Boston Classic & Repertory Film

Tue Oct 20 · 7pm

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

directed by Brian De Palma

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise (1974) follows songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley), who seeks revenge on the producer Swan for stealing his music and his favourite singer to open a rock palace, the Paradise. Borrowing from The Phantom of the Opera and Faust, it has songs by Paul Williams, who plays Swan opposite Jessica Harper. It opens a Cult Cinema Tuesdays double bill with Repo Man.

Tue Oct 20 · 7pm

Constantine (2005)

directed by Francis Lawrence

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Francis Lawrence’s Constantine (2005) casts Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, an occultist who has literally been to hell and back, helping a skeptical policewoman (Rachel Weisz) investigate the apparent suicide of her twin sister, a case that leads them into the world of demons and angels beneath modern Los Angeles. Tilda Swinton co-stars in the adaptation of the Hellblazer comics, shown on 35mm in the Coolidge’s Prints of Darkness series.

Tue Oct 20 · 8:45pm

Repo Man (1984)

directed by Alex Cox

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

In Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984), Emilio Estevez plays a nihilistic young punk taken under the wing of a weathered repo man, Harry Dean Stanton, in a desolate Los Angeles; the job turns strange when they chase a ’64 Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward on it and something otherworldly in the trunk. It shows on 35mm after Phantom of the Paradise in a Cult Cinema Tuesdays double bill.

Tue Oct 20 · 6:30pm

Traces of Home (2026)

directed by Colette Ghunim

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Colette Ghunim's documentary Traces of Home (2026) follows her quest to reunite her parents with the ancestral homes in Palestine and Mexico that each was forced to flee as a child. Filmed over five years, with animation and archival footage, it is a film about memory and finding a way home. It screens in the Boston Palestine Film Festival, which brings Palestine-related cinema to New England audiences.

Wed Oct 21 · 7pm

Angel Heart (1987)

directed by Alan Parker

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (1987), New York private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired in 1955 to find Johnny Favorite, a washed-up crooner who has vanished; witnesses start dying as the trail runs to the voodoo underworld of New Orleans. Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet and Charlotte Rampling co-star in the adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel, shown on 35mm in the Prints of Darkness series.

Wed Oct 21 · 7pm

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

directed by Michael Curtiz

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem

Michael Curtiz's 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum follows a sculptor, badly injured in a fire that destroyed his collection, who opens a new museum years later; when people and corpses start disappearing, a reporter goes looking. Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell star. It plays in Cinema Salem's $5 Wednesday Classics series of golden-age Hollywood films, shown with classic adverts and episodic serials.

Thu Oct 15 – Thu Oct 22

The Devils (1971)

directed by Ken Russell

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Ken Russell’s 1971 film stars Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier, a worldly priest in 1634 France who becomes the target of witchcraft accusations from a sexually obsessed nun (Vanessa Redgrave), which corrupt officials of church and state are glad to exploit. Russell drew on Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play. This is the uncut director’s cut, restored and presented in 4K for the first time.

Thu Oct 22 · 7pm

Session 9 (2001)

directed by Brad Anderson

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

In Brad Anderson’s Session 9 (2001), an asbestos-removal crew wins the job of clearing the abandoned Danvers State Psychiatric Hospital, and as its members work alone in the empty buildings, tensions rise and the asylum’s horrific past seems to return. Anderson shot the horror film on location at Danvers, with Peter Mullan, David Caruso and Josh Lucas among the crew. The screening marks its 25th anniversary.

Thu Oct 22 · 7pm

The X-Files (1998)

directed by Rob Bowman

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Rob Bowman’s The X-Files (1998) brings Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) to the big screen, tracing a deadly virus that may have been brought to Earth by aliens thirty-seven thousand years ago; the investigation turns up an FBI cover-up and the Syndicate. Released between the series’ fifth and sixth seasons, it shows on 35mm in the Rewind! series, followed by a themed afterparty for over-21s.

Thu Oct 22 · 7:15pm

The Awful Truth (1937)

directed by Leo McCarey

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937), Jerry and Lucy Warriner (Cary Grant and Irene Dunne) head for an “amicable” divorce amid jealousy, with custody of their terrier, Mr. Smith, to settle, then set about sabotaging each other’s romances. The screening marks the centenary of the Brookline philosopher Stanley Cavell, who ended his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage with a long study of the film.

Fri Oct 23 · 7pm

Mandy (1952)

directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Mandy (1952), which Alexander Mackendrick made at Ealing between The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, follows a girl born deaf in early-1950s London, played by Mandy Miller, whose mother, Phyllis Calvert, hears of a residential school that teaches deaf children to speak as the strain threatens to break up the family. Jack Hawkins plays the headmaster. It screens in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Fri Oct 23 · 8pm

True to the Navy (1930)

directed by Frank Tuttle

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

True to the Navy (1930), Frank Tuttle's pre-Code romantic comedy, stars Clara Bow as Ruby, a San Diego soda-counter girl with a habit of taking up with sailors, until she sets her sights on Bull's Eye McCoy, a gunner who refuses to settle down, played by Fredric March. It is one of Bow's rare talking pictures, shown by Channel Zero in the downstairs micro-cinema, $10 cash at the door.

Fri Oct 23 · 8pm

The Eleventh Year (1928)

directed by Dziga Vertov

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

The Eleventh Year (1928), Dziga Vertov's silent documentary, traces Soviet Ukraine's progress ten years after the Revolution, celebrating its workers, new technology, natural resources and army; it was his last film before Man with a Movie Camera. The Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra, a four-piece led by Ken Winokur, formerly of the Alloy Orchestra, premieres its new live score, and a large share of the proceeds goes to Ukrainian humanitarian relief.

Fri Oct 23 · 9pm

The Yellow Balloon (1953)

directed by J. Lee Thompson

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

The Yellow Balloon (1953), J. Lee Thompson's second film as director, is set among the bomb sites of postwar London, where a boy, played by Andrew Ray, accidentally causes his friend's death and is then blackmailed by a criminal into helping with a robbery. Kenneth More and Kathleen Ryan co-star. It shows on a 35mm print in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Fri Oct 23 · 11:59pm

Arachnophobia (1990)

directed by Frank Marshall

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Arachnophobia (1990), Frank Marshall's first film as director, a deadly South American spider reaches a California town in a crate with a dead body, mates with a local spider, and its offspring start killing the residents, leaving a newly arrived doctor and an exterminator to wipe them out. Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands and Harley Jane Kozak star; it shows on 35mm in the After Midnite series.

Fri Oct 23 · 10pm

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

directed by Tobe Hooper

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem

Tobe Hooper's 1986 sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 sends Texas ranger Lefty Enright, played by Dennis Hopper, after the cannibalistic Sawyer family to avenge his murdered kin, with the help of a radio DJ the family has targeted. Caroline Williams plays the DJ and Bill Moseley co-stars. It screens in Night Light, Cinema Salem's series of classic and contemporary cult films from around the world.

Sat Oct 24 · 2pm

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)

directed by Alain Resnais

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Alain Resnais's Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968), Claude Rich plays a man chosen after a failed suicide attempt for a time-travel experiment tried only on mice and meant to send him back one minute; it malfunctions, leaving him adrift among moments of his past, circling the woman at their centre. It shows on 35mm, preceded by Un chien andalou (1929), in the Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque series Nostalgia.

Sat Oct 24 · 7pm

Pool of London (1951)

directed by Basil Dearden

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Pool of London (1951), Basil Dearden's Ealing drama, follows two cargo-ship seamen ashore in postwar London who are drawn into a smuggling racket of jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt. Bonar Colleano and Susan Shaw star, with Earl Cameron as the romantic lead, a casting of a Black actor the Archive calls bold for its time. It screens in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sat Oct 24 · 8pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

directed by Jim Sharman

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

In Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Brad and Janet, a newly engaged couple stranded by a breakdown in a storm, reach the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played by Tim Curry, who unveils his latest creation, a muscle-bound man named Rocky. The RKO Army, a shadowcast working in Rhode Island, Connecticut and southern Massachusetts since 1981, acts the film out live in front of the screen.

Sat Oct 24 · 9pm

Turn the Key Softly (1953)

directed by Jack Lee

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Three women spend their first day out of prison in London: a bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter, played by Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Kathleen Harrison. Geoffrey Unsworth shot the film, which the Archive calls Neorealist-influenced. It screens on 35mm with The Elephant Will Never Forget, an 11-minute 1953 short on a London tram's final run, in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sat Oct 24 · 9:30pm

House (1977)

directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Nobuhiko Obayashi's House (1977), Gorgeous, a schoolgirl hoping to feel closer to her late mother, takes six friends to her aunt's country house, which is full of evil spirits, among them a bloodthirsty piano; Obayashi drew it from his young daughter's fears. It screens on 35mm after the New England premiere of Max G. Robinson's short A Tape: The American History of Nobuhiko Obayashi's HOUSE, with Robinson in person.

Sat Oct 24 · 11:59pm

Crawl (2019)

directed by Alexandre Aja

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Alexandre Aja's Crawl (2019), a hurricane hits Haley's Florida hometown and she ignores evacuation orders to look for her father, finds him badly injured in the crawl space of the family house, and is trapped with him as the floodwaters rise and alligators move in. Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper star in the survival thriller, produced by Sam Raimi, in the Coolidge's After Midnite series.

Sun Oct 25 · 1pm

Friday Night Lights (2004)

directed by Peter Berg

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights (2004), from H.G. Bissinger's book, follows the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas, a struggling town that pins its hopes on high school football, and coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) after star tailback Boobie Miles is badly hurt in the first game. A panel follows with WBZ-TV sports director Steve Burton, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy and Newton North football coach Nick Capodilupo.

Sun Oct 25 · 2pm

Legend (1985)

directed by Ridley Scott

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Tom Cruise plays Jack, a forest dweller chosen by fate to save Princess Lili (Mia Sara) from the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) before the world is plunged into an endless ice age, in Legend (1985), Ridley Scott's fantasy of fairies, goblins and unicorns and his next film after Blade Runner. The Coolidge shows it on 35mm in its Prints of Darkness series.

