Where’s your favorite Black joy found in cinema? Sci-fi fest returns, and more greats of the 1970s
The big screen is where the world can be reimagined as a better place, including for Black History Month, but it’s also where we find romance around Valentine’s Day with “Casablanca,” and “The Princess Bride” and “What’s Up, Doc?” New releases have romance too: “The Taste of Things” and “Lisa Frankenstein.”
Remember Jean Arthur, relive New Hollywood and arrive in a harsh Danish ‘Promised Land’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a “Jean Arthur, Sweetness with Spine” program at The Brattle, “Bonnie and Clyde” in Kendall Square and Ana Vaz in person at the Harvard Film Archive, with peeks at a stirring new “Promised Land” and stinky spy romp “Argylle.”
Catch up with more of 2023’s big-screen bests, meet animator Kelly Sears and see free Wenders
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include more of “(Some of) the Best of 2023”; an in-person night with experimental animator Kelly Sears from the Revolutions per Minute Festival; free early Wim Wenders at The Brattle; Fellini’s “Amarcord” and new Victor Erice.
Re-meet ‘Household Saints’ with cast and crew during Brattle program; Catch ‘Godfather II’ too
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a Brattle Theatre with “Refreshed, Renewed, Restored” prints of everything from the sweet “Household Saints” to nasty “Videodrome”; “The Godfather Part II” in Kendall; and a grueling “Society of the Snow” survival tale on Netflix.