Staff Pick: Flirting with Disaster

Director of Development and Marketing Beth Gilligan is back with our latest Coolidge Staff Pick, David O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster.

“It's an incredible cast and they're all just in peak comic form here.” Watch the intro below, and then sit down to watch the film, which is streaming on Hoopla and Amazon Prime, and available to rent on some platforms.

About Coolidge Staff Picks

While our building may be closed, we're still here to provide the personalized, curated programming you love. We'll be posting Coolidge Staff Picks that you can rent or stream from home, with short video introductions from staff members! For many of them, we'll also be posting clips from past Q&As, discussions, Science on Screen lectures, and more.

This Week

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  • From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.

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  • A film by Cristian Mungiu, winner of the 2026 Palme d’Or. 

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  • Screening from a newly struck 35mm print of the 4K restoration of the film!

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  • Mahershala Ali stars in the new film from writer-director Bassam Tariq.

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    With guests from The Theater Offensive!

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  • A new Coolidge seminar from MIT Professor of Film and Media Jessica Ruffin.

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  • Two thousand years ago his birth was foretold. He's now five years old and his time has come.

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  • Director Tobe Hooper joins super-natural forces with producer Steven Spielberg to create one of the most frightening haunted house stories ever!

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  • A film by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, winners of the Best Director award at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. 

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  • The electrifying dog is back from beyond the grave!

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  • A Woman With an Empty Heart... A Man With a Loaded Gun whose only chaperon was MURDER!

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    Television will never be the same!

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