Use Oscars time on winners by Columbia Studios, catching ‘The Getaway’ and ‘Not a Pretty Picture’
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include Oscar picks for Best Picture to catch up, greats from Columbia Studios from 1934 onward, giving director Martha Coolidge her due, Sam Peckinpah’s hardboiled “The Getaway” at Kendall and a review of Julio Torres’ “Problemista.”
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.”
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.”