The Coolidge Corner Theatre

Black Valentine midnite shows Fri & Sat, Feb 12 & 13 on the big screen!

Late-nite screenings in our Video Screening Room Saturday - Thursday, Feb 13 - 18.

Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

Also! Special $1 off discount at the midnite screenings for any people who go to Rich Horror's Party Machine #11 featuring New England's blackest of the black Witch Tomb, Darkwor, Nachzehrer, Black Pyramid at O'Brien's Pub on Feb 12 at 9PM!. Just show your stamped hand. This discount works at both midnite shows!

dirs. Aaron Aites, Audre Ewell, w/ Varg Vikernes, documentary, 1h33m

$10 / $8 Coolidge members

Oh, to have a time machine if only to go back to the 1998 Academy Awards to pull a Kanye and bum rush the stage saying, "Yo, James Cameron, Titanic was good and all, but MOULIN ROUGE is the most romantic movie of ALL TIME!!" Of course, since MOULIN ROUGE didn't come out until 2001, nobody would know what we were talking about, nor would they probably appreciate our bad boy Kanye maneuver. Instead, we'd just collapse the space-time continuum. Anyway...

Sure, you know the movie: Ewan McGregor is the most handsome bohemian idealist poet ever; Nicole Kidman is his gorgeous muse; John Leguizamo is a strange midget; director Baz Luhrmann masterfully mashes up razzling, dazzling visuals with pop songs. But, until you've seen this masterpiece and sung the songs in a movie theater with 200 other heart-swept people, well, you've never really known what it's like to be in love. Your heart will swell. Your lungs will burst. Bring a date, or else make sure you choose who you sit next to carefully, because you WILL end up falling in love with that person before the credits roll.

As always, your friends at the ACTION PACK will have props for some special interaction and pre-show surprises!!

$10 / $8 Coolidge members

And what's *maybe* even better than celebrating Valetine's Day with the absinthe-soaked romantic spectacular that is MOULIN ROUGE? Singing (and dancing!) along with a theater full of people to a hair spray- and shoulder pad-fueled soundtrack of the very best 80s hits all celebrating amore! And damn, the 80s were all about love -- at least on the pop charts. Cheesy ballads, soulful grooves, and catchy pop hits were filled with love that was tainted, made into a battlefield, totally eclipsed, and just plain super freaky. The ACTION PACK has put together a very special video mixtape for V-Day jam packed with all these kinds of love! Featuring Hall & Oates, Rod Stewart, Rick Springfield, Pat Benatar, Air Supply, Prince, Wham!, Billy Idol, Tina Turner and so many more!

$7.75 Student members get 2 for 1 admission.

3 Bad Girls, 1 Desert, 1 Supercharged Thunderbird, 1,473 Exotic Weapons, 1 Ruthless Crimelord, $206 Million in Stolen Goods, A Cop Who May Not be a Cop, Hundreds More Cops who are Cops (Maybe…), A Pair of Mentally-Challenged Contract Killers, 1 Device That Could Snuff Out Life on Earth, More Cleavage than you can Shake a Stick At and Kidney Rattling Erotic Displays of Carnal Prowess Heretofore Unimagined… I don’t know about you, but I want a piece of that!

dir. Rick Jacobson, w/ Julia Vith, Erin Cummings, America Olivo 1h44m

$7.75 All Seats. Student members get 2 for 1 admission.

Exclusively at the Coolidge!

Next screening @fter midnite Friday, February 19, 2009

In this glorious retro homage to ’70s blaxploitation cinema, director Scott Sanders isn’t so much traversing I’m Gonna Git You, Sucka territory as he is making a full-length Grindhouse spoof trailer — and doing a shockingly awesome job of it. — Shaula Clark, The Boston Phoenix

Madcap-brilliant! A one-of-a-kind comedy high! -Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

I’ve seen a lot of 1970s films, and I’m here to tell you that Black Dynamite gets it mostly right, and when it’s wrong, it’s wrong on purpose and knows just what it’s doing. -Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times

Martial arts mayhem and vehicular pandemonium! This movie’s like a blaxploitation classic you somehow missed back in the day. Time to catch up! -Kurt Loder, MTV

When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

dir. Scott Sanders w/ Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall 1h30m

$7.75 all seats. Student-level members get 2-for-1 admission!

"The Room is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.'' - Ross Morin, assistant professor of film studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

For the past five years, a Los Angeles billboard has perpetually and ominously promoted a film simply titled: THE ROOM. Those who could no longer stand the suspense and actually sought out screenings of this film have been exposed to what some people are saying is the greatest midnite movie since THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's 'effing great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of THE ROOM. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

THE ROOM's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as a L.A. secret for half of a decade, THE ROOM has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.

But don't just take our word for it, check out what EW and The Onion have to say about the strange new phenomenon of THE ROOM:

Onion AV Club Review

Entertainment Weekly Review

$9.75/ $6.75 Coolidge Members

Coolidge Award Repertory Screening in honor of Jonathan Demme

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Demme’s directorial debut features female inmate Jacqueline (Erica Gavin), who is sentenced to prison on drug-related charges. Jacqueline bonds with a group of fellow female inmates as they fight against their oppressive warden, played by horror icon Barbara Steele. This sexy women-in-prison cult film was also written by Demme and is one of the best-known in its genre.

dir. Jonathan Demme, w/ Erica Gavin, 1974, 1h23m

$8.00/ $6.00 Students.

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The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom), John Darnielle performs The Life of the World to Come on piano and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano student and new transplant to Claremont, he performed Bach minuets for the state examiner, The Life of the World to Come takes the songs from the album and restores them to their raw original states: skin, blood, and bone.

For more information about the Mountain Goats, please see:

Mountain Goats.com

Mountain Goats on Facebook

Check out this interview with John Darnielle.

A clip of the film is here: