Upcoming Films & Events
The Last Temptation of Christ
- Today, Jul 18
Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 164 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1988
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Willem Dafoe
Though pretty much exclusively appearing in films set in contemporary—or at least modern—America, Stanton has a memorable role...
Escape from New York
- Today, Jul 18
- Mon, Jul 20
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1981
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef
Double feature with ALIEN
Alien
- Today, Jul 18
- Mon, Jul 20
Director: Ridley Scott Run Time: 117 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1979
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto
Double feature with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK • In space, no one can hear you scream.
Paris, Texas
- Sun, Jul 19
Director: Wim Wenders Run Time: 145 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: Aurore Clément, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski
Double feature with PRETTY IN PINK
Pretty in Pink
- Sun, Jul 19
Director: Howard Deutch Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1986
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald
Double feature with PARIS, TEXAS • Blane's a pretty cool guy. Andie's pretty in pink. And Duckie's pretty crazy.
Closed for Renovations
- Tue, Jul 21
- Wed, Jul 22
- Thu, Jul 23
- Fri, Jul 24
- Sat, Jul 25
- Sun, Jul 26
- Mon, Jul 27
- Tue, Jul 28
- Wed, Jul 29
- Thu, Jul 30
Run Time: 500 min.
The Brattle will be closed Tuesday, July 21 – Thursday, July 30
West Side Story
- Fri, Jul 31
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Run Time: 153 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1961
Starring: George Chakiris, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn
The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures.
Mikey and Nicky
- Fri, Jul 31
- Sat, Aug 1
- Sun, Aug 2
- Mon, Aug 3
Director: Elaine May Run Time: 106 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1976
Starring: Carol Grace, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Peter Falk, Rose Arrick
...don't expect to like 'em.
Dead Souls
- Fri, Jul 31
- Sat, Aug 1
- Sun, Aug 2
- Mon, Aug 3
Director: Alex Cox Run Time: 88 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Alex Cox, Dick Rude, Edward Tudor-Pole, Shayn Herndon, Zander Schloss
Premiere Run • Good enough for government work.
Straight to Hell
- Sat, Aug 1
Director: Alex Cox Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1987
Starring: Courtney Love, Dick Rude, Jennifer Balgobin, Joe Strummer, Sy Richardson
A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension.
Fiddlehead presents Baby I’ll Change with Good Will Hunting
- Sun, Aug 2
Run Time: 180 min.
Fiddlehead and Reporter Matt present A special screening of “Baby I’ll Change” followed by a Q&A with the...
The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Mon, Aug 3
- Tue, Aug 4
Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1951
Double feature with THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD • From out of space...A warning and an ultimatum.
The Thing from Another World
- Mon, Aug 3
- Tue, Aug 4
Director: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks Run Time: 87 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1951
Starring: Douglas Spencer, James Arness, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Double feature with THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL • Look out … it’s the Thing
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Wed, Aug 5
Director: Adam McKay Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2004
Starring: Christina Applegate, David Koechner, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell
They bring you the news so you don't have to get it yourself.
Elements of Cinema: Network
- Wed, Aug 5
Wed, Aug 5 @ 6:00 pm: Free Screening & Discussion
Director: Sidney Lumet Run Time: 122 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1976
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Ned Beatty, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, William Holden
New 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration! Free Screening and Discussion! Television will never be the same.
The Bakery Girl of Monceau + Suzanne’s Career
- Thu, Aug 6
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 78 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1963 Language: French
Starring: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Fred Junck, Michel Mardore, Michèle Girardon
Double feature with LA COLLECTIONNEUSE
La Collectionneuse
- Thu, Aug 6
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1967 Language: French
Starring: Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydée Politoff, Mijanou Bardot, Patrick Bauchau
Double feature with THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU + SUZANNE'S CAREER
First Blood
- Thu, Aug 6
Director: Ted Kotcheff Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1982
Starring: Bill McKinney, Brian Dennehy, Jack Starrett, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone
This time he's fighting for his life.
