Kusakabe is in a band and popular among
girls. They are “different kind of guys,” who would
have never crossed paths. But one day Hikaru
offers to help Rihito prepare for their upcoming
chorus festival and improve his singing skills.
As the two meet after school, they feel one
another’s sound, listen to each other’s voices, and begin to harmonize as their hearts start to beat
together. Two adolescent boys–learning not only about each other, but also about themselves–
struggle and get confused; however, they eventually get to understand each other. As the time to
start thinking about their futures approaches, what do these young men find as they try to move
forward…
HARMONY
The Second Film of the critically-acclaimed
Project Itoh Trilogy
Tuesday, May 17 at 7pm (English subtitles)
& Saturday, May 21 at Midnight
(dubbed in English)
(Dir. Michael Arias & Takashi Nakamura, 2016,
120 mins)
In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication
to good health, three high school girls attempt
suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. One girl,
Tuan Kirie, survives but can’t shake the hatred
she has for the “perfect world” she lives in. Years
later, a simultaneous mass suicide rocks the globe and sends society into a state of shock. A small
group of terrorists stands up to take credit for the event, claiming they’ve hijacked the consciousness
of every person on the planet. Tuan suspects an old friend might be involved, but how could that
be when she¹d supposedly killed herself years earlier? Desperate for answers, Tuan launches an
investigation that takes her across the globe chasing the ghost of her old friend.
Art & Architecture
in Cinema
Captured exclusively for the cinema this ground-breaking
series brings the world’s greatest works of art, and their
environs, to cinemas nationwide. Enjoy unprecedented
big screen access into the lives of renowned artists, their
art, and the fabulous museums and galleries that are not
only the custodians of such masterpieces, but works of
art in their own right.
LEONARDO DA VINCI:
THE GENIUS IN MILAN
May 21 & 22 at 11:30am
(90 mins)
Under the watchful gaze of 4K cameras, Leonardo
da Vinci’s famous painting “La Belle Ferronière”
is removed from the wall, packed and sent to
Milan where, on the occasion of EXPO 2015, the
most important cultural event of the year will be
inaugurated: “Leonardo 1452- 1519.” This exhibition
is the result of six years work by leading Leonardo
experts, retracing the multiple paths travelled by
the mind of the genius: the foundation of drawing,
the role of nature and science, comparison
between the arts, reflection on the ancients, the
unity of knowledge, images of the divine, myths
over the centuries, and more.
RENOIR: REVERED AND
REVILED
June 18 & 19 at 11:30am
(87 mins)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known and loved
for his impressionist paintings of Paris. These
paintings count among the world’s favorites.
Renoir, however, grew tired of this style and
changed course. This stunning film—based on
the remarkable collection of 181 Renoirs at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia—examines the direction
he then took and why it has provoked such extreme reactions. What may surprise many is that among
the artists who were highly influenced by Renoir’s new works were the two giants of the 20th century—
Picasso and Matisse. The film is a fresh new biography of this artistic giant, and places Renoir as a critical
link between the old and the new.
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SERIES
Field Trips:
Cinema Science with The Field Museum
Join The Field Museum at the Music Box Theatre for a special series of film screenings dedicated
to diving into the science behind the big screen. In this ongoing series, The Field Museum brings
science professionals and lecturers to the Music Box Theatre to introduce the films and provide
a forum for discussion following the film.
Wednesday, June 1 at 7pm
THE MESSENGER
Tuesday, May 10 at 7pm
Directed by Su Rynard
Su Rynard’s wide-ranging documentary THE MESSENGER explores our deepseated
connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might
mirror our own. THE MESSENGER brings us face-to-face with the human-made
perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles and many other airborne
music-makers. On one level, THE MESSENGER is the artful story about the
mass depletion of songbirds, and about those who are working to turn the tide. On another level, THE
MESSENGER is an engaging, visually stunning, emotional journey, with unique glances into the influence
of songbirds on our own expressions of the soul.
Featuring a discussion with Dr. Peter Marra, Director of Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington
D.C. In his 17 years with the Smithsonian, he has become an international leader in avian conservation
science focusing particularly on the ecology of migratory birds, urban ecosystem ecology,
and disease ecology.
Presented by
Sound Opinions at the Movies
THE HARDER
THEY COME
The latest installment in the Sound
Opinions at the Movies series is the
groundbreaking reggae sensation
THE HARDER THEY COME. Jimmy
Cliff stars as an aspiring young singer
who leaves his rural village for the city of Kingston, hoping to make a
name for himself. Robbed on his first day in town, he finds work with
a bullying preacher and an unscrupulous music mogul. In desperation,
the simple country boy turns outlaw, at war with both the police and
his rivals in the ganja trade. This gritty, groundbreaking film brought
reggae music to the international stage, made Jimmy Cliff a star, and
demonstrated that music and art can change the world. DCP provided
by Xenon Pictures.
Rock critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, the hosts of Sound Opinions from WBEZ, will be on hand
to introduce the film. Advance tickets are available at SoundOpinions.org.
