Upcoming Films & Events
In the Mouth of Madness
- Today, Sep 24
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1995
Starring: David Warner, John Glover, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Neill
Double feature with EVENT HORIZON • Lived any good books lately?
Possession
- Today, Sep 24
Director: Andrzej Żuławski Run Time: 123 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1981 Language: English, French, German
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill
Just added: Encore screening on Thu, Sept 24 at 8:15pm! Isabelle Adjani is rightfully esteemed for her physically...
Two Chaplin Shorts
- Fri, Sep 25
Run Time: 70 min.
Friday Film Matinee • 35mm Shorts Program
My Brother’s Wedding
- Fri, Sep 25
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Charles Burnett Run Time: 81 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1983
Starring: Dennis Kemper, Everett Silas, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Jessie Holmes, Ronnie Bell
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration! Director's Cut!
Vagabond
- Fri, Sep 25
Director: Agnès Varda Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1985 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Macha Méril, Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Stéphane Freiss, Yolande Moreau
This miraculous, challenging film from the great Agnès Varda actually had it’s Boston premiere here at The Brattle...
Ten Women in Black
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Kon Ichikawa Run Time: 103 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1961 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kyôko Kishida, Mariko Miyagi, Tamao Nakamura
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Freaks
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Tod Browning Run Time: 62 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1932
Starring: Daisy Earles, Harry Earles, Henry Victor, Olga Baclanova
The love story of a siren, a giant, and a dwarf!
The Blade
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Tsui Hark Run Time: 106 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1995
Starring: Austin Wai Tin-Chi, Moses Chan Ho, Sonny Song, Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo, Xiong Xinxin
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Careful
- Sun, Sep 27
- Tue, Sep 29
Director: Guy Maddin Run Time: 100 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1992
Starring: Brent Neale, Kyle McCulloch, Małgorzata Dobrowolska, Paul Cox, Sarah Neville
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Bellissima
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: Luchino Visconti Run Time: 115 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1952 Language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring: Anna Magnani, Gastone Renzelli, Tecla Scarano, Tina Apicella, Walter Chiari
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
He Ran All the Way
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: John Berry Run Time: 77 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1951
Starring: Gladys George, John Garfield, Selena Royle, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration! DYNAMITE hits the screen with their kind of love!
Smog
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: Franco Rossi Run Time: 92 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1962 Language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring: Enrico Maria Salerno
4K Restoration of the "Long" Version!
Elements of Cinema: Midnight
- Mon, Sep 28
Mon, Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm: Free Screening and Discussion
Director: Mitchell Leisen Run Time: 94 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1939
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Francis Lederer, John Barrymore, Mary Astor
Free Screening and Discussion!
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Tue, Sep 29
Director: F. W. Murnau Run Time: 94 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1927
Starring: Bodil Rosing, George O'Brien, J. Farrell MacDonald, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Silent Movie Day • Live Musical Accompaniment • Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anthony Scaramucci
- Wed, Sep 30
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anthony Scaramucci presenting All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the...
Diva
- Wed, Sep 30
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix Run Time: 117 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1981 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration!
Porter Square Book Welcomes Tahereh Mafi
- Thu, Oct 1
Run Time: 90 min.
Porter Square Book Welcomes Tahereh Mafi presenting Escape Me Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Tahereh Mafi...
New York, New York
- Thu, Oct 1
Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 163 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1977
Starring: Barry Primus, Lionel Stander, Liza Minnelli, Mary Kay Place, Robert De Niro
Boston Premiere of New 4K Restoration • The war was over and the world was falling in love again.
Kwaidan
- Fri, Oct 2
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
- Mon, Oct 5
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Run Time: 167 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1965 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Kenjirō Ishiyama, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Ranko Akagi, Rentaro Mikuni
New 4K Restoration! Just in time to launch Spooky Season, The Brattle is thrilled to be able to...
Night of the Vamp-Friars
- Fri, Oct 2
- Sat, Oct 3
Director: Kurtis Spieler Run Time: 78 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 2026
Starring: Abby Arza, Domenico Pugliese, Frank Wihbey, Joey Ambrosini, Madison Grace Plummer
The Late Show: Area Premiere! 35mm Print!
Libertad
- Sat, Oct 3
Director: Brenda Ávila-Hanna Run Time: 70 min. Format: DCP Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Cinefest Latino Boston 2026
Yo Soy de P Fkn R – Shorts Program
- Sun, Oct 4
Run Time: 120 min.
Cinefest Latino Boston 2026
RPM Fest Presents “Intimate Observer: Family Portrayals” by Marjorie Keller
- Sun, Oct 4
Run Time: 90 min.
The RPM Festival and the Cinema Studies Program at UMass-Boston are proud to co-present “Intimate Observer: Family Portrayals,”...
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein
- Mon, Oct 5
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein presenting The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation...
Lovestruck Books Presents An Evening with Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic on Screen & in Print
- Tue, Oct 6
Run Time: 180 min.
Alice Hoffman in Person!