Funny Girl
- Fri, Aug 7
Director: William Wyler Run Time: 155 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1968
Starring: Anne Francis, Barbra Streisand, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
Friday Film Matinee! People who see FUNNY GIRL are the luckiest people in the world!
I Shot Andy Warhol
- Fri, Aug 7
- Sat, Aug 8
- Sun, Aug 9
- Mon, Aug 10
Director: Mary Harron Run Time: 103 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1996
Starring: Anna Thomson, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton
New 4K Restoration • You only get one shot at fame.
Tally Brown, New York
- Sat, Aug 8
- Sun, Aug 9
Director: Rosa von Praunheim Run Time: 97 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1979 Language: German w/ English subtitles
Starring: Divine, Edward Caton, Gil Fontaine, Paul Ambrose, Tally Brown
New 4K Restoration!
The War of the Worlds
- Mon, Aug 10
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Byron Haskin Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Ann Robinson, Frank Kreig, Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin
Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
- Tue, Aug 11
Director: Fred F. Sears Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Donald Curtis, Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum, Thomas Browne Henry
Double feature with THE WAR OF THE WORLDS • The terrifying truth about flying saucers!
Harvard Book Store Presents Daron Acemoglu
- Wed, Aug 12
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Daron Acemoglu presenting What Happened to Liberal Democracy? in conversation with Michael Sandel Harvard...
Broadcast News
- Wed, Aug 12
Director: James L. Brooks Run Time: 133 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1987
Starring: Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Lois Chiles, Robert Prosky, William Hurt
It’s the story of their lives.
My Night at Maud’s
- Thu, Aug 13
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1969 Language: French
Starring: Antoine Vitez, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Leonid Kogan, Marie-Christine Barrault
In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales”, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted...
Angel Heart
- Thu, Aug 13
Director: Alan Parker Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1987
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Bonet, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Stocker Fontelieu
It will scare you to your very soul.
Strangers on a Train
- Fri, Aug 14
- Sat, Aug 15
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 101 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1951
Starring: Farley Granger, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Double feature with FAMILY PLOT • Hitchcock’s Birthday Weekend! 75th Anniversary!
Family Plot
- Fri, Aug 14
- Sat, Aug 15
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 120 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1976
Starring: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Ed Lauter, Karen Black, William Devane
Double feature with STRANGERS ON A TRAIN • Hitchcock’s Birthday Weekend! 75th Anniversary!
Vertigo
- Sun, Aug 16
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 129 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1958
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Tom Helmore
Double feature with OBSESSION • Hitchcock’s Birthday Weekend!
Obsession
- Sun, Aug 16
Director: Brian De Palma Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1976
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman
Double feature with VERTIGO • Hitchcock’s Birthday Weekend! A bizarre story of love.
This Island Earth
- Mon, Aug 17
Director: Jack Arnold, Joseph M. Newman Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1955
Starring: Faith Domergue, Jeff Morrow, Lance Fuller, Rex Reason, Robert Nichols
Double feature with FORBIDDEN PLANET • 2½ Years in the Making!
Forbidden Planet
- Mon, Aug 17
Director: Fred M. Wilcox Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Anne Francis, Jack Kelly, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Warren Stevens
Double feature with THIS ISLAND EARTH • Earthmen on a fabulous, peril-journey into outer space!
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Edward L. Cahn Run Time: 69 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1958
Starring: Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Kim Spalding, Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson
Double feature with THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT • The revelation shocker of things to come!
The Quatermass Xperiment
- Tue, Aug 18
Director: Val Guest Run Time: 82 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1955
Starring: Brian Donlevy, David King-Wood, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth
Double feature with IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE • You Can't Escape It!
The Insider
- Wed, Aug 19
Director: Michael Mann Run Time: 158 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1999
Starring: Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Russell Crowe
Two men driven to tell the truth … whatever the cost.
The Howling
- Wed, Aug 19
Director: Joe Dante Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1981
Starring: Belinda Balaski, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Patrick Macnee
Imagine your worst fear a reality.
Claire’s Knee
- Thu, Aug 20
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1970 Language: French
Starring: Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Jean-Claude Brialy, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel
During his last summer before becoming a married man, Jerôme (Brialy) spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse...
