December 2025 at the Coolidge

Your official guide to everything that is happening at the Coolidge this December!

Happy holidays from all of us at the Coolidge! The month ahead has plenty of seasonally appropriate special programming to keep you feeling merry and bright.

This December sees our 2025 Coolidge Award presentation honoring Ethan Hawke; a special new release of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in 70mm; yuletide Midnites inspired by Planet Hollywood; more Cinema Masala; several directors visiting in person; and more.

Read on for everything we’re screening this month!

Coolidge Award

We're thrilled to honor the legendary Ethan Hawke with the 2025 Coolidge Award! Our series celebrating his work continues in December with First Reformed.

award Season

Big Screen Classics

Catch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Tokyo Godfathers, and White Christmas on the big screen. 

Co-presented in-kind by WBUR! 

the hits

Coolidge After Midnite

For this year’s yuletide at Coolidge After Midnite, we invite you to Planet Hollywood Holidays! It’s an action-packed party of films starring Sly, Arnold, Bruce, and Demi!

happy holly-days

Cult Classics

Our signature program dedicated to showcasing films with fervent fan bases and unforgettable impact! This month's pick is Todd Haynes’s Carol.

lost glove szn

NT Live

The best of British theatre on our big screen! This month, see Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden in critically acclaimed The Fifth Step!

take the stage

Cinema Masala

Our new series celebrating Indian cinema! This month, see SRK and Aishwarya Rai in Devdas.

Co-presented by Film Heritage Foundation!

Bollywood

Speaker Engagements

Enjoy a post-film Q&A with author ND Stevenson after Nimona; an in-person visit from Bi Gan, director of Resurrection; a Panorama discussion following a screening of The Librarians; and a director Q&A after Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire!

speak up

Kids' Shows

Movies, magic, and more! Take the whole family to see a juggling show, a unicycle performance, or a screening of The Muppet Christmas Carol!

fun for the family

Cinema in 70mm

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair comes to the Coolidge in 70mm! See Volumes I and II as one continuous feature, now including a never-before-seen animated sequence and intermission.

large format

 

More Good Stuff

The programming doesn't stop there—see below for more special offerings this month:

  • Boston Open Screen: Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00pm | Coolidge Education
  • Our Hospitality: Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00pm | The Sounds of Silents with live piano accompaniment from Jeff Rapsis!
  • Hysteria: Sunday, December 14 at 11:00am | Goethe German Film
  • The Santa Clause: Thursday, December 18 at 7:00pm | Rewind! with afterparty

This Week

  • A gingko tree bears witness to the lives of three generations of people, as they are quietly transformed by the mysterious power of nature.

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  • The eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. 

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  • Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s lyrical and profound feature debut.

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  • Welcome to a new world of style.

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  • The new film from Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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  • Evil Dead 2013 and Evil Dead Rise

    Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead legacy continues in these two horrifying films.

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  • They're the wrestlers who are better than all the restlers.

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  • In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before

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  • adaptation SYNECDOCHE double feature

    Writers obsess, dreams unravel, and art imitates life in this mind-bending double dive into creativity run wild.

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  • An adventure 65 million years in the making.

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  • Join professor Andre Puca of Emerson College as he explores the style and themes of Anderson’s films spanning all 3 decades of his noteworthy career

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  • Featuring a live, original score by the Anvil Orchestra!


     

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  • Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself.

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  • Richard Linklater's funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life with a precise feel for the '70s and a killer soundtrack.

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  • With Elegance Bratton and producer Chester Algernal Gordon in person, moderated by Joseph V. Porter.

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  • A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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  • He does wild and crazy things because he has nothing to lose... but his life.

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