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Hackman: No Frills, All Fire
This April, we're screening our favorite films starring Gene Hackman!
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The Coolidge will be closed Thursday, April 3, for a private event.
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From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience.
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Winner of Best Documentary at the 2024 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.
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As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams face off one last time.
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The new gripping spy drama from director Steven Soderbergh, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
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Inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger in real life while looking for her father online.
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Highlights
Virtuosity
Fri 4/04Hell hath no fury like a composite of 183 serial killers. Meet Sid 6.7.
Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Josh and the Jamtones
Sun 4/06Josh and the Jamtones are an ultra-powered dance party machine, making fun and interactive music for kids and their grownups!
The Conversation (1974)
Sun 4/06Francis Ford Coppola’s provoking mystery/thriller stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an expert surveillance man.
Trans Shorts: Bad Rep
Sun 4/06Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Blue Lights (2024)
Sun 4/06Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Early Film History
Mon 4/07 - Mon 4/14From Edison and the Lumière Brothers to the dark shadows of Film Noir…
I'm Not There
Wed 4/09From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan.
There Is Another Way
Wed 4/09Featuring a post-film discussion with director Stephen Apkon and producer Marcina Hale.
Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Thu 4/10The new documentary from director Frederick Wiseman (City Hall, Titicut Follies).
Singin' in the Rain
Thu 4/10Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor combine their talents in one of the greatest big screen musicals ever made.
Fallen (1998)
Fri 4/11Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught, and already killed.
Marsha and the Positrons
Sat 4/12Marsha and the Positrons specialize in fun songs about science & how the world works with positive social messages!
Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Game Changers (Spielerinnen)
Sun 4/13Co-presented by the Goethe Institut Boston in cooperation with the Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival.
Night Moves (1975)
Sun 4/13What private eye Harry Moseby doesn't know about the girl he's looking for just might get him killed.
Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!
Shakespeare in Love
Mon 4/14Introduced by Dr. John Ross, physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Mississippi Burning
Tue 4/15Screen greats Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe co-star in this masterpiece directed by legendary filmmaker Alan Parker.
Left Behind (2025)
Tue 4/15Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Anna Toomey and Ruth Genn, Executive Director of Literacy Academy Collective!
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Thu 4/17The documentary from Frederick Wiseman follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Sat 4/19You can't ignore her. You can't beat her. You can't resist her. You can't win...
Eraserhead
Sat 4/19 - Sat 5/10David Lynch's startling debut feature is a lasting cult sensation influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Sun 4/20 - Sun 5/04Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy, in 35mm!
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Mon 4/21Believe In Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and above all things, Love.
Unforgiven (1992)
Tue 4/22Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris star in his unsparing Western saga of a man who cannot escape his violent destiny.
Pre-film lecture by Harlow Robinson, Professor of History at Northeastern University.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Thu 4/24Sharon D. Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
Gladiator II
Sat 4/26From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome.
The Birdcage
Sun 4/27What could possibly come between a match made in heaven? The parents. Dinner. And a nightclub called The Birdcage.
Seminar: Scarface (1983)
Mon 4/28Pre-film seminar by Mikal J. Gaines, Ph.D, Associate Professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences!
Summertime (1955)
Tue 5/06Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Light in the Piazza.
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Mon 5/12Introduced by Jeffrey Grossman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
The Big Chill
Thu 5/15The story of eight old friends searching for something they lost, and finding that all they needed was each other.
Miracle Mile (1988)
Fri 5/16There are 70 minutes to the end of the world. Where can you hide?
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Mon 5/19On St. Valentine's Day in 1900, a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock...Some were never to return.
Happy Together
Tue 5/20Post-film panel discussion with guests from The Theater Offensive!
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Mon 5/26Elaine May Directed It. Neil Simon Wrote It. Bruce Jay Friedman Conceived It.
Wet Hot American Summer
Thu 5/29It’s the last day of Camp Firewood’s season, but there’s still time for the big talent show, a little romance…
A Streetcar Named Desire
Wed 6/18Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, and Ben Foster lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas.
Saturday Night Fever
Thu 7/17He is Tony Manero, king of the disco. Every guy wants to dance like him. Every girl wants to be with him.
Detroit Rock City
Thu 8/07It's 1978. KISS is playing in Detroit Rock City. This is your ticket. You'd better hold on to it.
Inter Alia
Thu 9/25Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from writer Suzie Miller (Prima Facie).
Coming Soon
Opens Fri, 4/04
Follows a story of love, friendship, grief, and healing, about a writer (Naomi Watts) who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend and mentor.
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Opens Fri, 4/04
New 4K restoration directly overseen by Studio Ghibli’s own Atsushi Okui!
Opens Fri, 4/11
Cultures collide when an introverted doctor brings his white boyfriend home to meet his traditional East Indian family.
Opens Fri, 4/18
From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations.
Opens Fri, 4/18
An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s.
Opens Fri, 4/25
In the new film from director Daniel Minahan, Muriel and her husband Lee are about to begin a bright new life, which is upended by the arrival of Lee's brother.
Opens Fri, 4/25
In the new film from David Cronenberg, a businessman and widower builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
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This March and April 2025, enjoy a series celebrating women filmmakers of the 1980s, a Gene Hackman retrospective, a collaborative series honoring legendary local documentarian Frederick Wiseman, and more!