There's so many awesome things coming up at the Coolidge that it'd be a shame if someone didn't post about them!

I'll update you losers here.

Creature from the Black Lagoon - in 3D
Fri & Sat, Dec 2 & 3, Midnite

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1hr 19mins // directed by:Jack Arnold

A geological expedition into the depths of the Amazon goes terribly awry when a centuries-old creature stalks and kills the members of the expedition in this classic Universal creature feature - in 3D!

Every horror fan has a favorite Universal monster. Those of us who choose the Creature, over Dracula and the Wolfman, are a unique bunch. Perhaps it's the amazing monster design and costume; or maybe even the fact that this particular monster is more sympathetic than most. The Gillman is the last of his kind and, after all, he's only trying to get the girl.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Fri & Sat, Dec 2 & 3, Midnite

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1hr 55mins // directed by:Steven Spielberg // featuring:Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming masterpiece is one of the brightest stars in motion picture history. The Coolidge is proud to present the original Spielberg-preferred 1982 edition of this epic sci-fi heart-warmer.

Filled with unparalleled magic and imagination, E.T. follows the moving story of a lost little alien who befriends 10-year-old, Elliott (Henry Thomas). Experience all the mystery and fun of their unforgettable adventure in the beloved movie that astonished audiences around the world.

12 Monkeys
Monday, December 12, 7PM

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2hr 09mins // directed by:Terry Gilliam // featuring:Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe

In a future world devastated by disease, convicted criminal James Cole (Bruce Willis) is given the chance to erase his record by traveling back to the past to investigate the origins of a virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth’s population decades earlier.

But when Cole is mistakenly sent to the wrong year, he is arrested and hospitalized in a mental institution, where he meets a psychiatrist (Madeline Stowe) who is initially convinced he’s insane and a patient (Brad Pitt) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Part psychological thriller, part apocalyptic drama, Terry Gilliam’s riveting drama combines intricate storytelling, visual ingenuity, and stellar performances.

Virus outbreaks have long been portrayed in cinema, from The Andromeda Strain to Outbreak to Contagion. Is it pure fantasy to imagine an epidemic wiping out humanity? Or is it something we need to prepare for? Popular science writer Carl Zimmer will attempt to answer by looking at the history of real virus outbreaks and at cutting-edge research on previously unknown viruses that could potentially attack our species in the future.

About the Speaker

The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer "as fine a science essayist as we have." In his books, essays, articles, and blog posts, Zimmer reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life. He is the author of 11 books about science, including A Planet of Viruses, Parasite Rex, and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. He writes regularly for The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Discover, where he is also a contributing editor. Zimmer received the National Academies Communication Award and has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award twice. He is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. To his knowledge, he is the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Opens Friday, December 16, regular run

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2hr 07mins // directed by:Tomas Alfredson // featuring:Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Thomas Hardy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and – Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…
(this looks awesome btw)

I'll post more next week.

2012 is looking amazing for midnites, The Terminator, Battle Royale, The Holy Mountain and many more!

Possiblity of showing Battle Royale 2? That one was great, IMO. I like the first novel but the film of it put me to sleep. But the second movie was way awesome.

Wow, This is a totally appropriate thread. Good job Wren.

I'm definitely interested to see that last one, Tinker Tailor soldier Spy. Looks good.

Ive watched the trailer hundreds of times and I'm still excited for it.

Bumping the midnites tonight! ET and Creatures From The Black Lagoon in 3D!!

Also just noticed that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is directed by the same director as Let The Right One In. Awesome!

New update! Great stuff this weekend!

From the Back of the Room
Opens Friday, December 9 plus Friday at Midnite

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1hr 45mins // directed by:Amy Oden

Midnite show (12/9) featuring a live performance by Troubled Sleep (NYC)(ex-Zombie Dogs) and with director Amy Oden in person to discuss the film. Co-presented by Ladyfest Boston.

Although it is often credited with spurring the "third wave" of feminism, Riot Grrrl seemed to many to be a blip in the media. Riot Grrrl paved the way for the more mainstream "girl power" phenomenon, but was ultimately forgotten until recently. Books and films have now been released on the subject, but in the scramble for commemoration, many women who were predecessors or contemporaries of Riot Grrrl have been ignored. This film tackles the past thirty years of female involvement in Do It Yourself music, and aims to give a more complete picture of how women have participated in the D.I.Y. community, and how it affects their daily lives.

Interviews with...
Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill, Le Tigre
Slade from Tribe 8
Chris Boarts-Larson of Slug and Lettuce
Cynthia Connolly, Author of Banned in D.C.
Cristy Road, Graphic Artist
Allison Wolfe from Bratmobile, Partyline
Anna from Blatz
Kirsten from Naked Aggression
Jen from Submission Hold
Witch Hunt
Condenada
Bruise Violet

...and many, many more!

(this looks really good)
Melancholia
Now Playing

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2hr 16mins // directed by:Lars von Trier // featuring:Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

Melancholia is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Antichrist).

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth.

The Wolf Man
Fri & Sat, Dec 9 & 10, Midnite

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1hr 10mins // directed by:George Waggner // featuring:Claude Rains, Warren William and Lon Chaney Jr.

A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.

The Room
Saturday, December 10, Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Tommy Wiseau // featuring:Tommy Wiseau

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's 'effing great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of The Room. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

The Room's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as an L.A. secret for half of a decade, The Room has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.

(yeah I already posted it, but I'll post it again!)
12 Monkeys
Monday, December 12, 7PM

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2hr 09mins // directed by:Terry Gilliam // featuring:Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe

In a future world devastated by disease, convicted criminal James Cole (Bruce Willis) is given the chance to erase his record by traveling back to the past to investigate the origins of a virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth’s population decades earlier.

But when Cole is mistakenly sent to the wrong year, he is arrested and hospitalized in a mental institution, where he meets a psychiatrist (Madeline Stowe) who is initially convinced he’s insane and a patient (Brad Pitt) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Part psychological thriller, part apocalyptic drama, Terry Gilliam’s riveting drama combines intricate storytelling, visual ingenuity, and stellar performances.

Virus outbreaks have long been portrayed in cinema, from The Andromeda Strain to Outbreak to Contagion. Is it pure fantasy to imagine an epidemic wiping out humanity? Or is it something we need to prepare for? Popular science writer Carl Zimmer will attempt to answer by looking at the history of real virus outbreaks and at cutting-edge research on previously unknown viruses that could potentially attack our species in the future.

