Sentences with phrase «music box films»

«Starlet» (Music Box Films) Music Box films released SXSW pickup «Starlet» on six screens this weekend to weak results.

Not exact matches

The newly opened Park at Wrigley has its own film series in partnership with Music Box Theatre, every - other Wednesday night.

You can even download the Props in a Box Movie Maker App so you can film a movie of your kids performances with the ability to do different titles, music and special effects.

CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside - the - box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary - shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world.

Nightingale In A Music Box is a film with a lot on its mind - an intricate maze of ideas that are so tightly woven together it overflows with intelligence.

Take away the three films from Music Box's new genre film label Doppelgänger Releasing, and that Metascore average jumps up to 71.4.

2013 brought Variance its highest - grossing film to date in the form of Dave Grohl's music doc Sound City, which, in turn, gave the tiny but innovative distributor its best - ever year at the box office.

Music Box once again managed to avoid a single red Metascore all year, though its only film to truly impress critics was Mysteries of Lisbon, originally a Portuguese TV miniseries.

And so we're tweaking our «Best of the 21st Century» formula (check out our Horror Films, Animated and Music Documentary features) to look instead at the top - grossing films of the century to date, and seeing how, in this season of bottom lines and billions and box office bombs, the 25 reigning champions of the century stack up against each other in terms of quality.

Here's one for Chicago - based fans of legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died last month at the age of 91: A chance to see his final film, Lucky, for free during its run at the beautiful, historic Music Box theater.

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.

(Oddly, one joke that is given time to breathe — and one of the film's few visual gags — is the bit featured in the trailer where Barinholz gets Poehler's music box stuck up his butt; it works better in the movie than in the trailer, but it's still a juvenile choice for a centerpiece.)

This writer was lucky enough to catch the film early at Comic - Con last month (read my glowing review here), and coming fresh off a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again.

This is one of the best openings for a foreign language film this year, a category that includes Music Box Films» The Innocents, which is currently approaching a $ 1 million U.S. gross.»

Continuing its sporadic but notable string of new releases shown in the rare format of 70 millimeter film, which begun with «The Hateful Eight» and continued with «Dunkirk,» the Music Box Theatre on Jan. 11 opened a four - week engagement of Paul Thomas Anderson's luxuriously weird romance «Phantom Thread.»

It's an abstract puzzle box of a film, and some have dismissed Velvet Goldmine as a two - hour music video, which isn't entirely unfair.

Paul Thomas Anderson did another early screening of his new film The Master in 70 mm last night at Chicago's Music Box Theater, to follow on the Santa Monica showing that took place a couple weeks ago.

Music Box Films will release the film on DVD on Tuesday, August 9.

To celebrate the film's premiere at the Music Box Theatre, star Peyton Kennedy, producer Kishori Rajan and writer / director Anne Hamilton are accompanying the movie to Chicago and doing a Q&A for this drama - fantasy about an 11 - year - old girl who lives in a world that blends fables and reality.

Finally, there's «Operator,» a film that shot all over Chicago last year, and now returns to the Music Box and CCFF for its Windy City premiere, complete with co-writer Sharon Greene, co - writer / director Logan Kibens and star Martin Starr (another returning guest after his CCFF appearance in 2014) in attendance.

You can see Stanton's work for yourself; all you have to do is head over here and register for the chance to win a free pair of tickets to a showing of the film at the Music Box, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

So after those films were dropped for the Music Box run, «what we ended up with was a disproportional emphasis on the»70s.»

The luckiest film fans in Chicago will come to the Music Box early on Saturday and not leave until early the next day.

With five Oscars under its belt, legions of devoted fans including those prone to dressing up and singing along, and having taken so much box - office cash that it is in the top 10 highest - grossing films of all time, The Sound of Music is comfortably, and indisputably, a resounding hit.

Known throughout the film world as «The Czar of Noir,» Muller will appear at the Music Box during the opening weekend (August 25 - 27) to introduce films and serve as host.