Sun Oct 25 · 7pm

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

directed by Robert Hamer

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Robert Hamer's Ealing drama It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), Googie Withers plays Rose, a former barmaid now married to an older man in the East End, whose old lover (John McCallum) escapes from prison and hides in her house over one wet Sunday; Jack Warner plays the detective on his trail. It is part of the Harvard Film Archive's season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sun Oct 25 · 7:30pm

Tenebre (1982)

directed by Dario Argento

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Dario Argento's giallo Tenebre (1982) follows Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa), an American mystery writer in Rome to promote his new novel, as a razor-wielding killer begins murdering the people around him. Claudio Simonetti's Goblin plays the score live to the film, then returns after an intermission for a set of Goblin music played to scenes from the films it scored, among them Suspiria and Deep Red.

Sun Oct 25 · 12:00pm

Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)

directed by Guru Dutt

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Guru Dutt's Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), the first Indian feature shot in CinemaScope, stars Dutt as Suresh Sinha, a famous director who makes a star of Shanti (Waheeda Rehman), a stranger he lends his coat to on a rainy night; his chaotic private life dooms their romance. A commercial failure on release, it was rediscovered in the 1980s. In Hindi with English subtitles, for the Cinema Masala series.

Oct 22–23/25

The Wolf Man (1941)

directed by George Waggner

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Thu Oct 22 · 5:45pm / Fri Oct 23 · 9:30pm / Sun Oct 25 · 1:00pm

George Waggner's The Wolf Man (1941), written by Curt Siodmak, stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, a practical man who returns to his family's Welsh estate, is bitten by a creature of folklore, and is infected with a disease his disciplined mind insists cannot exist. Claude Rains plays his father, with Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya and Bela Lugosi. It screens in the Classic Universal Monsters series.

Sat Oct 24 – Sun Oct 25

Boston Asian American Film Festival

ArtsEmerson · Bright Family Screening Room · Emerson Paramount Center · 559 Washington St · Boston · Downtown Crossing · Boston

Sat Oct 24 · 3:30pm & 6:30pm / Sun Oct 25 · 1pm & 4pm

The closing weekend of the Boston Asian American Film Festival, co-produced by the Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson, pairs the Families Forged & Found shorts block with three features: the centerpiece documentary Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon, on a Vietnamese composer's lost music; Phuong Mai Nguyen's animated In Waves, voiced by Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu; and Xiaodan He's Montreal, My Beautiful.

Mon Oct 26 · 6pm

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)

directed by David Borenstein and Pasha Talankin

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025), Pasha Talankin, a primary-school teacher and school videographer in the Urals town of Karabash, films his own school as the invasion of Ukraine turns it into a stage for propaganda and military recruitment, then flees Russia with the footage. He made the documentary with David Borenstein and appears in person. Free, co-presented by Harvard's Davis Center, Department of Slavic Languages and Shorenstein Center.

Mon Oct 26 · 7pm

Hunted (1952)

directed by Charles Crichton

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Dirk Bogarde plays a fugitive murderer who drags along the orphaned boy (Jon Whiteley) who saw his crime on a run across England in Charles Crichton's Hunted (1952), also known as The Stranger in Between, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 1953. Shown on 35mm in the Great Expectations season of British postwar cinema, it is preceded by Humphrey Jennings's A Diary for Timothy (1945).

Mon Oct 26 · 7pm

Alien (1979)

directed by Ridley Scott

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), shown in its 2003 director's cut, follows the crew of the Nostromo as they answer a distress signal and take aboard a creature that hunts them down. Sigourney Weaver plays Ripley, with Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto; H.R. Giger designed the alien. Beforehand, Lesley University filmmaking professor Ingrid Stobbe leads a separately ticketed seminar on Ripley as a Final Girl.

Mon Oct 26 · 9pm

Halloween (1978)

directed by John Carpenter

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Michael Myers escapes a mental hospital fifteen years after killing his sister on Halloween night and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, where Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first film role, is babysitting; Donald Pleasence plays his psychiatrist. This free Elements of Cinema screening, in 4K, comes with an introduction and discussion by Brandon Callender, assistant professor of English at Brandeis.

Mon Oct 26 · 7:00pm

Women Laughing: The Women Cartoonists of The New Yorker (2025)

by documentary featuring Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, Amy Hwang

MassArt (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) · Tower Auditorium · MassArt · 621 Huntington Ave · Fenway / Mission Hill · Boston

Women Laughing (2025), a short New Yorker documentary directed by Kathleen Hughes and Liza Donnelly, looks at the women cartoonists of The New Yorker and how their humor and perspectives have shaped the magazine across generations. Roz Chast, Donnelly and Amy Hwang are among those featured. Afterward Donnelly and Hwang join MassArt Illustration Chair Lisa Kennedy in a conversation moderated by MassArt President Mary Grant.

Tue Oct 27 · 6pm

Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)

directed by Hans Richter

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Hans Richter's surrealist Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) follows an ordinary man who sells dreams that improve his customers' lives, a frame for sequences by émigré artists including Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Fernand Léger. Shown on 16mm as a double bill with Laura; between the films Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, discusses them, Libby Holman and her podcast's new season.

Tue Oct 27 · 7pm

The Exorcist (1973)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) begins to change in ways her doctors cannot explain, and her mother (Ellen Burstyn) turns to two priests, played by Max von Sydow and Jason Miller, and the rite of exorcism. William Peter Blatty adapted it from his own novel, which drew on a real exorcism in Maryland. Shown on 35mm in the Prints of Darkness series.

Tue Oct 27 · 7pm

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

directed by George A. Romero

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

George A. Romero's first feature, made in 1968 on a shoestring outside Pittsburgh, traps a group of strangers in a farmhouse as a horde of the flesh-eating dead closes in. It mixed gore with social commentary and cast a Black actor, Duane Jones, in the lead. It plays in a double bill with House (Hausu) for Cult Cinema Tuesdays, part of the sixth Halloween Hullabaloo.

Tue Oct 27 · 7:15pm

Ganja & Hess (1973)

directed by Bill Gunn

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Bill Gunn's 1973 film, Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) plays anthropologist Hess Green, stabbed with an ancient dagger by his assistant (Gunn) and left immortal and thirsting for blood. The New York Times called it “a sensual, scholarly, magic-realist exploration of black history and black desire.” MoMA's restoration of the original cut, for Queering the Screen, is followed by a discussion with guests from The Theater Offensive.

Tue Oct 27 · 8:45pm

Laura (1944)

directed by Otto Preminger

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Otto Preminger's 1944 noir, a detective (Dana Andrews) investigating the murder of an advertising executive (Gene Tierney) falls for her through her portrait and the stories of the men around her, among them Clifton Webb's columnist and Vincent Price's fiancé. It follows Dreams That Money Can Buy in a double bill, with Karina Longworth, host of the podcast You Must Remember This, in person between the films.

Tue Oct 27 · 8:50pm

House (1977)

directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film sends a schoolgirl called Gorgeous and six classmates to her ailing aunt's country house, where evil spirits, a demonic house cat and a bloodthirsty piano await, all realised through mattes, animation and collage. The Criterion Collection likens it to “an episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava.” Shown on 35mm with Night of the Living Dead for Cult Cinema Tuesdays and the Halloween Hullabaloo.

Tue Oct 27 · 7:30pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Patricia Quinn (1975)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Jim Sharman’s cult musical in which Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) take shelter in the castle of Tim Curry’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter, plays unedited in a new 4K restoration. Patricia Quinn, the film’s original Magenta, hosts, with a live shadow cast, audience participation and a costume contest. A VIP meet-and-greet with Quinn, with a photo and autograph, is sold separately.

Wed Oct 28 · 6:30pm

A Place in the Sun (1951)

directed by George Stevens

The Brattle Theatre · Harvard Square · Cambridge

George Stevens's 1951 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy stars Montgomery Clift as a poor young man, taken on at his rich uncle's factory, who abandons his pregnant girlfriend (Shelley Winters) once society, and an heiress played by Elizabeth Taylor, open their doors to him. It won six Academy Awards, including Best Director. Shown on 35mm and introduced by Karina Longworth, host of the podcast You Must Remember This.

Wed Oct 28 · 7pm

The Omen (1976)

directed by Richard Donner

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Richard Donner's 1976 film, Gregory Peck plays Robert Thorn, a diplomat who secretly substitutes an orphaned newborn for his own stillborn son; by five the boy, Damien, has a nanny dead and a priest (Patrick Troughton) insisting he is the Antichrist. Lee Remick co-stars, and Jerry Goldsmith's score won an Oscar. Part of Prints of Darkness, with a separately ticketed seminar beforehand from MIT film professor Jessica Ruffin.

Wed Oct 28 · 7pm

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

directed by Stephen Chiodo

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Aliens disguised as clowns crash-land near a small town and wrap its residents in cotton-candy cocoons to eat later, in this 1988 film directed by Stephen Chiodo, who with his brothers also built its creature effects; the punk band the Dickies recorded the theme song. Shown on 35mm in a double bill with Phantasm for the Halloween Hullabaloo, whose curator Julia Marchese calls it “a circus scented blast of fun.”

Wed Oct 28 · 8:45pm

Phantasm (1979)

directed by Don Coscarelli

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

In Don Coscarelli's 1979 film, a teenage boy, Mike, and his friends take on the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), a mortician who robs graves with the help of hooded dwarfs and a flying silver sphere. Julia Marchese, curator of the Halloween Hullabaloo, programmed it to honour Reggie Bannister, who plays Reggie, the ice-cream man, and died recently. It follows Killer Klowns from Outer Space in a double bill.

Wed Oct 28 · 7pm

Diabolique (1955)

directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem

Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 thriller Diabolique turns on the cruel headmaster of a boarding school, murdered by his meek wife and the mistress he openly flaunts; when his corpse disappears, a series of strange occurrences begins to unhinge the two women. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse star. It plays in Cinema Salem's $5 Wednesday Classics series, shown with classic adverts and episodic serials.

