Upcoming Films & Events
Spirited Away (dubbed 4K)
- Today, Sep 9
- Thu, Sep 10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 2001
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette
Special 25th Anniversary Engagement! English Dub in 4K!
Spirited Away (subtitled 35mm)
- Today, Sep 9
- Thu, Sep 10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Mari Natsuki, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Special 25th Anniversary Engagement! Subtitled in 35mm!
Metropolis (2001)
- Today, Sep 9
Director: Rintaro Run Time: 107 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese
Starring: Kei Kobayashi, Kohki Okada, Kosei Tomita, Rikako Aikawa, Yuka Imoto
25th Anniversary • Every epoch dreams its successor.
Millennium Actress
- Thu, Sep 10
Director: Satoshi Kon Run Time: 87 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2002 Language: Japanese
Starring: Fumiko Orikasa, Mami Koyama, Miyoko Shoji, Showko Tsuda, Shozo Iizuka
25th Anniversary • The magic of movies, the mystery of memory.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Mamoru Oshii Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1995 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Akio Otsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Koichi Yamadera, Yutaka Nakano
Presented by Mass Mini Con and Spoke Art with special guest artist Rory Kurtz
Filipiñana
- Fri, Sep 11
- Sat, Sep 12
- Sun, Sep 13
- Mon, Sep 14
- Tue, Sep 15
- Wed, Sep 16
Director: Rafael Manuel Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Tagalog
Starring: Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Jorrybell Agoto, Nour Hooshmand, Sunshine Teodoro, Teroy Guzman
Friday, September 11 – Wednesday, September 16
Clueless
- Mon, Sep 14
Mon, Sep 14 @ 6:00 pm: Craft-Along!
Director: Amy Heckerling Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1995
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash
Craft-Along Screening • Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?
Harvard Book Store Presents Elizabeth Alexander
- Wed, Sep 16
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
- Thu, Sep 17
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Nadia Murad presenting I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism in...
GRRL HAUS CINEMA – Experimental Shorts
- Thu, Sep 17
Run Time: 90 min.
Short Films by Women, Trans, Genderqueer, and Non-Binary Filmmakers in DIY and Experimental Cinema
The Goonies
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Richard Donner Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1985
Starring: Anne Ramsay, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, John Matuszak, Josh Brolin, Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Robert Davi, Sean Astin
Friday Film Matinee + Ke Huy Quan reading pre-show!
Lenny
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Bob Fosse Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Frankie Man, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine
Special Screening & Discussion • Lenny Said It. "Hot Honey" Did It. Together They Shocked America.
Sleeping Dogs
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Roger Donaldson Run Time: 107 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1978
Starring: Donna Akersten, Ian Mune, Nevan Rowe, Sam Neill, Warren Oates
What happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run!
Jurassic Park
- Sat, Sep 19
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Steven Spielberg Run Time: 127 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1993
Starring: Bob Peck, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill
An adventure 65 million years in the making.
All the President’s Men
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Alan J. Pakula Run Time: 138 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1976
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Robert Redford
Special Screening & Discussion • Double feature with SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Tom McCarthy Run Time: 129 min. Release Year: 2015
Starring: John Slattery, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
Special Screening & Discussion • Double feature with ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Possession
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Andrzej Żuławski Run Time: 123 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1981 Language: English, French, German
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill
Isabelle Adjani is rightfully esteemed for her physically and emotionally gruelling performance in Andrzej Zulawski’s apocalyptic breakup nightmare,...
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Taika Waititi Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2016
Starring: Julian Dennison, Rachel House, Rima Te Wiata, Sam Neill, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne
Double feature with JURASSIC PARK
The Librarians
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Kim A. Snyder Run Time: 92 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Amanda Jones, Becky Calzada, Carolyn Foote, Martha Hickson, Suzette Baker
Special Screening & Discussion
New Taipei City Day Shorts Program
- Mon, Sep 21
Run Time: 50 min.
Taiwan Film Festival of Boston • Free Shorts Program
Marching Boys
- Mon, Sep 21
Director: Chiang Jui-chih Run Time: 117 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Chinese
Starring: JN Yu, Lee Lee-zen, Liu Yu-ren, Rosen Tsai, Umin Boya
Taiwan Film Festival of Boston • Discussion with Filmmakers
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Alex Wagner
- Tue, Sep 22
Run Time: 90 min.
Harvard Book Store Welcomes Alex Wagner presenting The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid...
Dead Calm
- Tue, Sep 22
Director: Phillip Noyce Run Time: 96 min. Format: Digital Projection Release Year: 1989
Starring: Billy Zane, George Shevtsov, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar, Sam Neill
High seas. Deep terror. Try to stay calm.
Event Horizon
- Wed, Sep 23
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson Run Time: 96 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1997
Starring: Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Laurence Fishburne, Richard T. Jones, Sam Neill
Double feature with IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS • Infinite space. Infinite terror.
In the Mouth of Madness
- Wed, Sep 23
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?
My Brother’s Wedding
- Fri, Sep 25
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Charles Burnett Run Time: 81 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1985
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
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
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
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!
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
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...
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...
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
- Tue, Oct 20
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
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
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
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...
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