Running February 19 thru March 10, along with a separate shorts program of short films and trailers, the Music Box will be showing 14 features — some of them in prints from their original theatrical runs — that run the gamut from Oscar - winning classics to cult oddities to contemporary uses of the format.

«[The film] went on to have the biggest opening in twelve months in Paris for a French movie,» commented Music Box Films» Brian Andreotti.

Music Box Films caught Frantz prior to its Venice premiere, where the film's star, Paual Beer, won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress for her performance.

I even got them to go with me to a Vertigo screening at the Music Box (film editor A.A. Dowd informed me I was doing the lord's work); they're 11, but they barely squirmed, even though that movie can be a bit slow, what with all the snail's pace car chases at the beginning.

In December, the Music Box will be showing Jean - Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders, which, like Point Blank, is one of the last great crime films, daring to reimagine the genre by reworking its various elements into something that's both thought provoking and highly entertaining.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR Force Majeure — Magnolia Pictures Ida — Music Box Films Mommy — Roadside Attractions Stranger by the Lake — Strand Releasing Two Days, One Night — Sundance Selects / IFC

On the complete other end of the spectrum but covering the same demographic, the tiny independent film Old Goats — now available on DVD from Music Box Films — is described on the movie's Facebook Page as «a gentle comedy about the indignities of aging.»

Worst - case scenario: The initial trailer for the film relies more on scatological humor — one prominent gag involves a music box being stuck in a supporting character's butt — than sparkling dialogue, raising the question of whether Fey and Poehler's chemistry is enough to overcome even the dumbest script.

Music Box eyed the post-Oscars period for the film's release.

Neither are particularly easy sells («Belle» is 1700s - set period piece while «Ida» is a Polish import set in the 1960s), so kudos to Fox Searchlight and Music Box Films for continuing to push these films out there.

«[He is] an inspiring speaker who works very hard to help promote his films,» commented Music Box's Ed Arentz.

All of the exciting festivities are hosted by the Music Box Theatre in Lakeview and stands as one of the best film weeks on the city calendar.

(Chicago, IL)-- The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago - area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, today announces the complete lineup, schedule and special guests expected for the sixth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, May 4 - 10 at the Music Box Theatre.

Very Good (3 stars) Unrated In Spanish with subtitles Running time: 97 minutes Distributor: Music Box Films DVD Extras: Commentary by co-stars Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers; interviews with Antonia Zegers and director Pablo Larrain; Berlinale press conference excerpt; and a collector's booklet featuring cast and crews interviews and an essay by film critic Jessica Kiang.

The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, or indeed The Greatest Showman, whose stealth success at the box office since it opened five weeks ago has quietly become the biggest film story of the new year.

Music Box released The Midwife on DVD only in 1.85:1 with 5.1 Dolby Digital, in a format which doesn't necessarily further the film's cause.

His music event films have broken box office records across Europe with movie audiences specially treated to behind - the - scenes extras, enhancing their concert experience.

The 6th Annual Chicago Film Critics Association Film Festival, taking place from May 4 - 10 at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago, will present 24 feature films, nine of which are written or directed by women.

Greenwich Entertainment was co-founded by Ed Arentz, who as co-founder and Managing Director of Music Box Films over the last decade acquired and released a string of art house hits that include the top grossing foreign language film of the last decade, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and the 2015 Foreign Language Academy Award winning IDA.

The film will be released in the U.S. by Music Box Films.

18 noir films, all in 35 mm, will screen at Chicago's Music Box Theater from Friday, August 25 through Thursday, August 31.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Music Box), the final film in the Stieg Larsson trilogy Millennium Trilogy, wraps up the tale of defiant punk hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) with more efficiency than excitement.

Music Box releases the film on DVD and Blu - ray, both of them in three - disc presentations.

His in - box held an invitation to speak at a film conference in Atlanta; e-mails from two other documentary filmmakers who were friends of his; a pile of music files and a couple of her latest digital photos, all sent by his mother late last night.

And we've got some brilliant people doing the music in these films, too, which will be available with the boxed set when it comes out, all cutting edge people.