Upcoming Films & Events
My Father’s Shadow
- Thu, Apr 16
- Fri, Apr 17
- Sat, Apr 18
- Sun, Apr 19
Director: Akinola Davies Jr. Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, Efon Wini, Godwin Egbo, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Tosin Adeyemi
Premiere Run!
Sound of Falling
- Thu, Apr 16
- Sat, Apr 18
- Sun, Apr 19
Director: Mascha Schilinski Run Time: 149 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German with English subtitles
Starring: Claudia Geisler-Bading, Hanna Heckt, Lea Drinda, Lena Urzendowsky, Luise Heyer
Premiere Run! Thursday, April 16 – Sunday, April 19
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
- Fri, Apr 17
Director: Bill Kroyer Run Time: 76 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1992
Starring: Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward, Robin Williams, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry
Friday Film Matinee! In Honor of Earth Day! Just beyond your dreams lives a secret world. Where every tree is a home. Every sound is a song. And humans only exist in fairy tales. Until now...
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
- Fri, Apr 17
Director: Andrew Reich Run Time: 84 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Jeffrey McDonald, Kim Gordon, Steven Shane McDonald, Thurston Moore
Special Record Store Day Screening!
Up
- Sat, Apr 18
- Sun, Apr 19
Director: Pete Docter Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2009
Starring: Bob Peterson, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai
Massachusetts Space Week! Change is in the air.
Pavements
- Sat, Apr 18
Director: Alex Ross Perry Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Kathryn Gallagher, Mark Ibold, Michael Esper, Scott Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus
Special Record Store Day Screening! Co-Presented with Newbury Comics!
RPM Presents “For All Audiences”: Films by Josh Weissbach
- Sun, Apr 19
Run Time: 90 min.
The Brattle Theatre and RPM Festival are proud to announce a screening of 16mm films by experimental filmmaker...
The Muppet Movie
- Mon, Apr 20
- Tue, Apr 21
Director: James Frawley Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1979
Starring: Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt
More entertaining than humanly possible!
The Dark Crystal
- Mon, Apr 20
- Tue, Apr 21
Director: Frank Oz, Jim Henson Run Time: 93 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1982
Muppet Madness Triple Feature! Mixing Brian Froud’s amazing original designs with elements of traditional fairy tales, THE DARK...
Labyrinth
- Mon, Apr 20
- Tue, Apr 21
Director: Jim Henson Run Time: 102 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1986
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
Muppet Madness Triple Feature! Frustrated teen Sarah (Connelly) is stuck babysitting her annoying baby brother until she innocently...
Galaxy Quest
- Mon, Apr 20
Director: Dean Parisot Run Time: 102 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1999
Starring: Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub
Massachusetts Space Week! Experts & astronauts in person! A comedy of galactic proportions.
Harvard Book Store Presents Maria Semple
- Wed, Apr 22
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Maria Semple presenting Go Gentle: A Novel in conversation with Laura Zigman Harvard Book...
The Right Stuff
- Wed, Apr 22
Director: Philip Kaufman Run Time: 193 min. Release Year: 1983
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn
Massachusetts Space Week! How the future began.
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]
- Thu, Apr 23
Director: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR/GREAT-GRANDPARENT/GREAT-GRANDCHILD] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This...
Maddie’s Secret
- Thu, Apr 23
Director: John Early Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Claudia O'Doherty, Conner O'Malley, John Early, Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer
In MADDIE’S SECRET, essential alt-comedian cum director John Early plays the titular Maddie Ralph, a major foodie who...
Cookie Queens
- Fri, Apr 24
Director: Alysa Nahmias Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an...
I Want Your Sex
- Fri, Apr 24
Director: Gregg Araki Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Chase Sui Wonders, Cooper Hoffman, Daveed Diggs, Mason Gooding, Olivia Wilde
How far is too far?
Hokum
- Fri, Apr 24
Director: Damian McCarthy Run Time: 107 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Adam Scott, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Peter Coonan, Will O'Connell
We've been expecting you.
As I Am
- Sat, Apr 25
Run Time: 122 min. Format: DCP
Amir, a 60-year-old Iranian man, arrives in Hingham, Massachusetts, on a tourist visa and rents an Airbnb across...
Rose of Nevada
- Sat, Apr 25
Director: Mark Jenkin Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Callum Turner, Edward Rowe, Francis Magee, George MacKay, Rosalind Eleazar
Shot on 16mm with all sound built in post-production, Mark Jenkin’s ROSE OF NEVADA is an uncanny meditation...
School for Defectors
- Sat, Apr 25
Director: Jeremy Workman Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Over 30,000 North Korean defectors live in South Korea, invisibilized and discriminated against. But for the 20 students...