Jacob’s Ladder
- Thu, Aug 20
Director: Adrian Lyne Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1990
Starring: Danny Aiello, Elizabeth Peña, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Tim Robbins
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
Paint Your Wagon
- Fri, Aug 21
Director: Joshua Logan Run Time: 164 min. Release Year: 1969
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harve Presnell, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin, Ray Walston
Friday Film Matinee! Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of '69!
Late Fame
- Fri, Aug 21
- Sat, Aug 22
- Sun, Aug 23
- Mon, Aug 24
- Tue, Aug 25
- Wed, Aug 26
- Thu, Aug 27
Director: Kent Jones Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Edmund Donovan, Greta Lee, Stephen Badalamenti, Willem Dafoe, William Hill
Premiere Run • Friday, August 21 – Thursday, August 27
The Man from Planet X
- Tue, Aug 25
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Run Time: 70 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1951
Starring: Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, Robert Clarke, Roy Engel, William Schallert
Double feature with IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE • 75th Anniversary • The WEIRDEST Visitor the Earth has ever seen!
It Came from Outer Space
- Tue, Aug 25
Director: Jack Arnold Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Richard Carlson, Russell Johnson
Double feature with THE MAN FROM PLANET X • Fantastic sights leap out at you!
A Face in the Crowd
- Wed, Aug 26
Director: Elia Kazan Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1957
Starring: Andy Griffith, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau
POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!
Nightcrawler
- Wed, Aug 26
Director: Dan Gilroy Run Time: 118 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2014
Starring: Bill Paxton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Rahm, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed
The city shines brightest at night.
Love in the Afternoon
- Thu, Aug 27
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1972 Language: French
Starring: Bernard Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Françoise Verley, Malvina Penne, Zouzou
Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his...
Basic Instinct
- Thu, Aug 27
Director: Paul Verhoeven Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1992
Starring: Denis Arndt, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger.
Cabaret
- Fri, Aug 28
Director: Bob Fosse Run Time: 124 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1972
Starring: Fritz Wepper, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Liza Minnelli, Michael York
Friday Film Matinee! Life is a Cabaret.
The Piano
- Fri, Aug 28
- Sat, Aug 29
- Sun, Aug 30
- Mon, Aug 31
Director: Jane Campion Run Time: 120 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1993
Starring: Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Sam Neill
New 4K Restoration! Silence affects everyone in the end.
Dreams in Nightmares
- Fri, Aug 28
- Sat, Aug 29
- Sun, Aug 30
- Mon, Aug 31
Director: Shatara Michelle Ford Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Charlie Barnett, Denée Benton, Dezi Bing, Mars Storm Rucker, Sasha Compère
Premiere Run • Friday, August 28 – Monday, August 31
Invaders from Mars
- Mon, Aug 31
- Tue, Sep 1
Director: William Cameron Menzies Run Time: 78 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1953
Starring: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Hillary Brooke, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Double feature with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS • 4K Restoration • NATURAL or SUPERNATURAL?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Mon, Aug 31
- Tue, Sep 1
Director: Don Siegel Run Time: 80 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1956
Starring: Carolyn Jones, Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy, King Donovan, Larry Gates
Double feature with INVADERS FROM MARS • There was nothing to hold onto - except each other.
Harvard Book Store Presents Angela Duckworth
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Angela Duckworth presenting Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best...
Harvard Book Store Presents Marlon James
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Marlon James presenting The Disappearers in conversation with Saeed Jones Harvard Book Store welcomes...
Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Wed, Sep 2
Director: George Clooney Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2005
Starring: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Patricia Clarkson, Robert Downey Jr.
We will not walk in fear of one another.
Total Recall
- Thu, Sep 3
Director: Paul Verhoeven Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1990
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, Sharon Stone
They stole his mind. Now, he wants it back.
Harvard Book Store Presents Ken Liu
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Ken Liu presenting The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories in conversation with...
Harvard Book Store Presents Elizabeth Alexander
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Elizabeth Alexander presenting Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales in conversation with Tracy...
Harvard Book Store Presents Nadia Murad
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Nadia Murad presenting I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism in...
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Alex Wagner
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Alex Wagner presenting The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid...