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“When this first [began], I turned to Ned and said: If this becomes what I think it’ll become, then I don’t know how the Brattle survives this.”
On Wednesday, March 11, the team at the Brattle Theatre sent their first email regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, announcing ...
During an interview recently published by Dig Boston, Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive, described one of the many studio-filmmaking traditions represented in the HFA’s ongoing program “The B-Film: ...
Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens (1982) and Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2019), which play back-to-back ...
Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970), her sole feature-length film, depicts the drifting life of its title character, played by Loden herself. She has to convince a friend to loan her money ...
The Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema was founded in 1993 by Marianne Lampke, Connie White, and Anne Marie Stein. At the time, Lampke and White were the owners and operators of the Brattle Theatre, and Stein was the executive director of the Boston ...
Yance Ford is an American nonfiction filmmaker whose first feature-length film, Strong Island [2017], was recently released by Netflix. ...
What sets Trash Night further apart from similar “B movie + commentary” screenings is its welcoming, egalitarian nature.
When Andrew Niccol’s stylish futuristic thriller Gattaca hit theatres in 1997, it raised deep hypothetical questions regarding genetic supremacy that made for enjoyable parlor conversation.
In the coming weeks we’ll be publishing often about our “highlights of 2016”, but there’s one event I can add to the list ahead of time. Last year we attended an evening of screenings ...
When we lose one of our most beloved artists, the nature of popular culture demands that we collectively pick one work to define them. Unfortunately we’ve experienced this multiple times in recent months: With Bowie, we heard “Starman” in the streets and on the ...
