Award Events

The Fifth Annual Coolidge Award

The Coolidge Award is an annual celebration honoring a film artist whose body of work is recognized as consistently original and challenging.

TICKETING AND THEATRE INFORMATION

April 16: AWARD CEREMONY @ 8 pm General Admission $35 / $30 Coolidge Members
We honor Jeremy Thomas with film clips of his film accomplishments. Celebrity guests Nicolas Roeg, Julien Temple, Debra Winger, and Tim Roth pay tribute to Mr. Thomas with testimonials and film introductions.

April 17: AN AFTERNOON WITH JEREMY THOMAS @ 2 pm $9.75 all seats / $7.75 Members
Mr. Thomas will present clips from a few of his favorite films and with commentary. The audience will be invited to ask questions about the art of producing film.

April 17: PANEL DISCUSSION @ 8 pm $20 / $17 Coolidge Members
The dynamics of producing a film will be presented and discussed with guests Nicolas Roeg, Julien Temple, Debra Winger, Tim Roth

Panel moderated by J.D. Connor
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Film Studies
Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies
and of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University

Ticket available at the Box Office or call Joe at 617-734-2501 x 105 to charge online Monday -Thursday 11am-5pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE

Mon, April 14 @ 7:00

Regular Price

A Japanese prison camp in 1942 is the setting for this revelatory war drama. The characters include rebellious British prisoner Jack Celliers (David Bowie), camp commandant Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto), British officer Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence (Tom Conti) and Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano). While Hara and the Japanese-speaking Lawrence form an odd friendship, Yonoi becomes strangely fixated on Celliers as both men are tormented by guilt and regret. With a striking, influential musical score by Sakamato, the film is an uncommonly even-handed look at intercultural conflict.

(1983) dir: Nagisa Oshima, w/Bowie, Sakamoto, Kitano, Conti. 2h4m

Tickets

GALA AWARD CEREMONY

Weds, April 16 @ 8:00

$35/$30 Coolidge Members

Tickets on sale now at the Box Office or reserve your ticket with a credit card by calling Rachel at 617-734-2501 x 113 Monday-Friday 11-6pm

The centerpiece of the Coolidge Award events, this celebration recognizes the career and artistic contributions of JEREMY THOMAS. This high profile event, held in fine Coolidge style, includes testimonials from Mr. Thomas's friends, colleagues and special guests, selected film clips from his work, and a musical performance by Balla Tounkara & Groupe Spirit. The program concludes with the presentation of the fifth annual Coolidge Award to Jeremy Thomas, who joins us in person.

Tickets

BAD TIMING

Wed, April 9

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). When their all-consuming passion takes a life-threatening turn, Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is assigned to piece together the sordid details. Acclaimed for its innovative editing, raw performances, and stirring musical score-- featuring Tom Waits, the Who, and Billie Holiday--Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing is a masterful, deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession.

(1980) dir: Nicolas Roeg, w/ Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel. 2h2m

THE GREAT ROCK 'N' ROLL SWINDLE

Wed, April 9

The Sex Pistols star in director Julien Temple's bizarre and hilarious fictional documentary charting the rise and fall of punk's most notorious band. The film presents the band's success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by its calculating manager, Malcolm McLaren, to make "a million pounds." A bubbling brew of devices and styles somehow mesh under firsttime helmer Julien Temple's wizardly direction to amplify McLaren's thesis on how to create a rock sensation in 10 easy lessons. Among his dicta are: Demonstrate To Record Companies The Enormous Potential Of A Band That Can't Play; Make It As Hard As Possible For The Press To See It; Insult Your Audiences As Much As Possible, and Cultivate Hatred.

(1980) dir: Julien Temple, w/ Malcolm McLaren, Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Johnny Rotten. 1h40m

About Jeremy Thomas

Cinema has always been a part of Jeremy Thomas' life. He was born in London into a filmmaking family, his father, Ralph, and uncle, Gerald, both directors. His childhood ambition was to work in cinema. As soon as he left school he went to work in various positions, ending up in the cutting rooms working on films such as The Harder They Come, Family Life and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and worked through the ranks to become a film editor for Ken Loach on A Misfortune.

After editing Philippe Mora's Brother Can You Spare a Dime, he produced his first film, Mad Dog Morgan in 1974 in Australia. He then returned to England to produce Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout, which won the Grand Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Thomas' films are all highly individual and his independence of spirit has paid off both artistically and commercially. His extensive output of over forty films includes three films directed by Nicolas Roeg: Bad Timing, Eureka and Insignificance, Julien Temple's The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and The Hit, directed by Stephen Frears.

In 1986, he produced Bernardo Bertolucci's epic, The Last Emperor, an independently financed project that was three years in the making. A commercial and critical triumph, the film swept the board at the 1987 Academy Awards, garnering an outstanding nine Oscars including 'Best Picture'.

Since The Last Emperor, Thomas has completed many films including Karel Reisz's film of Arthur Miller's screenplay Everybody Wins, Bertolucci's film of Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha and Stealing Beauty, David Cronenberg's films of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and J.G. Ballards' Crash. In 1997, he directed All The Little Animals, starring John Hurt and Christian Bale, which was in the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Other recent credits include Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, Takeshi Kitano's Brother, Khyentse Norbu's The Cup, Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, David Mackenzie's film of Alexander Trocchi's Young Adam, Bernardo Bertoluccii's The Dreamers, Terry Gilliam's Tideland, Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking and Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation.

He was Chairman of the British Film Institute from August 1992 until December 1997 and has been the recipient of many awards throughout the world, including the Michael Balcon British Academy Achievement and the European Achievement in World Cinema, Prix Screen International, European Film Awards 2006. He has been President of the jury at Tokyo, San Sebastian, Berlin Film Festival and Cannes (Un Certain Regard) and has also served on the main jury at Cannes. He was made a Life Fellow of the British Film Institute in 2000.