About the Speaker

The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer "as fine a science essayist as we have." In his books, essays, articles, and blog posts, Zimmer reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life. He is the author of 11 books about science, including A Planet of Viruses, Parasite Rex, and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. He writes regularly for The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Discover, where he is also a contributing editor. Zimmer received the National Academies Communication Award and has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award twice. He is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches science writing. To his knowledge, he is the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named.

Battleship Potemkin
Monday, December 19, 7PM

1hr 15mins // directed by:Sergei M. Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein, having already made a splash in the Soviet Union for his first film, Strike, was quickly requisitioned by the Russian revolutionary leadership to make a new film that was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famous Potemkin uprising. V.I. Lenin had hailed this revolt as the first proof that Russian troops could be counted on to join the proletariat in overthrowing the old czarist regime - and thus a high water mark in the October Revolution.

The crew Potemkin, coming home from a war with Japan, become mutinous due to the poor quality of rations. The ship's officers - hoping to avoid a full mutiny - order the rebellious crew shot. One crew, Vakulinchuk, cries out, "Brothers! Who are you shooting at?'' The firing squad lowers its guns, but when an officer unwisely tries to enforce his command, a full-blown mutiny explodes.

Onshore, news of the uprising reaches citizens who have long suffered under czarist repression. They send food and water out to the battleship in a flotilla of skiffs. The ruling regime catches wind of this and orders its army to suppress the citizens. In one of the most famous sequences ever put on film, czarist troops march down a long flight of steps, firing on the citizens who flee before them in a terrified - and terrifying - tide. Countless innocents are killed. The massacre is ultimately encapsulated in the image of a woman shot dead trying to protect her baby in a carriage - which then bounces down the steps, out of control. News of the uprising reaches the Potemkin, which speeds toward Odessa to put an end to the massacre.

Battleship Potemkin has become one of the touchstones in film history and one of the landmarks of silent cinema. The Coolidge has once again joined forces with the composers and musicians of the Berklee College of Music's Department of Film Scoring to present an original score for the fully restored version of Eienstein's most famous film.

(doubt anyone will go to this, but hell why not? hehe)
Macbeth
Saturday, December 10, 10AM

2hr 45mins

Verdi’s most evocative music brings Shakespeare’s drama to life on the stage of London's Royal Opera House.

Macbeth stars British baritone Simon Keenlyside as the titular tormented ruler of Scotland. Don’t miss this thrilling tale of power and corruption, captured LIVE from London.

Verdi’s lifelong love affair with Shakespeare first took wing with Macbeth in 1847. The composer thought the play "one of the greatest creations of man" and, along with his librettist Piave, set out to make of it, "something out of the ordinary" on the operatic stage. Musically, Verdi’s masterstrokes were the macabre choruses for the witches, the evocative orchestral colours and the increased role for the "ugly and evil" Lady Macbeth. Although Verdi later revised the opera in 1865 for Paris, his earlier, more unified version of the opera is used here for this revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s striking staging. Simon Keenlyside and Martina Serafin play the Scottish nobleman and his villainously ambitious wife, who spurs her husband to murder for the sake of his career, and American bass-baritone Raymond Aceto takes the role of Banquo, murder victim and symbol of conscience.
Cast

Macbeth: Simon Keenlyside
Banquo: Raymond Aceto
Lady Macbeth: Liudmyla Monastyrska
Malcolm: Steven Ebel
Lady: Elisabeth Meister
Macduff: Dmitri Pittas
Director

Phyllida Lloyd
Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Plus The Toxic Avenger is coming too!

Melancholia: isn't Kirsten Dunst nakie in that one?

Here are a bunch of midnites coming up!

The Fly (1986)
Fri & Sat, Dec 16 & 17, Midnite

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1hr 36mins // directed byavid Cronenberg // featuring:Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis

David Cronenberg directs this meditation on obsession and power, creating a pitch perfect mad scientist story.

When an experiment goes horrifically wrong, scientist Seth Brundle begins to go through a few changes that threaten to overtake his humanity. Cronenberg handles Brundle's transformation into a giant fly masterfully, utilizing creature effects that still make audiences sick to their stomachs twenty years later. This film is truly one of the better examples of the modern monster movie. And Geena Davis births a giant maggot.

Silent Night, Deadly Night
Friday, December 23, Midnite

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1hr 19mins // directed by:Charles E. Sellier Jr. // featuring:Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick and Toni Nero

After his parents are murdered, a young tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.

The Terminator
Fri & Sat, Jan 6 & 7, Midnite

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1hr 47mins // directed by:James Cameron // featuring:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn

no need for a description

The Divide
Fri & Sat, Jan 13 & 14, Midnite

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1hr 50mins // directed by:Xavier Gens // featuring:Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and no one feels fine!

'As nuclear fire rains down on New York City without explanation, eight residents of a high rise apartment manage to find refuge in the bunker-like basement while the world crumbles around them. The Divide is not about a war raging out there, it’s about what we’re willing to do to survive, and the toll it takes on our so-called humanity. Forget his foray into big budget American film making, this is the return of one of France’s latest wave of horror directors. Xavier Gens, the writer/director of Frontier(s), delivers a bleak and unsettling look at what happens when we are isolated from society and pushed to the brink. Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss) leads the cast as Mickey, a hard-nosed superintendent attempting to keep order among the survivors, including Lauren German (Hostel: Part 2), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction, Crash), Michael Eklund (Watchmen), and Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) as the days and weeks push on. Did I mention that it’s bleak? The Divide will probably not leave you with a smile on your face or a song in your heart, but I think you’ll appreciate it’s unflinching gaze into a shattered world, and the horrors that may come when there’s nothing left to hope for.'
- Steven Landry, Toronto After Dark

Outrage
Fri & Sat, Jan 20 & 21, Midnites

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1hr 49mins // directed by:Takeshi Kitano // featuring:Beat Takeshi, Ryo Kase

One wrong move and it's all out war.

Several subsidiary bosses gather at a lavish lunch with "Mr. Chairman," the head of the ruling Sanno-kai crime organization which controls the Greater Tokyo area. Sannokai underboss Kato warns Ikemoto about his overt dealings with family outsider Murase, an old-timer with whom he recently made a pact in prison. In an effort to ease Mr. Chairman’s suspicions, Ikemoto asks fellow boss Otomo to do his dirty work for him by making a minor but obvious move against Murase.

Otomo’s actions are the start of a ruthless series of conflicts and betrayals. Before long, several yakuza clans are out for blood in their constant battle for power and money. The rival bosses fight to rise through the ranks by scheming and making short-lived allegiances. In this corrupt world where there are no heroes, it's Bad Guy vs. Bad Guy in a spiraling outrage of gang warfare...

