Staff Picks: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Program Manager & Director of Special Programming Mark Anastasio is back with another Coolidge Staff Pick, highlighting Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

"My staff pick this week is a film that addresses a few things that might be on your mind right now: I'm talking about horrendous leadership, isolation induced madness, and, mostly, mankind's futile struggle to tame the chaos of nature," Anastasio says. Watch the intro below, and then sit down to watch the film, which is streaming on The Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime, and available to rent on most 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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  • The new film from Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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  • Evil Dead 2013 and Evil Dead Rise

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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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  • 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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