Category: The Brattle Film Podcast

We close out our look back at the year in movies with a deep dive into many of the Oscar nominated films and several smaller pictures we don’t want people to forget about. While our conversation doesn’t get quite as heated as on our previous episode, we do discover that many of us have strong feelings about some surpising movies. With the Academy nominating films ranging from F1 to Train Dreams as Best Picture, 2025 feels like a year in which the Oscars are far more representational of what most folks chose to watch – not just during awards season, but throughout this challenging year.

160 min • Our annual tradition of looking back on the past year in movies engenders passionate debates…

120 min • We bid a fond farewell to the legendary actor, director, producer, humanitarian, activist, and cultivator…

88 min • Inspired by our partnering with the Massachusetts Historical Society for a program focusing on the…

11 min • We’re unable to bring you our planned Episode #87, “Give Thanks for Chicago.” So we’ll…

95 min • For Spooky Season, Allisa, Ian, Ivy, and Ned share their personal top five scariest movie…

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.

We wrap up the summer with an episode and a film series devoted to movies about house cats, of which there are a lot more than you can shake a stick at. Whether they appear in animated movies, horror films, comedies, or historical fictions, felines play an outsized role in cinema, despite being notoriously difficult to train in the craft of acting.

160 min • For Robert Altman’s centennial, we dive deep into the filmography of the great maverick. Visit…

190 min • We kick off Season Six of The Brattle Film Podcast with our typically epic Reunion…