Wed Oct 28 · 7:30pm

Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive (2023)

directed by Matthew Miele

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Matthew Miele's authorized documentary Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive (2023) traces Price as both the classically trained actor who redefined screen villainy and an art collector, educator and gourmand, through archival material and interviews with his children, Victoria and V.B. Price, and admirers including John Waters, Tim Burton, Bill Hader, Cassandra Peterson and Alice Cooper. Victoria Price introduces the film and sells her books afterward.

Thu Oct 29 · 7pm

Cujo (1983)

directed by Lewis Teague

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Lewis Teague's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's novel follows a friendly St. Bernard who contracts rabies and turns on a small Maine town, trapping a mother and her young son in a stalled car. Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro star; series curator Julia Marchese says they “act their hearts out.” The 35mm print opens a Halloween Hullabaloo double bill with Pet Sematary in 4K.

Thu Oct 29 · 7pm

Poltergeist (1982)

directed by Tobe Hooper

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), made with producer Steven Spielberg, follows the Freelings into a typical suburban house whose foundation hides something evil; when their youngest daughter vanishes and her voice comes through the television, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists. Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams and Heather O’Rourke star. It screens on 35mm in the Coolidge’s Big Screen Classics series.

Thu Oct 29 · 8:45pm

Pet Sematary (1989)

directed by Mary Lambert

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Mary Lambert’s Pet Sematary (1989) moves Louis Creed’s family to rural Maine; when their cat is killed, a kindly neighbour, played by Fred Gwynne, shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery, where what is buried comes back changed. Stephen King adapted his own novel. Shown in 4K, it closes a Halloween Hullabaloo double bill that opens with Cujo on 35mm.

Thu Oct 29 · 9:45pm

The Prophecy (1995)

directed by Gregory Widen

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Gregory Widen’s The Prophecy (1995), Christopher Walken plays the angel Gabriel, come to Earth to collect a soul that will end a stalemated war in Heaven. Investigating a murder, detective Thomas Dagget (Elias Koteas), a one-time seminarian, finds an ally in a schoolteacher (Virginia Madsen) whose pupil, a Native American girl, hides the soul. Viggo Mortensen plays Lucifer. It screens in the Coolidge’s Prints of Darkness season.

Thu Oct 29 · 8pm

The Shining (1980)

directed by Stanley Kubrick

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film of Stephen King's novel The Shining follows Jack Torrance, who takes a winter caretaker's job at the isolated Overlook Hotel with his wife Wendy and son Danny. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd star. Local drag artists open the night with performances leading into a shadow-cast performance of the film, directed by Miz Diamond Wigfall.

Thu Oct 29 · 7:30pm

The Keep (1983)

directed by Michael Mann

Capitol Theatre (Arlington) · Capitol Theatre · 204 Massachusetts Ave · Arlington Center · Arlington

Michael Mann's The Keep (1983), adapted from F. Paul Wilson's 1981 novel, is set in 1941 in a Romanian mountain citadel, where German soldiers free an ancient demon from its prison and are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help. Jürgen Prochnow, Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne star, and Tangerine Dream wrote the score. High Energy Vintage presents the screening.

Fri Oct 30 · 7pm

Come and Go (2003)

directed by João César Monteiro

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Monteiro’s Come and Go (2003), his last film, made as he fought a fatal illness, casts the director himself as João Vuvu, an eccentric libertine drifting through a sunlit Lisbon and trading erotic, linguistic and theological debates with the women he meets. It closes the Archive’s series João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur, preceded by his 1969 debut, a short documentary portrait of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

Fri Oct 30 · 7:15pm

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

directed by William Castle

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

In William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill (1959), Vincent Price plays Frederick Loren, a millionaire who offers five strangers $10,000 each to survive a night in a house with a reputation for murder; they arrive in a hearse and are handed guns for protection. Victoria Price, the actor’s daughter, joins as a special guest for this 35mm screening, which opens a Halloween Hullabaloo double bill with Dragonwyck.

Fri Oct 30 · 9pm

Dragonwyck (1946)

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Dragonwyck (1946), Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s first film as director, stars Gene Tierney as a Connecticut farm girl hired as governess by a distant relative, an aristocratic Hudson Valley patroon played by Vincent Price. It is adapted from Anya Seton’s novel; Mankiewicz later won Oscars for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. Victoria Price, the actor’s daughter, joins this double bill with House on Haunted Hill.

Fri Oct 30 · 11:59pm

Fright Night (1985)

directed by Tom Holland

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Tom Holland’s horror comedy Fright Night (1985) follows seventeen-year-old Charley Brewster, who discovers that his charming new neighbour, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire and, when nobody believes him, turns to Peter Vincent, a TV horror host who once played the movies’ Great Vampire Killer. Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse and Roddy McDowall star. It screens on 35mm in the Coolidge After Midnite series.

Fri Oct 30 – Sat Oct 31 · 7:30pm/1:30pm

Disney and Pixar's Coco in Concert Live to Film (2017)

directed by Lee Unkrich

Boston Pops · Symphony Hall · Symphony · Boston

Fri Oct 30 · 7:30pm / Sat Oct 31 · 1:30pm

Lee Unkrich’s 2017 film Coco is shown in full while the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart, plays Michael Giacchino’s score live. Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming a musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz; a mysterious chain of events lands him in the Land of the Dead, where he and the trickster Héctor set out to uncover his family’s real history.

Sat Oct 31 · 10:30am

Frankenweenie (2012)

directed by Tim Burton

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

When a car kills his dog Sparky, young Victor Frankenstein uses science to bring him back, with a few minor adjustments, and soon the whole town learns what he has made. Tim Burton expanded his own 1984 live-action short into Frankenweenie (2012), a black-and-white stop-motion feature voiced by Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short and Winona Ryder. It is a Kids’ Shows screening, recommended for ages 9 and up.

Sat Oct 31 · 7pm

Daughter of Darkness (1948)

directed by Lance Comfort

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Lance Comfort’s Daughter of Darkness (1948), Emmy Baudine, a disturbed woman who works for an Irish village priest, claws open the face of a carnival boxer who expects sexual favours and is packed off to a Yorkshire farm, where the carnival and the vengeful boxer follow. The Archive likens the morbid melodrama to Buñuel’s Mexican films. It screens on 35mm in Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sat Oct 31 · 8pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

directed by Jim Sharman

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

In Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), sweethearts Brad and Janet, stranded in a storm, shelter in the mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist, and watch him unveil his muscle-bound creation, Rocky. The Teseracte Players perform a live pre-show and shadowcast with the 35mm print, in an evening celebrating the late Tim Curry, who originated Frank-N-Furter on stage and screen.

Sat Oct 31 · 9pm

The Three Weird Sisters (1948)

directed by Daniel Birt

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Daniel Birt's The Three Weird Sisters (1948) follows three ageing sisters clinging to their family estate in a Welsh mining town gone to ruin. When subsidence destroys village homes they have promised to rebuild, they plot to poison their wealthy half-brother. The poet Dylan Thomas co-wrote the screenplay. It screens on 35mm in Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sat Oct 31 · 11:30pm

25th Halloween Horror Marathon

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

The Coolidge's 25th Halloween marathon is built around mummies. It opens with Boris Karloff in Universal's The Mummy (1932), followed by Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud (1967) in a rare archival print lent by Hammer, the first 35mm showing of the film in North America in decades. Five more features stay secret until they screen, with mummy-themed music, a costume contest, and 35mm trailers and shorts between them.

Oct 29/31 · 7:30pm/2pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

directed by Jim Sharman

The Center for Arts in Natick · TCAN Cinema · 14 Summer St · Natick

Thu Oct 29 · 7:30pm / Sat Oct 31 · 2pm

Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), adapted from Richard O'Brien's stage musical, follows a newly engaged couple, Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon), whose car breaks down on a rainy night near the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry). O'Brien and Meat Loaf also appear in the gender-bending musical, a long-running midnight-movie fixture known for its audience participation.

Fri Oct 30 – Sat Oct 31

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

directed by Henry Selick

Capitol Theatre (Arlington) · Capitol Theatre · 204 Massachusetts Ave · Arlington · MA · Arlington Center · Arlington

Fri Oct 30 · 6:00pm & 7:45pm / Sat Oct 31 · 1:00pm & 2:45pm

Henry Selick’s 1993 stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, from a story by producer Tim Burton, follows Jack Skellington, the “spindly king of Halloween Town,” who tires of scaring humans every October 31 and kidnaps Santa Claus to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts on Christmas morning. His rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to stop him. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and sings Jack’s part.

Sat Oct 31 · 7pm

Blade Runner Live (1982)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) screens in its Final Cut version while the Avex Ensemble performs Vangelis’s synthesiser score live in sync. Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a detective pressed back into service to hunt four escaped replicants who have returned to Earth, whose mission is complicated when he falls for Rachael (Sean Young), a replicant at the Tyrell Corporation. Rated R; shown with English subtitles.

Oct 23–25/30, Nov 1

Frankenstein (1931)

directed by James Whale

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Fri Oct 23 · 7:45pm / Sat Oct 24 · 3:00pm / Sun Oct 25 · 2:35pm / Fri Oct 30 · 4:00pm / Sun Nov 1 · 6:00pm

James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), loosely drawn from Mary Shelley's novel, follows Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he assembles a creature from the bodies of the dead. With his assistant Fritz (Dwight Frye) he brings it to life, but the confused, traumatized monster (Boris Karloff) escapes into the countryside, and Frankenstein must confront his creation. Jack Pierce created Karloff's makeup. It screens in the Classic Universal Monsters series.

