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Hackman: No Frills, All Fire

This April, we're screening our favorite films starring Gene Hackman!

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2hrs 19mins

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience.

1hr 35mins

Winner of Best Documentary at the 2024 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.

1hr 38mins

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams face off one last time.

1hr 33mins

The new gripping spy drama from director Steven Soderbergh, starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.

1hr 42mins

Inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger in real life while looking for her father online. 

1hr 44mins

When Popeye cuts loose, anything goes!

high school
1hr 15mins

New 4K restoration!

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When Popeye cuts loose, anything goes!

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Digital Restoration Wiseman

High School

Tue 4/01

New 4K restoration!

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Virtuosity

Fri 4/04

Hell hath no fury like a composite of 183 serial killers. Meet Sid 6.7.

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Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!

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Salomé (2024)

Sat 4/05

Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival! 

 

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There are two sides to the American dream.

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Josh and the Jamtones are an ultra-powered dance party machine, making fun and interactive music for kids and their grownups! 

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Digital Restoration Hackman

Francis Ford Coppola’s provoking mystery/thriller stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an expert surveillance man.

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Shorts Package Wicked Queer

Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!

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Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!

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Early Film History

Mon 4/07 - Mon 4/14

From Edison and the Lumière Brothers to the dark shadows of Film Noir… 

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Row of Life

Mon 4/07

Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival! 

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Brief Encounter

Mon 4/07

A chance meeting... A love to risk everything for...

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

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Hoosiers

Tue 4/08

They needed a second chance to finish first.

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I'm Not There

Wed 4/09

From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan.

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Director In Person Panorama

Featuring a post-film discussion with director Stephen Apkon and producer Marcina Hale.

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The new documentary from director Frederick Wiseman (City Hall, Titicut Follies).

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Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor combine their talents in one of the greatest big screen musicals ever made.

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Fallen (1998)

Fri 4/11

Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught, and already killed.

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Marsha and the Positrons specialize in fun songs about science & how the world works with positive social messages! 

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Shorts Package Wicked Queer

Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival!

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Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival! 

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The Nice Guys

Sat 4/12

They're not that nice.

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Co-presented by the Goethe Institut Boston in cooperation with the Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival.

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What private eye Harry Moseby doesn't know about the girl he's looking for just might get him killed.

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Shorts Package Wicked Queer

Screening as part of Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival! 

 

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Introduced by Dr. John Ross, physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Screen greats Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe co-star in this masterpiece directed by legendary filmmaker Alan Parker.

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Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Anna Toomey and Ruth Genn, Executive Director of Literacy Academy Collective!

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The documentary from Frederick Wiseman follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Justice has a number.

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You can't ignore her. You can't beat her. You can't resist her. You can't win...

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Eraserhead

Sat 4/19 - Sat 5/10

David Lynch's startling debut feature is a lasting cult sensation influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol.

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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Sun 4/20 - Sun 5/04

Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy, in 35mm!

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Believe In Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and above all things, Love.

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Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris star in his unsparing Western saga of a man who cannot escape his violent destiny.

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Pre-film lecture by Harlow Robinson, Professor of History at Northeastern University. 

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Digital Restoration Wiseman

New 4K restoration!

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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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Spring Breakers

Thu 4/24

A little sun can bring out your dark side.

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Gladiator

Fri 4/25

Father of a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I shall have my vengeance in this life or the next.

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Gladiator II

Sat 4/26

From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. 

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The Birdcage

Sun 4/27

What could possibly come between a match made in heaven? The parents. Dinner. And a nightclub called The Birdcage.

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Pre-film seminar by Mikal J. Gaines, Ph.D,  Associate Professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences!

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Scarface (1983)

Mon 4/28

He wanted to live the American Dream until the end.

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Family isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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9 to 5

Thu 5/01

The power behind the throne.

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Midsommar

Thu 5/01

From director Ari Aster (Hereditary) comes an unforgettable, dread-soaked fairy tale.

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Sorcerer

Fri 5/02

WANTED. Four men willing to drive a cargo of death to escape a life in hell.

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Kamikaze 89

Sat 5/03

Ninety-six hours to crack his last case... His times already up.

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Daisies

Mon 5/05

If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be?

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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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In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life.

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Risky Business

Fri 5/09

Meet the model son who's been good too long. 

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Legend (1985)

Sat 5/10

This is such stuff as dreams are made of. This is Legend.

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Introduced by Jeffrey Grossman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

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The Big Chill

Thu 5/15

The story of eight old friends searching for something they lost, and finding that all they needed was each other.

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There are 70 minutes to the end of the world. Where can you hide?

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Near Dark

Sat 5/17

At dawn they hide. At dark they wake. At night they search for blood... pray for daylight.

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Digital Restoration Big Screen Classics

On St. Valentine's Day in 1900, a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock...Some were never to return.

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Digital Restoration Queering the Screen

Happy Together

Tue 5/20

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

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Thief

Fri 5/23

Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. 

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The Keep

Sat 5/24

THEY WERE ALL DRAWN TO THE KEEP.

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Elaine May Directed It. Neil Simon Wrote It. Bruce Jay Friedman Conceived It.

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It’s the last day of Camp Firewood’s season, but there’s still time for the big talent show, a little romance…

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Vision Quest

Fri 5/30

All he needed was a lucky break. Then one day she moved in. 

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If you get on her bad side... YOU'RE TOAST.

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Maurice

Thu 6/05

A love story of unforgettable passion. 

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Thelma & Louise

Mon 6/09

Somebody said get a life...so they did.

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SLC Punk!

Thu 6/12

God bless America...they're going to need it.

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Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, and Ben Foster lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. 

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The Long Goodbye

Thu 6/19

Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.

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He is Tony Manero, king of the disco. Every guy wants to dance like him. Every girl wants to be with him.

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It's 1978. KISS is playing in Detroit Rock City. This is your ticket. You'd better hold on to it.

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Ray

Thu 9/18

The only thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles.

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Inter Alia

Thu 9/25

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from writer Suzie Miller (Prima Facie).

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The ultimate dare is to tell the truth.

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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.

Princess Mononoke
Opens Fri, 4/04

New 4K restoration directly overseen by Studio Ghibli’s own Atsushi Okui!

Opens Fri, 4/04

He’s getting the band back together.

Opens Fri, 4/11

Cultures collide when an introverted doctor brings his white boyfriend home to meet his traditional East Indian family.

Opens Fri, 4/11

Everything is based on memory.

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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