The Innkeepers
Fri & Sat, February 3 & 4, Midnite

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1hr 40mins // directed by:Ti West // featuring:Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis

After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good.

The last remaining employees, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Opened Friday, December 16, regular run

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2hr 07mins // directed by:Tomas Alfredson // featuring:Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Thomas Hardy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and – Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…
(this looks awesome btw)

(this looks really good)
Melancholia
Now Playing

bennyhillifier

2hr 16mins // directed by:Lars von Trier // featuring:Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

Melancholia is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Antichrist).

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth.

Battleship Potemkin
Monday, December 19, 7PM

1hr 15mins // directed by:Sergei M. Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein, having already made a splash in the Soviet Union for his first film, Strike, was quickly requisitioned by the Russian revolutionary leadership to make a new film that was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famous Potemkin uprising. V.I. Lenin had hailed this revolt as the first proof that Russian troops could be counted on to join the proletariat in overthrowing the old czarist regime - and thus a high water mark in the October Revolution.

The crew Potemkin, coming home from a war with Japan, become mutinous due to the poor quality of rations. The ship's officers - hoping to avoid a full mutiny - order the rebellious crew shot. One crew, Vakulinchuk, cries out, "Brothers! Who are you shooting at?'' The firing squad lowers its guns, but when an officer unwisely tries to enforce his command, a full-blown mutiny explodes.

Onshore, news of the uprising reaches citizens who have long suffered under czarist repression. They send food and water out to the battleship in a flotilla of skiffs. The ruling regime catches wind of this and orders its army to suppress the citizens. In one of the most famous sequences ever put on film, czarist troops march down a long flight of steps, firing on the citizens who flee before them in a terrified - and terrifying - tide. Countless innocents are killed. The massacre is ultimately encapsulated in the image of a woman shot dead trying to protect her baby in a carriage - which then bounces down the steps, out of control. News of the uprising reaches the Potemkin, which speeds toward Odessa to put an end to the massacre.

Battleship Potemkin has become one of the touchstones in film history and one of the landmarks of silent cinema. The Coolidge has once again joined forces with the composers and musicians of the Berklee College of Music's Department of Film Scoring to present an original score for the fully restored version of Eienstein's most famous film.

The Fly (1986)
Fri & Sat, Dec 16 & 17, Midnite

bennyhillifier
1hr 36mins // directed byavid Cronenberg // featuring:Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis

David Cronenberg directs this meditation on obsession and power, creating a pitch perfect mad scientist story.

When an experiment goes horrifically wrong, scientist Seth Brundle begins to go through a few changes that threaten to overtake his humanity. Cronenberg handles Brundle's transformation into a giant fly masterfully, utilizing creature effects that still make audiences sick to their stomachs twenty years later. This film is truly one of the better examples of the modern monster movie. And Geena Davis births a giant maggot.

stuff for tonight and the week!

Giant thread of "no one gives a fuck".

Fact: more people want to stay home, masturbate, and talk about skyrimm on RTTP than go watch girl power movies with Wren.

ITT: REALLY COOL SHOW WITH MOVIES PLAYING

well clearly you give a fuck for you commented here! Well, I'll continue to post here and you'll continue to make snarky comments!

Anyways cool stuff coming!

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
regular run, still going, I know I already posted this, but it looks awesome!

bennyhillifier

2hr 07mins // directed by:Tomas Alfredson // featuring:Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Thomas Hardy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and – Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…

Outrage
Fri & Sat, Jan 20 & 21, Midnites

bennyhillifier
1hr 49mins // directed by:Takeshi Kitano // featuring:Beat Takeshi, Ryo Kase

One wrong move and it's all out war.

Several subsidiary bosses gather at a lavish lunch with "Mr. Chairman," the head of the ruling Sanno-kai crime organization which controls the Greater Tokyo area. Sannokai underboss Kato warns Ikemoto about his overt dealings with family outsider Murase, an old-timer with whom he recently made a pact in prison. In an effort to ease Mr. Chairman’s suspicions, Ikemoto asks fellow boss Otomo to do his dirty work for him by making a minor but obvious move against Murase.

Otomo’s actions are the start of a ruthless series of conflicts and betrayals. Before long, several yakuza clans are out for blood in their constant battle for power and money. The rival bosses fight to rise through the ranks by scheming and making short-lived allegiances. In this corrupt world where there are no heroes, it's Bad Guy vs. Bad Guy in a spiraling outrage of gang warfare...

Mean Girls
Fri & Sat, Jan 20 & 21

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1hr 37mins // directed by:Mark Waters // featuring:Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler

Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest."

The law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today. After living in Africa, Cady, now a junior, has no idea how "wild" things can be in civilization until she crosses paths with one of the meanest species of all -- the "Queen Bee," who at this particular high school is the cool and calculating Regina George (Rachel McAdams).

But Cady doesn't just cross paths with this Queen Bee; she really stings her when she falls for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron (Jonathan Bennett). Now Regina's set to sting back by pretending to like Aaron so he won't go out with Cady, all the while pretending to be her friend. With no choice but to use the same M.O. to stay in the game, the "Girl World" one-upmanship escalates until the entire school gets dragged into a first-class mean-fest.

Tina Fey (30 Rock, SNL) wrote the extraordinarily quotable script that has become a modern high school cult classic like Heathers and The Breakfast Club before it.

Big Catholic Guilt - Resurrection
Saturday, January 21

1hr 32mins

This 22 song event, captured live at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA and now being screened at the Coolidge Corner Theater for the first time anywhere publicly, is essential BCG. It documents the entire one-night-only event -- popular crowd-pleasing favorites, songs never previously released, and new songs never before played publicly.

Boston's own Big Catholic Guilt rose to national and international notoriety in the early and mid 1990's as an industrial / metal powerhouse. Founded on principles of uncompromising quality and energy in their studio recordings and fueled by powerful live performances, BCG quickly became a favorite on the Boston scene. In 1992 BCG won the WBCN Rock and Roll Rumble, as well as receiving a Boston Music Award for Outstanding Local Hard Rock Band, and a nomination for singer Sam Jordan for Outstanding Local Male Vocalist. Through the years, BCG received a third BMA nomination, 8 WFNX / Boston Phoenix Readers Poll nominations, was signed to Cherrydisc Records, released 3 CDs, and charted on the CMJ top 200, as well as performing many high profile live shows.

In March of 1996, Big Catholic Guilt played their final show at the Ratskellar. In the years since, the members of BCG have remained close personal friends, as well as collaborating professionally on various studio and live projects. Nearly fifteen years since their final performance, the group got together to perform one big show, and the band came with cameras and digital recording equipment to capture the action!