Oct 18/23, Nov 1

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

directed by James Whale

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Sun Oct 18 · 7:00pm / Fri Oct 23 · 6:00pm / Sun Nov 1 · 1:00pm

James Whale's 1935 sequel The Bride of Frankenstein opens with Mary Shelley revealing that her novel's characters survived, then follows Dr. Frankenstein as he is goaded by the even madder Dr. Pretorius into building his monster a mate. Boris Karloff returns as the Monster, with Colin Clive as Frankenstein and Elsa Lanchester as both Shelley and the Bride. It screens in Cinema Salem's Classic Universal Monsters series.

Oct 18/22/25, Nov 1

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

directed by Jack Arnold

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Sun Oct 18 · 5:00pm / Thu Oct 22 · 7:30pm / Sun Oct 25 · 7:45pm / Sun Nov 1 · 4:15pm

Jack Arnold's 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon follows a scientific expedition up the Amazon that finds a prehistoric gill-man lurking in the depths and tries to capture it and bring it back to civilization for study. Richard Carlson, Julie Adams and Richard Denning star; the film was originally released in 3D. It screens in Cinema Salem's Classic Universal Monsters series.

Sun Oct 18 – Sun Nov 1

Halloween (1978)

directed by John Carpenter

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween begins on Halloween night in 1963, when six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his sister to death. Fifteen years later he escapes from a mental hospital and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again, pursued by his psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. Donald Pleasence plays Loomis and Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first film role, plays the babysitter Laurie Strode. Carpenter also composed the score.

Sun Nov 1 · 3:00pm

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

directed by Alberto Cavalcanti

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Alberto Cavalcanti's They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) stars Trevor Howard as an unemployed ex-RAF pilot who drifts into the postwar black market and is framed for the killing of a policeman. The critic David Thomson found this British noir by the Brazilian-born Cavalcanti “filled with malign eccentricity.” It screens on DCP in Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Sun Nov 1 · 3:00pm

Celluloid Confidential

Capitol Theatre (Arlington) · Capitol Theatre · 204 Massachusetts Ave · Arlington Center · Arlington

Celluloid Confidential, High Energy Vintage’s series of secret films shown from 16mm prints, returns with a horror marathon of about six hours, every title kept under wraps until the projector starts. The series’ June edition screened a 1960s alien-invasion science-fiction horror picture, announced on its flyer only by decade and genre.

Sun Nov 1 · 2:30pm

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

directed by Nicholas Ray

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1951) stars Robert Ryan as Jim Wilson, a brutalised New York cop whose next case, a murder in the countryside, leads him to a blind woman (Ida Lupino) whose compassion offers him a last chance at redemption. Ward Bond co-stars, and Bernard Herrmann wrote the score. It screens in the Coolidge's Noirvember season of film noir.

Mon Nov 2 · 7:00pm

Network (1976)

directed by Sidney Lumet

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Sidney Lumet's 1976 satire Network, television executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds a hit when newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script and becomes a mad-as-hell prophet railing against modern society. It won four Oscars, among them for Dunaway, Finch and Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay; William Holden and Robert Duvall co-star. It screens in a 4K restoration in the Big Screen Classics series.

Mon Nov 2 · 7pm

Inglourious Basterds

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009) imagines an alternate history in which two plots to kill Nazi Germany's leadership converge on a Paris cinema: one hatched by Lt. Aldo Raine's squad of Jewish-American soldiers, the other by the young French-Jewish woman who runs the theatre. Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl and Christoph Waltz star. It screens on 35mm in the theatre's anti-Nazi repertory series.

Tue Nov 3 · 7:30pm

Eraserhead

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

David Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead (1977), follows first-time father Henry Spencer as he tries to survive his industrial surroundings, an angry girlfriend and the unrelenting screams of his newborn mutant child. Jack Nance plays Henry, and the black-and-white photography is by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell. It screens on 35mm as part of the theatre's Cult Cinema Tuesdays series.

Wed Nov 4 · 6:30pm

Your Attention Please (2026)

directed by Sara Robin

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Sara Robin's 2026 documentary, which premiered at SXSW in March, follows a coalition of parents, educators, Gen Z reformers and whistleblowers pushing back against Big Tech as the real-world costs of social media come into focus, and asks whether the tools of the age can be rebuilt to serve people. A panel follows with Robin, writer and editor Jack LeMay and executive producer Joni Siani.

Wed Nov 4 · 7pm

Rocky in Concert (1976)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

Rocky (1976), John G. Avildsen’s film about Rocky Balboa, a small-time Philadelphia boxer handed a shot at the heavyweight title, screens in full while a symphony orchestra plays Bill Conti’s score live, including “Gonna Fly Now.” Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay and stars, with Talia Shire, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture; the concert is produced by TCG Entertainment.

Wed Nov 4 · 7:30pm

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul

Arrow Street Arts · Arrow Street Arts · 2 Arrow Street · Cambridge · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (2026), James Keach’s documentary built around a rare interview with Allman, traces his life from his father’s murder through the death of his brother Duane, addiction, his marriage to Cher and the birth of Southern rock. Afterwards Michael Lehman, the film’s producer and Allman’s longtime manager, talks with Allman Brothers Band manager Bert Holman. Co-presented with the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame.

Thu Nov 5 · 6:00pm

That Weird Film Festival

Capitol Theatre (Arlington) · Capitol Theatre · 204 Massachusetts Ave · Arlington Center · Arlington

That Weird Film Festival 2026 is an evening of short films, each four to fifteen minutes, chosen from open submissions of work that is silly, strange, awkward or a little creepy. Prizes go to the most surprising film, the silliest film and the most unique acting, the audience votes in a bracket for the Most Weird Film of 2026, and there is a secret award. Submissions close October 18.

Fri Nov 6 · 7:00pm

Bullitt (1968)

directed by Peter Yates

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Steve McQueen plays the laconic detective in Peter Yates's 1968 Bullitt, best known for its car chase through real San Francisco streets; the film moves between bursts of action and McQueen's cool restraint, from an Embarcadero flophouse to a Pacific Heights mansion. It opens Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco, on 35mm, preceded by Lawrence Jordan's 16mm portrait of Beat poet Michael McClure.

Fri Nov 6 · 9:15pm

The Conversation (1974)

directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Gene Hackman plays a professional wiretapper who comes unglued when he takes an interest in a recording beyond its audio quality. Made between the first two Godfather films, Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 Palme d'Or winner is, as A.S. Hamrah puts it, an “aural, Watergate-era version of Blow-Up,” built on Walter Murch's sound design. John Cazale co-stars. On 35mm in Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco.

Fri Nov 6 · 11:59pm

Eraserhead (1977)

directed by David Lynch

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Eraserhead (1977), David Lynch's first feature, stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a pencil factory worker whose love story unfolds in a dystopian wasteland of mutant babies, a woman singing inside a radiator and dancing roast chickens. Influenced by Kafka and Gogol, it entered the National Film Registry in 2004; Kubrick screened it for the cast and crew of The Shining. It plays in the After Midnite series.

Fri Nov 6 · 11:59pm

The Guardian (1990)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 1990 The Guardian, his first horror film since The Exorcist, adapts Dan Greenburg's novel The Nanny. A young couple (Dwier Brown and Carey Lowell) hire the perfect live-in nanny (Jenny Seagrove) for their newborn, a woman with impeccable references and a way with children, until ancient supernatural forces turn their dream into a battle for the child's soul. A 35mm After Midnite late show.

Sat Nov 7 · 2:00pm

Ju Dou (1990)

directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Ju Dou (1990), directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, was the first Chinese film nominated for an Academy Award, and it made a star of Li Gong. In an early 20th-century dye mill, a deadly triangle forms between a sadistic, impotent patriarch, his adopted nephew and Ju Dou, the old man's indentured bride. On 35mm in the Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque's Nostalgia series, preceded by Jan Lenica's 1965 short A.

Sat Nov 7 · 7:00pm

Sudden Fear (1952)

directed by David Miller

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In David Miller's 1952 noir, Joan Crawford plays a wealthy San Francisco playwright who marries an actor she once turned down for a part (Jack Palance), then learns from a recording machine that he and his lover (Gloria Grahame) mean to kill her. Lenore Coffee, born and raised in the city, co-wrote the screenplay. Shown on 35mm in the series Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco.

Sat Nov 7 · 9:15pm

Experiment in Terror (1962)

directed by Blake Edwards

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Blake Edwards's 1962 thriller, Lee Remick plays a San Francisco bank teller whom a stalker forces to rob her own bank by threatening her teenage sister (Stefanie Powers); Glenn Ford is the FBI agent on the case. Henry Mancini wrote the score, and the set pieces take in Fisherman's Wharf and the since-demolished Candlestick Park. Shown on 35mm in Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco.

Sat Nov 7 · 11:30pm

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

directed by Philip Kaufman

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of Don Siegel's 1956 film moves the pod people to late-1970s San Francisco, where two health-department colleagues, played by Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland, notice the people around them turning into emotionless copies. Jeff Goldblum co-stars, and the film taps fears of conformity and of a government party to the terror. Shown on 35mm in Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco.

Sat Nov 7 · 11:59pm

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 1985 thriller To Live and Die in L.A. stars William Petersen as Richard Chance, a Secret Service agent out to take down the counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe) who killed his partner, by any means necessary: blackmailing a parolee, disobeying direct orders, driving the wrong way down a freeway. John Pankow co-stars, and the New York Times called it “riveting.” It screens on 35mm in the After Midnite series.

Sat Nov 7 · 10:30am

Raya and the Last Dragon

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, is set in the fantasy land of Kumandra, where dragons sacrificed themselves 500 years ago to save humanity from an evil force. When that evil returns, the warrior Raya sets out to find the last dragon and reunite a fractured land. This is a relaxed screening, with lights up, sound lowered and open captions.

Sat Nov 7 – Sat Nov 7 · 12:00pm & 4:00pm

Happenstance Horror Fest '26

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Sat Nov 7 · 12:00pm & 4:00pm

Happenstance Horror Fest runs two blocks of themed horror programmes, which can be attended together. Block A gathers Saturday Morning Cartoons (animated horror), Microdosing Music Videos, Otherworldly (international horror) and Women in Horror, closing with a panel on women in the industry. Block B brings Fears with Queers, Red, White, and Ew, and Local Love, spotlighting New England filmmakers, before a local filmmaker Q&A.

