The Coolidge Corner Theatre
Your Not-For-Profit Independent Theatre
Matinee Price for Seniors & Disabled PersonsEvery Wednesday! ($3 Admission to ANY show BEFORE 4:00 PM on Wednesdays) Our annual reduced price senior matinee series has been a longtime Coolidge tradition. But now, instead of offering just one film per week, we're taking the series one step better by offering reduced price admission to seniors every Wednesday afternoon! We've also expanded this special discounted offer to include all disabled persons with a valid MBTA T.A.P card as well. And thanks to our new renovations last summer, not only does the The Coolidge look better than ever, we're also completely handicap accessible! Plus, all of our theatres are now outfitted with assisted listening devices. If you have a Senior Member Coolidge Corner Card, you can get a free small popcorn at our concession stand as well. Just show your card. (Popcorn offer only valid during Senior Matinee screenings) *Must present valid MBTA T.A.P ID $3 admission offer is valid before 4:00 pm on Wednesdays only and not on any other days of the week. This program is co-sponsored by the Senior Services of Jewish Family & Children's Services CONSTANTINE'S SWORDNow Playing COOLIDGE SELECTS for the Mini Max: Digital Projection  To watch a WGBH GREATER BOSTON interview go to www.wgbh.org/gb/ Constantine’s Sword is the story of James Carroll; a former Catholic priest on a journey to confront his past and uncover the roots of religiously inspired violence and war. His search also reveals a growing scandal involving religious infiltration of the U.S. military and the terrible consequences of religion’s influence on America’s foreign policy. Carroll focuses on Christian antisemitism as the model for all religious hatred, exposing the cross as a symbol of a long history of violence against Jews (and, most recently, Muslims). The film brings the history of religious intolerance to life, tracing it as a source of the fanaticism that threatens the world today. At its core, CONSTANTINE'S SWORD is a compelling personal narrative -- a kind of detective story -- as one man uncovers the dark areas of his own past, searching for a better future. dir. Oren Jacoby, documentary, 1h35m RADIO CAPE CODShown in the Minimax theater in HD video. Advance purchase is advised. Limited seating available COOLIDGE SELECTS for the Screening Room and MiniMax: Digital Projection  Held Over! One show Mondays @ 9:45 Directed and produced by Boston's own Andrew Silver, RADIO CAPE COD is a charming quartet of love stories, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as a radio interviewer coming to terms with the loss of her husband and a new love entering her life. All the while she copes with her young teenage daughter experiencing her first love and two close friends dealing with old and new loves. 1h12m BRICK LANENow Playing  "Touching, even heart-rending at times" - A.O. Scott, The New York Times "Beautifully acted and written" - Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter Nazneen’s life is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen. Forced into an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, BRICK LANE is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit. dir. Sarah Gavron, w/ Tannishtha Chatterjee, 1h42m A JIHAD FOR LOVENow Playing COOLIDGE SELECTS for the Screening Room: Digital Projection  "Rich with compelling, often heartbreaking stories." - Phil Hall, Film Threat Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world's second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. Produced by Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G-d) and Sharma, A JIHAD FOR LOVE was filmed in 12 countries and 9 languages and comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, it reclaims the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to 'an inner struggle' or 'to strive in the path of God' - allowing its remarkable subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war. dir. Parvez Sharma, documentary, 81m, in English & Arabic, Farsi, Undu, Hindi, Turkish, French w/English subtitles MONGOLNow Playing (Subtitled)  "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 |