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Jaws
The Late Show! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1975) dir Steven Spielberg w/Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss [124 min] Happy Fourth of July! The beaches are open but remember: it’s not always safe to go in the water. Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is a legendary summer shocker about a small town sheriff (Scheider) pitted against the perfect predator, a preternaturally More »
Badlands
Preview Screening! Brand New DCP Restoration! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1973) dir Terrence Malick w/Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates [94 min] One of cinema’s most revered cinema stylists, Terrence Malick is responsible for two of the 1970s most visually ravishing films, Days of Heaven and his debut feature, BADLANDS. Featuring Sheen and Spacek as spree-killers based More »
West Side Story
Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1961) dir Robert Wise w/Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn [152 min] New York City street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, defend their turf through dance in this modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Leonard Bernstein’s dynamic score and Stephen Sondheim’s catchy lyrics helped this film win 10 Academy Awards. Uncompromising in its use of the wide-screen format, this film More »
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Post Screening Skype Q&A with Director Tinatin Gurchiani Buy Tickets Tickets $10, $8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members; No Brattle passes The DocYard Season Pass Now Available Directed by Tinatin Gurchiani. 101 min, Georgia/Germany, 2013 A film director casting a 15-23-year-old ideal protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who More »
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1966) dir Sergio Leone w/Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach [179 min] “The Man With No Name” returns again, in the third of Sergio Leone’s trilogy. The epitome of the Spaghetti Western genre, this epic of greed and revenge during the American civil war helped to solidify Eastwood’s career. Brutal violence combined More »
Phantom of the Paradise
The Late Show! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1974) dir Brian De Palma w/William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham [92 min] We’re huge fans of this campy cult classic from director Brian de Palma, and we’re excited that it’s among the first titles that 20th Century Fox has added to their DCP inventory. Music impresario Swan More »
Safety Last!
New DCP Restoration! Area Premiere! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted Also plays Friday, June 28. (1923) dir Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor w/Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis [70 min] Comic genius and silent film star Harold Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who is hired as a lowly department store clerk. He comes More »
Alien
The Late Show! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted (1979) dir Ridley Scott w/Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm, John Hurt [117 min] The inky blackness of space and the terrifying dark corners aboard the spaceship Nostromo should be an ample test for our new DCP projector. Come see one of the More »
Safety Last!
New DCP Restoration! Area Premiere! Buy Tickets Brattle passes accepted Also plays Saturday, June 29. (1923) dir Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor w/Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis [70 min] Comic genius and silent film star Harold Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who is hired as a lowly department store clerk. He comes up with More »
Jaws