The Coolidge Corner Theatre

"MONGOL is quality escapism: an exotic saga that compels, moves and envelops us with its grand and captivating story." - Claudia Pulg, USA Today

"I don't know the Mongolian word for panache, but MONGOL's got plenty of it." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

"Quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

MONGOL illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan. Based on leading scholarly accounts, the film delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, MONGOL paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.

dir. Sergei Bodrov, w/ Tadanobu Asano, in Mongolian with English subtitles, 2h6m

When professional photographer J.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events...Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history. Alfred Hitchcock appears briefly onscreen in the film as the man winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment as the songwriter is performing the piece that he had been working on during the course of the film.

dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1h55m

Matlin plays Sarah Norman, a deaf and troubled young woman working at a school for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in New England. An energetic new teacher, James Leeds (William Hurt), arrives at the school and encourages her to set aside her isolated life of frustration by learning how to talk. As she already uses sign language, Sarah resists James's attempts to get her to talk. Romantic interest develops between James and Sarah and they are soon living together, though their differences and mutual stubbornness eventually strains their relationship to a breaking point, as he continues to want her to talk, and she feels somewhat stifled in his presence. Sarah leaves and goes back to her mother's house, in the process reconciling with her once estranged mother. However, she later returns to James, as both realize they need each other.

dir. Randa Haines, 1h49m

"As astounding in its emotional force and as haunting and mysterious as anything seen in American movies in recent years." - David Denby, The New Yorker

A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Little Miss Sunshine's Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value - love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son - is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.

dir Paul Thomas Anderson, w/ Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hands, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Dillion Freasier, 2h38m