Upcoming Films & Events
Parenthood
- Fri, Dec 5
Director: Ron Howard Run Time: 124 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1989
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Steve Martin
Inspired by "Wonder" at the A.R.T.!
Yi Yi
- Fri, Dec 5
- Sat, Dec 6
- Sun, Dec 7
- Mon, Dec 8
- Tue, Dec 9
- Wed, Dec 10
Director: Edward Yang Run Time: 174 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2000 Language: Chinese w/ English subtitles
Starring: Elaine Jin Yan-Ling, Issey Ogata, Jonathan Chang, Kelly Lee, Wu Nien-jen
Fri, Dec 5 - Wed, Dec 10 • New 4k Restoration! 25th Anniversary!
Don Hertzfeldt’s Animation Mixtape
- Fri, Dec 5
- Sat, Dec 6
Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Animated Shorts Program!
Little Miss Sunshine
- Sat, Dec 6
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2006
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Toni Collette
Inspired by "Wonder" at the A.R.T.!
Eighth Grade
- Sun, Dec 7
Director: Bo Burnham Run Time: 94 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2018
Starring: Daniel Zolghadri, Elsie Fisher, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Josh Hamilton
Inspired by "Wonder" at the A.R.T.!
Best of RPM 2025
- Sun, Dec 7
Run Time: 90 min.
Shorts Program! RPM Festival wrapped up another extraordinary year of experimental cinema. During 2025 RPM Festival presented 10...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Mon, Dec 8
Director: Henry Selick Run Time: 76 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1993
Starring: Catherine O’Hara, Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Glenn Shadix, William Hickey
What's this? What's this?
Harvard Book Store Presents Scott Kerman with Michael Dukakis
- Tue, Dec 9
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Presents: Scott Kerman with Michael Dukakis The Duke: Weekly Conversations With The Last Honest Politician...
Cambridge Mosaic Screening & Reception
- Wed, Dec 10
Run Time: 120 min.
Free Documentary Screening!
We’re No Angels (1955)
- Thu, Dec 11
Director: Michael Curtiz Run Time: 106 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1955
Starring: Aldo Ray, Basil Rathbone, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett, Peter Ustinov
A strangler... A swindler... A safecracker... Yet you'll love them!
We’re No Angels (1989)
- Thu, Dec 11
Director: Neil Jordan Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1989
Starring: Bruno Kirby, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn
Escaped convicts disguised as priests. It'll take a miracle to get away with this one.
It’s a Wonderful Life
- Fri, Dec 12
- Sat, Dec 13
- Sun, Dec 14
- Mon, Dec 15
Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 130 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1946
Starring: Donna Reed, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Happy Holidays! Fri, Dec 12 - Mon, Dec 15
Don’t Open Till Christmas
- Fri, Dec 12
Director: Alan Birkinshaw, Edmund Purdom Run Time: 87 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Edmund Purdom, Gerry Sundquist, Mark Jones
Alt X-Mas Late Show • The gift of terror just won't wait!
Female Trouble
- Sat, Dec 13
Director: John Waters Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: Cookie Mueller, David Lochary, Divine, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Alt X-Mas Late Show!
The City of Lost Children
- Sun, Dec 14
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1995 Language: French
Starring: Daniel Emilfork, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Judith Vittet, Ron Perlman
Alt X-Mas Late Show • Where happily ever after is just a dream.
Eyes Wide Shut
- Mon, Dec 15
Director: Stanley Kubrick Run Time: 159 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1999
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Tom Cruise
Alt X-Mas Late Show!
Emma.
- Tue, Dec 16
Director: Autumn de Wilde Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2020
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Callum Turner, Johnny Flynn, Josh O'Connor, Mia Goth
Co-Presented with Lovestruck Books • Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday Double Feature!
Pride & Prejudice
- Tue, Dec 16
Director: Joe Wright Run Time: 127 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2005
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike
Co-Presented with Lovestruck Books • Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday Double Feature!
Metropolitan
- Wed, Dec 17
Director: Whit Stillman Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1990
Starring: Carolyn Farina, Chris Eigeman, Edward Clements, Isabel Gillies, Taylor Nichols
Filmmaker in Person! 35th Anniversary! Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.
All the President’s Men
- Thu, Dec 18
- Sun, Dec 21
Director: Alan J. Pakula Run Time: 138 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1976
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Robert Redford
The most devastating detective story of this century.
Three Days of the Condor
- Thu, Dec 18
Director: Sydney Pollack Run Time: 117 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1975
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman, Max von Sydow, Robert Redford
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
The Natural
- Fri, Dec 19
- Sat, Dec 20
Director: Barry Levinson Run Time: 137 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, Wilford Brimley
He lived for a dream that wouldn't die.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Sat, Dec 20
Director: George Roy Hill Run Time: 111 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1969
Starring: Katharine Ross, Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Not that it matters, but most of it is true.
The Sting
- Sat, Dec 20
Director: George Roy Hill Run Time: 129 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973
Starring: Charles Durning, Paul Newman, Ray Walston, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
...all it takes is a little confidence.
The Hot Rock
- Sun, Dec 21
Director: Peter Yates Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1972
Starring: George Segal, Moses Gunn, Paul Sand, Robert Redford, Ron Leibman, Zero Mostel
1970’s golden boy Robert Redford stars as the improbably named ex-con John Dortmunder who, on the ride home from his latest stint Upstate, finds himself wrapped up in a new heist concocted by his brother-in-law.
The Candidate
- Sun, Dec 21
Director: Michael Ritchie Run Time: 110 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1972
Starring: Allen Garfield, Don Porter, Melvyn Douglas, Peter Boyle, Robert Redford
Bill McKay has a lot going for him...but nothing compared to what's coming.
The Electric Horseman
- Mon, Dec 22
Director: Sydney Pollack Run Time: 122 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1979
Starring: Jane Fonda, John Saxon, Robert Redford, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson
He's a washed-up loser. But sometimes losers can be heroes...
Jeremiah Johnson
- Mon, Dec 22
Director: Sydney Pollack Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1972
Starring: Delle Bolton, Joaquín Martínez, Josh Albee, Robert Redford, Will Geer
Some say he's dead...some say he never will be.
Downhill Racer
- Tue, Dec 23
Director: Michael Ritchie Run Time: 101 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1969
Starring: Camilla Sparv, Gene Hackman, Jim McMullan, Karl Michael Vogler, Robert Redford
How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?
Ordinary People
- Tue, Dec 23
Director: Robert Redford Run Time: 124 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1980
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton
Everything is in its proper place... except the past.
Closed for Shopping
Run Time: 90 min.
The Brattle is closed to allow our staff some time to finish their last-minute shopping.
Brazil
- Thu, Dec 25
- Fri, Dec 26
- Sat, Dec 27
- Sun, Dec 28
- Mon, Dec 29
- Tue, Dec 30
Director: Terry Gilliam Run Time: 143 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1985
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Robert De Niro
Thu, Dec 25 - Tue, Dec 30 • New 4k Restoration! It's only a state of mind.
The Thin Man
- Wed, Dec 31
Director: W.S. Van Dyke Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1934
Starring: Maureen O'Sullivan, Minna Gombell, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, William Powell
New Year's Eve Double Feature!
After the Thin Man
- Wed, Dec 31
Director: W.S. Van Dyke Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1936
Starring: Elissa Landi, James Stewart, Joseph Calleia, Myrna Loy, William Powell
New Year's Eve Double Feature!
Stop Making Sense
- Wed, Dec 31
Director: Jonathan Demme Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: The Talking Heads
Happy New Year!