Coolidge SelectsThe Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the best new documentary films and independent features for full theatrical runs in digital projection in our intimate exhibition spaces: the 45-seat Video Screening Room and the 14-seat Gold Screen. The COOLIDGE SELECTS title is given to films that we feel deserve to be shown in an independent forum, presented the way they were meant to be seen: with an audience. Discussion is the key, and these are the films that will leave you thinking and talking. Previous Selects titles have included hits like MAN ON WIRE, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, CONSTANTINE'S SWORD and more. PHYLLIS AND HAROLDNow Playing!  Phyllis and Harold is an astoundingly frank journey through a disastrous 59-year marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verité and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was still alive. Phyllis and Harold delves into the mystery of time passing, the nature of living a life, and the challenges of losing those we love. But it is also a loving, funny exposé on the sins of suburbia. Cindy Kleine is a film and video artist whose prolific career began when she was an undergraduate at Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at the legendary (now defunct) MIT Film/Video Section, studying with Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus, and among a legion of future filmmakers in the program, including Ross McElwee, Robb Moss and John Gianvito. In line with her Boston peers, Kleine has developed a central body of documentary work focused on family dramas: camera visits with her grandmother and her sister, and intense exploration of her parents’ 59 years of a dubious, fractured marriage. Additionally, she has gone outside of family for films about odd artists and off-the-wall musicians, and she’s gone inside herself for some deeply personal, poetically framed psychodramas about love lost, spirit gained. dir. Cindy Kleine, 1h25m JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORKNow Playing!  "Painfully funny" - Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe IFFBoston 2010 Official Selection Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work takes the audience on a year long ride with legendary comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life. Peeling away the mask of an iconic comedian and exposing the struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a ground breaking female performer. The film is an emotionally surprising and revealing portrait of one the most hilarious and long-standing career women ever in the business. dirs. Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg, w/ Joan Rivers, documentary, 1h24m WINTER'S BONENow Playing!  Winner of Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture Winner of the IFFBoston 2010 Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Narrative Feature It’s those noir bones that give this social-realist drama its punch, as if Humphrey Bogart had been recast as a 17-year-old girl and dropped into the poorest corner of America. - Ty Burr, The Boston Globe Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. dir. Debra Granik, w/ Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, 1h40m |