Carolina Caroline
- Sat, Apr 25
Director: Adam Rehmeier Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Jon Gries, Kyle Gallner, Kyra Sedgwick, Samara Weaving, Tommy G. Kendrick
In his latest slice of anarchic Americana, writer-director Adam Carter Rehmeier first introduces us to the always effervescent...
Marblehead Morning: 50 Years in Harmony
- Sun, Apr 26
Director: Tim Jackson Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP
Nine studio songs form the centerpiece in a profile of singer/songwriters Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl and their...
Animated Shorts
- Sun, Apr 26
Run Time: 97 min.
Program: Ball Lightning | Catriona Trina Baker, 12 min. The true story of a refugee who fled the...
Mata Hari
- Sun, Apr 26
Director: James A. Smith, Joe Beshenkovsky Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Calista Carradine, David Carradine
In the mid-1970s, the popular television actor David Carradine set out to direct his dream project: the story...
Blue Heron
- Sun, Apr 26
Director: Sophy Romvari Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ádám Tompa, Amy Zimmer, Edik Beddoes, Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti
Formally inventive and emotionally impactful, Sophy Romvari’s feature debut more than fulfills the potential the Toronto-based filmmaker displayed...
Adam’s Apple
- Mon, Apr 27
Director: Amy K. Jenkins Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Adam Sieswerda, Amy K. Jenkins
An intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual...
Filipiñana
- Mon, Apr 27
Director: Rafael Manuel Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Tagalog
Starring: Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Jorrybell Agoto, Nour Hooshmand, Sunshine Teodoro, Teroy Guzman
Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, Sundance Film Festival 2026 Tee girl Isabel feels...
One in a Million
- Tue, Apr 28
Director: Itab Azzam, Jack Macinnes Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Filmed over ten years, ONE IN A MILLION follows Israa from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey...
Late Fame
- Tue, Apr 28
Director: Kent Jones Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Edmund Donovan, Greta Lee, Stephen Badalamenti, Willem Dafoe, William Hill
A wonderfully introspective Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a once-upon-a-time New...
Harvard Book Store Presents Tom Perrotta
- Wed, Apr 29
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Tom Perrotta presenting Ghost Town: A Novel Harvard Book Store welcomes Tom Perrotta—New York...
The House with Laughing Windows
- Wed, Apr 29
Director: Pupi Avati Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1976 Language: Italian
Starring: Bob Tonelli, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani, Lino Capolicchio
Halfway to Halloween! New Digital Restoration! ...today I portrayed the shameless one as she died...
Elements of Cinema: Santa Sangre
- Thu, Apr 30
Thu, Apr 30 @ 6:00 pm: Free screening!
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 122 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1989
Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Sabrina Dennison, Thelma Tixou
Free 35mm Screening and Discussion! Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen...
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
- Thu, Apr 30
Director: Lucio Fulci Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1971 Language: Italian w/English Subtitles
Starring: Alberto de Mendoza, Florinda Bolkan, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti, Stanley Baker
Halfway to Halloween! New Digital Restoration! Biting, Gnawing Terror Claws at Your Brain!
Harlan County U.S.A.
- Fri, May 1
- Sat, May 2
Director: Barbara Kopple Run Time: 105 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1977
Starring: Bessie Lou Cornett Parker, Houston Elmore, Norman Yarborough, Phil Sparks, Sudie Crusenberry
New 4K Restoration!
American Dream
- Fri, May 1
- Sat, May 2
Director: Barbara Kopple Run Time: 98 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1990
New 4K Restoration!
Chungking Express
- Fri, May 1
- Sat, May 2
Director: Wong Kar-wai Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1994
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Pineapple Expiration Day!
Kaili Blues
- Sat, May 2
- Mon, May 4
Director: Bi Gan Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2016 Language: Chinese w/ English subtitles
Starring: Chen Yongzhong, Daqing Zhao, Feiyang Luo, Lixun Xie, Shuai Zeng
Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- Sat, May 2
- Mon, May 4
Director: Bi Gan Run Time: 138 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2018 Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Starring: Chen Yongzhong, Huang Jue, Lee Hong-chi, Sylvia Chang, Tang Wei
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search...
Let the Bullets Fly
- Sun, May 3
Director: Jiang Wen Run Time: 132 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2010 Language: Chinese
Starring: Carina Lau, Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Jiang Wen, Shao Bing
STArt Film Studio Presents!
Resurrection
- Sun, May 3
- Tue, May 5
Director: Bi Gan Run Time: 160 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Starring: Huang Jue, Jackson Yee, Li Gengxi, Mark Chao, Shu Qi
What is it that, once lost, you can never get back?
Harvard Book Store Presents Elizabeth Strout
- Thu, May 7
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Elizabeth Strout presenting The Things We Never Say: A Novel Harvard Book Store welcomes...
Harvard Book Store Presents Douglas Stuart
- Thu, May 14
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Douglas Stuart presenting John of John: A Novel Harvard Book Store welcomes Douglas Stuart—Booker...