Don’t miss the surprising ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ or Oscar-nominated ‘Perfect Days,’ ‘Daughters’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include a modern oddity – a new silent slapstick called “Hundreds of Beavers” – as well as repertory fare including “Predator” and new works including the doc “Four Daughters” and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.”
Cinema celebrates cinema in ‘Pictures of Ghosts,’ free ‘Spaceman’ and ‘Silent Running’ tops the bill
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include “Pictures of Ghosts,” from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, the ultraviolet 1970s relic “Dirty Harry” and free screenings of the star-studded “Spaceman” and prescient “Silent Running,” as well as new works “Drive-Away Dolls” and “Madame Web.”
Go Bugs for school break, get 24 hours of sci-fi and catch echoes of the picaresques and biopic
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the annual school vacation week Bugs Bunny Film Festival, sci-fi festival 24-hour marathon, “The Sweet East” and “Easy Rider,” new “Bob Marley: One Love” and repertory showings of Ousmane Sembène’s “Guelwaar.”
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.”
‘(Some of) the Best of 2023’ at The Brattle includes another Lily Gladstone star role
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Lily Gladstone’s “The Unknown Country” and more greats from 2023; Terrence Malick’s “Badlands”; works by Ousmane Sembène; the great new works “Origin” and “The Teachers’ Lounge”; and the space thriller “I.S.S.”
World Film festival has animation and MLK fare; Elsewhere, it’s ‘Chinatown’ and an ‘Anselm’ doc
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Belmont World Film’s 21st Family Festival, with animated premieres and other celebrated fare; a screening of the auteurist “Chinatown”; and an absorbing Wim Wenders documentary about artist Anselm Kiefer.
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.
Prince, Scorsese and Tom Cruise have ’80s hits, while new action is better down where it’s wetter
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include 1980s blockbusters from Prince’s “Purple Rain” to young Tom Cruise’s “Risky Business” at The Brattle as well as new fare such as “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” in theaters and “Rebel Moon” on Netflix.
Celebrate ‘Touch of Evil’ and ’80s blockbusters along with the new ‘Color Purple’ and ‘Iron Claw’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include perhaps the greatest B-movie of all time, staples such as “Gremlins” and “Lethal Weapon,” a free offering from the Harvard Film Archive and a slew of new works: a black classic, true-ish tales from the ring, river and racetrack and a cautionary tale from a remote rental home.
Tech-noir pairs from ‘Machina’ to ‘Mnemonic,’ ‘Sleepless’ in Kendall and a masterful ‘Maestro’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include more Brattle screenings in a “Lost in Alphaville: Noir & Technology” program, a wrap-up to Giving Hanks and a soaring biopic of conductor Leonard Bernstein by actor Bradley Cooper in his second go as director.