Sun Nov 8 · 3:00pm

Dark Passage (1947)

directed by Delmer Daves

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Humphrey Bogart plays an escaped convict, wrongly jailed for his wife's murder, who heads for San Francisco to clear his name and is taken in by a stranger played by Lauren Bacall. The first half of Delmer Daves's 1947 noir is shot from his point of view, until plastic surgery gives him Bogart's face. Shown on 35mm in Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco.

Sun Nov 8 · 7:00pm

The Lineup (1958)

directed by Don Siegel

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Eli Wallach and Robert Keith play hired killers collecting heroin smuggled into San Francisco in unwitting travellers' luggage, against a tight deadline that takes them to the Embarcadero YMCA and the since-vanished Sutro Baths. The Lineup (1958) was the first of Don Siegel's three San Francisco features. Shown on 35mm, preceded by Nathaniel Dorsky's silent 16mm Threnody (2004), shot in and around the city.

Mon Nov 9 · 1:00pm

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

directed by Billy Wilder

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) stars Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a silent-film star who will not accept that her stardom is over, and William Holden as the young screenwriter she hires for her comeback. He thinks he can manipulate her and is wrong, and it ends in violence, madness and death. It screens in Movies as Medicine, the Cabot's free monthly Monday matinee; registration is required.

Mon Nov 9 · 7:00pm

Vertigo (1958)

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

James Stewart plays Scottie Ferguson, a retired detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow an old friend's wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), and is drawn into an obsession with her. Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film displaced Citizen Kane at the top of Sight and Sound's critics' poll in 2012. Shown on 35mm in Visions of a City, preceded by Ernie Gehr's 16mm Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992).

Mon Nov 9 · 7:30pm

The Blues Brothers

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

John Landis's The Blues Brothers (1980) spins John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's Saturday Night Live sketch into a feature: Jake, just out of prison, and Elwood reunite their band on "a mission from God" to save the Catholic orphanage where they were raised from foreclosure. James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker perform. It screens on 35mm in the anti-Nazi repertory series it launched.

Tue Nov 10 · 7:30pm

El Topo

Somerville Theatre · Somerville Theatre (Main Theatre / micro-cinemas) · Davis Square · Somerville

Alejandro Jodorowsky wrote, directed and stars in El Topo (1970) as a gunfighter and mystic who crosses the desert with his six-year-old son to defeat four sharpshooting rivals, in an allegory that mixes the western with Zen Buddhism and the Bible. Its screenings at New York's Elgin Theater, endorsed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, set off the midnight-movie craze. Shown on 35mm for Cult Cinema Tuesdays.

Wed Nov 11 · 7:00pm

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

directed by Harry Horner

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Harry Horner's Beware, My Lovely (1952) stars Ida Lupino as Helen Gordon, who hires Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) as a handyman and becomes a prisoner in her own house when the paranoid drifter, prone to memory lapses, locks the doors and tears out the telephone. A Noirvember screening; a discussion package adds an introduction and post-film talk led by Kay Lynch, founder of Salem Horror Fest.

Thu Nov 12 · 6:00pm

Seven Samurai (1954)

directed by Akira Kurosawa

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic follows a sixteenth-century farming village that hires seven masterless samurai to defend its harvest against bandits, with Takashi Shimura as their leader and Toshirô Mifune as the brash would-be samurai Kikuchiyo. Running nearly three and a half hours, it mixes philosophy and action in a story of courage. The screening is part of Ty Burr's Film Club, hosted by the former Boston Globe film critic.

Thu Nov 12 · 9:45pm

In Bruges (2008)

directed by Martin McDonagh

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Martin McDonagh's In Bruges (2008) sends two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), to lie low in the medieval Belgian city just before Christmas on the orders of their London boss, Harry (Ralph Fiennes). Ray, haunted by a job gone wrong, hates the place while Ken takes to sightseeing, until Harry finally calls. It screens in the Cult Classics and Noirvember series.

Thu Nov 12 · 7:30pm

Beware! The Devil's Wrath

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Craig Meinhart's Beware! The Devil's Wrath is set in Blackwood Falls, a devout Texas town, where newlywed outsiders Richard and Samantha arrive, Samantha draws the gaze of restless high school boys, and a fateful encounter ends in tragedy. Ritualistic attacks follow, leaving residents to ask whether they are divine retribution, demonic forces “or something more human.” Meinhart, who wrote and directed it, and members of the cast take questions afterward.

Fri Nov 13 · 7:00pm

Temptation Harbour (1947)

directed by Lance Comfort

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Robert Newton plays a dockworker at a Channel port who pockets a bag of money left behind when two criminals fight to the death, an act that changes the course of his life. Lance Comfort's 1947 adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel Newhaven-Dieppe, with Simone Simon and William Hartnell, recalls French Poetic Realism. Shown from a British Film Institute DCP in Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Fri Nov 13 · 9:15pm

Tiger in the Smoke (1956)

directed by Roy Ward Baker

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Roy Ward Baker's Tiger in the Smoke (1956), adapted from Margery Allingham's novel, follows war veterans turned buskers as they search fog-bound London for their vanished boss, a treasure hunt that turns into murder and flight. Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow and Tony Wright star; the critic Imogen Sara Smith likened its London to “a hellish procession out of Bosch.” On 35mm in Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.

Fri Nov 13 · 11:59pm

The Hunted (2003)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 2003 The Hunted stars Benicio Del Toro as Aaron Hallam, an ex-military assassin haunted by memories of Kosovo who turns his skills on hunters in the Oregon woods. The one man who can stop him is L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones), the retired government operative who trained him, and the hunt becomes a chase through the wilderness. Connie Nielsen co-stars. On 35mm in the After Midnite series.

Fri Nov 13 · 11:59pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

directed by Jim Sharman

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Jim Sharman's 1975 film of Richard O'Brien's stage musical, a send-up of sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, Brad and Janet, caught in the rain, take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite mad scientist from outer space about to unveil his latest creation. Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf co-star. A digital restoration, shown in the After Midnite series.

Sat Nov 14 · 2:00pm

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

directed by Iwai Shunji

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Iwai Shunji's All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), adapted from a novel he developed on an online forum, follows middle-school students linked by anonymous message boards devoted to a fictional pop star, Lily Chou-Chou, as they face violence, abuse and isolation years before social media. Kobayashi Takeshi wrote the score. A 35mm print in the Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque's Nostalgia series, preceded by Godfrey Reggio's short Evidence (1995).

Sat Nov 14 · 7:00pm

Hell is a City (1960)

directed by Val Guest

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Val Guest's Hell is a City (1960) is a Hammer-produced police thriller starring Stanley Baker as Inspector Martineau, a Manchester detective hunting a murderer while his own marriage comes apart; John Crawford and Donald Pleasence co-star, and it climaxes on a rooftop above the city. The 35mm print comes from the British Film Institute, for Great Expectations, the Archive's version of Ehsan Khoshbakht's Locarno retrospective of postwar British cinema.

Sat Nov 14 · 9:00pm

Never Let Go (1960)

directed by John Guillermin

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In John Guillermin's Never Let Go (1960), Richard Todd plays a salesman whose hunt for his stolen car draws him into a brutal London gang, led by Peter Sellers cast against type; Elizabeth Sellars co-stars, and John Barry wrote the score. It screens on 35mm in a British Film Institute print, part of Great Expectations, the Archive's version of Ehsan Khoshbakht's Locarno retrospective of postwar British cinema.

Sat Nov 14 · 11:59pm

Cruising (1980)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 1980 thriller Cruising stars Al Pacino as Steve Burns, a rookie New York cop sent undercover into the city's underground gay S&M scene to lure out a serial killer preying on its patrons, at the risk of losing his own identity. Taken from Gerald Walker's novel, with Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen and a punk-rock soundtrack, it was controversial on release. It plays in the After Midnite series.

Sat Nov 14 · 10:30am

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

directed by Wes Anderson

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's book, follows Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney), who lives happily with Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), their eccentric son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and visiting nephew Kristopherson until he slips into his sneaky old ways and plots “the greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen.” It screens as a morning Kids' Show, recommended for ages 6+.

Sun Nov 15 · 7:00pm

A Christmas Story (1983)

directed by Bob Clark

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983), adapted from Jean Shepherd's stories, follows Ralphie's campaign for a Red Ryder BB gun one Christmas in 1940s Indiana. After the film Peter Billingsley, who played Ralphie, gives a moderated interview and takes audience questions. He went on to produce Iron Man, direct Couples Retreat, and co-write, produce and star in A Christmas Story Christmas (2022). VIP packages add a pre-show meet-and-greet photo.

Sun Nov 15 · 1:00pm

La Bola Negra (2026)

directed by Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Drawn from the surviving pages of an unfinished Lorca play and from Alberto Conejero's La piedra oscura, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's 2026 film tells the linked stories of three gay men in Spain in 1932, 1937 and 2017, with Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close. It won Best Director at Cannes. Carlos Ramos of Wellesley, Wan Sonya Tang of Boston College and Brandeis's Fernando Rosenberg discuss it afterwards.

Sun Nov 15 · 11:00am

Four Minus Three (2026)

directed by Adrian Goiginger

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Four Minus Three (2026), Adrian Goiginger's fifth feature, adapts Barbara Pachl-Eberhart's autobiography. Barbara and her partner Heli are professional clowns raising two children on laughter until a car accident takes Heli and the children, and her belief in humour and hope is put to the test. Valerie Pachner, Robert Stadlober and Jonas Recklies star. It premiered at the 2026 Berlinale and screens in the Goethe German Film series.

Mon Nov 16 · 7:00pm

Nowhere to Go (1958)

directed by Seth Holt

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Seth Holt's Nowhere to Go (1958) is a spare British thriller, co-written by the critic Kenneth Tynan, about an escaped convict going after the stolen money he stashed in a safe-deposit box. George Nader stars with Bernard Lee, and Maggie Smith makes her feature debut. On 35mm in a British Film Institute print, part of Great Expectations, the Archive's version of Ehsan Khoshbakht's Locarno survey of postwar British cinema.

