Blog Posts That Mention Music
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
Craig D. Lindsey
Ari Aster Talks with Chaz Ebert About “Eddington” at Music Box
Chaz Ebert
Music to Make A Man Fly: The Power of John Williams’ Theme to “Superman”
Charlie Brigden
A (Not So) Brief History of Silent Film Influences on Pop Music
Marya E. Gates
Beyoncé and My Daughter Love Country Music
Chaz Ebert
10 Music Documentaries You Should See After The Greatest Night in Pop
Tim Grierson
How Martin Scorsese Uses Music to Enhance His Visions
Caroline Madden
Streetcorner Symphony: The Music of Mean Streets
Aaron Aradillas
TIFF 2023: Stop Making Sense, In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Brian Tallerico
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
Laura Emerick
A True Marriage of Picture and Music: Benjamin Millepied on Carmen
Robert Daniels
New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams
Tomris Laffly
Cinema Femme Short Film Festival to Have First In-Person Screenings at the Music Box Theatre
Matt Fagerholm
Music in the Movies at Ebertfest 2023
The Editors
How the World of Classical Music Has Responded to TÁR
Laura Emerick
Calling All Youth Music Mixologists from Chicago: Enter the Lyric’s Opera Remix Competition
The Editors
A Love Letter to Musicals: Schmigadoon!’s Director, Co-Writer, and Cast on the New Musical Series
Nell Minow
We Can Sing Again: Nine Movie Musicals Coming Out in 2021
Susan Wloszczyna
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway
The Editors
Netflix’s Musical Series Julie and the Phantoms Infrequently Charms
Roxana Hadadi
Revisiting My 2017 Article, My Daughter Loves Country Music, In Light of Mickey Guyton’s song, Black Like Me
Chaz Ebert
Music and Family Combine in Apple TV’s Wonderful Central Park
Brian Tallerico
Ken Burns’ Country Music Series is Thought-Provoking, Joyful
Allison Shoemaker
Music Box Memories: A Legendary Theatre Celebrates 90 Years
Brian Tallerico
The Musical History Behind the James Bond Gun Barrel Sequences
Charlie Brigden
Music, Life, and Everything Between: Quincy Jones and Alan Hicks on Quincy
Vikram Murthi
Great Movies Return to the Big Screen at Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival
Nick Allen
Star Trek: Discovery Returns to Series’ Musical Roots
Charlie Brigden
Cinepocalypse Comes to the Music Box in Chicago
Brian Tallerico
My Daughter Loves Country Music
Chaz Ebert
The Big Knockover: “Noir City: Chicago” Brings Heist Films to the Music Box Theater
Laura Emerick
The Heart of the Film: Matt Schrader and Marco Beltrami on “Score: A Film Music Documentary”
Laura Emerick
Video Interview: George Lepauw on CIMMfest (Music and Movies)
Chaz Ebert
A musical soul: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017
Matt Zoller Seitz
Stars, Music, Movies and Compassion Converge: Ebertfest 2017 Preview
Chaz Ebert
Death, Sex & Money at the Music Box
The Editors
Outstanding, Black Music: Raphael Saadiq on “Underground,” “Insecure”
Craig D. Lindsey
Music is Crucial to Every Film: John Legend on “Southside with You”
Nick Allen
Ebertfest, Musicality Honored at HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet
Matt Fagerholm
Mark Caro Presents “Is It Still Funny?” at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre
The Editors
Chicago International Music and Movies Festival 2016 Preview
Nick Allen
“70mm Film Festival: The Ultimate Edition” Arrives at Chicago’s Music Box Theater
Peter Sobczynski
The Arrogance Got Eaten Up By The Music: Armen Ra and Matt Huffman on “When My Sorrow Died: The Legend Of Armen Ra And The Theremin”
Glenn Kenny
TIFF 2015: “The Music of Strangers” & “Thru You Princess”
Tina Hassannia
SDCC 2015: Superhero Music Composers at Comic-Con
Nell Minow
Painting with sound: the music of James Horner, 1953-2015
Matt Zoller Seitz
Ebertfest 2015 Comes Alive With the Sound of Music
Chaz Ebert
Musical Planned on the Life of Roger Ebert
Brian Tallerico
Music Box Films Releases New Poster For “Beloved Sisters”
The Editors
It’s Gonna Feel All Right: The Musical and Cinematic Legacy of “A Hard Day’s Night”
Matt Zoller Seitz
News: Music Box Theatre in Chicago Announces “Son of 70MM Film Festival”
The Editors
Scoring Dystopia: Composer Ryan Amon Discusses His Music for “Elysium”
Nell Minow
Psych The Musical: Notes from Comic-Con 2013
Jana Monji
February 3, 1959: The day the music died
Roger Ebert
Jonathan is three and loves great music
Roger Ebert
♫ Nestor Torres and the spirit in the music
Roger Ebert
Napoleon conquers Radio City Music Hall
Roger Ebert
50 greatest music films ever
Jim Emerson
Catchiest movie theme music of 2009
Jim Emerson
A contrarian music video
Jim Emerson
The Monument Valley: Music as film criticism
Jim Emerson
At least newspapers are more profitable than movies or music!
Jim Emerson
A Serious Man and His Music
Jim Emerson
The musician: John Darnielle on criticism
Jim Emerson
Scorsese and music as storytelling: Shine a Light
Jim Emerson
Words and music
Jim Emerson
Dialogue as music
Jim Emerson
The spheres of the music
Roger Ebert
You Play Well: Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
Scout Tafoya
Tim Robinson Sits in a World of Paranoid Conspiracies in HBO’s “The Chair Company”
Brian Tallerico
NYFF 2025: Late Fame, What Does That Nature Say to You, Barrio Triste
Jourdain Searles
What Really Matters is What You Like: “High Fidelity” at 25
Richard Roeper
Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year
Brian Tallerico
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Brian Tallerico
An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls
Nell Minow
The First Responders of the Internet: Lili Reinhart on “American Sweatshop”
Zachary Lee
Season 3 of “Tulsa King” Features Boomers, Bullets, and Bourbon, Oh My
Clint Worthington
Lauren Melinda Receives the Inaugural Chaz Ebert Phenomenal Person in Film Award
Rebecca Martin Fagerholm
TIFF 2025: Hamnet, Driver’s Ed, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Monica Castillo
Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” Wins the TIFF People’s Choice Award
Brian Tallerico
TIFF 2025: Erupcja, Junk World, The Napa Boys
Zachary Lee
Cheese, Glue, and Skiffle: Spinal Tap & Marty DeBergi on “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues”
Nell Minow
TIFF 2025: Fuze, Glenrothan, The Last Viking
Jason Bailey
TIFF 2025: Mile End Kicks, Maddie’s Secret, Poetic License
Zachary Lee
TIFF 2025: Palestine 36, The Choral, Peak Everything
Marya E. Gates
Venice Film Festival 2025: Broken English, The Wizard of the Kremlin, No Other Choice, In the Hand of Dante
Glenn Kenny
Back to Duality: James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien on “Twinless”
Isaac Feldberg
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