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The Music Box Theatre is having a film festival for Godzilla movie fans and they are not skimping on it. Godzilla vs Music Box is seven days celebrating Godzilla's 70th Anniversary and features 16 films being shown through the run as well as a full day marathon of Showa films, all 15. The event is co-presented by the Japanese Arts Foundation and runs from June 7th to 13th, there will be many special guests, and more, check out the full list and details below.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, 6/7 - Opening Night!
Saturday, 6/8
Sunday, 6/9
Monday, 6/10 - Kid's Day
Tuesday, 6/11
Wednesday, 6/12 - Mothra Day
Thursday, 6/13
SERIES PRICING
About Music Box
CHICAGO’S VENUE FOR INDEPENDENT, FOREIGN, CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS
Turn onto Southport Avenue and it’s hard to resist the neon beacon that lures cinephiles from across Chicagoland with eight flickering letters—Music Box. It’s a promise of more than just entertainment, but a total experience. It’s a community of strangers coming together over the anticipation of that familiar red velvet curtain rising toward the twinkling, star-covered ceiling. It’s a symbol of Chicago’s go-to venue for independent, foreign, cult, and classic films.
Walk by the ticket window and step back in time to when the ‘20s were still roaring and the theatre first opened—just two months before The Great Depression—on August 22, 1929. It was a time before fluorescent lighting, megaplexes, and artificial butter. And although our ticket prices have changed slightly over the past 90 or so years, the butter on our popcorn is still real.
Each of our theatre’s 700 seats has a story to tell. The stories are more colorful than the decades of films projected here; of first dates that took place under the starry sky; of family traditions revolving around the annual White Christmas singalong; of the ghost some say haunts the theatre to this day. Join us, and make a few memories of your own. It’s certain to be an experience as unforgettable as the film itself.
The Music Box Theatre is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation. SMBC, through its Music Box Films division, also distributes foreign and independent films in the theatrical, DVD and television markets throughout the United States.
Location: 3733 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60613 Phone: 773 871 6604
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, 6/7 - Opening Night!
- 7:00pm - SHIN GODZILLA and GODZILLA MINUS ONE Double Feature with a panel discussion, Godzilla, the Atomic Age Anti-hero, led by Saira Chambers, Japanese Culture Center/Japanese Arts Foundation, Dr Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul Humanities Center, and more experts in the field TBA
Saturday, 6/8
- 12:00pm - A complete 24-hour marathon of all 15 Showa Era-Godzilla Movies with vendors, food, and more! Marathon pass must be purchased separately from Series pass.
Sunday, 6/9
- 5:00pm - A rare I.B. Technicolor 35mm print screening of GODZILLA (1998)
- 8:00pm - GODZILLA 2000 on 35mm
Monday, 6/10 - Kid's Day
- 4:30pm - GODZILLA VS. GIGAN
- 7:00pm - DESTROY ALL MONSTERS introduced by Svengoolie!
- 9:20pm - GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
Tuesday, 6/11
- 4:45pm - GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER
- 7:00pm - GODZILLA (1954) on 35mm with a Post-Film Discussion by Film Historian David Kalat, author of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla
- 9:40pm - THE RETURN OF GODZILLA introduced by David Kalat!
Wednesday, 6/12 - Mothra Day
- 4:30pm - MOTHRA on 35mm
- 7:00pm - MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA introduced by Field Museum Insects Collections Assistant, Jim Louderman
- 9:20pm - GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK on 35mm
Thursday, 6/13
- 4:45pm - GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA
- 7:00pm - GODZILLA (2014) - Tenth Anniversary Screening on 35mm
- 9:50pm - GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH
SERIES PRICING
- Series Pass (Grants Access to All Screenings in the Series Except the 24-hour Showa Marathon) - $100 General Admission/ $80 Music Box Members
- Opening Night Double Feature - $20 General Admission / $18 Music Box Members
- 24-Hour Marathon (Not included in Series Pass) - $35 General Admission / $30 Music Box Members
- Individual Screenings - $12 General Admission / $10 Music Box Members
- Individual Screenings with Guests - $13 General Admission / $11 Music Box Members
- Purchase ticket here.
About Music Box
CHICAGO’S VENUE FOR INDEPENDENT, FOREIGN, CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS
Turn onto Southport Avenue and it’s hard to resist the neon beacon that lures cinephiles from across Chicagoland with eight flickering letters—Music Box. It’s a promise of more than just entertainment, but a total experience. It’s a community of strangers coming together over the anticipation of that familiar red velvet curtain rising toward the twinkling, star-covered ceiling. It’s a symbol of Chicago’s go-to venue for independent, foreign, cult, and classic films.
Walk by the ticket window and step back in time to when the ‘20s were still roaring and the theatre first opened—just two months before The Great Depression—on August 22, 1929. It was a time before fluorescent lighting, megaplexes, and artificial butter. And although our ticket prices have changed slightly over the past 90 or so years, the butter on our popcorn is still real.
Each of our theatre’s 700 seats has a story to tell. The stories are more colorful than the decades of films projected here; of first dates that took place under the starry sky; of family traditions revolving around the annual White Christmas singalong; of the ghost some say haunts the theatre to this day. Join us, and make a few memories of your own. It’s certain to be an experience as unforgettable as the film itself.
The Music Box Theatre is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation. SMBC, through its Music Box Films division, also distributes foreign and independent films in the theatrical, DVD and television markets throughout the United States.
Location: 3733 N Southport Ave Chicago, IL 60613 Phone: 773 871 6604
