Post-film discussions: the newest in Coolidge Education

Coolidge Education is expanding to include a new program of post-screening, participant-driven discussions of the film and its context!

Experienced instructors will guide and facilitate these discussions, but the dialogue belongs to you and your neighbors. Get the best of the classroom experience without grades or lectures!

These discussions join the other longstanding Coolidge Education programs that accompany and enhance your appreciation of film screenings, including:

  • Seminars: Before select repertory screenings, local professors, critics, and filmmakers present a half hour deep-dive into classic, cult, and popular films. Tickets include the introductory workshop and a reserved seat at our primetime screening on the big screen.

  • Classes: Coolidge Education classes meet for three hours once a week over a period of four or five weeks. Each class meeting features context, film screening, and conversation.

The first round of Coolidge Education discussions kicks off in November 2024! After Sunday afternoon Noirvember screenings, join Northeastern professor Nathan Blake in the Education & Community Engagement Center to discuss the film, the genre, and the gender tropes it defined and defied.

Please note: just as with our seminars, Coolidge Education discussions are ticketed events and cannot be purchased except as a package with the associated film screening.

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This Week

  • The new film from filmmaker Christopher Nolan, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Anne Hathaway.

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  • A complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music whose passion & creativity guided him well beyond the concert hall.

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  • From master filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu, director of Shoplifters and Broker

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  • A film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel.

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  • From director Olivia Wilde and starring Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.

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  • The new documentary from Penny Lane (Hail Satan?).

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  • A coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season.

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  • Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. 

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  • Before this train reaches the next station it will become the scene of the most spectacular hijack ever attempted.

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  • Enter King Hu’s Dragon Inn (1967) and step into the subversive, swords-clashing world of wuxia films 

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  • The art of martial-arts filmmaking took a leap into bold new territory with this action-packed tale of Ming-dynasty intrigue.

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  • He robs from the rich to give to the girls!

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  • From director Matt Johnson (Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), starring Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers). 

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  • A secret VHS screening of a summer camp classic whose title won't be revealed until it hits the screen! 

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  • A nice place for summer vacation — a perfect place to die!

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

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