Best Art House, Reader's Choice, and Best Concession Stand, readers' choice: the Music Box

Reader’s Choice

Music Box

Landmark’s Century Centre grabs most of the good titles, and the Gene Siskel Film Center has the most adventurous programming. But the Music Box, opened for business in 1929 and an art-house since 1983, has the most welcoming vibe of any movie house in Chicago. It’s also the best preserved golden-age movie palace that still screens movies every day, with a main theater that still seats 750 and still has its own organ. The weekend matinee series gives people the chance to experience classical Hollywood cinema in 35-millimeter, the midnight matinees are a weird stew of outsider cinema and vintage schlock, and the management is always game for offbeat special events the horror and sci-fi marathons, the Sound Opinions rock movie series, the sing-along screenings of classic musicals. The day the Music Box closes, I’m outta here. 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com. —J.R. Jones

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