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John Waters Coolidge Award

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2hrs 19mins

Limited 35mm engagement! Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

2hrs 10mins

From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes an audacious fever dream that defies genres starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, & Selena Gomez.

1hr 47mins

From director John Crowley (Brooklyn) and starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. 

1hr 41mins

Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown.

2hrs

The new thriller from Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini. 

1hr 8mins

Winner: Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. 

2hrs 20mins

 

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Highlights

Amazing NEW TERROR Device Makes You A Living Participant in the FLESH-CRAWLING ACTION! PERCEPTO!

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The definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's dystopian science fiction classic.

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Dune (1984)

Fri 11/08

A place beyond your dreams. A movie beyond your imagination.

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Blue Velvet

Sat 11/09

Spawned from the mind of David Lynch, Blue Velvet is a deeply disturbing mixture of the heartfelt and horrific.

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Good News Gus

Sun 11/10

Join Harry LaCoste as he wiggles, giggles, juggles and jams with his sunshine- spreading sidekick, Good News Gus!

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Niagara (1953)

Sun 11/10

Marilyn Monroe and Niagara, a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Have your pressing issues decided by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman, Certified Judge.

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Pre-film seminar from Kyle Stevens (Appalachian State University) and Maria San Filippo (Emerson College)!

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Can a man and a woman be friends, or does sex always get in the way?

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Students will learn the technical approaches & reasoning behind some of the most treasured moments of moving image storytelling.

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Boston Open Screen

Tue 11/12 - Tue 12/10

Boston's one and only open mic night for filmmakers!

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Digital Restoration Noirvember

The Killers (1946)

Tue 11/12

One Moment with Her...And He Gambled His LUCK...LOVE...and His LIFE!

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Featuring a post-film panel discussion with Judi Freeman, Marc Skvirsky, Aaron Achildiyev, Samantha Demezieux, Bieta Andemariam, & JD Moore. 

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Digital Restoration Coolidge Award

Pink Flamingos

Thu 11/14

An exercise in poor taste.

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Wild at Heart

Fri 11/15

David Lynch's vivid tale of love on the run.

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Street Trash (2024)

Fri 11/15 - Sat 11/16

MELT THE RICH

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Boston's Parents' Choice Award-winning band, Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys, returns for their annual Coolidge Corner Theatre show!

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In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. 

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The sin she committed in the name of love could not be judged by man...or punished by law!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Digital Restoration Speaker Science on Screen®

Amadeus

Mon 11/18

Featuring an introduction by Dr. Psyche Loui!

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Experience the next wave of new plays through this theatrical recording of the fifth annual Black Trans Women at the Center: Virtual New Play Festival! 

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Kokomo City

Tue 11/19

Post-film panel discussion with guests from The Theater Offensive!

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Paris is Burning

Wed 11/20

Jennie Livingston's documentary offers an intimate portrait of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene.

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Post-Film Q&A 35mm Coolidge Award

Featuring an introduction and Q&A with 2024 Coolidge Award honoree John Waters! 

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The Coolidge is thrilled to announce legendary filmmaker, author, and visual artist John Waters as the recipient of the 2024 Coolidge Award. 

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Lost Highway

Fri 11/22

A lost road on the edge of strange...

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Digital Restoration Coolidge Award After Midnite

Female Trouble

Fri 11/22

Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels.

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Shrek 2

Sat 11/23

After every screening, join us for a Rewind! afterparty in our brand new Education Center for themed fun, food, and drinks!

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Mulholland Dr.

Sat 11/23

David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium.

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Winners

Sun 11/24

Mona, a Syrian refugee in Berlin, joins a competitive girls' football team where she learns the value of teamwork for success.

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Digital Restoration Noirvember

You'll forget there ever was a woman like Gilda...when you meet the Lady From Shanghai!

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Post-film discussion led by Northeastern professor Nathan Blake!

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Hook

Mon 11/25

What if Peter Pan grew up?

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Composer Jeff Rapsis will perform live his new piano score to the Douglas Fairbanks fantasy epic. 

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He was all things to all men ... but only one thing to all women!

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Desperate Living

Fri 11/29

It isn't very pretty...

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Matilda

Sat 11/30

A little magic goes a long way.