Join members of the group for this very special event as Big Catholic Guilt - Resurrection is opened for public screening, and made available for purchase for the very first time! Watch the film in its entirety, and get one-time only discounts on autographed collector's copies of the DVD.

Don't miss this one-showing only event!

Seating is very limited, so advanced ticket purchase is strongly recommended!

Battle Royale
Fri & Sat, Jan 27 & 28

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1hr 54mins // directed by:Kinji Fukasaku // featuring:"Beat" Takeshi Kitano

At the dawn of the millennium Japan collapsed. Disorder reigned and the adults feared their teenage children - promiscuous, retaliatory, violent - and passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act. Under this act, every year one high-school class is chosen to participate in the Battle Royale - a literal fight to the death.

42 students are given three days to kill their classmates - until one is left standing victorious - or everyone dies. These are the rules of Battle Royale, a government sanctioned way to reform the country's juvenile delinquents. Beat Takeshi (Outrage, Johnny Mnemonic, Violent Cop) stars as a retired teacher turned military official who oversees the Battle Royale and Officer Krupke he ain't...

The Theatre Bizarre
Fri & Sat, Jan 27 & 28, Feb. 10 & 11

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1hr 54mins // directed by:Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, David Gregory and more // featuring:Udo Kier, Tom Savini, Debbie Rachon

Producer and segment director David Gregory ("Sweets") will be in attendance Saturday, Jan. 28th for an intro and Q&A. Executive producer Daryl Tucker will be on hand for the Saturday, Feb. 11th screening.

Down a seedy city street, a young woman is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees the front door slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside.

But there in the vast, eerie auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an odd marionette-like man who will introduce her to six tales of the truly bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the fluid of her victims’ eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something strange is happening to the woman. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in The Theatre Bizarre.

Directed by Douglas Buck (Sisters, Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America) , Buddy Giovinazzo (Combat Shock, Life is Hot in Cracktown), David Gregory (Plague Town), Karim Hussain (The Beautiful Beast, Subconscious Cruelty), Jeremy Kasten (The Wizard of Gore (2007)), Tom Savini (Tales from the Darkside, Night of the Living Dead), and Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil).

Co-presented by Emerson College, department of Visual and Media Arts and the Boston Underground Film Festival.



plus Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Toxic Avenger, Cannibal Holocaust coming too!

I went to The Divide this past Sat, it was OK.

The Innkeepers looks interesting.

I was there for The Divide too, with a few other rttp people. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

hahaha "apricots are for FAGGOTS"

Sam was such a frustrating character.

another sorta update

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Monday, January 30

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1hr 30mins // directed by:Stephen Herek // featuring:Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin

With only a few days left before their high school graduation, two most excellent dudes, Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Keanu Reeves) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Alex Winter), are on the verge of flunking history.

Unless they can ace their final history report, Ted’s dad will pack him off to a military academy in Alaska, meaning their band, The Wyld Stallyns, will come to a heinous end. Luckily for these wanna-be rock stars, a guardian angel from the future, Rufus (George Carlin), comes to them with a bodacious solution: a time-traversing phone booth in which they travel back to the past and round up personages of historical significance who can help them stage a most triumphant oral report. Whoaa!

“Billy, you are dealing with the oddities of time travel with the greatest of ease.” – Bill S. Preston, Esq. to Billy the Kid, rescued from a bar fight

Join us before the film as Edward Farhi, a most excellent professor of physics at MIT and director of its Center for Theoretical Physics, unravels the oddities of time travel and weighs in on the question: Is travel through time physically possible? Dr. Farhi has studied the complexities of building a time machine, though not of the phone-booth variety.

Edward Farhi was trained as a theoretical particle physicist but has also worked on astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. His current interest is the theory of quantum computation. He was on the staff at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland before coming to MIT, where he joined the faculty in 1982. He has won three teaching awards at MIT and has presented his research at many of the world’s leading physics research centers.

Battle Royale
Fri & Sat, Jan 27 & 28

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1hr 54mins // directed by:Kinji Fukasaku // featuring:"Beat" Takeshi Kitano

At the dawn of the millennium Japan collapsed. Disorder reigned and the adults feared their teenage children - promiscuous, retaliatory, violent - and passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act. Under this act, every year one high-school class is chosen to participate in the Battle Royale - a literal fight to the death.

42 students are given three days to kill their classmates - until one is left standing victorious - or everyone dies. These are the rules of Battle Royale, a government sanctioned way to reform the country's juvenile delinquents. Beat Takeshi (Outrage, Johnny Mnemonic, Violent Cop) stars as a retired teacher turned military official who oversees the Battle Royale and Officer Krupke he ain't...

The Theatre Bizarre
Fri & Sat, Jan 27 & 28, Feb. 10 & 11

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1hr 54mins // directed by:Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, David Gregory and more // featuring:Udo Kier, Tom Savini, Debbie Rachon

Producer and segment director David Gregory ("Sweets") will be in attendance Saturday, Jan. 28th for an intro and Q&A. Executive producer Daryl Tucker will be on hand for the Saturday, Feb. 11th screening.

Down a seedy city street, a young woman is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees the front door slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside.

But there in the vast, eerie auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an odd marionette-like man who will introduce her to six tales of the truly bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the fluid of her victims’ eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something strange is happening to the woman. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in The Theatre Bizarre.

Directed by Douglas Buck (Sisters, Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America) , Buddy Giovinazzo (Combat Shock, Life is Hot in Cracktown), David Gregory (Plague Town), Karim Hussain (The Beautiful Beast, Subconscious Cruelty), Jeremy Kasten (The Wizard of Gore (2007)), Tom Savini (Tales from the Darkside, Night of the Living Dead), and Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil).

Co-presented by Emerson College, department of Visual and Media Arts and the Boston Underground Film Festival.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
regular run, still going, I know I already posted this, and it is awesome!

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2hr 07mins // directed by:Tomas Alfredson // featuring:Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, Thomas Hardy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus – as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.

Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole’s trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and – Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…

The Innkeepers
Fri & Sat, February 3 & 4, Midnite

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1hr 40mins // directed by:Ti West // featuring:Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis

After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good.

The last remaining employees, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.>>

Back by popular demand!

Cannibal Holocaust
Fri & Sat, March 9 & 10, Midnite


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1hr 35mins // directed by:Ruggero Deodato

The most controversial movie ever made returns to the Coolidge!

Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the found footage of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters.

Co-presented by the Boston Underground Film Festival.