Lovestruck Books Presents: Practical Magic on Screen & in Print
- Tue, Oct 6
Run Time: 120 min.
The Owens sisters are back! Lovestruck Books couldn’t let October pass without another magical screening of the first, original...
Narrative Bookshop Presents “Narrative, Two Ways”: Taipei Story, With R. F. Kuang
- Wed, Oct 7
Run Time: 240 min.
Presented by Narrative Bookshop Join R. F. Kuang at this special collaboration between Narrative & Brattle Theatre in...
IFFBoston Fall Focus, Part 1
Run Time: 90 min.
Thursday, October 8 – Sunday, October 11
Knives Out
- Mon, Oct 12
Mon, Oct 12 @ 6:00 pm: Craft-Along!
Director: Rian Johnson Run Time: 131 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2019
Starring: Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon
Craft-Along Screening • Hell, any of them could have done it.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anand Giridharadas
- Tue, Oct 13
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anand Giridharadas presenting Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American...
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Ayad Akhtar
- Wed, Oct 14
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Ayad Akhtar presenting The Radiance Harvard Book Store welcomes Ayad Akhtar—Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, and...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Wed, Oct 14
- Sun, Oct 18
Director: Terry Gilliam Run Time: 126 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1988
Starring: Charles McKeown, Eric Idle, John Neville, Oliver Reed, Sarah Polley
Remarkable. Unbelievable. Impossible. And true.
I Saw the TV Glow
- Thu, Oct 15
Director: Jane Schoenbrun Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Helena Howard, Ian Foreman, Jack Haven, Justice Smith, Lindsey Jordan
Merging handmade fantasy elements with a 90s Nickelodeon aesthetic adds just the right note of otherworldliness to Jane...
100 Nights of Hero
- Fri, Oct 16
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: Julia Jackman Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Amir El-Masry, Charli xcx, Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine
Whatever the lady wants.
The Fall
- Fri, Oct 16
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: Tarsem Singh Run Time: 119 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2008
Starring: Catinca Untaru, Jeetu Verma, Lee Pace, Leo Bill, Marcus Wesley
This magical love letter to the power of storytelling and human connection from the visionary filmmaker Tarsem stars...
Donkey Skin
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: Jacques Demy Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1970 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais
The skin of an animal hid her captivating beauty that only a prince could discover!
The Ugly Stepsister
- Sat, Oct 17
Director: Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Norwegian with English subtitles
Starring: Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss
In this warped and wonderful inversion of Cinderella, Lea Myren plays Elvira, THE UGLY STEPSISTER—one whose mother will...
Riddle of Fire
- Sun, Oct 18
Director: Weston Razooli Run Time: 113 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Charles Halford, Charlie Stover, Danielle Hoetmar, Lio Tipton, Lorelei Olivia Mote, Phoebe Ferro, Skyler Peters
A lot of fantasy narratives feel like a regular story that has been infused with fairy dust, but...
Innocence
- Sun, Oct 18
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Run Time: 121 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 2005 Language: French with English subtitles
Starring: Bérangère Haubruge, Hélène de Fougerolles, Lea Bridarolli, Marion Cotillard, Zoé Auclair
35mm Screening • The end of innocence... the beginning of life.
Paradise Hills
- Sun, Oct 18
Director: Alice Waddington Run Time: 95 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 2019
Starring: Awkwafina, Danielle Macdonald, Eiza González, Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich
Rebels Reign.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Kerry Kennedy
- Mon, Oct 19
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Kerry Kennedy presenting Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy Harvard Book Store...
Piaffe
- Mon, Oct 19
Director: Ann Oren Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: German with English subtitles
Starring: Josef Ostendorf, Lea Draeger, Sebastian Rudolph, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Simone Bucio
Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As...
Traces of Home
- Tue, Oct 20
Director: Colette Ghunim Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Colette Ghunim, Hosni Ghunim, Iza Ghunim, Ramsey Ghunim
Boston Palestine Film Festival
Bechdel Cast Ten Year “Whoops We Didn’t Dismantle the Patriarchy” Anniversary Tour
- Wed, Oct 21
Run Time: 90 min.
Special Live Event with Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante!
GlobeDocs Film Festival
Run Time: 120 min.
Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25
Dreams That Money Can Buy
- Tue, Oct 27
Director: Hans Richter Run Time: 80 min. Format: 16mm Film Release Year: 1947
Starring: Dorothy Griffith, Jack Bittner, Josh White, Libby Holman, Stanley Kubrick
Karina Longworth in Person! Double feature with LAURA
Laura
- Tue, Oct 27
Director: Otto Preminger Run Time: 88 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1944
Starring: Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price
Karina Longworth in Person! Double feature with DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY
A Place in the Sun
- Wed, Oct 28
Director: George Stevens Run Time: 122 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1951
Starring: Anne Revere, Elizabeth Taylor, Keefe Brasselle, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters
Karina Longworth in Person! 35mm Screening!
IFFBoston Fall Focus, Part 2
Run Time: 90 min.
Thursday, October 29 – Sunday, November 1