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JA N UA RY / F E B R UA RY 2 0 2 3
Table of Contents
2 Big Screen Classics
Helping Bring 6
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Science on Screen®
Goethe German Film
The Sounds of Silents®
Art to Life. 8
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Shakespeare Reimagined
Special Events
Programming
10 Calendar
We are proud to support the 12 Kids' Shows
Coolidge Corner Theatre. 14 Coolidge Education
Projections: Science Fiction
16 from the Art House
18 Love on the Run
20 Coolidge After Midnite
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Coolidge Corner Theatre Film Guide January/February 2023
In Bruges
Monday, January 9 at 7:00PM | 1h 47m | DCP
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Featuring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes
Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming
destination for travelers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken
(Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair
being ordered by their London boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the
storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks, right before Christmas.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Monday, January 30 at 7:00PM | 3h 22m | DCP | In French with English subtitles
Yi Yi Directed by: Chantal Akerman
Thursday, January 19 at 7:00PM | 2h 53m | DCP | In Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien & Japanese with Featuring: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
English subtitles The classic drama recently named the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound's 2022 poll. A
Directed by: Edward Yang singular work in film history, it meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily
Featuring: Nianzhen Wu, Elaine Jin, Jonathan Chang routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for
This extraordinary, internationally embraced story follows a middle-class family in Taipei over her son, and turning the occasional trick.
the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Yang's intimate Join UMass Boston Art and Cinema Studies Professor Sarah Keller for an introduction to this
epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century. provocative classic. See p15 for more information.
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Coolidge Corner Theatre Film Guide January/February 2023
Point Break
Monday, February 20 at 7:00PM | 2h 2m | 35mm
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Featuring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey
Special Presidents' Day screening! Kathryn Bigelow's no-holds-barred ode to adrenaline is one
of the greatest on-screen bromances ever committed to film.
To Sleep with Anger
Thursday, February 9 at 7:00PM | 1h 42m | DCP
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Featuring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Sheryl Lee Ralph
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a striking
piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays a devilish
charmer who turns up out of the blue on the doorstep of his old friends.
The Conformist
Monday, February 27 at 7:00PM | 1h 53m | DCP | In Italian with English subtitles
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Featuring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda
In Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful,
homosexual episode—and a murder—joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.
Before Sunrise
Tuesday, February 14 at 7:00PM | 1h 41m | 35mm
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Featuring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, Paris university student Celine (Julie Delpy) and
scrappy American tourist Jesse (Ethan Hawke) impulsively decide to spend a night roaming
around the city together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning.
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Coolidge Corner Theatre Film Guide January/February 2023
®
Goethe German Film
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W.
Bush
Sunday, January 22 at 11:00AM | 1h 59m | DCP |
In German, Turkish & English with English
subtitles
Directed by: Andreas Dresen
Featuring: Meltem Kaptan, Alexander Scheer
October 2001. Bremen, Germany. For loving
The Fountain wife and mother Rabiye Kurnaz, her close-knit
Wednesday, January 18 at 7:00PM | 1h 37m | 35mm Turkish-German immigrant family is the center of her world.
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Rabiye learns that her eldest son has been arrested in Pakistan, detained without trial, and
Featuring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn
sent to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp as a suspected terrorist. She immediately
Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold, thousand–year odyssey to defeat springs into action, but soon finds herself alone and out of her depth. Things change when
humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Bernhard Docke, a level-headed human rights lawyer, takes on her case. Together, the two find
Speaker TBA; also part of Projections: Science Fiction from the Art House series. themselves enmeshed in global politics as they battle for the release of her son.
Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Andreas Dresen.
The Sounds of Silents®
The Lodger:
A Story of the London Fog
Monday, January 23 at 7:00PM | 1h 32m | DCP
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Featuring: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
With his third feature film, Alfred Hitchcock took
Awakenings (to be confirmed) a major step toward greatness and made what
he would come to consider his true directorial
Thursday, February 16 at 7:00PM | 2h 1m | DCP
debut. This haunting thriller tells the tale of a
Directed by: Penny Marshall mysterious young man who takes up residence
Featuring: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner at a London boardinghouse just as a killer
Based on a true story as told by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings follows Dr. Malcolm Sayer descends upon the city.
(Robin Williams), who works at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. There, he is put in charge Featuring live piano accompaniment by
of several seemingly catatonic patients who begin responding to certain stimuli. When Sayer Jeff Rapsis!
tests a new drug, one of his patients begins to come out of his shell.