Cracks in the Shell (Die Unsichtbare)
Sunday, March 11, 11 AM


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1hr 53mins // directed by:Christian Schwochow

Acting student Josephine can't seem to land a leading role. She keeps on being passed over and begins to think of herself as invisible, but when famous director Gaspar Friedmann chooses her to play the lead role in his new production Josephine is the first to wonder why.

The heroine of his production is a strong sexually aggressive vamp - the very opposite of Josephine. As she is pushed further and further into her new role, the borders between theater and reality begin to blur, sending her on a dangerous path toward self-discovery, and possibly even self-destruction.

Director Christian Schwochow follows up his award-winning 2008 film November Child with this powerful and gripping journey of ambition and abuse.

In German with English subtitles.
(looks kinda brutal might appeal to some folk)

Shogun Assassin
Fri & Sat, March 16 & 17, Midnite


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1hr 25mins // directed by:Robert Houston // featuring:Tomisaburô Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa

He whips out his sword and relieves his victims of their heads!

More of a greatest hits movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a strong stomach.

Co-presented by the Boston Underground Film Festival.

Looney Tunes
Saturday, March 17, 10:30 AM

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1hr 20mins

They're the crown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy.

They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! Join Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and the gang for another fun-filled weekend of classic Warner Bros cartoons at the Coolidge!
(Looney Tunes on 35mm as they were shown back in the day! I think it's pretty awesome!)

The Room
Saturday, March 17
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Tommy Wiseau // featuring:Tommy Wiseau

Special screenings of The Room with Tommy Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero in person, April 20 & 21. The Love Is Blind Tour 2012. Purchase your tickets now before they sell out and it's too late.

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of The Room. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

The Room's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as an L.A. secret for half of a decade, The Room has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.

Kevin Smith Live & In Person
Thursday, March 22, 7PM


Join the Coolidge in welcoming Kevin Smith (director of Clerks and Mallrats, writer of Silent Bob Speaks and The Bionic Man) for an exclusive Boston appearance in support of his hilarious new book TOUGH SH*T: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good (Gotham Books, March 20, 2012, available in Hardcover, eBook and Penguin Audio). In it nothing is off limits, it’s a memoir that unlocks his unlikely path to success. For this special evening Kevin will discuss the book and answer questions from the audience.

This isn’t a book of feel-good stories. It’s a book of Tough Sh*t. He talks about the critics who’ve savaged his films and the actors and executives who’ve made him hate what he loves. He discusses his fallout out with Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company and his feuds with Bruce Willis. He examines his struggles with weight, the infamous Southwest Airlines incident, and why he decided to start smoking pot at the age of 38. But he also tells you the good stuff you get if you suffer through the Tough Sh*t, like his amazing wife Jen, who suffers through marriage to a sex-obsessed fatty.

Sprinkled throughout, Kevin offers his readers gems of life advice that have helped him along the way: like what he learned from his hero Wayne Gretzky – “Don’t go where the puck’s been; go where it’s gonna be;” from the very act of conception – “You’re a big, fat bucket of win when you begin this crapshoot life;” and from Ferris Bueller: “You can never go too far. But if you’re gonna get busted, don’t let it be by a guy like that.”

Fanboys, film-buffs, stoners, fatties, skinnies, Smodcasters and anyone who wants to know how to get away with getting paid for doing what they love will find something to like in this book.

All tickets: $28, ticket price includes a signed copy of the book to be picked up upon arrival at the theatre.

And more to come!

Cannibal holocaust tonight!

Yay!

Shogun Assassin
Fri & Sat, March 16 & 17, Midnite


bennyhillifier
1hr 25mins // directed by:Robert Houston // featuring:Tomisaburô Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa

He whips out his sword and relieves his victims of their heads!

More of a greatest hits movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a strong stomach.

Co-presented by the Boston Underground Film Festival.

The Room
Saturday, March 17
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Tommy Wiseau // featuring:Tommy Wiseau

Special screenings of The Room with Tommy Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero in person, April 20 & 21. The Love Is Blind Tour 2012. Purchase your tickets now before they sell out and it's too late.

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of The Room. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

The Room's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as an L.A. secret for half of a decade, The Room has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.


Looney Tunes
Saturday, March 17, 10:30 AM
Sunday, March 18, 10:30 AM

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1hr 20mins

They're the crown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy.

They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! Join Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and the gang for another fun-filled weekend of classic Warner Bros cartoons at the Coolidge!
(Looney Tunes on 35mm as they were shown back in the day! I think it's pretty awesome!)

Kevin Smith Live & In Person
Thursday, March 22, 7PM


Join the Coolidge in welcoming Kevin Smith (director of Clerks and Mallrats, writer of Silent Bob Speaks and The Bionic Man) for an exclusive Boston appearance in support of his hilarious new book TOUGH SH*T: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good (Gotham Books, March 20, 2012, available in Hardcover, eBook and Penguin Audio). In it nothing is off limits, it’s a memoir that unlocks his unlikely path to success. For this special evening Kevin will discuss the book and answer questions from the audience.

This isn’t a book of feel-good stories. It’s a book of Tough Sh*t. He talks about the critics who’ve savaged his films and the actors and executives who’ve made him hate what he loves. He discusses his fallout out with Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company and his feuds with Bruce Willis. He examines his struggles with weight, the infamous Southwest Airlines incident, and why he decided to start smoking pot at the age of 38. But he also tells you the good stuff you get if you suffer through the Tough Sh*t, like his amazing wife Jen, who suffers through marriage to a sex-obsessed fatty.

Sprinkled throughout, Kevin offers his readers gems of life advice that have helped him along the way: like what he learned from his hero Wayne Gretzky – “Don’t go where the puck’s been; go where it’s gonna be;” from the very act of conception – “You’re a big, fat bucket of win when you begin this crapshoot life;” and from Ferris Bueller: “You can never go too far. But if you’re gonna get busted, don’t let it be by a guy like that.”

Fanboys, film-buffs, stoners, fatties, skinnies, Smodcasters and anyone who wants to know how to get away with getting paid for doing what they love will find something to like in this book.

All tickets: $28, ticket price includes a signed copy of the book to be picked up upon arrival at the theatre.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Fri & Sat, March 23 & 24, Midnite

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2hr 15mins // directed byavid Lynch // featuring:Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Heather Graham, Kiefer Sutherland

20th anniversary screening!

After the cancelation of the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch (Lost Highway) returned to the big screen to tie up loose ends and tell the back story of Laura Palmer: the days leading up to her brutal murder and the beginning of the FBI investigation into a mysterious murderer that could be tied-in with the death of Palmer.

Return to the idyllic Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks before homecoming queen Laura Palmer's grizzly death tipped the community on its head. As with the best Lynch films, the seedy underbelly of an otherwise picture perfect town is revealed to be even more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.

