September 2025 at the Coolidge

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

With school starting up again and the season winding down (already?!), we’re fending off the end-of-summer blues with a packed special programming calendar!

This month, enjoy special events nearly every day, including stellar Big Screen Classics; a celebration of Hong Kong Cinema Classics at Midnite; more outdoor screenings, including double features on the USS Salem; lots and lots of Q&As and panel discussions; and more.

Read on for everything we’re screening this month! 

Cinema in 70mm

Cinema in 70mm

What better way to mark the season than with a tribute to the late, great Patrick Swayze, whose movies dominated the summer box office in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s?

laRGE FORMAT

Big Screen Classics

Watch certified classics the way they were meant to be seen: on our big screen. Catch Jaws, The Sting, M*A*S*H, and M!

Co-presented in-kind by WBUR! 

the hits

Big Screen Classics
Coolidge After Midnite

Coolidge After Midnite

Shout! Studios and GKIDS present a retrospective of essential titles produced in the creative epicenter of Hong Kong, newly scanned in 4K and restored from original camera elements!

HONG KONG CLASSICS

Outdoor Screenings

We're taking our programming on the road! This month, enjoy screenings outside at the Charles River Speedway and on board the USS Salem! certified classics on our big screen.

Pack a blanket

Outdoor Screenings
Cult Classics

Cult Classics

Our signature program dedicated to showcasing films with fervent fan bases and unforgettable impact! This month's picks are Blue Velvet and Magic Mike XXL.

she wore blue velvet

OnStage at the Coolidge

Our live performance series returns this month with a staged reading and discussion of The Turnaway Play. All proceeds will benefit The Turnaway Project and Reproductive Equity Now!

live & in person

OnStage at the Coolidge
Panorama

Panorama

Join us for a Panorama presentation of Your Fat Friend, Jeanie Finlay’s documentary following the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon, plus a post-film discussion with Bigger Bodies Boston about about contemporary fat activism and pending local legislation.

considering the following

Coolidge Education

Supplement your movie viewing experience with a multi-week class “Art House of Horror,” or an intro seminar before M*A*S*H!

class is in session

Coolidge Education
NT Live

NT Live

Enjoy Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike as Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from writer Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), Inter Alia.

take the stage

Speaker Engagements

Like your movies with a side of talkbacks? This month, enjoy Q&As and panel discussions in conjunction with Beauty and the Beast, The Baltimorons, Postcards from the Edge, Salli, WALL-E, and more!

speak up

Speaker Engagements

 

Clueless

More Good Stuff

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

  • CatVideoFest: Sunday, September 7 at 2:00pm | Special screening
  • Lesbian Space Princess: Tuesday, September 9 at 7:15pm | Special screening presented by Wicked Queer Film Festival and the Queer Film Institute
  • Clueless: Thursday, September 11 at 7:00pm | Rewind! and afterparty with themed food and drinks
  • Mass Mini Con presents: A Mutant Mystery Movie 2: Saturday, September 13 at 9:00pm | Special screening, plus exclusive movie poster with purchase
  • Ray in 35mm: Thursday, September 18 at 7:00pm | Cinema Jukebox, co-presented in-kind by 92.5 The River
  • Impatience of the Heart: Sunday, September 21 at 11:00am | Goethe German Film

This Week

  • Showcasing the best in live action short films from around the world!

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  • A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories, from filmmaker From Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale.

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  • A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

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  • Showcasing the best in documentary short films from around the world!

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  • A frisky, feminine, film noir about psychoanalysis and many other things… 

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  • Friday the 13th Double Feature

    Celebrate the unluckiest of holidays at the Coolidge as we present a slasher double-feature fright to the death between Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger!

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  • The story of an underdog. And his dog.

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  • David Lynch's startling debut feature is a lasting cult sensation influenced by the writings of Franz Kafka and Nikolai Gogol.

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  • IT’S THE SECOND UNLUCKIEST DAY OF THE YEAR…

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  • Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism.

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  • Pre-film seminar by Dr. Shilpa Parnami of Boston University. 

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  • In this five-week class, explore women's voices at the intersection of direction and cinematography.

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  • With her take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as a great visual tone poet of our time.

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  • Winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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  • See it before, or after, watching Boorman and the Devil at BUFF! 

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