DJANGO Screening at the Music Box

Name: DJANGO Screening at the Music Box
Start: 2025-02-12T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-12T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Music Box Theatre

Schedule

Wed Feb 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Music Box Theatre | Chicago, IL

*One Show Only - Wednesday February 12th at 7pm*
Part of MUD, BLOOD, & MARINARA: SPAGHETTI WESTERNS series, co-presented in collaboration with DePaul University's School of Cinematic Arts - Visit our website for Full Schedule: https://musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-festivals/mud-blood-marinara-spaghetti-westerns
Preceded by an introduction from Andrew Stasiulis, faculty member at DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts
With an addictively catchy theme song, this definitive spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE, COMPAÑEROS) made an international star out of Franco Nero and officially ushered in the subgenre alongside Leone’s “Man With No Name” Trilogy. DJANGO’s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of over 50 unofficial sequels.
Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious, charming loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him…