Speaker TBA; co-presented by The Oliver Sacks Foundation!
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Shakespeare Reimagined Special Events
The Wiz
Saturday, January 14 at 2:00PM | 2h 14m | DCP
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Featuring: Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell,
Michael Jackson, Mabel King
Presented by Brookline for the Culture!
The Wiz invites you to ease on down the
yellow brick road! Relive all of the magic of
this beloved musical when Dorothy is whisked
away to the enchanting wonderland of Oz,
where she encounters the Scarecrow, the Tin
Man, and the Lion. Featuring musical numbers
from the legendary Quincy Jones.
Brookline Celebrates MLK Day
Monday, January 16 at 3:00PM | 2h
Featuring: Edward J. Larson, Regie Gibson,
Joyful Voices of Inspiration Choir, Jennifer Barber
Brookline’s MLK Day expresses the town’s
commitment to racial equality. This year’s
program promises a stirring celebration of the
life and values of Dr. King with words, poetry,
and music to challenge and inspire. Featuring
keynote speaker Pulitzer Prize–winning
historian Edward J. Larson, poet Regie Gibson,
Poet Laureate Jennifer Barber, a performance
from a gospel choir, and more.
Hollywood Shuffle
Thursday, February 23 at 7:30PM | 1h 21m | DCP
Shakespeare in Love Directed by: Robert Townsend
Monday, February 13 at 7:00PM | 2h 3m | DCP Featuring: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory
Directed by: John Madden Wayans, Craigus R. Johnson
Featuring: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench Presented by the Secret Society of Black
Co-presented by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company! Creatives!
25th anniversary screening! Featuring an Oscar-winning script co-written by Tom Stoppard, Aspiring actor and hot dog stand employee
Shakespeare in Love follows the adventures of Young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), an Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his
up-and-coming playwright who has been disastrously struck by the bane of his existence— grandmother for auditioning for a role in a
writer's block. regrettably titled exploitation film.
Join us for a post-screening discussion.
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January 2023
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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Stacey Peasley Band
10:30am, Kids' Shows, p12
2001: A Space Odyssey eXistenZ Pieces
7:00PM, Projections, p16 Torso
7:00PM, Projections, p16 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59pm, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Space Is the Place Seminar: Solaris The Wiz
7:00PM, Projections, p16 6:15PM, Coolidge Education, p14 2:00PM, Special Events, p9
In Bruges Solaris
7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p2 Boston Open Screen Friday the 13th Marathon Lizard in a Woman's Skin
7:00PM, Coolidge Education, p14 7:00PM, Projections, p16 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Davey the Clown The Great Muppet Caper
10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p12 The Editor 10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p12
Blade Runner Brookline Celebrates 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 What Have You Done to
Double Feature MLK Day 2046 The Fountain Yi Yi The Room Solange?
2:00PM, Projections, p16 3:00PM, Special Events, p9 7:00PM, Projections, p16 7:00PM, Science on Screen, p6 7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p2 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Seminar: Melancholia
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. The Lodger: A Story of 6:15PM, Coolidge Education, p15
George W. Bush the London Fog Melancholia Born in Flames Demons Tenebrae
11:00AM, Goethe German Film, p7 7:00PM, The Sounds of Silents, p7 7:00PM, Projections, p16 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
7:00PM, Projections, p16
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du
commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Seminar: Children of Men
6:15PM, Coolidge Education, p15
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du 6:15PM, Coolidge Education, p15
My Neighbor Totoro commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Children of Men
10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p12 7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p3 7:00PM, Projections, p16
February 2023
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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The Getaway Badlands Inglourious Basterds Overlord
7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Surf Nazis Must Die Fantastic Mr. Fox
11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p13
Wayne Potash Moonrise Kingdom The Living End To Sleep with Anger The Room Green Room
10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p13 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p4 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Before Sunrise
7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p4
Shakespeare In Love Boston Open Screen Something Wild Awakenings The Rocketeer Hellboy (2004)
7:00PM, Shakespeare Reimagined, p8 7:00PM, Coolidge Education, p14 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:00PM, Science on Screen, p6 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59pm, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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Magic & Beyond with
Illusionist David Garrity
10:30AM, Kids' Shows, p13
Mary Poppins Point Break Queen and Slim It Happened One Night Hollywood Shuffle The Keep Dead Snow
10:30PM, Kids' Shows, p13 7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p5 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18 7:30PM, Special Events, p9 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20 11:59PM, Coolidge After Midnite, p20
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The Conformist Wild at Heart
7:00PM, Big Screen Classics, p5 7:00PM, Love on the Run, p18
Coolidge Corner Theatre Film Guide January/February 2023
Kids' Shows Kids' Shows
Stacey Peasely Band Wayne Potash
Saturday, January 7 at 10:30AM Sunday, February 5 at 10:30AM
Recommended for ages 2+ Recommended for ages 2+
Stacey Peasley's music has entertained and Wayne and The Music Fun Band come to the
engaged families for over a decade. Coolidge with their fun and interactive show for
families with young children. There will be lots of
She has won the Parents' Choice Recommended
dancing and action tunes and sing-a-long songs
Award, the Nickelodeon Parents Connect Parents’
from their award winning albums!
