Upcoming Film Screenings
59 upcoming film screenings from Coolidge Corner Theatre, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All film in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 20 · 7pm
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.
Wed Oct 21 · 7pm
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.
Thu Oct 22 · 7pm
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
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 · 11:59pm
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.
Sat Oct 24 · 11:59pm
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 · 12:00pm
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.
Sun Oct 25 · 2pm
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.
Mon Oct 26 · 7pm
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.
Tue Oct 27 · 7pm
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 · 7:15pm
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.
Wed Oct 28 · 7pm
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 · 7:30pm
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
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 · 9:45pm
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.
Fri Oct 30 · 11:59pm
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.
Sat Oct 31 · 10:30am
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 · 11:30pm
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.
Sun Nov 1 · 2:30pm
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
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.
Fri Nov 6 · 11:59pm
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
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 · 10:30am
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 · 11:59pm
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.
Wed Nov 11 · 7:00pm
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 · 9:45pm
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.
Fri Nov 13 · 11:59pm
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
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 · 10:30am
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+.
Sat Nov 14 · 11:59pm
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.
Sun Nov 15 · 11:00am
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
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
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 · 7:00pm
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 · 7:00pm
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.
Fri Nov 20 · 11:59pm
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
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.
Sat Nov 21 · 1:00pm
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 · 11:59pm
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.
Mon Nov 23 · 7:00pm
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
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
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.
Mon Nov 30 · 7:00pm
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
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
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
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 · 10:30am
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.
Mon Dec 7 · 7:00pm
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.
Sun Dec 13 · 11:00am
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.
Sun Dec 13 · 1:00pm
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 · 2:00pm
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.
Thu Dec 17 · 7:00pm
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 – Sun Dec 20 · 10:30am
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
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
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 Jan 17 · 2:00pm
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.
Sat Jan 23 · 1:00pm
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
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.
Sun Apr 18 · 1:00pm
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.