The National Society
of Film Critics Series
The National Society of Film Critics is made up of the leading film critics in the United States,
whose purpose is to promote the mutual interests of film criticism and filmmaking.
The Music Box Theatre presents a brand new series along with three members of the National
Film Society of Film Critics who are living and working in Chicago. Chicago Reader film editor
Jim Jones, Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips and Jonathan Rosenbaum will present three
of their favorite films with a post show discussion!
Tuesday, May 31
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
presented by Jonathan Rosenbaum
(1984; dir. Jim Jarmusch; 89 minutes, 35MM)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE is an odd, low-key comedy about a trio
of misfits—an everyday guy, his Hungarian female cousin, and his
geeky best friend—who decide to take a road trip across the United
States on the spur of the moment. Over the course of their voyage, they have both good and bad luck,
meet a number of bizarre and interesting characters, and are frequently bored.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, former film critic for the Chicago Reader (1987-2008), maintains a website archiving
most of his work at jonathanrosenbaum.net
Tuesday June 7
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
presented by Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune film critic
(2007; dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 158 minutes, 35MM)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD won the 2008 Best Film award from the
National Society of Film Critics. Paul Thomas Anderson’s loose
adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel “Oil!” is actually about something, or many things—greed, capitalism,
American success stories—while succeeding as one of the great performance showcases in modern cinema.
Michael Phillips is the film critic of the Chicago Tribune. He started his career writing about the movies for
the Twin Cities weekly, City Pages. He’s pleased to be a new member of the National Society of Film Critics.
Tuesday June 14
LIFE IS SWEET
presented by Jim Jones, Chicago Reader editor
(1990; dir. Mike Leigh; 103 minutes, 35MM)
LIFE IS SWEET, chosen as best film of 1991, tells the story of a workingclass
family in suburban London whose easygoing patriarch, played
by Jim Broadbent, impulsively buys a snack-vending trailer in hope of making a few extra pounds.
J.R. Jones is film editor for the Chicago Reader and author of “The Lives of Robert Ryan”
[livesofrobertryan.com] (Wesleyan University Press). He was elected to the NSFC in 2015.
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SERIES
Cinema Slapdown at
The Music Box Theatre!
Starting its tenth year, Columbia College Chicago’s CINEMA SLAPDOWN is a unique screening
series that has achieved cult status. A wildly entertaining hybrid of film discussion, knockdown,
drag out debate and audience interaction, CINEMA SLAPDOWN believes that all films can
be passionately argued.
At each session of CINEMA SLAPDOWN we screen a well-known, discussion-worthy film. It
can be anything from a documentary that polarized its audience to a big award winner that
left many scratching their heads and asking “Why?” Following the screening, two debaters,
one who loves it and the other who hates it, engage in a heated argument about the film, then
open themselves up to the audience. The debaters will be announced in mid-May.
Movies for Summer:
June 15
“ ”
- TIME OUT NEW YORK
BOB ROBERTS
"A pointless and insulting attack on American
values, or a freakishly on-point prophecy Trumped
by reality.”
July 13
DO THE RIGHT THING
“An honest and compassionate look at the state
of American race relations in the pre-Rodney
King era, or just another 'joint' that thinks reverse
stereotyping and divisiveness equals ‘something
important to say'”
“Confirms Larraín as one of the more
genuine talents working in Cinema today.”
- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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SHOWGIRLS
August 10
“A trenchant and penetrating look at the crass side
of the American success ethic, or a campy piece
of cinematic waste best handled with oven mitts
and a pair of tongs.”
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Producing the Future
Their sTories are our sTory. We produce more Than movies. We produce filmmakers.
colum.edu/cinema
Collin SChiffli (BA ’09)
Director: AnimAls
Debut feature; winner 2014 SXSW Grand Jury Prize;
winner 2014 Chicago Film Critics Association
Audience Award
Director: Ghostophobia
Second feature (in development)
RheA BozzACChi (BA ’12)
Director & Writer: vCArd
Debut feature (in production); initially developed
in Columbia College’s Semester in LA program at
Raleigh Studios, Hollywood
Writer: Cheat, Cheat, Bang, Bang: short film for
Fulton Market Films
Intern: Fulton Market Films, Chicago; Hutch
Parker Entertainment, LA; FilmEngine, LA
RoBeRt-CARniliuS (MfA ’15)
Director & Writer: JAspA Jenkins
2014 Student Academy Award finalist (winner
Midwest regional award)
Director & Writer: Pulse
Thesis short film (in production)
Director & Writer: McTucky Fried High
Comedic animated web series (in production)
GARy MiChAel SChultz (BA ’01)
Director & Writer: VinCent-n-roxxy
Unified Pictures production starring Anton Yelchin
and Megalyn Echikunwoke (in production)
Director & Writer: Devil in My Ride (2013)
Multiple award-winner now in wide Video On
Demand release
Co-Producer: Rudderless (2014)
William H. Macy’s feature directing debut starring Billy
Cruddup; premiered at 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Cinema Art + Science