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Inland Empire

Sat 11/30

"A Woman In Trouble."

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Special 30th-anniversary screening!

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A Dirty Shame

Mon 12/02

Threatening the very limits of common decency.

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35mm Dracula Lives Dracula Lives

Dracula (1931)

Tue 12/03

The original Dracula which launched the Hollywood horror genre and defined the iconic look and frightening character of the famed vampire.

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Claudio Simonetti's Goblin celebrates Claudio's career with ANTHOLOGY, a live performance spanning his career and highlighting all his "best of" songs and scores.

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Pecker

Thu 12/05

He never realized how far 35 millimeters would take him.

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Gremlins

Thu 12/05

One of the most beloved (and terrifying) Christmas cult classics, from director Joe Dante.

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Blade

Fri 12/06

Sometimes it takes one to kill one.

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All Whos beware: He's mean and green!

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Jenny the Juggler dazzles with dexterity and wit in her interactive variety show! 

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Gattaca

Mon 12/09

Introduced by Immaculata DeVivo, molecular epidemiologist and professor at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

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Go beneath the seams of the gothic garbs by Eiko Ishioka in the pre-film seminar from Kay Lynch!

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35mm Dracula Lives Dracula Lives

Francis Ford Coppola's visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend.

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Eyes Wide Shut

Thu 12/12

Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.

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All she wants is hell on earth.

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Davey the Clown

Sat 12/14

Stupendous juggling! Amazing magic! Incredible unicycle tricks! Hilarious antics! Tons of audience participation! A rubber chicken! And accordion music!

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Die Hard

Sat 12/14

John McTiernan's Christmas classic, starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman.

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Woodland

Sun 12/15

Co-presented by the Goethe-Institiut Boston. 

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Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart star in one of Ernst Lubitsch's most charming and romantic films.

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Renowned Dutch lute master Jozef Van Wissem (Only Lovers Left Alive, composer) performs his critically acclaimed Nosferatu live score. 

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Dracula Lives Dracula Lives

Cool people never die.

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Love Actually

Thu 12/19

After every screening, join us for a Rewind! after party in our brand new Education Center for themed fun, food, and drinks!

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The story of an uncommonly gentle man.

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Underworld

Fri 12/20

An immortal battle for supremacy.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Sat 12/21 - Sun 12/22

The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as told by everyone's favorite band of Muppets! 

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One part frosty Christmas atmosphere, one part stalk ‘n’ slash magnificence, and all parts awesome.

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A cast of favorites in the Charming... Romantic... Tuneful love story of the early 1900s!

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Dracula 2000

Fri 12/27

The most seductive evil of all time has now been unleashed in ours.

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New Year's Evil

Sat 12/28

This New Year's, you're invited to a killer party...

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Strange Days

Mon 12/30

New year's eve 1999. Anything is possible. Nothing is forbidden.

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The Thing (1982)

Thu 1/09

Director John Carpenter broke frozen ground with this milestone in special effects and gore.

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Pariah (2011)

Mon 1/13

Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Grove.

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Sharon D. Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

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Digital Restoration Stage & Screen

Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Triumph of Love

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Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Light in the Piazza.

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Coming Soon

Opens Fri, 11/08

The new film from director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), starring Saoirse Ronan. 

Opens Fri, 11/08

From writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East.

Opens Fri, 11/15

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother.

Opens Fri, 11/15

Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender.

Opens Fri, 11/22

Julian Schnabel’s stunning debut, presented in black & white, starring Jeffrey Wright and David Bowie.

Opens Fri, 12/06

September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. 

Opens Fri, 12/06

Amy Adams stars in Nightbitch. Written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the best-selling novel by Rachel Yoder.

Opens Fri, 12/06

From director Luca Guadagnino, written by Justin Kuritzkes and based on the novel by William S. Burroughs, and starring Daniel Craig.

Opens Wed, 12/25

From writer/director Halina Reijn (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) and starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde.

Opens Wed, 12/25

A Robert Eggers picture.

Opens Fri, 1/03

The debut feature film from director RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening).

Opens Fri, 1/10

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Direction (Brady Corbet) at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, screening in 70mm!

Opens Fri, 1/10

The first english-language film from Pedro Almodóvar, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

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