Upcoming Films & Events
The Scout
- Today, Nov 9
- Tue, Nov 10
Director: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Max Rosen, Mimi Davila, Rutanya Alda, Sarah Herrman
Premiere Run!
Double Indemnity
- Today, Nov 9
Today, Nov 9 @ 6:00 pm: Craft-Along!
Director: Billy Wilder Run Time: 107 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1944
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Craft-Along Screening • It's love and murder at first sight!
The Brother from Another Planet
- Today, Nov 9
Director: John Sayles Run Time: 108 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1984
Starring: Joe Morton, Peter Richardson, Ray Ramirez, Rosanna Carter, Yves Rene
He's not just another out-of-towner...
Permanent Vacation
- Tue, Nov 10
Director: Jim Jarmusch Run Time: 75 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1981
Starring: Chris Parker, John Lurie, Leila Gastil, Richard Boes, Sara Driver
35mm Screening • Double feature with VARIETY
Variety
- Tue, Nov 10
Director: Bette Gordon Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1983
Starring: Luis Guzmán, Nan Goldin, Richard M. Davidson, Sandy McLeod, Will Patton
Double feature with PERMANENT VACATION
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Chapters 1-3 (of 5)
- Wed, Nov 11
Wed, Nov 11 @ 4:00 pm: Chapters 1-3Wed, Nov 11 @ 7:30 pm: Chapters 1-3
Director: Julia Loktev Run Time: 191 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alesya Marokhovskaya, Anna Nemzer, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova, Valeria Ratnikova
Special Premiere Screenings! Chapters 1-3
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Chapters 4-5 (of 5)
- Thu, Nov 12
Thu, Nov 12 @ 4:00 pm: Chapters 4-5Thu, Nov 12 @ 7:30 pm: Chapters 4-5
Director: Julia Loktev Run Time: 164 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alesya Marokhovskaya, Anna Nemzer, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova, Valeria Ratnikova
Special Premiere Screenings! Chapters 4-5
Raise the Red Lantern
- Fri, Nov 13
- Sat, Nov 14
- Sun, Nov 15
- Mon, Nov 16
- Tue, Nov 17
- Wed, Nov 18
- Thu, Nov 19
- Sat, Nov 21
- Sun, Nov 22
Director: Zhang Yimou Run Time: 125 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1991 Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Starring: Cao Cuifen, Gong Li, He Saifei, Jin Shuyuan, Kong Lin
New 4K Restoration!
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
- Fri, Nov 13
- Sat, Nov 14
- Sun, Nov 15
Director: Jane Schoenbrun Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder
Blood. Lust.
Sunset Boulevard
- Sat, Nov 14
- Sun, Nov 15
Director: Billy Wilder Run Time: 110 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1950
Starring: Erich von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson, William Holden
Matinee double feature with TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Melissa Clark
- Mon, Nov 16
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Melissa Clark presenting The Big Book of Dinner: Recipes and Rules (and How to...
Harvard Book Store Welcomes James Gleick
- Tue, Nov 17
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes James Gleick presenting The Telephone: A New History Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University...
Zi
- Fri, Nov 20
- Sat, Nov 21
- Sun, Nov 22
- Mon, Nov 23
- Tue, Nov 24
Director: Kogonada Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Jin Ha, John Shea, Michelle Mao, Valerie May Richardson
Friday, November 20 – Tuesday, November 24
The Hole
- Fri, Nov 20
- Sat, Nov 21
- Sun, Nov 22
Director: Tsai Ming-liang Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1998 Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Starring: Hui-Chin Lin, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lin Kun-huei, Miao Tian, Yang Kuei-mei
New 35mm Print • A search for intimacy in a world of disaster.
Persepolis
- Mon, Nov 23
Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2007 Language: French with English subtitles
Co-presented by Boston Comic Arts Foundation and MESA featuring a post-film conversation
The People Under the Stairs
- Wed, Nov 25
Director: Wes Craven Run Time: 102 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1991
Starring: A. J. Langer, Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Ving Rhames, Wendy Robie
Families Are Hell Double Feature • 35mm Screenings • In every neighborhood, there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid.
The ‘Burbs
- Wed, Nov 25
- Thu, Nov 26
Director: Joe Dante Run Time: 102 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1989
Starring: Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Tom Hanks, Wendy Schaal
Families Are Hell Double Feature • 35mm Screenings • He's a man of peace in a savage land... Suburbia.
The Maltese Falcon
- Thu, Nov 26
- Fri, Nov 27
- Sat, Nov 28
Director: John Huston Run Time: 100 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1941
Starring: Barton MacLane, Gladys George, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre
35mm Screening • Double Features • He's a Killer When He Hates!
