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Visible Mysteries: Queer Cinema

This June and July, we're highlighting five of our favorite films in queer canon, plus holding a class in tandem with the series!

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Highlights

Pre-film discussion with with author Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa!

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Free outdoor 35mm screening in partnership with the Rose Kennedy Greenway!

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

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'Til Death Do Us Part.

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Visible Mysteries: Queer Cinema

Mon 6/30 - Mon 7/14

LGBTQ+ representation in movies has rapidly increased in recent years, but queer characters are as old as cinema itself! 

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Querelle

Mon 6/30

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film audaciously raises Jean Genet’s controversial novel to the level of myth.

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Ugetsu

Tue 7/01

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

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The battle between the good and the bad is about to get ugly.

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The following stunts were performed by professionals, so neither you nor your dumb buddies should attempt anything from this movie.

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Green Room

Sat 7/05

A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence.

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Pedro Almodóvar's poignant, at times comedic examination of women in intimate relationships.

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Kuroneko

Tue 7/08

Beware of the haunted women who lurk in the bamboo forest as black cats craving the blood of men!

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Sabrina (1954)

Wed 7/09

She's a tantalizing dish who drives millionaires wild...A chauffeur's daughter who learned her stuff in Paris!

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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

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Here comes the bride.

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The bride is back for the final cut.

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Sabbath Queen

Sun 7/13

Featuring a post-film discussion with director Sandi Dubowski!

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A fair use film by Vera Drew. 

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Demon Pond

Tue 7/15

Japanese renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia.

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When inexperienced criminal Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) leads a bank robbery in Brooklyn, things quickly go wrong, and a hostage situation develops.

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Point Break

Wed 7/16

Free outdoor 35mm screening in partnership with the Rose Kennedy Greenway, introduced by MIT neuroscientist Gabi Drummond.


 

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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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The blonde leading the blonde.

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Shogun Assassin

Fri 7/18

The delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series, dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet.

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Digital Restoration After Midnite

Scum of the Earth (1974)

Fri 7/18 - Sat 7/19

Brand new 4K restoration of S.F. Brownrigg's hillbilly horror classic!

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All assassins live beyond the law...only one follows the code.

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Pre-film seminar by Mikal J. Gaines.

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Boyz N the Hood

Mon 7/21

Once upon a time in South Central L.A.

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Ringu

Tue 7/22

One curse, one cure, one week to find it.

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Mo' Better Blues

Wed 7/23

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

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Mean Girls

Wed 7/23

Free, outdoor screening at the Charles River Speedway!

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20th anniversary screening!

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A fighter confronts a rogue master armed with weapons capable of severing a head from 100 feet away.

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Blade: Trinity

Sat 7/26

He's fought the forces of darkness alone...until now.

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The Matrix

Mon 7/28

Introduced by bestselling author and futurist Rizwan Virk!

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Once you see it, you can never forget. Once it sees you, you can never escape.

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Malcolm X

Wed 7/30

Spike Lee's biopic of legendary civil rights leader Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

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Double Feature Rewind

Here we go again! Sing, dance, and celebrate with Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again back-to-back on the big screen. 

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A triumph! A spectacle! A fuzzy wuzzy cuddle puddle!

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Big

Mon 8/04

Have you ever had a really big secret?

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Ghost

Tue 8/05

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

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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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The Big Lebowski

Mon 8/11

Our annual screening of the Coen Brothers cult classic returns. The Dude abides.

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Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes star in this hilarious adventure about three drag queens on the cross-country road trip of a lifetime. 

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Pre-film seminar by Cliff Notez, co-founder of HipStory and the We Black Folk Initiative.

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He Got Game

Wed 8/13

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence. 

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The Blob (1988)

Wed 8/13

Free outdoor 35mm screening in partnership with the Rose Kennedy Greenway!

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Digital Restoration Big Screen Classics

Rated X by an all white jury.

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A touching story of a young man who desperately wants to make his daddy proud.

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Dirty Dancing

Tue 8/19

First dance. First love. The time of your life.

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Inside Man

Wed 8/20

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller from director Spike Lee. 

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Free, outdoor screening at the Charles River Speedway!

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

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Hero

Mon 8/25

His strength will defy an empire, and his courage will unite a nation.

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Digital Restoration Swayze Days

Road House

Tue 8/26

Patrick Swayze stars in this cult classic, no-holds-barred action movie.

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Outdoors Double Feature

The Coolidge returns to Mount Auburn Cemetery to present our popular Cemetery Cinema outdoor film program!

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The Women (1939)

Thu 8/28

The year's mightiest cast in the hit play!

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They're back to save America from the '90s.

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Clueless

Thu 9/11

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

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Next to Normal

Wed 9/17

An intimate exploration of family and illness, loss and grief, featuring a thrilling rock score from composer Tom Kitt and book and lyrics from Brian Yorkey.

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Free, outdoor screening at the Charles River Speedway!

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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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Free, outdoor screening at the Charles River Speedway! 

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Coming Soon

Opens Fri, 7/04

For the 25th Anniversary of the film, Wong Kar-wai has revisited the original concept of the film, adding an unseen chapter as a bonus to the original version.

Opens Fri, 7/04

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival 

Opens Fri, 7/18

Written and directed by Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.

Opens Fri, 7/25

A British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. 

Opens Wed, 7/30

"The best horror film of the year." - InSession Film

 

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