Upcoming Films & Events
Children of Men
- Today, Apr 24
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Run Time: 109 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2006
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine
Best Cinemapocalypse Finals!
12 Monkeys
- Today, Apr 24
Director: Terry Gilliam Run Time: 129 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1995
Starring: Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer, David Morse, Madeleine Stowe
Best Cinemapocalypse Finals!
The Great Gatsby
- Thu, Apr 25
Director: Jack Clayton Run Time: 144 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Mia Farrow, Robert Redford, Sam Waterson, Scott Wilson
50th Anniversary! Co-presented with the American Repertory Theater
Riddle of Fire
- Thu, Apr 25
- Fri, Apr 26
- Sat, Apr 27
- Sun, Apr 28
Director: Weston Razooli Run Time: 113 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 2024
Starring: Charles Halford, Charlie Stover, Danielle Hoetmar, Lio Tipton, Lorelei Olivia Mote, Phoebe Ferro, Skyler Peters
Special 35mm Screenings • Cambridge Premiere Thursday, April 25 – Sunday, April 28
The Great Gatsby
- Thu, Apr 25
Director: Baz Luhrmann Run Time: 143 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2013
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire
Co-presented with the American Repertory Theater
Days of Heaven
- Fri, Apr 26
- Sat, Apr 27
- Sun, Apr 28
Director: Terrence Malick Run Time: 94 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1978
Starring: Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Richard Gere, Sam Shepard
New 4K Restoration • Friday, April 26 – Sunday, April 28 • Staff Pick
Stop Making Sense
- Sat, Apr 27
Director: Jonathan Demme Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: The Talking Heads
Monthly Residency Screening! Co-presented with A24
Halloween
- Sun, Apr 28
- Mon, Apr 29
- Wed, May 1
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1978
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Triple Feature • Staff Pick
Halloween II
- Mon, Apr 29
- Wed, May 1
Director: Rick Rosenthal Run Time: 92 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1981
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis
Triple Feature • Staff Pick
Elements of Cinema: Creature from the Black Lagoon (3D Version)
- Tue, Apr 30
Director: Jack Arnold Run Time: 79 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1954
Starring: Antonio Moreno, Julie Adams, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning
6:00pm | Free Screening and Discussion, No Ticket Required • 3D Screening
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Tue, Apr 30
- Wed, May 1
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Run Time: 99 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1982
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Stacey Nelkin, Tom Atkins
Triple Feature • Staff Pick
I Saw the TV Glow
- Thu, May 2
Director: Jane Schoenbrun Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard, Ian Foreman, Justice Smith, Lindsey Jordan
Look a little closer.
Ren Faire – Episode One
- Thu, May 2
Director: Lance Oppenheim Run Time: 57 min. Format: DCP
Starring: Brandi Baldwin, Darla Smith, George Coulam, Jeffrey Baldwin, Lauren Croft, Louie Migliaccio
Our first episodic screening. View the first episode of this series that will screen later this year on...
Admissions Granted
- Fri, May 3
Director: Hao Wu, Miao Wang Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
In the landmark SFFA v. HARVARD and SFFA v. UNC cases, the 6-3 conservative majority at the Supreme...
Good One
- Fri, May 3
Director: India Donaldson Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Danny McCarthy, Diana Irvine, James Le Gros, Lily Collias, Sumaya Bouhbal
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father...
Richland
- Sat, May 4
Director: Irene Lusztig Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023
Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the...
Green Border
- Sat, May 4
Director: Agnieszka Holland Run Time: 152 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: Polish
Starring: Behi Djanati Atai, Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Mohamad Al Rashi, Tomasz Włosok
Winner: Special Jury Prize, 2023 Venice Film Festival In 2021, Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka—who was democratically defeated by Sviatlana...
Gasoline Rainbow
- Sat, May 4
Director: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Makai Garza, Micah Bunch, Nathaly Garcia, Nichole Dukes, Tony Aburto
Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (WESTERN, IFFBoston 2015; TCHOUPITOULAS, IFFBoston 2012; BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS) turn their...