Special Agent Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) is investigating the murder of teen Teresa Banks when he mysteriously disappears. The following day long-lost Agent Philip Jeffries (David Bowie) appears to Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and shares with him a dream that he witnessed at the Black Lodge. Cooper is assigned to investigate the disappearance of Agent Desmond and try to piece together the Banks murder. He reaches a dead end, but is positive that the killer will strike again.

One year later in the town of Twin Peaks Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is trying to keep up her chaste appearance at high school while engaging in recreational drugs and sex with nefarious men in out-of-the-way bars and gambling establishments, and running with "bad boy" James Hurley (James Marshall) behind her boyfriend's back. What is behind her dual personality? Nightmares of an unknown man and a room with red curtains haunt her. Could these be more than just dreams?

Almost universally panned upon release, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me has proven to be one of Lynch's best films and a crowning jewel in the cult of Twin Peaks.

Everything Is Terrible! presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!
Saturday, March 24, Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Everything Is Terrible! // featuringogs, dogs, and more dogs!

Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature — containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history.

EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) “What if we made a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?”; 2) ‘What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain?”; and, 3) “What if we went on the road performing an all-new “live in fur” show that picked up where Cirque Du Soleil and The Rock-A-Fire Explosion left off?”

Well, let’s stop asking dumb rhetorical questions because this never-ending spiral of World-Pup winning, sunglasses-wearing, murder-solving, skateboarding pooches is real! This is it! Are you dog enough to go fetch it? ARFFFFFF!

An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt featuring It's Such A Beautiful Day
Monday, April 2, 7PM

1hr 11mins // directed byon Hertzfeldt

Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy's Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is coming to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a rare one-night-only event! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts will return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive Boston-area premiere of his newest film, It's such a beautiful day: the third and final chapter in a trilogy about a mysterious man named Bill.

Chapter One, Everything will be OK, won the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and was named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007".

Chapter Two, I am so proud of you, received twenty-seven awards and was described by the San Francisco International Film Festival as "[his] best yet... even the Hertzfeldt faithful may be too stunned to laugh."

Nearly two years in the making, the 23-minute It's such a beautiful day is Don's longest, and most ambitious piece to date: blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hyrbids; printed out one frame at a time, the movie was captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind left in America.

The entire animated trilogy, along with some additional classic Hertzfeldt shorts, will be screened together for the first time via new 35mm prints, immediately followed by a live on-stage Q&A session with Hertzfeldt, moderated by Adam Savje, Studio Manager for the Animation Department at MassArt.

Don Hertzfeldt's animated films have been featured in over a thousand film festivals and venues around the world and have collectively received over 150 international awards. Some notable honors include a Short Film Palm D'or nomination at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (Billy's Balloon), a 2001 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short (Rejected), the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking (Everything will be OK), and Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival (I am so proud of you). In 2010, Don received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 33.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 Double Feature
Fri & Sat, April 6 & 7, Midnite

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4hr 07mins // directed by:Quentin Tarantino // featuring:Uma Thurman, David Carradine

"Do you find me sadistic?"

Quentin Tarantino's deadly Bride (Uma Thurman) slashes her way to vengeance in this two- part film that pays homage to genres ranging from Japanese Pinky Violence to classic Chinese kung-fu with a little bite of Fulci undead thrown in for good measure.

When the Bride awakes from her coma and finds that the child she was carrying was among the victims of a wedding day massacre ordered by her former master, Bill (David Carradine), she composes her "Death List Five", and begins to cross off the names that took away all she held dear. Armed with a blade crafted by the legendary Hatori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), she begins to sever the limbs of all those that stand between her and her intended prey.

Co-presented by the Boston LGBT Film Festival.

and more to come!

Coming to the Coolidge!

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Fri & Sat, March 23 & 24, Midnite

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2hr 15mins // directed byavid Lynch // featuring:Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Heather Graham, Kiefer Sutherland

20th anniversary screening!

After the cancelation of the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch (Lost Highway) returned to the big screen to tie up loose ends and tell the back story of Laura Palmer: the days leading up to her brutal murder and the beginning of the FBI investigation into a mysterious murderer that could be tied-in with the death of Palmer.

Return to the idyllic Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks before homecoming queen Laura Palmer's grizzly death tipped the community on its head. As with the best Lynch films, the seedy underbelly of an otherwise picture perfect town is revealed to be even more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.

Special Agent Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) is investigating the murder of teen Teresa Banks when he mysteriously disappears. The following day long-lost Agent Philip Jeffries (David Bowie) appears to Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and shares with him a dream that he witnessed at the Black Lodge. Cooper is assigned to investigate the disappearance of Agent Desmond and try to piece together the Banks murder. He reaches a dead end, but is positive that the killer will strike again.

One year later in the town of Twin Peaks Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is trying to keep up her chaste appearance at high school while engaging in recreational drugs and sex with nefarious men in out-of-the-way bars and gambling establishments, and running with "bad boy" James Hurley (James Marshall) behind her boyfriend's back. What is behind her dual personality? Nightmares of an unknown man and a room with red curtains haunt her. Could these be more than just dreams?

Almost universally panned upon release, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me has proven to be one of Lynch's best films and a crowning jewel in the cult of Twin Peaks.

Everything Is Terrible! presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!
Saturday, March 24, Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Everything Is Terrible! // featuringogs, dogs, and more dogs!

Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature — containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history.

EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) “What if we made a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?”; 2) ‘What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain?”; and, 3) “What if we went on the road performing an all-new “live in fur” show that picked up where Cirque Du Soleil and The Rock-A-Fire Explosion left off?”

Well, let’s stop asking dumb rhetorical questions because this never-ending spiral of World-Pup winning, sunglasses-wearing, murder-solving, skateboarding pooches is real! This is it! Are you dog enough to go fetch it? ARFFFFFF!

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Friday, March 30, Midnite
Saturday, March 31, Midnite

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1hr 31mins // directed by:Ngai Kai Lam // featuring:Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan and Ka-Kui Ho


A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.

An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt featuring It's Such A Beautiful Day
Monday, April 2, 7PM

1hr 11mins // directed byon Hertzfeldt

Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy's Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is coming to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a rare one-night-only event! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts will return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive Boston-area premiere of his newest film, It's such a beautiful day: the third and final chapter in a trilogy about a mysterious man named Bill.

Chapter One, Everything will be OK, won the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and was named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007".

Chapter Two, I am so proud of you, received twenty-seven awards and was described by the San Francisco International Film Festival as "[his] best yet... even the Hertzfeldt faithful may be too stunned to laugh."

