featured screening: Laurel & Hardy shorts

Comedy is a subjective thing. One generation's biggest comedy star might have made no sense to people who came earlier, and might seem like a mystery to those who come later. (Jerry Lewis was the most popular comedian in America for a decade.) But the right personalities with right material are timeless. My favorite film …

screenings for August 10 – August 16

 Friday, August 10 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991) 7:30pm, Museum of Fine Arts, digital Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002) 8:00pm, The Video Underground Organic Panic! Double Feature Island of the Doomed and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 11:30pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, 35mm Summer of 84 (François Simard, Anouk & Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018) midnight, Somerville Theatre …

screenings for August 3 – August 9

 Friday, August 3 Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996) 5:30pm, Museum of Fine Arts, digital Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997) 8:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, 35mm In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) 8:00pm, Video Underground Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre, 35mm Saturday, August 4 Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996) 1:00pm, …

screenings for July 27 – August 2

 Friday, July 27 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 8:00pm, Video Underground One-Armed Boxer (Jimmy Wang Yu, 1972) 9:30pm, Brattle Theatre, 35mm plus secret second feature! The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer, 1968) 11:30pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, digital Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) midnight, Somerville Theatre, 35mm The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre, …

featured screenings: visions of “Vertigo”

After 50 years of supremacy, Citizen Kane finally ceded it's title as "greatest film ever made" -- at least according to the prestigious British Film Institute's Sight and Sound poll -- to Vertigo, the late-period Hitchcock film that has posthumously come to be considered his masterpiece. But don't let the imprimatur of the stodgy establishment disillusion you: …

screenings for July 20 – July 26

 Friday, July 20 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 5:00pm & 9:00pm, Brattle Theatre, 35mm The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, 2017) 7:30pm, Brattle Theatre, digital 20 Feet From Stardom (Morgan Neville, 2013) 8:00pm, Video Underground Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre, 35mm Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Michael Schultz, 1978) midnight, Somerville Theatre, 35mm Saturday, July 21 …

short post this week!

Apologies for the unannounced mini-hiatus! Vacation and travel got in the way and prevented me from having the time to preview the week's screenings. Make sure you check out the 50th anniversary screening of the Beatles' iconic animated adventure Yellow Submarine at the Somerville Theatre this week. There is also the first week of the Boston …

screenings for July 6 – July 12

 Friday, July 6 Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1972) 7:00pm, Harvard Film Archive, 35mm Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995) 8:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, 35mm National Treasure (John Turteltaub, 2004) 8:00pm, Video Underground Summer of Sam (Spike Lee, 1999) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre Good Burger (Brian Robbins, 1997) midnight, Somerville Theatre Saturday, July 7 Conversation …

screenings for June 29 – July 5

Friday, June 29 Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1951) 7:00pm, Harvard Film Archive, 35mm It (Andy Muschietti, 2017) 7:15pm & 10:00pm, Brattle Theatre, digital Reefer Madness (Louis J. Gasnier, 1936) 8:00pm, Video Underground Car Wash (Michael Schultz, 1976) midnight, Somerville Theatre, 35mm 7 Grandmasters (Joseph Kuo, 1976) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre Saturday, June 30 Mr. Hobbs Takes …

screenings for June 22 – June 28

Friday, June 22 The Damned (Luchino Visconti, 1969) 7:00pm, Harvard Film Archive, digital Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) 8:00pm, The Video Underground The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003) midnight, Coolidge Corner Theatre Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984) midnight, Somerville Theatre, 35mm Saturday, June 23 The …