The Big Sleep
- Thu, Nov 26
- Sun, Nov 29
Director: Howard Hawks Run Time: 116 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1946
Starring: Dorothy Malone, Humphrey Bogart, John Ridgely, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers
35mm Screenings • Double Features!
Chopping Mall
- Fri, Nov 27
Director: Jim Wynorski Run Time: 77 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1986
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Dick Miller, Gerrit Graham, Kelli Maroney, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Tony O'Dell
Black Friday Double Feature!
Night of the Comet
- Fri, Nov 27
Director: Thom Eberhardt Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1984
Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Sharon Farrell
Black Friday Double Feature • 35mm Screening!
The Glass Key
- Fri, Nov 27
Director: Stuart Heisler Run Time: 85 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1942
Starring: Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Brian Donlevy, Richard Denning, Veronica Lake
35mm Screening • Double feature with THE MALTESE FALCON
Hammett
- Fri, Nov 27
- Sat, Nov 28
Director: Wim Wenders Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1982
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Lydia Lei, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle, Roy Kinnear
Saturday: Double feature with THE MALTESE FALCON!
Pitfall*
- Sat, Nov 28
Director: André de Toth Run Time: 86 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1948
Starring: Dick Powell, Jane Wyatt, John Litel, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr
Double feature with MURDER, MY SWEET • A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him!
Murder, My Sweet
- Sat, Nov 28
- Sun, Nov 29
Director: Edward Dmytryk Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1944
Starring: Anne Shirley, Claire Trevor, Dick Powell, Mike Mazurki, Otto Kruger
35mm Screenings • Double features!
The Long Goodbye
- Sun, Nov 29
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973
Starring: Elliott Gould, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
Double feature with CHINATOWN
Chinatown
- Sun, Nov 29
Director: Roman Polanski Run Time: 130 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Double feature with THE LONG GOODBYE
Lost Highway
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 134 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1997
Starring: Balthazar Getty, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake, Robert Loggia
A lost road on the edge of strange...
Wild at Heart
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 125 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1990
Starring: Dianne Ladd, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe
New 4K Restoration!
David Lynch Shorts
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1980
Double Feature with ERASERHEAD
Eraserhead
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 89 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1977
Starring: Charlotte Stewart, Jack Nance, Laurel Near
35mm Screening • Double feature with David Lynch Shorts
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 1 & 2)
Run Time: 114 min.
"My log has a message for you." & "The stars turn and a time presents itself."
Inland Empire
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 180 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2006
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Laura Dern
David Lynch Day in Cambridge! • A WOMAN IN TROUBLE
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 3 & 4)
Run Time: 114 min.
"Call for help." & "…brings back some memories."
The Wizard of Oz
Director: Victor Fleming Run Time: 102 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1939
Starring: Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 5 & 6)
Run Time: 116 min.
"Case files." & "Don’t die."
Blue Velvet
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 120 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1986
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern
35mm Screening!
The Elephant Man
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 124 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1980
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, John Hurt, Wendy Hiller
A true story of courage and human dignity.
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 7 & 8)
Run Time: 90 min.
"There’s a body all right." & "Gotta light?"
The Straight Story
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 112 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1999
Starring: Jane Galloway, Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek
35mm Screening • A true story that proves a little determination goes a very, very long way.
Mulholland Drive
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 147 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 2001
Starring: Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts
An actress longing to be a star. A woman searching for herself. Both worlds will collide... on Mulholland Drive.
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 9 & 10)
Run Time: 111 min.
"This is the chair." & "Laura is the one."
Dune
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 136 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984
Starring: Francesca Annis, José Ferrer, Kyle MacLachlan, Linda Hunt, Patrick Stewart
A world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination.
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 11 & 12)
Run Time: 111 min.
"There’s fire where you are going." & "Let’s rock."
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 8 + Selected Music Videos)
Run Time: 115 min.
"Gotta light?" + Selected Music Videos
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 13 & 14)
Run Time: 115 min.
"What story is that, Charlie?" & "We are like the Dreamer."
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 15 & 16)
Run Time: 112 min.
"There’s some fear in letting go." & "No knock, no doorbell."
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 135 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1992
Starring: Dana Ashbrook, Mädchen Amick, Phoebe Augustine, Ray Wise, Sheryl Lee
In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent.
Twin Peaks, Season 1 (Pilot Episode)
Run Time: 90 min.
Join us for a day full of beginnings and endings. First, TWIN PEAKS: THE PILOT deftly establishes the...
Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 17 & 18)
Run Time: 116 min.
"The past dictates the future." & "What is your name?"
Uncut Gems
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Run Time: 136 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 2019
Starring: Adam Sandler, Idina Menzel, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, LaKeith Stanfield
Double feature with THE GAMBLER • This is how I win.
