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

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  • Winner, Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival

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  • From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, starring Jessie Buckley, and Paul Mescal. 

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  • Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.

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  • Pre-film seminar by Sarah Keller, professor of art and director of cinema studies at UMass Boston.

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  • The new film from director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Decision to Leave) and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Ax

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  • The debut feature from filmmaker Harry Lighton, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling.

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  • Kasi Lemmons’ spellbinding feature debut starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, and Diahann Carroll.

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  • Screenwriter Owen Egerton will join us in-person to introduce the Saturday, February 7 screening.

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  • Pre-film seminar taught by Mikal J. Gaines, Ph.D !

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  • A sing-along version of Disney's 1991 masterpiece.

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  • Perhaps the most extraordinary story of courage, conflict and devotion ever filmed!

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  • The greatest adventure of all is finding our place in the circle of life.

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  • Sing along to “We Don't Talk About Bruno,” “Two Oruguitas”, and more!

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  • In the weeks unfolding after Liat is kidnapped, her father resists efforts to use her captivity to justify escalating violence in Gaza, exposing rifts within his family.

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  • Director John Carpenter broke frozen ground with this milestone in special effects and gore.

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