Mon Nov 16 · 7:00pm

Michael Clayton (2007)

directed by Tony Gilroy

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Tony Gilroy's 2007 legal thriller Michael Clayton stars George Clooney as a burned-out fixer at a large New York law firm, caught between loyalty and conscience when star lawyer Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) blows the whistle on a multi-billion-dollar settlement that litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) cannot afford to lose. Mikal J. Gaines, associate professor of English at MCPHS, gives an optional seminar before the 35mm screening.

Tue Nov 17 · 7:00pm

The Black Pirate (1926)

directed by Albert Parker

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Albert Parker's 1926 swashbuckler The Black Pirate stars Douglas Fairbanks as a young nobleman out to avenge his father, killed by Captain Alvarez and his pirates; marooned on a deserted island, he joins forces with fellow captives and boards Alvarez's ship as the Black Pirate. Billie Dove co-stars, and it was shot in two-strip Technicolor. Jeff Rapsis performs his new live piano score in the Sounds of Silents series.

Wed Nov 18 · 6:30pm

Riverdogs / The Same River Twice

directed by Robb Moss, 1982 and 2003

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends, young river guides, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, and Riverdogs (1982) is his record of that summer on the Colorado. The Same River Twice (2003) catches up with five of them twenty years later, settled into jobs, marriages and middle age. Moss, who teaches filmmaking at Harvard, attends in person.

Wed Nov 18 · 7:00pm

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

directed by William Dieterle

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Dieterle's I'll Be Seeing You (1944) stars Ginger Rogers as Mary Marshall, a prisoner on Christmas furlough who meets Zach Morgan (Joseph Cotten), an army sergeant on leave from a military hospital with post-traumatic stress; romance grows while she hides that she must go back. Shirley Temple co-stars. Shown on 35mm for Noirvember, with an optional introduction and discussion led by Kay Lynch.

Thu Nov 19 · 6:30pm

Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2025)

directed by William Greaves, David Greaves

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

William and David Greaves's 2025 documentary records a 1972 evening when William Greaves gathered surviving figures of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington's townhouse, where artists, writers and intellectuals, many unmet in fifty years, reminisced and argued for four hours. His son David, one of the original camera operators, restored the 16mm footage and finished the film. A panel follows with Tufts's Kendra Field and Khary Jones and Harvard's Jesse McCarthy.

Thu Nov 19 · 4:00pm

Moolaadé (2004)

directed by Ousmane Sembène

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In a West African village, Collé Ardo invokes moolaadé, the custom of sanctuary, to shelter four girls who have fled the ritual cutting their elders call purification, and her stand sets the village's women against its men and elders. It was the last film by the Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembène; shot in Burkina Faso and spoken in Bambara, it won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2004.

Thu Nov 19 · 7:00pm

Clue (1985)

directed by Jonathan Lynn

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Jonathan Lynn's 1985 comedy Clue, based on the board game, begins at a dinner party where Mr. Boddy admits blackmailing his guests: Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) and Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull), with Tim Curry as the butler. When Boddy turns up murdered, all are suspects. A separately ticketed, 21+ Rewind! afterparty follows.

Thu Nov 19 – Sun Nov 22

Decibels Film Festival

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Thu Nov 19 · 7pm / Fri Nov 20 · 10pm / Sat Nov 21 · 12pm / Sun Nov 22 · 7pm

Decibels showcases films about music subcultures: the mosh pit, the community dance hall, burlesque and the Deadhead scene of Shakedown Street. This edition screens five: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up; We Are Fugazi From Washington D.C., a portrait of the D.C. post-hardcore band built from fans' footage; We Are The Shaggs, on the New Hampshire sister band; Tight & Nerdy; and Summer Tour.

Fri Nov 20 · 7:00pm

This Was a Woman (1948)

directed by Tim Whelan

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Tim Whelan's This Was a Woman (1948) casts Sonia Dresdel as a domineering matriarch who wrecks the lives of her husband and daughter, a British variation on the 1936 Hollywood drama Craig's Wife that moves into manipulation and murder. Barbara White and Walter Fitzgerald co-star under the American director. It shows in a Park Circus DCP as part of Great Expectations, the Archive's survey of postwar British cinema.

Fri Nov 20 · 6:30pm

Riverdogs / The Bend in the River

directed by Robb Moss, 1982 and 2025

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Riverdogs (1982), Robb Moss's 32-minute 16mm record of a 1978 Grand Canyon rafting trip with his fellow river guides, is paired with The Bend in the River (2025), which returns to five of them, Barry, Cathy, Danny, Jeff and Jim, now in their seventies. Frances McDormand and Joel Coen executive produced the new film. Moss stays for a conversation with Anne Marie Stein.

Fri Nov 20 · 11:59pm

Rampage (1987)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 1987 thriller follows Charles Reece (Alex McArthur), a well-liked young man who does charity work and cares for his mother, until he buys a gun and goes on a murder spree. The liberal district attorney Anthony Fraser (Michael Biehn) finds himself seeking the death penalty against his own convictions as Reece's sanity takes over the trial. Nicholas Campbell co-stars. Shown on 35mm in the After Midnite series.

Fri Nov 20 · 11:59pm

The Room (2003)

directed by Tommy Wiseau

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed and stars in this 2003 film as Johnny, whose fiancée begins sleeping with his best friend, played by Greg Sestero; Juliette Danielle co-stars. Long a Los Angeles secret, it became a midnight cult film whose audiences shout lines and throw plastic spoons at the screen; the Coolidge calls it “the definitive bad movie.” A Coolidge After Midnite screening.

Nov 21, Dec 14 · 7:00pm

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Sat Nov 21 / Mon Dec 14 · 7:00pm

Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds (1958), from Jerzy Andrzejewski's 1948 novel, takes place on May 8, 1945, VE Day, after the Red Army has driven the Germans out of Poland: Zbigniew Cybulski's Maciek, a Home Army fighter, joins a doomed underground plot against the new Soviet-backed order. The last film of Wajda's wartime trilogy opens the Archive's centenary retrospective, Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100.

Sat Nov 21 · 9:15pm

A Generation (1955)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

After watching the Nazis kill his friend in 1942 Warsaw, Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki), a young working-class man, joins a left-wing People's Guard resistance cell in A Generation (1955), Andrzej Wajda's first feature. Shot by Jerzy Lipman with a score by Andrzej Markowski, it used a cast and crew mostly new to professional film. It begins the wartime trilogy and screens on 16mm in the Archive's centenary retrospective.

Sat Nov 21

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

directed by George Sidney

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

George Sidney's 1953 film of the 1948 Broadway show casts Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson as a divorced pair of stage stars reunited when cast opposite each other in a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. MGM kept Cole Porter's songs, among them “So in Love” and “Too Darn Hot,” with Ann Miller and Bob Fosse in the cast. It is the cinema's November musical matinee.

Sat Nov 21 · 11:59pm

Killer Joe (2011)

directed by William Friedkin

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

William Friedkin's 2011 Killer Joe, which Tracy Letts adapted from his own play, follows Chris (Emile Hirsch), who owes a drug lord and hires Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer, to murder his mother for the $50,000 life insurance that goes to his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). When Chris cannot pay, Joe takes Dottie as collateral. An After Midnite late show.

Sat Nov 21 · 1:00pm

The Lunchbox (2013)

directed by Ritesh Batra

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Ritesh Batra's 2013 debut feature The Lunchbox turns on a mistaken delivery by Mumbai's dabbawallas, the city's lunchbox couriers: Ila's cooking reaches Saajan, a widower about to retire, and the neglected housewife (Nimrat Kaur) and the clerk (Irrfan Khan) begin trading letters through the lunchbox. Beforehand, Brandeis English professor Ulka Anjaria, author of Understanding Bollywood, gives a seminar on love and desire in new Indian cinema.

Sat Nov 21 · 8:30pm

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

directed by Wes Craven

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Wes Craven's 1991 The People Under the Stairs follows a boy called Fool who breaks into the house of his family's wealthy landlords hoping to find enough money to stave off eviction, and finds something more disturbing behind its walls. Brandon Quintin Adams plays Fool, with Everett McGill, Wendy Robie and A.J. Langer. The Spooky Picture Show presents the film, a mix of horror, dark comedy and social satire.

Sun Nov 22 · 3:00pm

Innocent Sorcerers (1960)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Shot two months before Godard's À bout de souffle but released after it, Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960) follows a noncommittal young man (Tadeusz Łomnicki) through nightclubs, apartments and boxing rings in post-thaw Warsaw. Jerzy Skolimowski co-wrote the script, and Krzysztof Komeda composed the score and appears in a cameo, as does Zbigniew Cybulski. Censors added the happy ending. Part of the Archive's Wajda centenary retrospective.

Sun Nov 22 · 7:30pm

Clue (1985)

directed by Jonathan Lynn

Cinema Salem · Cinema Salem · 1 East India Square Mall · Salem · MA · Salem

Clue (1985), Jonathan Lynn's comedy from the Parker Brothers board game, gathers six guests under aliases at a New England mansion in 1954, where their blackmailer turns up dead and Tim Curry's butler sets out to find who did it. Christopher Lloyd and Madeline Kahn co-star. The anniversary night adds Whodunnit Bingo, Clue trivia and a costume contest, then an after party at Old Main St Pub.

Mon Nov 23 · 7:00pm

Kanał (1957)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Andrzej Wajda's Kanał (1957), the first film about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, follows exhausted Home Army platoons in late September as they try to escape the defeated city through its sewers, built on a studio back lot in Łódź. Teresa Iżewska, Tadeusz Janczar and Wieńczysław Gliński star, shot in high contrast by Jerzy Lipman. The middle film of Wajda's wartime trilogy screens in the Archive's own 35mm print.

