Friday, January 20, 2012

Sundance USA 2012 Comes to the Music Box!

Happy Thursday, Music Boxers!

Do you have your tickets yet for Sundance USA 2012? We’re premiering Julie Delpy’s new film 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, starring Chris Rock. This year, we’re hosting co-star and co-writer Alexia Landeau who will present the film and stick around for a post-screening Q&A! Tickets are on sale here!

Opening this week is NORWEGIAN WOOD based on the novel by Haruki Murakami and a brand new print of THE WAGES OF FEAR. Check out our friend Roger Ebert’s Great Movie review here!
And stay tuned, because next week open Oscar-favorite A SEPARATION. Get excited.

See you at the movies!

Now Playing  
 The Wages of Fear
“HEART-STOPPING! See it on the big screen if you possibly can."”
–Roger Ebert
New 35mm print of the classic thriller
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route to a faraway oil fire. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot, now in a gorgeous new 35mm print created from a complete HD digital restoration.
 
Fri, Jan 20
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Sat, Jan 21
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Sun, Jan 22
 2:00pm · 5:00pm · 8:00pm
Mon, Jan 23
 5:00pm · 8:00pm
Tue, Jan 24
 5:00pm · 8:00pm
Wed, Jan 25
 8:15pm
Thu, Jan 26
 5:00pm

 Norwegian Wood
“A swoon of pleasure”
–The Guardian
“"In the realm of greatness"”
–Time Out New York
Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel is brought to the screen by Oscar nominee Tran Anh Hung (THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA). Tokyo, the late 1960s… Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not – outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident – marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.
 
Fri, Jan 20
 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 8:15pm
Sat, Jan 21
 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 8:15pm
Sun, Jan 22
 2:30pm · 5:15pm · 8:16pm
Mon, Jan 23
 5:15pm · 8:15pm
Tue, Jan 24
 5:15pm · 8:15pm
Wed, Jan 25
 5:15pm
Thu, Jan 26
 8:15pm

 Sundance Film Festival USA 2012 FEATURING “2 DAYS IN NEW YORK”
The quintessential Sundance Film Festival experience in Chicago: the directorial debut of a film playing in the Premiere Category at the Festival simultaneously taking place in Park City, Utah. Featuring 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, a film by Julie Delpy. With Special Guest Apppearence By One of the Film’s Stars!

WORLD PREMIERE EVENT JANUARY 26, 2012!
For the third year in a row, Music Box Theatre is honored to partner with Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. and its nationwide tour. This year, we have been selected to host the World Premiere of actor/director Julie Delpy’s new film 2 Days In New York, a follow-up to her 2007 film, 2 Days In Paris.

In previous years, sell-out crowds have packed the Music Box to welcome stars and filmmakers such as Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jack Goes Boating) and Jim Kohlberg (The Music Never Stopped).
Stayed tuned to see which special guest will be in attendance this year!
About the film:

2 Days in New York / France (Director: Julie Delpy, Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Alexia Landeau) — Marion has broken up with Jack and now lives in New York with their child. A visit from her family, the different cultural background of her new boyfriend, her sister’s ex-boyfriend, and her upcoming photo exhibition make for an explosive mix. Cast: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy, Alexia Landeau, Alex Nahon. World Premiere.

About Sundance USA 2012.Sundance Institute recently announced the films from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that will screen in independent theaters in nine different cities around the country. The screenings are part of Sundance Film Festival USA, a program designed to bring the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide.

On January 26, the second Thursday of the Sundance Film Festival, nine filmmakers will each travel from Utah to one of the following cities: Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Orlando, FL; San Francisco, CA; and Tucson, AZ. Their travel is courtesy of Official Airline Sponsor Southwest Airlines. In each city, the filmmaker will introduce and screen their film and participate in a Q&A with the audience. A video featuring highlights from this year’s Sundance Film Festival will precede each screening.

“Bringing new voices in independent cinema to communities across the country at the same time they’re breaking for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival is an exciting proposition for artists, audiences, and for us,” said Robert Redford, Founder and President of Sundance Institute. “Even with the accessibility of films everywhere, there is still something incomparable about discovering, with others, a new world in a great story onscreen.”

John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “Sundance Film Festival USA is our way of celebrating arthouse theatres across the country and thanking them for their year-round support of independent film. For these filmmakers, it’s also an opportunity to connect with the growing audiences for independent film outside of Utah and offer them a first look at the year ahead.”

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