“One of the most beloved (if underseen) indie comedies of the 21st century returns to The Brattle Theatre…
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Brattle News and Reviews
On the occasion of his latest feature, WHERE TO LAND, coming to the Brattle Oct 17–22, we welcome indie cinema icon Hal Hartley to discuss his text-built and performer-driven films, the ways the industry has evolved over the decades of his career, as well as his fondness for Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Read MoreCambridge Day: “‘Linda Linda Linda’ returns for its sweet encore, 20 years after Japanese cult fave stepped onstage”
Posted on September 29, 2025
“The 20th anniversary of the film ‘Linda Linda Linda’ gives the coming-of-age comedy-drama a new 4K restoration and…
Read MoreCambridge Day: “Restorative trip to Italy out of the question? Restorations at The Brattle Theatre are not”
Posted on September 25, 2025
“Among fans of classic and international film, few festivals are held in as high regard as Il Cinema…
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IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Oct 9–12 and Oct 30–Nov 2 at The Brattle IFFBoston returns for their eleventh…
Read MoreBoston Hassle Interview: “Co-Director/Star Nick Toti on ‘It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This’”
Posted on September 18, 2025
“In many of the found footage cheapies which flooded the market in the 2010s, the terror is undercut…
Read MoreCambridge Day: “Found Footage Freakout includes ‘Doesn’t Get,’ which the world doesn’t get except in person”
Posted on September 18, 2025
“If the atomic-age monster movie was the premier horror mode of the 1950s and the teen-sex slasher flick dominated the Reagan years, found footage was the horror movement of the 2010s. This strain – defined by handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and barely seen ghosts and monsters – had its big bang in 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ but didn’t really come into its own as a genre until the late 2000s, just as cellphones and social media were turning us all into compulsive self-recorders.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day
Read MoreWBUR Arts & Culture: “10 Greater Boston film festivals and series to check out this fall”
Posted on September 17, 2025
Erin Trahan at WBUR gives a preview of upcoming film festivals in the greater Boston area, including Taiwan…
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“The Brattle offers a once-in-a-lifetime moviegoing experience – literally – on Wednesday… No conventional feature film could encompass…
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“Few filmmakers are afforded the opportunity to cap their career with their most ambitious (and arguably greatest) work to date, and fewer still are able to recapture the magic of their most famous creation decades after the fact. Such is the case of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017), which begins an appropriately massive nine-day series of “marathon” screenings Wednesday.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day
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