Mon Nov 23 · 7:00pm

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

directed by Julie Dash

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1991), the first wide release by a Black woman director, follows a multi-generational Gullah family on the Sea Islands off South Carolina at the dawn of the 20th century as they weigh a move to the mainland. Alva Rogers and Bahni Turpin star. Guests from the Huntington's production of Adia & Clora Snatch Joy appear, in the Stage & Screen series.

Tue Nov 24 · 7:30pm

Blast of Silence (1961)

directed by Allen Baron

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Allen Baron directs and stars in Blast of Silence (1961), a low-budget New York noir that follows a hit man on assignment in Manhattan at Christmastime, with an eye for the odd details of city life. Lionel Stander performs the uncredited narration, written by Waldo Salt, and Molly McCarthy and Larry Tucker co-star. It screens in the Coolidge's Noirvember series of film noir.

Wed Nov 25 · 7:00pm

Spellbound (1945)

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) stars Ingrid Bergman as psychiatrist Constance Petersen, whose new chief of staff, Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck), draws her into tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis. Miklós Rózsa's score won an Oscar, and Salvador Dalí designed the dream sequence. It screens in a digital restoration for Noirvember; a separate package adds an introduction and discussion led by Kay Lynch, founder of Salem Horror Fest.

Fri Nov 27 · 7:00pm

The Promised Land (1975)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Andrzej Wajda's 1975 adaptation of Nobel laureate Władysław Reymont's 1899 novel is a three-hour epic of 1880s Łódź, where three friends, a Pole, a German and a Jew (Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn and Wojciech Pszoniak), open a cotton mill to ride the Industrial Revolution, enriching and destroying themselves. Extreme wide-angle lenses make the looms menacing, and Wojciech Kilar wrote the avant-garde score. Part of the Archive's Wajda centenary retrospective.

Sat Nov 28 · 7:00pm

Man of Marble (1977)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Andrzej Wajda's 1977 film, a student director, Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda, in the first of four Wajda roles), investigates Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), a bricklayer celebrated as a labor hero in 1950s Nowa Huta who has since vanished. Mixing newsreel, reenactment and absurdist fiction, it waited more than a decade for approval, and a fifth of Poland saw it on release. Part of the Archive's Wajda centenary retrospective.

Sun Nov 29 · 3:00pm

Wałęsa: Man of Hope (2013)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Andrzej Wajda's 2013 biopic of Lech Wałęsa, the Gdańsk union leader who became a Nobel laureate and Poland's president, stars Robert Więckiewicz in the title role. Wajda, eighty-seven at its premiere, saw it as a late addition to his Solidarity “triptych,” and as in Man of Marble and Man of Iron he interlaces documentary footage with dramatised scenes. Part of the Harvard Film Archive's Wajda centenary series.

Mon Nov 30 · 7:00pm

Man of Iron (1981)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Wajda's sequel to Man of Marble grew out of his meeting with the Gdańsk shipyard workers whose 1980 strike founded Solidarity, Poland's first independent trade union. The son of the earlier film's hero, Birkut, takes centre stage in a time-hopping mix of fiction and documentary, and the organisers Lech Wałęsa and Anna Walentynowicz appear as themselves. It won the 1981 Palme d'Or, months before martial law. On 35mm.

Mon Nov 30 · 7:00pm

Sneakers (1992)

directed by Phil Alden Robinson

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Phil Alden Robinson's 1992 thriller, Robert Redford plays a hacker in hiding since a botched caper, offered a clean slate by the NSA for one last job; River Phoenix, Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn and Sidney Poitier join him. A Science on Screen evening with mathematicians Lauren K. Williams of Harvard, a MacArthur fellow, and Ken Ono of the University of Virginia in conversation, co-presented by the American Mathematical Society.

Thu Dec 3 · 7:00pm

The Lion in Winter (1968)

directed by Anthony Harvey

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Anthony Harvey's The Lion in Winter (1968), from James Goldman's play, finds Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) feuding over the succession as their sons Richard (Anthony Hopkins), John and Geoffrey vie for the crown and Philip of France (Timothy Dalton) exploits the rift. It won three Oscars, for Hepburn, Goldman's screenplay and John Barry's score, and screens in the Big Screen Classics series.

Thu Dec 3 · 9:30pm

Clifford (1994)

directed by Paul Flaherty

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Paul Flaherty's Clifford (1994) casts Martin Short, then in his forties, as a hyperactive and dangerous ten-year-old whose one dream is a visit to the Dinosaur World theme park. When his uncle Martin (Charles Grodin) reneges on a promise to take him, Clifford sets out to get even. Mary Steenburgen co-stars. Shot in 1990 and shelved for years by Orion's financial troubles, it screens in the Cult Classics series.

Sat Dec 5 – Sun Dec 6 · 10:30am

The Polar Express (2004)

directed by Robert Zemeckis

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Sat Dec 5 / Sun Dec 6 · 10:30am

Robert Zemeckis's 2004 motion-capture film of Chris Van Allsburg's picture book follows a boy who doubts that Santa Claus exists; on Christmas Eve a train appears outside his house and its conductor invites him aboard for a journey to the North Pole. Tom Hanks plays several roles, the conductor among them. Part of the Kids' Shows series, co-presented by Brookline Booksmith and recommended for ages 6 and up.

Sun Dec 6 · 4:00pm

When the Clouds Roll By (1919)

directed by Victor Fleming

The Center for Arts in Natick · TCAN Cinema · 14 Summer St · Natick

When the Clouds Roll By (1919), Victor Fleming's first feature as director, stars Douglas Fairbanks as a rich, superstitious young man who turns to the brand-new science of psychiatry, unaware that his doctor is secretly experimenting on him. Fleming went on to direct Gone with the Wind (1939). Albert MacQuarrie and Kathleen Clifford co-star, and the silent comedy is shown with live musical accompaniment.

Sun Dec 6 · 10:30am

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

directed by Morgan Neville

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Morgan Neville's Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) is a portrait of Fred Rogers that looks past the cardigans and the land of make-believe to the man behind Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Neville won an Oscar for 20 Feet from Stardom. This is a Relaxed Screening: house lights stay up, volume is lowered, open captions run on screen, moving and talking are welcome, and sensory kits are available.

Sun Dec 6 · 2pm

Love Actually in Concert (2003)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

Love Actually (2003), Richard Curtis’s ensemble comedy of interlocking love stories set in London in the weeks before Christmas, plays in full on a big screen while a live orchestra performs Craig Armstrong’s score and the soundtrack, including “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy are among the cast.

Mon Dec 7 · 7:00pm

The Conductor (1980)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Andrzej Wajda's 1980 film, John Gielgud plays Jan Lasocki, a Polish émigré famous as a conductor in New York, whose return after decades abroad unsettles a provincial orchestra, its conductor (Andrzej Seweryn) and a violinist (Krystyna Janda). A work of Poland's “cinema of moral concern,” its struggle over who leads the orchestra was widely read as a picture of Polish politics. Ingmar Bergman counted it a favourite.

Mon Dec 7 · 7:00pm

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

directed by Robert Altman

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Robert Altman's 1971 western McCabe & Mrs. Miller stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as newcomers to the Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church who open a brothel, until agents of a powerful mining company threaten their plans. Vilmos Zsigmond shot it, and Leonard Cohen songs fill the soundtrack. Sarah Keller, professor of art and cinema studies at UMass Boston, gives an optional seminar before the 35mm screening.

Fri Dec 11 · 7:00pm

Without Anesthesia, aka Rough Treatment (1978)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

In Andrzej Wajda's 1978 film, Jerzy (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), a war correspondent back in Warsaw, says the wrong thing on television and watches his career, relationship and reputation fall apart. Loosely drawn from the travails of the journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, it was the first of five screenplays Agnieszka Holland wrote for Wajda, with Krystyna Janda as Agata, a silent student who watches his slide into apathy and drink.

Sat Dec 12 · 2:00pm

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

directed by Ingmar Bergman

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Ingmar Bergman conceived his 1982 film as a swan song, “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker,” returning to his Uppsala childhood and, for the first time, a child's point of view: young Alexander Ekdahl, whose family faces an authoritarian bishop stepfather modelled on Bergman's father. The theatrical cut screens on 35mm after Dave Fleischer's 1933 cartoon Snow-White, in a Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque series; free with Harvard ID.

Sat Dec 12 · 7:00pm

The Ashes (1965)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Andrzej Wajda's 1965 adaptation of Stefan Żeromski's two-volume novel follows Rafał Olbromski (Daniel Olbrychski), an impoverished nobleman caught among the shifting factions of the Napoleonic Wars. Shot in black-and-white CinemaScope by Jerzy Lipman, with battles staged with more than 1,500 extras, it angered Polish nationalists by showing Poles as “imperfect, manipulable and capable of violence.” A four-hour epic, in the HFA's Wajda centenary series.

Sun Dec 13 · 1:30pm

The Polar Express (2004)

directed by Robert Zemeckis

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

Robert Zemeckis's animated The Polar Express (2004), from Chris Van Allsburg's picture book about a boy who boards a night train bound for the North Pole on Christmas Eve, returns as a family holiday party with a visit from Santa, games, and pajamas encouraged. Signed copies of the book are sold at checkout. The afternoon benefits the Isabella Marino Charitable Fund; member movie passes are not accepted.

Sun Dec 13 · 3:00pm

Pan Tadeusz, aka The Last Days (1999)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

Harvard Film Archive · Carpenter Center · 24 Quincy St · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Andrzej Wajda's 1999 adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz's national epic, shot in 1998 for the Romantic poet's bicentennial, keeps the poem's rhyming verse. Set in Polish-speaking Lithuania in 1811–12, it follows two noble families settling a decades-long feud as Napoleon prepares to invade Russia, and it sold more than six million tickets in Poland. On 35mm, in the Harvard Film Archive's Wajda centenary series.

