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 Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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  • Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy.

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  • A hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

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  • Winner, Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.

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  • An actress (Amanda Peet) falls for the anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.

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  • An exhilarating space adventure set in the near future.

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  • The new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit). 

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

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  • Federico Fellini's poetic fable of love and cruelty, the first-ever Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

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  • Mel Brooks's take on Hollywood Westerns starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.

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  • The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's misunderstood monster, who now longs for a mate of his own (Elsa Lanchester).

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  • Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the  Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production.

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  • Screening & conversation with director Steven Jenkins, and acoustic performance by special guest Bill Janovitz!

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  • The Super-Beast Battle of the Century!

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  • Stupendous juggling! Amazing magic! Incredible unicycle tricks! Hilarious antics! Tons of audience participation! A rubber chicken! And accordion music!

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  • Silsila, a landmark of Bollywood cinema, was monumental in its day for its portrayal of transgressive love.

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  • Seven Latin American short films share a pulse, part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival!

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  • Part of the 2026 Wicked Queer Film Festival!

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  • The killer tomatoes are back! But this time around, they're going to have to contend with late '80s George Clooney and his wicked mullet... 

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  • the burning cross

    Featuring a Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Thomas Doherty.

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