The Gambler
Director: Karel Reisz Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: Jacqueline Brookes, James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Paul Sorvino
Double feature with UNCUT GEMS • For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
Something Wild
Director: Jonathan Demme Run Time: 114 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1986
Starring: George 'Red' Schwartz, Jeff Daniels, Margaret Colin, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
Double feature with MARRIED TO THE MOB • Something Different. Something Daring. Something Dangerous.
Married to the Mob
Director: Jonathan Demme Run Time: 104 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1988
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine, Mercedes Ruehl, Michelle Pfeiffer
Double feature with SOMETHING WILD • They're her family... Whether she likes it or not.
The Women
Director: George Cukor Run Time: 133 min. Release Year: 1939
Starring: Joan Crawford, Mary Boland, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell
An Evening with Author Illeana Douglas
Carol
Director: Todd Haynes Run Time: 118 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2015
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
gather here presents Pics and Crafts • Some people change your life forever.
The Arrival
Director: Ruth Norman Run Time: 84 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1980
Starring: Dan Smith, Dave Osborne, David Reynolds, Jeff Swanson, Ruth Norman
The Late Show: Premiere Reissue
It’s a Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 130 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1946
Starring: Donna Reed, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
A Holiday Tradition • Fri, Dec 18 - Mon, Dec 21 • Tickets on sale soon!
Tokyo Godfathers
Director: Satoshi Kon Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2003 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Aya Okamoto, Mamiko Noto, Satomi Korogi, Tohru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki
Taking its inspiration from a John Ford western (1948’s Three Godfathers starring John Wayne), Satoshi Kon’s TOKYO GODFATHERS...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
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?
Closed for Shopping
Run Time: 90 min.
The Brattle is closed to allow our staff some time to finish their last-minute shopping.
Spirited Away (subtitled)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Mari Natsuki, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi
When Chihiro and her parents mistakenly trespass at a nocturnal bathhouse for the spirit realm, she must use...
Alice in Wonderland
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1951
Starring: Ed Wynn, Jerry Colonna, Kathryn Beaumont, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway
A world of wonders in one great picture!
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Director: Lotte Reiniger Run Time: 66 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1926 Language: German with English subtitles
The oldest known feature length animated film, THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED tells a story inspired by The...
Sleeping Beauty
Director: Clyde Geronimi Run Time: 75 min. Release Year: 1959
Starring: Barbara Luddy, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Mary Costa, Verna Felton
Double feature with THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED • Awaken to a World of Wonders!
Spirited Away (dubbed)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2001
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette
When Chihiro and her parents mistakenly trespass at a nocturnal bathhouse for the spirit realm, she must use...
The Snow Queen
Director: Lev Atamanov Run Time: 61 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1957 Language: Russian with English subtitles
Starring: Anna Komolova, Galina Kozhakina, Mariya Babanova, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo
Double feature with SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS • Miracle, magical, musical entertainment for all ages of the heart!!!
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Director: David Hand Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1938
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Pinto Colvig, Roy Atwell
Double feature with THE SNOW QUEEN • The Happiest, Dopiest, Grumpiest, Sneeziest movie of the year.
Fantasia
Director: Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, David Hand, Ford Beebe Jr., Hamilton Luske, James Algar, Jim Handley, Norman Ferguson, Paul Satterfield, Samuel Armstrong, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson Run Time: 124 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1940
Starring: Deems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Leopold Stokowski, Walt Disney
Double feature with ALLEGRO NON TROPPO • The most sensational sound you'll ever see!
Allegro non troppo
Director: Bruno Bozzetto Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1976 Language: Italian
Starring: Maurizio Micheli, Maurizio Nichetti, Mirella Falco, Néstor Garay, Osvaldo Salvi
Double feature with FANTASIA
The Iron Giant
Director: Brad Bird Run Time: 86 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1999
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Harry Connick Jr., James Gammon, Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel
Double feature with PINOCCHIO • It came from outer space!
Pinocchio
Director: Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1940
Starring: Christian Rub, Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Evelyn Venable, Walter Catlett
Double feature with THE IRON GIANT • When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
The Land Before Time
Director: Don Bluth Run Time: 69 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1988
Starring: Candace Hutson, Gabriel Damon, Helen Shaver, Judith Barsi, Will Ryan
Double feature with BAMBI • It is the dawn of time, the land of the dinosaur. Lost and alone, Littlefoot and his friends are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime.
Bambi
Director: David Hand Run Time: 70 min. Release Year: 1942
Starring: Cammie King, Donnie Dunagan, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander, Will Wright
Double feature with THE LAND BEFORE TIME • Love Comes To The Forest Folk . . . and to you, in one of the world's greatest love stories!