Janet Planet
- Sat, May 4
Director: Annie Baker Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Elias Koteas, Julianne Nicholson, Sophie Okonedo, Will Patton, Zoe Ziegler
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination...
The Reciprocity Project – Season 2
- Sun, May 5
Run Time: 50 min.
Shorts Program Facing a climate crisis, the Reciprocity Project embraces Indigenous value systems that have bolstered communities since...
El Signo Vacío
- Sun, May 5
Director: Kathryn Ramey Format: 35mm Film
Screening on 35mm film Mixing a hundred years of found footage—tourism, agricultural and propaganda films—with contemporary portraits of...
No One Asked You
- Sun, May 5
Director: Ruth Leitman Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023
Starring: Joyelle Johnson, Lizz Winstead, Mark Hamill, Molly Gaebe, Sarah Silverman
Kick the government out of your pants!
Tuesday
- Sun, May 5
Director: Daina O. Pusić Run Time: 111 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Arinzé Kene, Jay Simpson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Leah Harvey, Lola Petticrew
A mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew) must confront Death when it arrives in the...
Power
- Mon, May 6
Director: Yance Ford Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP
Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds...
Dìdi (弟弟)
- Mon, May 6
Director: Sean Wang Run Time: 94 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Chang Li Hua, Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Macaela Parker, Shirley Chen
Winner: U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble & Audience Award; U.S. Dramatic, 2024 Sundance Film Festival In...
Sebastian
- Mon, May 6
Director: Mikko Mäkelä Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Ruaridh Mollica
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order...
Godzilla
- Tue, May 7
- Wed, May 8
Director: Ishirō Honda Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1954 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Fuyuki Murakami, Momoko Kôchi, Takashi Shimura
Ishiro Honda's Birthday!
Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Wed, May 8
Director: Ishirō Honda Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yuriko Hoshi
Ishiro Honda's Birthday! Double Feature with DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (8:00)
Destroy All Monsters
- Wed, May 8
Director: Ishirō Honda Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Ishiro Honda's Birthday! Double Feature with MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (6:00)
Pulp Fiction
Director: Quentin Tarantino Run Time: 154 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1994
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, Maria de Medeiros, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames
We bookend this weekend celebrating film collectors with one of the most famous film collectors around. Quentin Tarantino...
Zombie
Director: Lucio Fulci Run Time: 91 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1979 Language: Italian
Starring: Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Tisa Farrow
Lucio Fulci made some of the meanest, most outlandish, and violent of the Italian horror films… and ZOMBIE...
Film is Dead, Long Live Film!
Director: Peter Flynn Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Special Premiere Screenings May 10+11!
Bad Girls Go to Hell
Director: Doris Wishman Run Time: 65 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1965
Starring: Gigi Darlene
One of the first film collectors to bring their finds into the light by releasing out-of-print, unavailable, neglected,...
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Run Time: 80 min.
Film collecting isn’t all about exploitation and cult films, there’s so much more to discover! For this special...
Rock’n’Roll Rarities Program
Run Time: 80 min.
We’ve called upon a Boston-area collector to bring us his best, rarest, and most fun rock’n’roll celluloid for...
Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 110 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1960
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles
Happy Mother's Day!
Boris Karloff Rarities Program
Run Time: 80 min.
Sara Karloff in Person!
Robot Monster
Director: Phil Tucker Run Time: 66 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Claudia Barrett, George Barrows, George Nader, Gregory Moffett
Restored in 3D!
American Graffiti*
Director: George Lucas Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 1973
Starring: Candy Clark, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Philips, Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Wolfman Jack
IB Technicolor Print!
Harvard Book Store Presents Miranda July
- Wed, May 15
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Presents: Miranda July presenting All Fours: A Novel Harvard Book Store welcomes MIRANDA JULY—Camera D’Or-winning...
Harvard Book Store Presents Erik Larson
- Wed, May 22
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Presents: Erik Larson presenting The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism...