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A one-person illusion show that features unique theatrical and visual magic and comedy to a custom-edited musical soundtrack.
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Céline Sciamma's Cannes-winning period love story is one of the best reviewed films of the year.
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The animated short films nominated at this year's Academy Awards, including Hair Love, Daughter, Kitbull, and more.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell star in the American remake of the acclaimed Swedish dark comedy Force Majeure.
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The live action short films nominated at this year's Academy Awards, including A Sister, Saria, Brotherhood, and more.
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Emmy winner Julia Garner stars in this searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Thu 2/20James McAvoy returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation, broadcast to cinemas from London’s West End.
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CatVideoFest
Sun 2/23A compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
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Seminar: Daughters of the Dust
Mon 2/24This seminar will explore director Julie Dash’s iconic use of the Black body, while considering the period that gave rise to Dash’s visual sensibilities.
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Digital Restoration Learn MoreSpotlight on Women Learn MoreShowtimesDaughters of the Dust
Mon 2/24The first wide release by a Black female filmmaker, Julie Dash’s landmark and highly influential film still resonates today.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sat 2/29Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller star in Lynne Ramsay’s suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, based on the best-selling novel of the same name.
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The Wizard of Oz
Sun 3/8Before the film, Harvard Professor John Huth will speak about what we know and don't know about tornadoes and how to predict them.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Thu 3/12Oscar Isaac had his breakthrough in the Coen Brothers's circular odyssey of a struggling folk singer in the early sixties.
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Seminar: The Killers (1946)
Mon 3/16UMass Boston professor Sarah Keller leads this one-night seminar on one of the most important and memorable film noirs.
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Thor: Ragnarok
Fri 3/20Taika Waititi brought his offbeat comic sensibilities, the vibrant colors of artist Jack Kirby, and the Jeff Goldblum qualities of Jeff Goldblum to reinvent the Thor franchise for its third outing.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Sat 3/21Before the film, Boston University professor Tyrone Porter will speak about nanotechnology and the huge potential of truly tiny tech.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Sat 3/21James Gunn took the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a new, weirder direction with this 2014 space adventure based on the lesser-known comic book team.
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Mon 3/23Agnès Varda's French New Wave classic, introduced by computational linguist and MIT professor Regina Barzilay.
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35mm Learn MoreShowtimesThe Dark Knight
Fri 3/27Christopher Nolan's second Batman film, featuring an Academy Award-winning turn by Heath Ledger.
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The Coolidge Goes West!
Thu 4/2–Thu 5/21Instructor Kaj Wilson surveys the history of the Western, a genre that has, for better or worse, shaped America’s identity as a nation and a people.
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Before the film, BU biology professor Pamela Templer will discuss environmental change.
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Simmons University professor Audrey Golden leads this one-night seminar on Michel Gondry's mind-bending science fiction romance.
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35mm Learn MoreShowtimesIt’s Always Fair Weather
Mon 5/18Three years after Singin' in the Rain, star Gene Kelly and co-director Stanley Donen reunited for this underseen musical masterpiece.
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The Welkin
Thu 5/21Maxine Peake and Ria Zmitrowicz star in this bold and gripping thriller from Tony-nominated writer Lucy Kirkwood, broadcast live from the National Theatre in London.
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Mon 6/8Jennie 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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35mm Learn MoreShowtimesRaging Bull
Mon 6/22Robert De Niro reteamed with director Martin Scorsese for this unflinching boxing drama, which was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two, including Best Actor.
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35mm Learn MoreShowtimesBest in Show
Mon 8/3Christopher Guest's biting mockumentary send-up exposes the wondrously diverse dog owners who travel from all over America to showcase their four-legged contenders.
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The Big Lebowski
Mon 8/24The Dude abides.
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Mon 10/26The director's cut of William Friedkin's Academy Award-winning horror classic starring Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, and Linda Blair.
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Opens Fri, 2/28
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of Emma.
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The legendary photographer and fashion historian shares his life story in his own words and photographs from his remarkable archive of over 3 million images.
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Eliza Hittman's drama won Sundance's Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neorealism.
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Modern master Hirokazu Kore-eda teams up with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche & Ethan Hawke to paint this sensitive and funny portrait of complicated family dynamics.
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From the executive producer of Killing Eve comes a new take on revenge.
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