Nearly two years in the making, the 23-minute It's such a beautiful day is Don's longest, and most ambitious piece to date: blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hyrbids; printed out one frame at a time, the movie was captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind left in America.

The entire animated trilogy, along with some additional classic Hertzfeldt shorts, will be screened together for the first time via new 35mm prints, immediately followed by a live on-stage Q&A session with Hertzfeldt, moderated by Adam Savje, Studio Manager for the Animation Department at MassArt.

Don Hertzfeldt's animated films have been featured in over a thousand film festivals and venues around the world and have collectively received over 150 international awards. Some notable honors include a Short Film Palm D'or nomination at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (Billy's Balloon), a 2001 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short (Rejected), the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking (Everything will be OK), and Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival (I am so proud of you). In 2010, Don received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 33.

Savage Streets with Sexcrement & Linnea Quigley In-Person!
Fri, April 6, Midnite


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1hr 33mins // directed byanny Steinmann // featuring:Linnea Quigley, Linda Blair

Mark your calendars. Call your mothers. Boston's miscreants of metallic mayhem Sexcrement along with Chainsaw Kiss Productions present an evening of impulse, indulge, & heavy rock 'n' roll in the Coolidge Corner Theatre! Hosted by scream queen Linnea Quigley, the event will include live performances, burlesque dancing and other assorted mayhem.

To top it all off Sexcrement's Trucker Bombed music video will make its grand premiere, directed by Victor Bonacore and with Ms. Quigley in the starring role. Also premiering is Johnnie Lee Jordan's new music video Robotripping Though the Gates of Hell! And a twisted animated short from ScreamerClauz! The night will be capped with very special and super rare big screen showing of the Linnea classic, Savage Streets on 35mm!

About Savage Streets

During a night out cruising around Hollywood Boulevard, tough-talking high schooler Brenda (Linda Blair) and her gang of sassy girlfriends, The Satins, cross paths with a bunch of local low life thugs calling themselves The Scars. When their advances on the girls are spurned in no uncertain terms and their prized convertible ends up dumped full of garbage, The Scars suffer a severe blow to their combined ego that demands a response.

Their barbaric retaliation takes the form of a violent sexual assault on Brenda’s deaf-mute little sister, Heather (Linnea Quigley), that leaves the young girl fighting for her life. Determined to avenge her sister, Brenda tools up with an unlikely assortment of deadly weapons and takes to the streets in search of those responsible and for whom she is unwilling to show any mercy.

About Sexcrement

Since 2005, Sexcrement has been pummeling eardrums with their unique brand of extreme metal. Soaked in all things perverse and taboo, the band commands your head to bang furiously with alarming urgency. Like the bastard child of Pantera and Cannibal Corpse, these Massachusetts natives pack monolithic riffs and rocking grooves into each and every (trojan) magnum opus. With a full length CD, EP & countless shows with the underground's finest under their belt, these depraved bottom feeders deliver the goods on top of the goods. The group is currently putting the finishing touches on their second full serving of disgusting debauchery fittingly titled Sloppy Seconds.

About Chainsaw Kiss Productions

Chainsaw Kiss is an underground DIY cult film collective, living somewhere in the punk, weed, horror and exploitation culture. Responsible for the controversial short film "Ice Cream Sunday", the music videos of Johnnie Lee Jordan, Sexcrement's "Trucker Bombed," the 16mm feature film 'Blood Wings: A Satanic Fantasy" and the feature length documentary on outlaw filmmaker Jim Vanbebber.


Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 Double Feature
Sat, April 7, Midnite

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4hr 07mins // directed by:Quentin Tarantino // featuring:Uma Thurman, David Carradine

"Do you find me sadistic?"

Quentin Tarantino's deadly Bride (Uma Thurman) slashes her way to vengeance in this two- part film that pays homage to genres ranging from Japanese Pinky Violence to classic Chinese kung-fu with a little bite of Fulci undead thrown in for good measure.

When the Bride awakes from her coma and finds that the child she was carrying was among the victims of a wedding day massacre ordered by her former master, Bill (David Carradine), she composes her "Death List Five", and begins to cross off the names that took away all she held dear. Armed with a blade crafted by the legendary Hatori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), she begins to sever the limbs of all those that stand between her and her intended prey.

Co-presented by the Boston LGBT Film Festival.

The Room
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Tommy Wiseau // featuring:Tommy Wiseau

Special screenings of The Room with Tommy Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero in person, April 20 & 21. The Love Is Blind Tour 2012. Purchase your tickets now before they sell out and it's too late.

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of The Room. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

The Room's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as an L.A. secret for half of a decade, The Room has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.


and more to come!

So next week, the Coolidge gets what looks to be a supremely kick ass movie! Plus the usual awesome midnights!

The Raid: Redemption
Opens Friday, March 30, regular showtimes plus midnight

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1hr 41mins // directed by:Gareth Evans // featuring:Iko Uwais, Ananda George and Ray Sahetapy

1 Ruthless Crime Lord, 20 Elite Cops, 30 Floors of Hell.

Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangsters, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission but to survive their bloody ordeal.

In Indonesian with English subtitles.

(this looks bad ass! Plus it's in the main theater the entire week! (well except Monday))

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Friday, March 30, Midnite
Saturday, March 31, Midnite

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1hr 31mins // directed by:Ngai Kai Lam // featuring:Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan and Ka-Kui Ho


A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.

An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt featuring It's Such A Beautiful Day
Monday, April 2, 7PM

1hr 11mins // directed byon Hertzfeldt

Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy's Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is coming to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for a rare one-night-only event! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts will return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive Boston-area premiere of his newest film, It's such a beautiful day: the third and final chapter in a trilogy about a mysterious man named Bill.

Chapter One, Everything will be OK, won the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and was named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007".

Chapter Two, I am so proud of you, received twenty-seven awards and was described by the San Francisco International Film Festival as "[his] best yet... even the Hertzfeldt faithful may be too stunned to laugh."

Nearly two years in the making, the 23-minute It's such a beautiful day is Don's longest, and most ambitious piece to date: blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hyrbids; printed out one frame at a time, the movie was captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind left in America.

The entire animated trilogy, along with some additional classic Hertzfeldt shorts, will be screened together for the first time via new 35mm prints, immediately followed by a live on-stage Q&A session with Hertzfeldt, moderated by Adam Savje, Studio Manager for the Animation Department at MassArt.

Don Hertzfeldt's animated films have been featured in over a thousand film festivals and venues around the world and have collectively received over 150 international awards. Some notable honors include a Short Film Palm D'or nomination at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (Billy's Balloon), a 2001 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short (Rejected), the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking (Everything will be OK), and Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival (I am so proud of you). In 2010, Don received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 33.

