Upcoming Film Screenings
7 upcoming film screenings from The Brattle 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 · 6:30pm
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.
Sat Oct 24 · 9:30pm
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.
Mon Oct 26 · 6pm
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 · 9pm
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.
Tue Oct 27 · 6pm
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 · 8:45pm
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.
Wed Oct 28 · 6:30pm
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.
