A sewer pipe collapse Thursday is forcing The Brattle Theatre to shutter just ahead of the 22nd Independent Film Festival Boston – one of its most attended events, with lines around the block. Owners plans to reopen Tuesday.
The reported cost of the emergency repairs is approximately $12,000, according to longtime operators Ned Hinkle and Ivy Moylan. The catastrophe has put a financial pinch on The Brattle, which had had just returned to solid footing after a long Covid-triggered shutdown.
The Brattle has launched a fundraising campaign to help handle the sudden expense, but Hinkle said Saturday that response has been good. “We’ll definitely be able to make it through this in the short term,” he said.
The closing interrupts the weekend running of the new 35 mm print of Richard Kelly’s 2001 alter-reality head trip “Donnie Darko,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Patrick Swayze. Also booted off the screen as part of Massachusetts Space Week programming are matinees of “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” (1982) on Saturday and Sunday and “Blade Runner 2049” (2017) on Monday.
The Brattle should boot back up Tuesday with “Uferfrauen: Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR” as presented by the Goethe-Institut Boston and Wicked Queer Film Fest, part of “100 Years of Queer Cinema” programming; and J.J. Abrams’s 2009 “Star Trek” reboot on Wednesday. The IFFB then sets up at The Brattle from Thursday through Sunday.
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