Sun Dec 13 · 2:00pm

Looking for Langston (1989)

directed by Isaac Julien

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Isaac Julien's 1989 Looking for Langston, a 45-minute black-and-white film, explores and recreates the private world of Langston Hughes and the Black artists and writers of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Julien made it with the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and it became a hallmark of what B. Ruby Rich named New Queer Cinema. Guests from The Theater Offensive, the co-presenter, lead a discussion afterward.

Sun Dec 13 · 1:00pm

Pakeezah (1972)

directed by Kamal Amrohi

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Kamal Amrohi's 1972 Pakeezah stars Meena Kumari as Sahibjaan, a tawaif (courtesan) whose beauty captivates Salim (Ashok Kumar), a chivalrous forest ranger. Amrohi made it for Kumari, his wife, across two decades of halted production and the end of their marriage. Raaj Kumar co-stars. Shot in Eastmancolor on lavish sets, it screens in a new restoration, in Urdu with English subtitles, in the Cinema Masala series.

Sun Dec 13 · 11:00am

Oh, This Unspeakable Void (2025)

directed by Simon Verhoeven

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Simon Verhoeven's Oh, This Unspeakable Void (2025), adapted from Joachim Meyerhoff's bestselling autobiographical novel, follows 20-year-old Joachim (Bruno Alexander), who wins a place at Munich's Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts and moves into his grandparents' villa, caught between drama-school ordeals and their eccentric, mostly alcohol-fuelled rituals. Senta Berger and Michael Wittenborn won German Film Awards as the grandparents. It screens in the Goethe German Film series.

Mon Dec 14 · 1:00pm

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

directed by George Seaton

The Cabot · The Cabot · 286 Cabot St · Beverly

George Seaton's Miracle on 34th Street (1947) won Edmund Gwenn an Academy Award as Kris Kringle, an old man who fills in for a drunken Santa in Macy's Thanksgiving parade and becomes such a hit that the store keeps him on. When he insists he is Santa Claus, a court case follows over his sanity. It screens in Movies as Medicine, the Cabot's free monthly Monday matinee.

Thu Dec 17 · 4:00pm

Rome, Open City (1945)

directed by Roberto Rossellini

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In occupied Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is hunted by the Gestapo and helped by a parish priest, Don Pietro, and by Pina, a widow about to remarry. Rossellini shot the 1945 film there months after the liberation, from a script written with Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini; Anna Magnani plays Pina and Aldo Fabrizi the priest. It shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes festival.

Thu Dec 17 · 7:00pm

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

directed by Shane Black

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Shane Black's 2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, his directing debut, is an action-comedy spoof of buddy films produced by Joel Silver, Black's collaborator on Lethal Weapon. A private detective (Val Kilmer), a thief posing as a struggling actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and an actual struggling actress (Michelle Monaghan) are drawn into a Los Angeles murder mystery. Part of the Rewind! series, with a separately ticketed 21-and-over afterparty.

Sat Dec 19

White Christmas (1954)

directed by Michael Curtiz

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In Michael Curtiz's 1954 musical, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye play two army buddies turned song-and-dance stars who team up with a sister act, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen, to stage a show that will rescue the struggling Vermont inn run by their old commanding general. The Irving Berlin score includes the title song, “Sisters” and “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep.” It is the cinema's December musical matinee.

Sat Dec 19 – Sun Dec 20 · 10:30am

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

directed by Brian Henson

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Sat Dec 19 / Sun Dec 20 · 10:30am

Brian Henson's 1992 film tells Dickens's A Christmas Carol with the Muppets and Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, visited on Christmas Eve by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Kermit the Frog plays Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs Cratchit, and Gonzo narrates as Charles Dickens alongside Rizzo the Rat. Paul Williams wrote the songs. Part of the Kids' Shows series, recommended for ages 4 and up.

Mon Dec 21 · 7:00pm

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

directed by Peter Godfrey

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

In Peter Godfrey's 1945 comedy Christmas in Connecticut, Barbara Stanwyck plays Elizabeth Lane, a famous writer on marriage and homemaking whose publisher (Sydney Greenstreet) asks her to host a war hero (Dennis Morgan) for Christmas dinner at her celebrated Connecticut home. She must scramble to hide that she is single, cannot cook and owns no home at all. It screens on 35mm in the Big Screen Classics series.

Sat Dec 26 – Sun Dec 27 · 10:30am

Home Alone (1990)

directed by Chris Columbus

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Sat Dec 26 / Sun Dec 27 · 10:30am

Chris Columbus's 1990 comedy, written by John Hughes, leaves eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation. He has the house to himself until two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) try to break in, and he rigs the place with booby traps to meet them. Catherine O'Hara plays his mother. A Kids' Shows screening, recommended for ages 10 and up.

Sun Dec 27 – Mon Dec 28 · 2pm

Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert (1992)

directed by Brian Henson

Boston Pops · Symphony Hall · Symphony · Boston

Sun Dec 27 / Mon Dec 28 · 2pm

Brian Henson’s 1992 The Muppet Christmas Carol is shown in full while the Boston Pops plays Miles Goodman’s score live. Michael Caine plays Ebenezer Scrooge, with Kermit the Frog as his put-upon clerk Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit and Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim, while Gonzo, as Dickens, narrates with Rizzo the Rat. The songs are by Paul Williams, who wrote “Rainbow Connection.”

Fri Jan 15 · 8pm

Romeo + Juliet Film in Concert (1996)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996), which moves the play to a modern Verona Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the lovers, screens in full for its 30th anniversary. A 12-piece hybrid ensemble plays the soundtrack and score live in sync with the film, framed by atmospheric lighting and a concert stage production. The soundtrack includes Des’ree’s “Kissing You.”

Sun Jan 17 · 2:00pm

Selma (2014)

directed by Ava DuVernay

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Ava DuVernay's 2014 drama stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., leading the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in the face of violent opposition, a campaign that helped win the Voting Rights Act. Carmen Ejogo plays Coretta Scott King, and Oprah Winfrey and Tom Wilkinson also star. A Spotlight on Women screening, presented by Brookline for the Culture, which organised the town's first Juneteenth in 2020.

Thu Jan 21 · 4:00pm

Salt of the Earth (1954)

directed by Herbert J. Biberman

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In Herbert J. Biberman's 1954 film, Mexican-American miners strike a New Mexico zinc mine, and when an injunction bars them from picketing, their wives take over the line. Based on the 1950–51 Empire Zinc strike, it cast mostly miners and their families, with Rosaura Revueltas as Esperanza Quintero. Biberman, one of the Hollywood Ten, made it with blacklisted colleagues and the union; it joined the National Film Registry in 1992.

Sat Jan 23 · 1:00pm

Amma Ariyan (1986)

directed by John Abraham

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner Theatre · 290 Harvard St · Brookline · MA · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

John Abraham's Amma Ariyan (1986), a road movie steeped in the revolutionary politics of 1980s Kerala, follows Purushan (Joy Mathew) as he journeys to find the mother of a dead jazz drummer. It was made by the Odessa Collective, which raised the budget through street performances and small donations. Its recent restoration, the only Indian film invited to Cannes in 2026, screens in the Cinema Masala series.

Sun Feb 7 · 1:00pm

Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994)

directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Sooraj R. Barjatya's 1994 Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! follows orphaned brothers Rajesh (Mohnish Behl) and Prem (Salman Khan), who fall for family friend Pooja (Renuka Shahane) and her spirited sister Nisha (Madhuri Dixit); an arranged marriage becomes a double romance until Pooja's death leaves an infant and a question of Nisha's duty to her family. With 14 musical numbers, it broke Indian box-office records. In Hindi with English subtitles.

Thu Feb 18 · 4:00pm

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

directed by Andrzej Wajda

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Andrzej Wajda's 1958 film is set on 8 May 1945, the day the war in Europe ends, when Maciek Chełmicki (Zbigniew Cybulski), a young Home Army soldier, is ordered to kill an incoming Communist official in a provincial Polish town; over one night in its hotel, and an affair with the barmaid Krystyna, he begins to doubt the job. It completes Wajda's war trilogy after A Generation and Kanał.

Thu Mar 25 · 4:00pm

Before the Rain (1994)

directed by Milcho Manchevski

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

Three linked stories close in a circle: a young Orthodox monk sworn to silence hides an Albanian girl accused of murder; a London photo editor is torn between her husband and her lover; and that lover, a prize-winning Macedonian war photographer, comes home to a village split by ethnic hatred. Rade Šerbedžija and Katrin Cartlidge star. It shared the Golden Lion at Venice in 1994.

Wed Apr 7 · 7pm

Terminator 2: Judgment Day Live in Concert (1991)

Emerson Colonial Theatre · Emerson Colonial Theatre · 106 Boylston St · Boston · Theatre District · Boston

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), James Cameron’s sequel to his 1984 The Terminator, screens in full while an eight-musician ensemble plays Brad Fiedel’s industrial score live in sync. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a Terminator sent back to protect the young John Connor (Edward Furlong), with Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Robert Patrick as the liquid-metal T-1000. Rated R; shown with English subtitles.

Sun Apr 18 · 1:00pm

Sholay (1975)

directed by Ramesh Sippy

Coolidge Corner Theatre · Coolidge Corner · Brookline

Ramesh Sippy's 1975 Sholay, written by Salim–Javid, stars Sanjeev Kumar as a retired policeman who, seeking revenge on the dacoit leader Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), enlists two crooks he once jailed (Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra). The “Curry Western” screens in Film Heritage Foundation's 4K director's-cut restoration, which reinstates the original ending cut by India's censor board, two deleted scenes and the 70mm aspect ratio. In Hindi with English subtitles.

Thu Apr 22 · 4:00pm

Mustang (2015)

directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

West Newton Cinema · West Newton Cinema · 1296 Washington St · West Newton · Newton

In Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 2015 first feature, five orphaned sisters in a village in northern Turkey are seen playing in the sea with boys from school, and the scandal leads their grandmother and uncle to lock them in the house and start arranging their marriages; the youngest, Lale, leads the resistance. It was an Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film and won four Césars, including best first film.