Savage Streets with Sexcrement & Linnea Quigley In-Person!
Fri, April 6, Midnite


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1hr 33mins // directed byanny Steinmann // featuring:Linnea Quigley, Linda Blair

Mark your calendars. Call your mothers. Boston's miscreants of metallic mayhem Sexcrement along with Chainsaw Kiss Productions present an evening of impulse, indulge, & heavy rock 'n' roll in the Coolidge Corner Theatre! Hosted by scream queen Linnea Quigley, the event will include live performances, burlesque dancing and other assorted mayhem.

To top it all off Sexcrement's Trucker Bombed music video will make its grand premiere, directed by Victor Bonacore and with Ms. Quigley in the starring role. Also premiering is Johnnie Lee Jordan's new music video Robotripping Though the Gates of Hell! And a twisted animated short from ScreamerClauz! The night will be capped with very special and super rare big screen showing of the Linnea classic, Savage Streets on 35mm!

About Savage Streets

During a night out cruising around Hollywood Boulevard, tough-talking high schooler Brenda (Linda Blair) and her gang of sassy girlfriends, The Satins, cross paths with a bunch of local low life thugs calling themselves The Scars. When their advances on the girls are spurned in no uncertain terms and their prized convertible ends up dumped full of garbage, The Scars suffer a severe blow to their combined ego that demands a response.

Their barbaric retaliation takes the form of a violent sexual assault on Brenda’s deaf-mute little sister, Heather (Linnea Quigley), that leaves the young girl fighting for her life. Determined to avenge her sister, Brenda tools up with an unlikely assortment of deadly weapons and takes to the streets in search of those responsible and for whom she is unwilling to show any mercy.

About Sexcrement

Since 2005, Sexcrement has been pummeling eardrums with their unique brand of extreme metal. Soaked in all things perverse and taboo, the band commands your head to bang furiously with alarming urgency. Like the bastard child of Pantera and Cannibal Corpse, these Massachusetts natives pack monolithic riffs and rocking grooves into each and every (trojan) magnum opus. With a full length CD, EP & countless shows with the underground's finest under their belt, these depraved bottom feeders deliver the goods on top of the goods. The group is currently putting the finishing touches on their second full serving of disgusting debauchery fittingly titled Sloppy Seconds.

About Chainsaw Kiss Productions

Chainsaw Kiss is an underground DIY cult film collective, living somewhere in the punk, weed, horror and exploitation culture. Responsible for the controversial short film "Ice Cream Sunday", the music videos of Johnnie Lee Jordan, Sexcrement's "Trucker Bombed," the 16mm feature film 'Blood Wings: A Satanic Fantasy" and the feature length documentary on outlaw filmmaker Jim Vanbebber.


Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 Double Feature
Sat, April 7, Midnite

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4hr 07mins // directed by:Quentin Tarantino // featuring:Uma Thurman, David Carradine

"Do you find me sadistic?"

Quentin Tarantino's deadly Bride (Uma Thurman) slashes her way to vengeance in this two- part film that pays homage to genres ranging from Japanese Pinky Violence to classic Chinese kung-fu with a little bite of Fulci undead thrown in for good measure.

When the Bride awakes from her coma and finds that the child she was carrying was among the victims of a wedding day massacre ordered by her former master, Bill (David Carradine), she composes her "Death List Five", and begins to cross off the names that took away all she held dear. Armed with a blade crafted by the legendary Hatori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), she begins to sever the limbs of all those that stand between her and her intended prey.

Co-presented by the Boston LGBT Film Festival.

Sound of Noise
Friday, April 13, Midnite


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1hr 44mins // directed by:Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson // featuring:Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson and Magnus Börjeson

Has insanity finally taken hold of policeman Amadeus Warnebring, or is it the rest of the world that has gone absolutely mad?

Either way, what first seems to be the most difficult case of his career, turns out to be his only chance of salvation. Sound of Noise tells the story of a bold policeman who, while hunting an elusive gang of six activist drummers, is forced to descend into the seventh circuit of his own private hell and face the music!
(This looks particularly amazing!)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Fri & Sat, April 13 & 14


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1hr 28mins // directed by:John Carl Buechler // featuring:Lar Park-Lincoln, Kane Hodder

Yes, it's the one where he fights the psychic chick. You're welcome.

Sometime after Jason's imprisonment at the bottom of Crystal Lake at the hands of Tommy Jarvis, 10-year old Tina Shepard hears her alcoholic father John physically abusing her mother Amanda, goes out in a boat on Crystal Lake, and wishes her dad dead. This unlocks Tina's telekinetic powers, which causes the dock to collapse, drowning her pugilistic pops. Years later, Telekinetic Tina goes out to Crystal Lake, wishing that her father could return. She tries to resurrect him with her mind, but instead reawakens everyone's favorite waterlogged corpse with aptitude for axe-murders, Jason Voorhees!


The Room
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Midnite

1hr 30mins // directed by:Tommy Wiseau // featuring:Tommy Wiseau

Special screenings of The Room with Tommy Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero in person, April 20 & 21. The Love Is Blind Tour 2012. Purchase your tickets now before they sell out and it's too late.

Midnite crowds have flocked to attend this show due to its "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" charms. In recent years, some of Hollywood's most talented have counted themselves being in the cult of The Room. Paul Rudd, David Cross and Jonah Hill catch the film whenever they can.

The Room's director, producer and leading man is the mysterious Tommy Wiseau. In the film, Tommy portrays "Johnny", a man who becomes involved in a love triangle when the woman he loves begins sleeping with another man. Johnny is also the mentor of a drug dealing man child, a dog aficionado and possesses an alarmingly unnerving giggle.

Kept as an L.A. secret for half of a decade, The Room has now found its way to the east coast and we here at the Coolidge are proud to present it in all its baffling glory.


and more to come!

Coolidge @fter Midnight Schedule:

The Lost Boys - Aug 3 & 4
The Room - Aug 10, Sep 21, Oct 5, Nov 9, Dec 7
Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Aug 10 & 11
Critters 2 - Aug 17 & 18
Psycho II - Aug 24 & 25
American Psycho - Aug 31 & Sept 1
[Rec]3 Genesis - Sept 7 & 8
Santa Sangre - Sept 14 & 15
The Funhouse - Oct 5 & 6
V/H/S - Oct 12 & 13
Lifeforce - Oct 12 & 13
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - Oct 19 & 20
Poltergeist - Oct 26

For more info and tickets,
Coolidge After Midnight