Upcoming Films & Events
Harvard Book Store Presents Daron Acemoglu
- Today, 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
- Today, 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: 35mm Film Release Year: 1987
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Bonet, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Stocker Fontelieu
It will scare you to your very soul.
Oliver!
- Fri, Aug 14
Director: Carol Reed Run Time: 153 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1968
Starring: Harry Secombe, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis
35mm Screening! Special I.B. Technicolor Print!
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 (1976) • 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
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- Sun, Aug 23
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- 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
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- 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...