Pick Award for Best Party Entertainer, and more!
Davey the Clown Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sunday, January 15 at 10:30AM Saturday, February 11 at 10:30AM | 1h 27m
Recommended for ages 2+ Recommended for ages 6+
Davey the Clown is a physical comedian, juggler, George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their
unicyclist, and accordionist! His show is big and voices to this hilarious and heartwarming
funny—perfect entertainment that will keep kids animated adventure from visionary director Wes
and adults doubled over with laughter! Anderson.
The Great Muppet Caper Mary Poppins
Saturday, January 21 at 10:30AM | 1h 35m Sunday, February 19 at 10:30AM | 2h 19m
Recommended for ages 5+ Recommended for ages 3+
Stop the presses! The crime of the century has Experience the extraordinary animation and
occurred, and investigative reporters Kermit, award-winning music of Mary Poppins!
Fozzie, and Gonzo are out to crack the case Julie Andrews made her screen debut and won an
in this song-filled, star-studded extravaganza Academy Award for her portrayal of the "practically
directed by the legendary Jim Henson. perfect" nanny.
My Neighbor Totoro Magic & Beyond
Sunday, January 29 at 10:30AM | 1h 25m with Illusionist David Garrity
Recommended for ages 2+ Saturday, February 25 at 10:30AM
Often regarded as one of the best children’s films Recommended for ages 2+
ever created, Hayao Miyazaki’s watercolor ode Illusionist David Garrity presents a one-person
to childhood imagination is both a delightful, illusion show that features unique theatrical and
exhilarating adventure and nuanced portrait of visual magic and comedy to a custom-edited
youth, innocence, and growth. musical soundtrack.
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Coolidge Education Coolidge Education
Seminar: Melancholia
Tuesday, January 24 at 6:15PM
Instructor: Sarah Keller
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier has
described his film Melancholia as a
"psychological disaster movie" and "a
beautiful movie about the end of the
world." Some critics consider it to be one of
the best films ever made about depression.
Join UMass Boston Art and Cinema Studies
Professor Sarah Keller to unpack the
meaning of this gorgeous art house sci-fi
Boston Open Screen epic.
Tuesdays, January 10 & February 14 at 7:00PM
Seminar: Jeanne Dielman,
Open Screen is Boston's one and only open mic night for filmmakers!
Share your film the way it was intended, projected in a dark room with lively strangers. Whether
you sold your home to finance your 35mm feature, or you made it last night in your parent's
23, quai du commerce,
basement—if your movie (or part thereof) is under 10 minutes, we'll screen it. 1080 Bruxelles
Monday, January 30 at 6:15PM
Signup begins at 7:00PM; the show starts at 7:30PM.
Instructor: Sarah Keller
Chantal Akerman's singular work in cinema
history meticulously details the daily
routine of a middle-aged widow—whose
chores include turning the occasional trick.
Join UMass Boston Art and Cinema Studies
Professor Sarah Keller for an introduction
to this provocative classic.
Seminar: Children of Men
Tuesday, January 31 at 6:15PM
Instructor: Nathan Blake
Seminar: Solaris Academy Award–winning director Alfonso
Wednesday, January 11 at 6:15PM Cuarón (Gravity, Roma) plunged audiences
Instructor: John Gianvito into a frightening, dystopian future in his
powerful adaptation of the P.D. James
When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate a strange situation novel.
on a space station, he experiences the same phenomena that afflict the crew, sending him on
a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. Join Nathan Blake, Northeastern Teaching
Professor for Media & Screen Studies, for
Join Emerson College professor, filmmaker, curator, and critic John Gianvito for an introduction an overview of Cuarón's masterpiece.
to Andrei Tarkovsky's brilliantly original science-fiction epic.
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Art house sci-fi doesn’t depend on rational
explanations, modern CGI, common
storytelling structures, or a giant budget
to create otherworldly, thought-provoking
films. Their focus can be on everything from
interstellar travel to virtual reality, from
utopian worlds to dystopian futures. EXISTENZ
This January, we’re excited to present some
of our favorite examples of these innovative
films!
Tuesday, 1/3 at 7:00PM: 2001: A Space Odyssey in 35mm
The ultimate trip.
BORN IN FLAMES 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Wednesday, 1/4 at 7:00PM: eXistenZ
David Cronenberg's video game thriller.
Tuesday, 1/10 at 7:00PM: Space Is the Place SPACE IS THE PLACE
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra's pioneering Afrofuturist
vision.
Wednesday, 1/11 at 7:00PM: Solaris (1972)*
Andrei Tarkovsky's mind-bending masterpiece.
Sunday, 1/15 at 2:00PM: Blade Runner
& Blade Runner 2049 CHILDREN OF MEN
A double feature of two chilling, bold, mesmerizing,
futuristic detective thrillers. BLADE RUNNER
DOUBLE FEATURE
Tuesday, 1/17 at 7:00PM: 2046
Wong Kar-wai’s loose sequel to In the Mood for Love. SOLARIS
Wednesday, 1/18 at 7:00PM: The Fountain in 35mm
One man's bold odyssey to defeat humankind's most
indomitable foe: Death.
Tuesday, 1/24 at 7:00PM: Melancholia in 35mm*
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier’s sci-fi opus.
Wednesday, 1/25 at 7:00PM: Born in Flames
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early
indie film world.
Tuesday, 1/31 at 7:00PM: Children of Men in 35mm*
No children. No future. No hope.
MELANCHOLIA THE FOUNTAIN 2046
*See pgs 14-15 for details on introductory seminars.
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LOVE
ON
ON THE
THE RUN
RUN
Love is patient, love is kind...and
sometimes it conspires, colludes, and
connives. What better way to celebrate
the month of love than with eight film
couples so caught up in each other that
they end up on the run from authority?
THE GETAWAY Wednesday, 2/1 at 7:00PM: The Getaway
Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen
and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller
based on Jim Thompson’s novel.
Thursday, 2/2 at 7:00PM: Badlands
Terrence Malick's impressionistic take on the
MOONRISE KINGDOM notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of
the late 1950s uses a serial killer narrative as a
springboard for an oblique teenage romance.
Tuesday, 2/7 at 7:00PM: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson's story of two 12-year-olds who
THE LIVING END fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away
together into the wilderness.
QUEEN AND SLIM
Wednesday, 2/8 at 7:00PM: The Living End
A picaresque tale of two HIV-positive gay men
hitting the road after one of them shoots a cop.
Wednesday, 2/15 at 7:00PM: Something Wild
BADLANDS A capricious interstate road trip that brings a
straitlaced businessman and a quirky woman
face-to-face with their hidden selves.
Tuesday, 2/21 at 7:00PM: Queen and Slim
From Grammy Award–winning director Melina
Matsoukas and Emmy-winning writer Lena
Waithe comes this unflinching drama.
Wednesday, 2/22 at 7:00PM: It Happened One Night
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this
romantic road trip delight, starring Claudette
Colbert and Clark Gable.
Tuesday, 2/28 at 7:00PM: Wild at Heart
David Lynch delivers a violent, erotic tour-
de-force, allowing for some truly chaotic and
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT SOMETHING WILD inspired performances from Nicolas Cage,
WILD AT HEART
Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe.
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JANUARY
Friday, 1/6: Pieces
Saturday, 1/7: Torso
Friday, 1/13: Friday the 13th Marathon
Saturday, 1/14: Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Friday, 1/20: The Editor
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS HELLBOY (2004)
Friday, 1/20: The Room
Saturday, 1/21: What Have You Done to Solange? TENEBRAE
Friday, 1/27: Demons
Saturday, 1/28: Tenebrae
THE ROOM
FEBRUARY
Friday, 2/3: Inglourious Basterds LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN
Saturday, 2/4: Overlord
Friday, 2/10: Surf Nazis Must Die
Friday, 2/10: The Room
Saturday, 2/11: Green Room
Friday, 2/17: The Rocketeer
Saturday, 2/18: Hellboy (2004)
Friday, 2/24: The Keep
WHAT HAVE YOU
Saturday, 2/25: Dead Snow DEMONS DONE TO SOLANGE? PIECES
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